Japanese idol juggernaut & multimedia franchise Love Live! has just revealed this Sunday that they will be launching a yet-unspecified “new project”. The announcement was made during the second day of the Love Live! Fes event held on January 18-19. According to the announcement, more details on this new project will be revealed in Kadokawa’s Love Live! Days Love Live! Sogo Magazine Vol. 5 issue, which will be released on January 30.
The Love Live! Fes concert celebrated the franchise’s nine successful years in the business. The event brought together all three generations of the popular idol franchise. First generation group μ’s (much to the excitement of OG Love Live! fans) shared the stage with other groups from the franchise: Love Live! Sunshine!!’s Aqours and Saint Snow, and smartphone game Love Live! School Idol Festival’s Nijigasaki Academy’s Idol Appreciation Club. The concert was held over two days at the Saitama Super Arena.
Love Live! is a multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project has encompassed several media including anime, manga, live concerts, and smartphone games. It was launched in 2010 with μ‘s as its faces. The project was adapted into an anime series in 2013, with a second season following in 2014. The project and the group μ’s proved to be a massive commercial success, topping CD sales in Japan and selling out concerts in venues as big as Tokyo Dome.
The next generation, Love Live! Sunshine!!, featured idol group Aqours who, like their predecessors, wanted to save their school from closing. Sunshine!! has had numerous singles and CDs, a two-season anime, sold-out live concerts, as well as a movie, Love Live! Sunshine! School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow, whose domestic ticket sales crossed the 1 billion yen mark. The movie was also shown in other countries, the United States included.
The newest group in the franchise, the Nijigasaki Academy’s Idol Appreciation Club, were earlier announced to be receiving their own anime series as well.
Source: Anime News Network