WhiteLens posted...
Though I guess Season 1 is suddenly lost media because you can't really watch it legally anywhere and the blu-ray is apparently out of stock in stores.
When it comes to this music stuff I'm ready to assume it's an issue with the publisher rather than the licenser. People are still losing it about GBC not officially coming over, but considering it Toei it's really not surprising, they're kind of incompetent with this stuff. Maybe the same here with Bushiroad?
Watching through this still, and though the vibe is more Love Live compared to the much more dire vibe of MyGO, there's still a major difference here that's causing me to appreciate it a bit more on the actual
performance
front. Love Live always felt unrealistic. Like, maybe I'm remembering wrong, but at no point did anyone in Love Live....suck? They practice a ton, do wayyyy more actual musical sequences, but they're pretty much professional idols from the very second they get on stage. Here, in both shows I've watched so far, the MCs....are not great at playing! Obviously they get better as it goes, but 5 episodes in and Kasumi is still absolutely terrible at guitar. Anon can play a little bit from the get go in MyGO, but it's still at an amateur level and she's basically faking it for attention. Honoka in Love Live, however, is at the same skill level in episode 1 of the show as she is in the movie, despite whatever the narrative is claiming.
Maybe that's why I constantly ended up skipping all the performances in LL, I had no investment. I watched that show for the humor and character personalities, I didn't care about the group.