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Love Live! School Idol Project Discussion
MetalPredat0r:
--- Quote from: DeviantProtagonist on July 01, 2014, 02:30:14 am ---I've hardly heard of this franchise, apart from the fact it follows a similar formula to Idolm@ster and has that World War rivalry thing going on or something. Is it a worthwhile investment compared to iM@S? Are the stories good and the characters memorable?
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I personally recommend it. While both have their similarities, they both have MANY differences. While iM@S is more about the individual characters and how they grow, Love Live is more about the group as a whole growing together. This especially shows iM@S has a lot of solo songs between each girl while Love Live has almost every song being sung as a group. There's also more of an overall story to Love Live with the girls forming a school idol group to prevent their school from shutting down whereas iM@S is about each girl's indivdual lives with some few recurring plot threads here and there (the big live in Episode 13, Kuroi and Jupiter, and Chihaya's backstory).
DeviantProtagonist:
Interesting comparisons. Not sure why people would get so worked up over something like idol rivalries, but whatever, I'll give this a watch sometime.
MetalPredat0r:
--- Quote from: DeviantProtagonist on July 01, 2014, 04:15:12 am ---Interesting comparisons. Not sure why people would get so worked up over something like idol rivalries, but whatever, I'll give this a watch sometime.
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Well, people get worked up over rivalries in general. Like Nintendo vs Sega, Star Wars vs Star Trek, Coke vs Pepsi, Soup vs Salad, etc.
Naryoril:
What irks me about the anime is the lack of a rival for the big show.
There was always A-Rise as the big obstacle to overcome, and then they do it in the prelims, and it isn't even really shown, just a bit in a flashback of the next episode. And then there is the Love Live, the big goal the have worked to, without any actual rival, there is no sense of danger of being defeated at all.
And in general with Love Live: Since almost all the songs are always sung by all 9, they lack character, they all sound the same. They are good and there isn't any i really dislike (like i dislike some of the im@s songs), but there isn't any really standing out (like some of the im@s songs which just blew me away when i first heard them).
MetalPredat0r:
--- Quote from: Naryoril on July 01, 2014, 06:41:47 am ---What irks me about the anime is the lack of a rival for the big show.
There was always A-Rise as the big obstacle to overcome, and then they do it in the prelims, and it isn't even really shown, just a bit in a flashback of the next episode. And then there is the Love Live, the big goal the have worked to, without any actual rival, there is no sense of danger of being defeated at all.
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While I agree, in Love Live's case, I think the personal obstacles that each character go through are more vital here than a rival.
--- Quote from: Naryoril on July 01, 2014, 06:41:47 am ---And in general with Love Live: Since almost all the songs are always sung by all 9, they lack character, they all sound the same. They are good and there isn't any i really dislike (like i dislike some of the im@s songs), but there isn't any really standing out (like some of the im@s songs which just blew me away when i first heard them).
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This I completely agree with. As great as Love Live's songs are, the lack of individuality really hurts the overall memorability of the music. With the iDOLM@STER, good or bad, each song sticks out and are much more memorable in that case. Love Live, I can only name two songs that stick out to me. Start:Dash!! (because it's amazing!) and Kitto Seishun ga Kikoeru (because of Season 1's end credits).
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