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The official website for the Love Live! franchise announced on Friday that the second season of the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime will premiere on October 7 at 10:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto. It will air later the same evening on BS11 and TV Aichi, and the evening of October 10 on TV Hokkaido, SBS, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting. A television special will precede the debut of the first episode on September 30 on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and BS11. The special will also be livestreamed. The first Love Live! Sunshine!! anime premiered in July 2016. Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Daisuki streamed the series outside of Japan. The Love Live! Sunshine!! project was first announced in February 2015. The project's three key phrases are "Reader Participation," "Inspired by μ's," and "Seaside Town Setting." The group's name Aqours was chosen by fans by popular vote. In 2010, the anime studio Sunrise, Lantis, and ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G Magazine launched Love Live! as

New visual showing series heroines unveiled Konami revealed on Friday that its LovePlus EVERY smartphone game is slated for this winter for iOS and Android devices. In addition, Konami revealed a visual featuring series heroines Rinko Kobayakawa (left in picture below, voiced by Sakura Tange), Manaka Takane (center, Saori Hayami), and Nene Anegasaki (right, Yuko Minaguchi). Konami also revealed that a part of the game will be built for virtual-reality devices, and that this part will be available to preview during this year's Tokyo Game Show event on September 21-24. LovePlus character designer Tarō Minoboshi (√Letter, God Wars Future Past) along with series producer Akari Uchida had both left Konami in March 2015. Konami stated later that month that it would continue to make LovePlus games. Minoboshi designed characters for the franchise under the penname Mino☆Tarō. The LovePlus franchise launched on the Nintendo DS in 2009. The game inspired an enhanced LovePlus+ ed

New game version will get new features, fully voiced original story that brings μ's, Aqours together KLab Games and Bushiroad announced during the Tokyo Game Show event on Thursday that their Love Live! School Idol Festival smartphone game will get a new version titled Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS in 2018. The new version will include the members of Nijigasaki Academy's Idol Appreciation Club that were introduced earlier this year as part of the game's "Perfect Dream Project" (PDP). The new game will offer a completely original fully-voiced new story that will bring the members of both μ's and Aqours together. The story will include both stories that involve each school, as well as personal stories that deepen the bonds between two characters, as well as a larger story that will cross the boundaries between all three schools. The game will also bring new nine-member formation dances, and will have new gameplay systems for the concerts other than the rhythm

Game features µ's, Aqours characters, songs Pokelabo (Senki Zesshō Symphogear XD Unlimited, Senran no Samurai Kingdom, SINoALICE) and Sunrise announced and opened a website on Monday for a new smartphone game in the Love Live! franchise titled Puchiguru Love Live! (Mini-Stuffed Dolls Love Live!). The game is described as a "tap puzzle game," and it will feature the µ's characters from Love Live! School idol project, and the Aqours characters from Love Live! Sunshine!!. Songs by both music groups will also feature in the game while playing. The site notes that the game will get a promotional video in November. The site is taking pre-registrations for the game. The franchise already has another smartphone game titled Love Live! School Idol Festival. Bushiroad and KLab released the game in English on iOS and Android devices in May 2014. The game will get a new version titled Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS in 2018. Source: Dengeki Online

Series with returning cast, staff premieres on October 7 The official website for the Love Live! franchise began streaming the third promotional video on Sunday for the second season of the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime. The new season will feature a returning cast and staff. The anime will premiere on October 7 at 10:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto. The show will air later the same evening on BS11 and TV Aichi, and the evening of October 10 on TV Hokkaido, SBS, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting. The first Love Live! Sunshine!! anime premiered in July 2016. Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Daisuki streamed the series outside of Japan. The Love Live! Sunshine!! project was first announced in February 2015. The project's three key phrases are "Reader Participation," "Inspired by μ's," and "Seaside Town Setting." The group's name Aqours was chosen by fans by popular vote. In 2010, the anime studio Sunrise, Lantis, and ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G Magazine launched Love

