Love Live! School Idol Project

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Japanese: ラブライブ! School idol project
English: Love Live! School Idol Project
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 6, 2013 to Mar 31, 2013
Premiered: Winter 2013
Broadcast: Sundays at 22:00 (JST)
Licensors: NIS America, Inc.
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Other
Genre: Slice of LifeSlice of Life
Themes: Idols (Female)Idols (Female), MusicMusic, SchoolSchool
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Ranked: #23462
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Popularity: #520
Members: 456,463
Favorites: 8,113

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Both stories deal with a group of up-and-coming idols. 
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A small group of girls trying to start a music-and-dance-related club in their school. They struggle to recruit members, and their goal is to participate in a competition. Cute girls doing cute things. 
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Both series focus on high school-aged girls working together to achieve an seemingly impossible task and feature very strong soundtracks. 
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High school girls rally together against many odds to save their school. 
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They both have same idol-ish vibe and i think Lapis songs kinda better lmao 
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In this season have a group girl idol like Love Live 
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It's an idol slice of life, characters are awesome. 
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A great music-centric series. 
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both have an all girl cast and are both about saving their school from shutting down. 
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LOVE LIVE has been one of my favorite anime since i joined the otaku world. it's fun and entertaining especially their performance and songs. you can also find similarities with this anime but aikatsu stars is a bit different with LOVE LIVE since the idols work individually in aikatsu. 
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The general concept is pretty different. KanColle is about a bunch of middle school girls fighting to save the world and Love Live is about a bunch of middle school girls who become idols to save their school from shutting down, however both of these anime are still very similar in other ways. Both take place in a school setting with a large cast of characters consisting of only females. The comedy styles of both anime are very identical and different characters feel like they can fit in easily with any of the two anime.  
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