'μ's, Music Start!' Otonokizaka High School, which borders three very different cities, has been seeing major decreases in applicants, to the point that there may not be enough for the next year to create an entire class. And unless something changes, the school may cease admissions and close its doors once its last remaining students graduate. Eleventh-grader Honoka Kousaka wants to prevent the school from closing, and she comes up with an idea — form a school idol group and become an overnight sensation, thus giving her alma mater the exposure it badly needs. Of course, things can't possibly be that easy, and she's going out of her way to get as many people as she can to join her cause. Luckily she has help from her old friends as well as some new ones, and together they form the school idol group 'μ's' (pronounced 'muse'). (ラブライブ!): School Idol Project is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's magazine, music label Lantis and anime studio that started in 2010 and resulted in short stories, music videos, music CDs, actual live performances by the voice actresses behind the main characters, manga, light novels, and an anime spanning two seasons and a movie.
The anime has been licensed by for North American audiences,. The franchise's print media includes: • A manga, the first few chapters of which were released worldwide in English digitally • Love Live! School Idol Diary, a light novel series with a manga adaptation. • An anthology manga. • Short stories published in Dengeki's G's magazine or released in booklets with the Blu-Rays.
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The franchise has two different tie-in games, both of which are: •, developed by KLab and released on and in Japan in 2013 and overseas with an English localization in 2014. The game focuses on assembling a team of 9 members of varying stats to create an optimal high-scoring team. School Idol Paradise, developed by Dingo and released on in Japan in 2014.
A spin-off sequel called was made. It focuses on Aqours, a new school idol group from a different school and hometown. This new group has its own concerts, singles and anime. Tropes applicable to the spin-off should go in its appropriate page. In 2017, another franchise spinoff was introduced: Love Live!
Perfect Dream Project, which focuses on nine new and different recruits. However, unlike its predecessors, these nine girls are not a group, but individual acts competing to be the top idol, thanks to audience participation. Tip: To type 'µ's' on this wiki or anywhere else that uses Unicode, type '& micro;'s'. Tropes: •: Averted. Eli's decisions can and do get overruled by the director. • Averted again in Season 2 when the Student Council is reduced to begging the club presidents for forgiveness over a piece of misfiled paperwork. •: • Nico gets one in Season 2 Episode 4, when her two sisters and one brother are revealed to the other girls, in the process focusing on her emotionally traumatic history of trying to start an idol group.
• Rin gets one in Season 2 Episode 5, when she's chosen to be the temporary leader of 'µ's' since Honoka, Umi, and Kotori are stuck in Okinawa due to a typhoon during their school trip and focuses on her complex regarding her looks. • Nozomi gets more focus in Season 2 Episode 8, which details quite a bit about her past. •: Umi tries to be the group's, but she can't help but imagine and practice cutesy idol routines in private. •: At the beginning of episode 4 of season 2, Hanayo is reading to the girls who made it past the first round. A-RISE made the cut, along with some other groups. Then Hanayo keeps the tension up as she slowly reads the fourth team that made it, and it wasn't μ's. Then it cuts to another scene, and Honoka says that's the dream she had.
It becomes a case of deja vu where after the opening credits, the same exact scene happens again. Other than Honoka telling Nico to drink her juice box to make it different (and she doesn't drink it), Hanayo once again drags out the 4th team to make the cut, only this time she says their group. •: • In Season 2, µ's goes to the beach sometime before the end of the school year to proclaim their intentions of disbanding upon the 3rd years' graduation.
•: The franchise has a lot of different continuities going on. The anime differs from the earlier days of the franchise on several key points. There are also more recent things such as the novel and the smartphone game School Idol Festival. While heavily based on the anime, they have several notable differences. Nevertheless, the franchise's many continuities do a lot of internal shout-outs. •: Nico's mother, whom several of the girls again mistake for Nico as they did with her sister, shows up in episode 13 of season 2.