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Bushiroad released more information about the Love Live Series Official Card Game. The company revealed plans to hold events around the Love Live TCG launch in February 2025, while announcing the release dates for new booster packs throughout the Spring season of 2025.

booster packs featuring Love Live! Superstar!! will appear on April 19, 2025. A pack will cost 300 yen with three cards; at least two of them are guaranteed to be glittering. The company will also release the second regular booster pack titled "Next Step" featuring the Hasunosora, Aqours, and Liella! groups on May 31, 2025. The latter will have 500-yen packs containing five cards with at least three glittering cards.

Bushiroad will also work with Animate to hold a temporary pop-up shop dedicated to the Love Live TCG at the Gamers store in Ikebukuro Parco from February 8, 2025—the official launch date of the TCG—until February 16, 2025. The company will also gradually hold minor tournaments at card game shops across Japan starting from the TCG's launch in February 2025. These tournaments will culminate in a major tournament scheduled around the Fall season of 2025.

The first starter decks and booster packs for Love Live Series Official Card Game will formally appear on February 8, 2025.

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Bushiroad published more details about Love Live Official Card Game. After sharing an initial teaser in August 2024, the company confirmed that it will release the new TCG in early February 2025.

This trading card game will feature a total of 57 characters—including those from rival units—at launch. Bushiroad is working with the series' illustrators to draw new idol costume illustrations for characters like Honoka Kosaka and Ayumu Uehara, which it will feature in the cards.

Here's the first look at new costumes appearing in the game:

Bushiroad will start selling starter decks and booster packs for Love Live Official Card Game in February 2025. There will be two kinds of starter decks available, and they will separately feature characters from Love Live! Superstar!! and Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

The Nijigasaki characters will also appear in the first booster pack volume, which will come with characters from Liella! and Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club.

Bushiroad also explained the basic gameplay rules of the TCG in a live stream. A deck will generally consist of 24 Member Cards featuring the characters, 6 Live Cards showcasing the series' songs, and 12 Energy Cards. Players can use Energy Cards to summon the characters, and they must successfully hold Live Performances by combining a Live Card with many character cards. A player will win the game after successfully holding three Live Performances during the gameplay session.

Love Live Official Card Game will be formally available on February 8, 2025. Bushiroad will also hold early-bird sales for the TCG at select locations a week earlier on February 1, 2025.

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An original TCG based on Love Live will come out some time in Spring 2025. You can check out the teaser site here.

There’s virtually no information on the card game as of yet, though more details will appear as we approach the release window. The site features almost all of the main girls from the Love Live series. According to the announcement Tweet, 5% of the sales from the initial release of the first booster pack will be donated to the Noto Peninsula restoration efforts. The area has still not fully recovered from the earthquake that occurred on January 1, 2024.

Most of the direct replies to the Tweet aren’t very positive or optimistic. Some people ask if Bushiroad still re School Idol Collection. Others aren’t too keen on the idea of Bushiroad being in charge of the TCG. Card games from Bushiroad include Cardfight!! Vanguard, Future Card Buddyfight, and Weiß Schwarz. Goodwill towards Vanguard is not as high as before due to multiple reboots and poor management. Though a different department, Western Love Live fans also suffered due to Bushiroad's business decisions in the past with School Idol Festival 2: Miracle Live. Skeptics suggest that Konami should be the one working on the Love Live card game instead. The ones who are excited for it seem to look forward to creating a deck that feature their favorite units.

The Love Live TCG will come out some time in Spring 2025, with more details to appear later.

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Bushiroad has revealed a new Love Live game that is a Switch visual novel and will feature characters from the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. The Japanese title will be Tokimeki no Mirai Chizu.

Despite having the word "Tokimeki" in the title, this visual novel will have no relation whatsoever with Konami's Tokimeki Memorial franchise. The title Tokimeki no Mirai Chizu can also be translated to "The Heart-Throbbing Future Map."

Bushiroad has also published a new Japanese X for the Love Live game. However, it has still yet to divulge details on the new title, including its release date. The catchphrase on both the pinned tweet and the official website teases a school life between "you" and the 12 people, which implies that the player will act as an original protagonist who can interact with of the Idol Club in the Nijigasaki High School.