For the most part, moviegoers have been enjoying a comic book adaptation renaissance since the release of Marvel’s Iron Man in 2008. We’ve had critically successful movies across the board, from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, to more direct adaptations like Snowpiercer and Kingsman. But for every good egg, there’s one that the critics couldn’t get the groove with. That’s where the fans come in. Fans of films panned by critics and reviewers often gain new life in, well, their afterlife. RELATED: The Multi-Cinematic Universe: 15 Actors Who Turned Down MCU It happens all over the place, whether it’s diehard fans of a television series helping to bring it back for a new season on Netflix, to a live-action film getting a sequel after decades of non-movement in the film world (we’re looking at you, Blade Runner 2049). Sure, it may be a while until we see films like Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Thor: The Dark World or Suicide Squad on this list of films that have all ea

Film opens in Japan on January 6 Kyoto Animation began streaming a third teaser video on Friday for Eiga Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! Take On Me (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! the Movie: Take On Me), the upcoming film in the Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai!) franchise. The video shows the character traveling around Japan, from Kyoto to Hyogo, Wakayama, Tokyo, Aomori, and Hokkaido. The film's official website also revealed a new key visual. The film will open in Japan on January 6. In the film, Rikka is now a third-year student, but she still has "chunibyo" syndrome. University entrance exams loom on the horizon, and it's spring break, and Yūta and Rikka are together as usual. One day, Rikka's older sister Tōka declares that she's going to take Rikka to Italy with her, as Tōka is moving to Italy for work and she thinks they should move together as a family. Yūta understands Tōka's opinion, but thinks that at this rate he and

Osaka, Aichi weekend events planned to celebrate 2nd season anime's opening song single Lantis announced on Sunday that it cancelled the commemoration event for the Aqours group's "Mirai no Bokura wa Shitteru yo" single scheduled for the same day in Aichi prefecture due to the approaching Typhoon Saola (Quedan), and the possible subsequent shutdown of public transportation services. Lantis also warned about the same event in Osaka on Saturday, and other events scheduled for the same days in Sendai, Sapporo, and Hiroshima, but only the Sunday Aqours event was cancelled. The single shipped on October 25. The single's title track is the opening theme song for the second season Love Live! Sunshine!! anime. The new Love Live! Sunshine!! season premiered on October 7. Crunchyroll is streaming the series as it airs in Japan, and Funimation began streaming an English dub for the series on October 23. The first Love Live! Sunshine!! anime premiered in July 2016. Funimation, Cru

Bushiroad began streaming a video on Saturday for KLab Games' Love Live! School Idol Festival smartphone game that revealed that the game has reached 40 million users worldwide. Bushiroad and KLab released the Love Live! School Idol Festival rhythm action and adventure game in English on iOS and Android devices in May 2014. The game added the Love Live! Sunshine!! characters to the game in September 2016. The game also received an arcade version titled Love Live! School idol festival ~afterschool Activity~ that launched in Japan in December. KLab Games will develop a new game titled Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS in 2018. The new game will include the members of Nijigasaki Academy's Idol Appreciation Club that were introduced earlier this year as part of the game's "Perfect Dream Project" (PDP).

Last week's Love Live! Sunshine!! took a surprising left turn, leaving fans on the edge of their seats for the season's second half. This week in anime, Nick and Steve discuss their favorite things about the girls of Aqours so far. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network. Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. @Lossthief @Liuwdere @ANNJakeH @vestenet You can read our weekly coverage of Love Live! Sunshine!! here! SteveNick, you could argue, and rightfully so, that most of what we do here at This Week In Anime is indulge in idle anime chitchat. So this week, I wanna change things up and focus on idol anime chitchat. Nick DOh HELL YEAH. It's time for Love Live! everyone.LET'S GET WILD. Love Live! is BACK. It's season 2 of Sunshine, and THE. WHOLE. GAME. HAS. CHANGED. we've got idol helicopter pilots we've got idol air guitars and we've got idol FAILURE The