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If you'll permit me to post two of these in one day, I also finished season one of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. I enjoyed it, but in my opinion this was easily the worst LL anime (for reference, Sunshine is in my top 10 of all time and the original was solid too). Back when it released I tried the All Stars mobile game which introduced the Nijigasaki girls, but I didn't stick with it for very long. I was glad at first that the anime didn't simply copy that game's story. Sadly, the anime wound up having some problems of its own.

One of the problems was inherent to the concept, that these are nine solo idols rather than one group of nine idols. When I think back on LL or Sunshine, my fondest memories are of the group. Everyone acting like someone else in 's in the original LL was a golden scene! Nijigasaki rarely had these moments. Most of the episodes were character focused. I didn't dislike them, but it never felt like the overall group came together. The other problem was one that the original Love Live had too, a crappy drama bomb that dominated the last few episodes of the season. Ayumu sucks.

I still enjoyed it overall, though! Kasumi is probably my favorite Love Live character, beating out Honoka and even Yohane. Quite a few of the characters were also improved from their mobile game counterparts, at least from what I remembered (not Ayumu though). I also liked Yu, it was nice having a support character who didn't become an idol herself. As always, the songs were nice as well. Setsuna's 'Chase' was my favorite from the mobile game, and it remains amazing here.

I'll definitely continue with the currently-airing season two, I just hope the inevitable drama of that season is more natural and earned (like the drama in Sunshine always was) and less like this season's with Ayumu.