Once released, the visual novel will be available to purchase and play on the Nintendo Switch for the foreseeable future. Bushiroad used to launch Love Live: School Idol Festival 2 as a sequel to its mobile game in April 2023. However, the Japanese release's abrupt shutdown in March 2024 led to a bizarre situation for the global version. Bushiroad announced that services for the global release would start in February 2024 and end three months later in May 2024.

The Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club visual novel Tokimeki no Mirai Chizu will be available for Nintendo Switch.

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The global version of Love Live School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live will launch soon in February 2024, with pre-registrations open. However, the same tweet announced that the global version of the game will then close on May 31, 2024.

It is rather unprecedented for a company to announce the start and the end of the game in the same Tweet. Many of the replies, either directly to the Tweet itself or through quotes, have asked why Bushiroad would even launch it. Some s posted humorous GIFs in response to the announcement, such as one of Abe Simpson walking in, hanging up his hat, picking up his hat, and then leaving again.

In any case, you can pre- for Love Live School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live via the Google Play store or the App Store. It is a rhythm game in which you’ll be able to make your dream idol group with girls from μ’s, Aqours, Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, and Liella. When the game closes in May 31, 2024, you will no longer be abe to purchase anything in the in-game store.

The global version of Love Live School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live will launch for mobile devices in February 2024. It will then end on May 31, 2024.

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Bandai Namco Filmworks announced the full lineup of idols who will be performing at the Idolmaster and Love Live series collaboration concert. This live event between seven different anime idol groups will take place on December 9-10, 2023 at Tokyo Dome. Tickets are available at the price of 13,000 yen ($89.75) for reserved seats. A two-day is also available for 26,000 yen ($179.51). Advance tickets can be purchased until August 14, 2023. [Thanks, Denfaminicogamer!]

Many voice actresses from both the Idolmaster and Love Live series will be performing. This event is part of the “Ijigen Fes” series of events, which aims to "make the impossible possible" through t collaborations between franchises that produce similar content.

The full list of confirmed performing idols and the days they perform on is as follows:

Idolmaster Cinderella Girls:

• Asami Takano (voice of Frederica Miyamoto) - Day 1
• Aya Suzaki (voice of Minami Nitta) - Day 1
• Hina Tachibana (voice of Nagi Hisakawa) - Day 1
• Hiromi Igarashi (voice of Anzu Futaba) - Day 1
• Honoka Inoue (voice of Nanami Asari) - Day 1
• Kotomi Aihara (voice of Shiki Ichinose) - Day 1
• Lu Ting (voice of Syuko Shiomi) - Day 1
• Miyu Tomita (voice of Akira Sunazuka) - Day 1
• Nanami Yamashita (voice of Yui Ootsuki) - Day 1
• Sumire Uesaka (voice of Anastasia) - Day 1
• Teru Ikuta (voice of Natalia) - Day 1
• Yuki Nakashima (voice of Yuuki Otokura) - Day 1
• Yuuko Iida (voice of Kanade Hayami) - Day 1
• Amina Satō (voice of Arisu Tachibana) - Day 2
• Asaka Imai (voice of Chie Sasaki) - Day 2
• Ayaka Fukuhara (voice of Rin Shibuya) - Day 2
• Ayaka Ohashi (voice of Uzuki Shimamura) - Day 2
• Hana Tamegai (voice of Risa Matoba) - Day 2
• Maki Hanatani (voice of Kozue Yusa) - Day 2
• Makoto Koichi (voice of Haru Yuuki) - Day 2
• Mina Nakazawa (voice of Yukimi Sajo) - Day 2
• Misaki Kuno (voice of Nina Ichihara) - Day 2
• Natsumi Haruse (voice of Kaoru Tatsuzaki) - Day 2
• Sayuri Hara (voice of Mio Honda) - Day 2
• Tomoyo Kurosawa (voice of Miria Akagi) - Day 2
• Yuri Komori (voice of Koharu Koga) - Day 2

The Idolmaster Million Live!:

