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The story
DiverDiva, a unit from Love Live! Superstar!!, released its first new song in four years — but the news that it only reached #11 on the Oricon chart became a hot topic on 5ch. Thread posters brought up other units’ numbers for comparison, like “A・ZU・NA at #26 with 2,224 listeners” and “MoaJan at #35 with 1,553 listeners,” and the discussion spiraled from debating the quality of the songs (aside from Eternal Light) and Spotify listener trends into a full-blown popularity feud between fans of other Love Live projects like Nijigasaki, Hasunosora (SS), and Liella!.
#11, huh
Source: oricon.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
35 1,553 MoaJan (5ch shorthand for a unit name)
Hmm…
Ayumu and Ruby fighting to the death, huh…
If they split into different team formations like Liella! does, they could avoid going stale.
Guilty Kiss and SS should be just as flavorless by that logic, yet they're still super popular.
Eternal Light was actually good though.
DD (DiverDiva) has only ever really had Eternal Light going for it.
Everything else is the usual filler trash.
R3BIRTH is the only unit where every single song actually hits.
While busy bashing Nijigasaki and Hasunosora, Star's (Superstar!!'s) listener count dropped again lol
Classic gap in temperature between the supplier and the customers.
Aqours ("Mizu") lost fans after their finale too — Nijigasaki's probably in for a rough ride once it wraps up as well.
Guilty Kiss and Saint Snow (GKSS) did great though.
Wonder what Nijigasaki's even going to do once it hits its finale.
By what logic does 2,224 count as "selling well"?
You just want to believe things are miserable over there.
Nijigasaki hasn't had any activity at all, so it's basically done anyway.
Star (Superstar!!) just held their sports-festival event and listeners still crashed.
Nijigasaki drops one new song and listeners explode.
Where exactly did it all go wrong…………..
At this rate they're going to be Love Live's dead weight again this year.
They're not going to bundle anything with this unit's 4 songs.
Even if they did, there's nothing left to give away.
Um… Liella! put out both a single and an album, and their numbers still dropped 10% from before.
Oh…………………..
53 Anonymous Fulfilling the Story (Shin Nippon) sage 2026/09/08 (Tue) 19:29:19.62 ID:9zA6im8u
Listener counts, 9/1 → 9/8
Liella!
55,785 → 55,336 (-449)
A・ZU・NA
10,664 → 12,708 (+2,044)
Someone explain this phenomenon, please.
The unit's numbers are climbing steadily too.
Let's check how Liella!'s own sub-units are doing while we're at it.
It just released, so it's only a temporary bump before it drops right back down.
What's the reason Liella! has dropped so much since June?
Well, the moment it's increasing, the Star fanboys' whole argument falls apart.
Why do you think Star fanboys have been dodging the listener-count topic this whole time?
No we're not — it's only Star fanboys doing that lol
The Nijigasaki fanboys were happy that clips were getting uploaded everywhere after Nijigasaki's live lol
No wonder it's not even getting a physical release.
At this rate the unit's getting cancelled too.
Anime cancelled, manga cancelled, figures cancelled.
This truly is "Cancella!" (打ち切リエラ — a pun combining Liella! with "discontinued") lmaooo
You can listen on YouTube too, you know.
Pathetic Nijigasaki fanboys who can only boast about the one convenient metric.
YouTube's even more brutal…
No way, seriously…
One-fifth of Nijigasaki's numbers? Is that even allowed…
Background and Key Points of This Debate
DiverDiva is an in-story unit from Love Live! Superstar!!, and this was its first new song in four years at a time when Superstar!! itself has often been criticized for its slowing release pace. The Love Live! franchise runs multiple projects in parallel — Nijigasaki, Hasunosora (SS), Liella!, and others — and on 5ch it’s become routine for fans to pit units and shows against each other using weekly Spotify listener counts and YouTube view numbers. That said, weekly listener counts tend to spike temporarily right after a new release drops, so reading a few days of fluctuation as a definitive trend can be misleading. Likewise, an Oricon rank of #11 is only meaningful relative to the size and makeup of the chart being tallied, so it’s worth being cautious about treating it as hard proof of an absolute “flop.” The thread mixes genuine number-crunching with fans simply trading insults, so readers need to judge for themselves which comments actually reflect reality.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “DiverDiva’s Long-Awaited New Song After 4 Years Turns Out to Be a Shocking Flop!.”
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