| Watched Love Live Nijigasaki and it felt more like a episodic slice of life. Is this similar? |
| Not quite. The first season tells the story of how Popipa came to be, and the story progresses with each episode. There are some emotional scenes, which I personally enjoyed, but your mileage may vary. The story of popipa continues in season 2, but in that season they introduce other bands, so it can feel a bit episodic. There's also a mobile game which tells the story of each band. |
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| The first season is very decent, some nice emotions and really good character development. Season 2 is where it starts to get less interesting imo because they start to focus more and more attention on other bands, despite having a very good/interesting main band. It doesn't get bad per say, but if you got to like the series because of Popipa like me, you might get disappointed in what comes next. |
| Love Live seems to focus more on the girls' ambitions as stars and less about their musical talents (depending on the character). Like Bang Dream is about a band, so they are figuring out how to learn instruments. The struggles in Love Live are a bit different since they are learning to be idols by training to dance and sing. I think the drama is a bit similar if you like that. Overall they're both about a group of girls trying to do music, so If you like one there's a good chance you'll like the other. |
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Fail_Man_X said: So I made a mistake by watching that first?Haven't seen Bang Dream, but Nijigasaki is quite different from all the other Love Live seasons. It eschews the series' standard plot of "large idol group tries to win idol contest" to instead focus on the characters individually and as solo idols who aren't trying to compete. |
Fail_Man_X said: Interesting. Well I'll give Love Live another shot. Which one do you recommend? I was kinda leaning towards Love Live SuperStar, but not sure if that's considered a good starting point. Reshiram_IX said: I wouldn't say that. Each series (School Idol Project, Sunshine, Nijigasaki, and Superstar) has 2 seasons (a couple have sequel movies and 1 is getting a third season). It would be a mistake to watch S2 without watching S1, but the series themselves are only loosely connected and can be watched standalone. It's just that Nijisaski is so different (solo idols, not competing in Love Live) that it's not indicative of the "Love Live experience". To use an example, it would be like forming an opinion of Sword Art Online when you've only seen Alternative. Just because you like/dislike Alternative doesn't mean you'll like dislike SAO proper. Similarly, the other Love Lives feel less episodic because the girls have a set goal of winning the main competition, and it's about the group rather than individual idols. So I made a mistake by watching that first? |
Reshiram_IX said: Fail_Man_X said: Interesting. Well I'll give Love Live another shot. Which one do you recommend? I was kinda leaning towards Love Live SuperStar, but not sure if that's considered a good starting point. I wouldn't say that. Each series (School Idol Project, Sunshine, Nijigasaki, and Superstar) has 2 seasons (a couple have sequel movies and 1 is getting a third season). It would be a mistake to watch S2 without watching S1, but the series themselves are only loosely connected and can be watched standalone. It's just that Nijisaski is so different (solo idols, not competing in Love Live) that it's not indicative of the "Love Live experience". To use an example, it would be like forming an opinion of Sword Art Online when you've only seen Alternative. Just because you like/dislike Alternative doesn't mean you'll like dislike SAO proper. Similarly, the other Love Lives feel less episodic because the girls have a set goal of winning the main competition, and it's about the group rather than individual idols. I recommend watching em in order of releases. I gave up on nijigasaki S2 and superstar S2 as well they just didn't do it for me, like the original and sunshine but that's just my opinion. Main gripe for me with the 2 later ones are the characters are really meh. |
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Fail_Man_X said: I watched 5 episodes of Superstar so far and it’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the recommendation! :)Reshiram_IX said: Given your comments on Nijigasaki, Superstar might be the best recommendation, as it has the strongest sense of progression. Conventional wisdom says the first series, School Idol Project, but I actually have not seen it. Personally, I started with Sunshine. It references and mentions the first series a lot, but I didn't have any issues keeping track of what was going on and I really enjoyed it.Interesting. Well I'll give Love Live another shot. Which one do you recommend? I was kinda leaning towards Love Live SuperStar, but not sure if that's considered a good starting point. |
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