• Atsuki Nakamura (voice of Roco) - Day 1
• Azusa Tadokoro (voice of Shizuka Mogami) - Day 1
• Emi Hirayama (voice of Reika Kitakami) - Day 1
• Haruka Yamazaki (voice of Mirai Kasuga) - Day 1
• Kotori Koiwai (voice of Tomoka Tenkubashi) - Day 1
• Machico (voice of Tsubasa Ibuki) - Day 1
• Momo Asakura (voice of Serika Hakozaki) - Day 1
• Yui Watanabe (voice of Nao Yokoyama) - Day 1
• Aimi (voice of Julia) - Day 2
• Arisa Kouri (voice of Kaori Sakuramori) - Day 2
• Ibuki Kido (voice of Kana Yabuki) - Day 2
• Miku Itou (voice of Yuriko Nanao) - Day 2
• Rie Suegara (voice of Fuka Toyokawa) - Day 2
• Rikako Yamaguchi (voice of Rio Momose) - Day 2
• Saki Minami (voice of Tsumugi Shiraishi) - Day 2
• Yuri Komagata (voice of Sayoko Takayama) - Day 2

The Idolmaster Shiny Colors:

• Anna Yamaki (voice of Sakuya Shirase) - Day 1
• Aya Yamane (voice of Mikoto Aketa) - Day 1
• Azusa Shizuki (voice of Nichika Nanakusa) - Day 1
• Chisa Suganuma (voice of Mamimi Tanaka) - Day 1
• Honoka Kuroki (voice of Amana Osaki) - Day 1
• Karin Isobe (voice of Kogane Tsukioka) - Day 1
• Miho Okasaki (voice of Hinana Ichikawa) - Day 1
• Mizuki Yuina (voice of Kiriko Yukoku) - Day 1
• Noriko Shibasaki (voice of Chiyuki Kuwayama) - Day 1
• Rio Tsuchiya (voice of Madoka Higuchi) - Day 1
• Ryouko Maekawa (voice of Tenka Osaki) - Day 1
• Saran Tajima (voice of Koito Fukumaru) - Day 1
• Shio Kisui (voice of Yuika Mitsumine) - Day 1
• Yuu Wakui (voice of Toru Asakura) - Day 1
• Akiho Suzumoto (voice of Natsuha Arisugawa) - Day 2
• Ayaka Suwa (voice of Matsuri Tokugawa) - Day 2
• Eri Yukimura (voice of Fuyuko Mayuzumi) - Day 2
• Haruka Shiraishi (voice of Chiyoko Sonoda) - Day 2
• Haruna Miikawa (voice of Hana Suzuki) - Day 2
• Hitomi Sekine (voice of Mano Sakuragi) - Day 2
• Hiyori Kouno (voice of Kaho Komiya) - Day 2
• Kondou Reina (voice of Hiori Kazano) - Day 2
• Mariko Nagai (voice of Juri Saijo) - Day 2
• Mayu Mineda (voice of Meguru Hachiyama) - Day 2
• Rena Ozawa (voice of Haruki Ikuta) - Day 2
• Rina Kawaguchi (voice of Luca Ikaruga) - Day 2
• Wakana Maruoka (voice of Rinze Morino) - Day 2
• Yuki Tanaka (voice of Asahi Serizawa) - Day 2

Love Live Aqours:

• Ai Furihata (voice of Ruby Kurosawa) - Day 1 and 2
• Aika Kobayashi (voice of Yoshiko Tsushima) - Day 1 and 2
• Aina Suzuki (voice of Mari Ohara) - Day 1 and 2
• Anju Inami (voice of Chika Takami) - Day 1 and 2
• Arisa Komiya (voice of Dia Kurosawa) - Day 1 and 2
• Kanako Takatsuki (voice of Hanamaru Kunikida) - Day 1 and 2
• Nanaka Suwa (voice of Kanan Matsuura) - Day 1 and 2
• Rikako Aida (voice of Riko Sakurauchi) - Day 1 and 2
• Shuka Saito (voice of You Watanabe) - Day 1 and 2

Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club:

• Aguri Ōnishi (voice of Ayumu Uehara) - Day 1 and 2
• Akari Kito (voice of Kanata Konoe) - Day 1 and 2
• Akina Homoto (voice of Lanzhu Zhong) - Day 1 and 2
• Chiemi Tanaka (voice of Rina Tennoji) - Day 1 and 2
• Coco Hayashi (voice of Setsuna Yuki) - Day 1 and 2
• Hinaki Yano (voice of Yu Takasaki) - Day 1 and 2
• Kaori Maeda (voice of Shizuku Osaka) - Day 1 and 2
• Maria Sashide (voice of Emma Verde) - Day 1 and 2
• Mayu Sagara (voice of Kasumi Nakasu) - Day 1 and 2
• Miyu Kubota (voice of Karin Asaka) - Day 1 and 2
• Moeka Koizumi (voice of Shioriko Mifune) - Day 1 and 2
• Natsumi Murakami (voice of Ai Miyashita) - Day 1 and 2
• Shu Uchida (voice of Mia Taylor) - Day 1 and 2

