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The story
On 5ch’s Love Live! board, a thread titled “Reasons We Want Nijigasaki to End” filled up with complaints about live show pacing, fan manners, and sluggish CD sales.
The fact that AZUNA’s new single only reached #372 on Amazon’s chart on release day also became a talking point, with many voicing concern that the series is losing momentum.
What people said
Reasons Nijigasaki Won't End
Feel free to use the rest of this thread for complaints or bashing about Niji-shin (Nijigasaki fanatics) or Nijigasaki itself.
No serial code bonus attached as usual, so it's basically confirmed to sell under 10,000 again.
I can tell they're trying to emulate Tomori's style, but it still comes off flat, like 'Shokupanman' (a plain, bland bread-head character).
They should never have let her leave Nijigasaki.
Everyone's been miserable since she quit.
but lately none of the new songs stand out at all.
Honestly, the songs were always weak.
μ's and Aqours both had Hata Aki writing for them the whole way through,
so Love Live! fans were already calling the music weak long before this.
https://fate.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/lovelive/1787632066/
If this is the quality of the junior members, no wonder they can't wrap the series up.
Even watching it over and over, it's just awful.
Feel sorry for the Superstar!! fans (星信) who have nothing left to do but praise this…
but Liella! did about 15 songs in roughly an hour during their live segment — genuinely moved me.
Impressive that you can be 'moved' by a show you didn't even watch.
A 30-minute break right after the opening song is rough, no way around it.
This guy's even better than me at pissing off Niji-shin.
Background and Key Points
Since the AZUNA CD/#372 ranking data isn’t rich, I’ll ground the closer in Nijigasaki’s institutional background and pinpoint the actual fault line in the thread.
Nijigasaki High School Idol Club occupies a specific and slightly awkward slot in the Love Live! franchise: unlike μ’s and Aqours, it launched without a set 9-member cast and rotated focus characters, and it later formalized the “AZUNA” sub-unit (Asaka, Kasumi, Ai) as one of several smaller vocal groupings rather than a single unified idol group. Amazon’s daily music ranking is a real-time sales proxy, not a chart of record like Oricon, so a same-day position of #372 signals weak first-day pre-order momentum specifically, not final sales — and posters note the absence of a bundled serial code (commonly used in Japan to incentivize multi-copy purchases for lottery or event tickets) as the likely cause, since serial-code-less releases in this franchise have reliably undersold 10,000 copies before.
The thread doesn’t actually agree that Nijigasaki is collapsing — it splits between posters blaming structural issues (thin live setlists, a 30-minute mid-show break, weak songwriting inherited from a pattern they say goes back to Hatsune Aki-era μ’s/Aqours compositions) and posters just venting about fandom toxicity (harassment of staff/other franchises, the Kerorira account-deletion incident, an arrest unrelated to the group’s output). Those are two different complaints — content quality versus fan-community behavior — collapsed into one “reasons to end it” thread, which is why replies talk past each other.
What’s likely to be missed: Amazon JP daily rankings are extremely volatile and don’t capture CD shop or event-venue sales, which remain significant channels for idol-anime music in Japan, so #372 alone doesn’t confirm the “under 10,000” prediction posters are making.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “Reasons We Want Nijigasaki to End”.
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