Love Live Leilla:

• Aya Emori (voice of Natsumi Onitsuka) - Day 1 and 2
• Liyuu (voice of Keke Tang) - Day 1 and 2
• Nagisa Aoyama (voice of Ren Hazuki) - Day 1 and 2
• Nako Misaki (voice of Chisato Arashi) - Day 1 and 2
• Naomi Payton (voice of Sumire Heanna) - Day 1 and 2
• Nozomi Suzuhara (voice of Kinako Sakurakoji) - Day 1 and 2
• Sakura Sakakura (voice of Tomari Onitsuka) - Day 1 and 2
• Sayuri Date (voice of Kanon Shibuya) - Day 1 and 2
• Wakana Ookuma (voice of Shiki Wakana) - Day 1 and 2
• Yabushima Akane (voice of Mei Yoneme) - Day 1 and 2
• Yuina (voice of Wien Margarete) - Day 1 and 2

Love Live Hasunosora Girls’ High School Idol Club:

• Kanna Kan (voice of Rurino Osawa) - Day 1 and 2
• Kokona Nonaka (voice of Sayaka Murano) - Day 1 and 2
• Kona Tsukine (voice of Megumi Fujishima) - Day 1 and 2
• Kotoko Sasaki (voice of Tsuzuri Yugiri) - Day 1 and 2
• Nina Hanamiya (voice of Kozue Otomune) - Day 1 and 2
• Nozomi Nirei (voice of Kaho Hinoshita) - Day 1 and 2

Official event goods will be sold at the event, including t-shirts, towels, penlights and more. They will be available for presale on the Asobi Store beginning on August 25, 2023.

The Idolmaster and Love Live Ijigen Fes Live will be held at Tokyo Dome on December 9-10, 2023. Reserved tickets are 13,000 yen ($89.75) and a two-day is available for 26,000 yen ($179.51).

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A combination Idolmaster and Love Live concert will take place on December 9 and 10, 2023 at Tokyo Dome in Japan. You can now apply to enter the lottery for advance tickets. This is the first part of the “Ijigen Fes,” which will bring surprising collaborations to life to celebrate anime music. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

Tickets cost 13,000 JPY ($91.70) for one day and 26,000 JPY ($183.45) for both. The concert will feature a large number of voice actresses from various Idolmaster and Love Live series. Some examples include Akari Kito from Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (Love Live), Liyuu of Liella (Love Live), and Honoka Kuroki of Idolmaster: Shiny Colors.

The full list of participants will come from:

• Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
• Idolmaster Million Live
• Idolmaster Shiny Colors
• Love Live Aqours
• Love Live Liella
• Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
• Love Live Hasunosora Girls’ High School Idol Club

As mentioned earlier, this is the first collaboration of Ijigen Fes. Ijigen can mean otherworldly, and as the name suggests, it will organize otherworldly collaborations over a variety of intellectual properties. They will all focus on music, with a specific theme of how songs in IPs such as Love Live have grown past the “anime song” genre.

The Idolmaster and Love Live concert will take place on December 9 and 10, 2023.

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Love Live! School Idol Festival is dead, long live Love Live! School Idol Festival 2. Shortly after breaking hearts by announcing the end of service for the original Love Live game, developer KLab  and publisher Bushiroad confirmed its sequel. Formally titled Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live!, the game will launch for iOS and Android devices in Spring 2023.

https://twitter.com/lovelive_SIF/status/1621121696299372544

Though the game is called a sequel, Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 has much in common with its predecessor. The rhythm gameplay will be basically the same, but have visual upgrades to things like skill cut-in visibility. The game will also host every song in the Love Live! series to date, including songs from units like μ's, Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, A-RISE, Liella!, Sunny ion, Saints Snow, and more. Bushiroad said that over 500 songs will eventually be included in the selection. Idol groups will have short movies that depict the characters' daily lives, and story-based content will allow players to interact with the idols in private and group chat settings. As before, event stories will also add new adventures and encounters for the girls.

Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live is in development for iOS and Android devices, with a release window of Spring 2023. Pre-Registration for the game is open now on the Japanese Google Play Store and Apple App Store. An overseas or English-language release has not yet been announced.

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A new Love Live Virtual School Idol multimedia project will launch in Fall 2022. There is a short teaser trailer on its official YouTube channel. However, aside from the basic premise, there is no information on how exactly things will look and go. Due to the name of “Virtual School Idol,” it is possible that it will feature the girls working as VTubers rather than as traditional idols.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_HO7n0zfw

According to the official website for the Love Live! Virtual School Idol project, it will take place over the course of a year (365 days). During this time, content such as video streams, magazines, CDs, live events, and mobile applications will appear. Rather than focusing on past Love Live! idols, it seems that it will feature new characters and cast .

The Love Live franchise is series involving multiple forms of media. Aside from television series and games, there are also manga series and CDs. There are also collaborations between its characters and other properties. For example, in 2021 the Japanese Love Live School Idol Festival mobile game offeref a collaboration event featuring characters from the Persona series.

Love Live Virtual School Idol will start in Fall 2022. More information will appear in the future.

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Genda Sega Entertainment will collaborate with Liella from Love Live Superstar in select Sega Cafe locations for a limited time. The cafe on the 7th floor of Sega Akihabara Building 3 will be the primary location serving both food and drinks. Genda Sega will also sell the drinks at cafe stands in Namba (Osaka), Sendai, Okayama, Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Kumamoto.

The menu will focus on Liella, the idol group of Love Live Superstar, consisting of Kanon, Keke, Chisato, Sumire, and Ren. However, the cafes will also sell limited drinks on the birthdays of characters from other Love Live groups, such as Mia Taylor and Leah Kazuno.

Customers will get a random coaster mat or bromide portrait by purchasing any Love Live-themed food and drink in the cafe. On a character's birthday, people who enter the Akihabara cafe will also receive a birthday card of said character.

Genda Sega Entertainment has featured Love Live collaborations in Sega cafes since September 2021. It previously featured μ's, Aqours, and Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. The cafes are currently showcasing an all-star cast from the Love Live franchise until November 7, 2021.

Love Live has become one of Sunrise's biggest franchises. A drawing of the series' first protagonist Honoka Kousaka decorates the anime studio's new White Base office. The Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game is also currently holding a crossover event with Atlus' Persona series. This event will run until November 25, 2021.

The Love Live Superstar collaboration in Sega cafes will run from November 13, 2021, until December 19, 2021.

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While NIS America is known for video games, it also has licensed different anime series for North America. Now, thanks to a deal taking effect with Funimation, that means people will be able to stream some iconic titles. To be specific, Funimation Cardcaptor Sakura, Toradora, and Love Live! viewing options are now available.

There will be different batches of NIS America anime available at various times. The first group has been added to Funimation’s streaming services on May 5, 2020. It consists of three full series, one season, and one movie. Here’s the full list of what’s available to watch right now.

• Cardcaptor Sakura
• Love Live! School Idol Project (Only the second season, which means only episodes 14-26 will be available.)
• Love Live! The School Idol Project Movie
• Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea
• Toradora!

As a reminder, Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars recently released on mobile devices worldwide.

This is only the first round. Funimation’s announcement post said that more NIS America anime series will also be showing up in the near future. A list was even provided of series that people can expect to start watching “soon.”

Here’s the full list from the announcement:

• Arakawa Under the Bridge (Seasons 1 & 2)
• Bunny Drop
• Chronicles of the Going Home Club
• Daily Lives of High School Boys
• The Eccentric Family
• Genshiken Second Generation
• Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up
• Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl
• Hanasaku Iroha ~ Blossoms for Tomorrow ~
• Hanasaku Iroha ~ Home Sweet Home ~ (Movie)
• If Her Flag Breaks
• Kimi ni Todoke -From Me to You- (Seasons 1 & 2)
• PandoraHearts
• YURUYURI (Seasons 1 & 2)

Select NIS America anime series are now immediately available via Funimation.

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