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The story
A new unit in the Love Live! franchise held a live concert, but the lack of any anime or app announcement at the event became a hot topic on 5ch. Commenters pointed out that past units set different precedents — Liella got its anime announcement roughly a year after the unit itself was revealed, while μ’s went two and a half years without one — leaving the thread split on whether fans should just wait it out. Some argued the (reportedly self-set) goal of “100,000 subscribers” is being treated as a precondition, while others questioned whether the low-cost, cast-driven live format itself reflects a profit-first mindset from management.
What people said
What else could it be besides milking easy money off a cheap, cast-driven gimmick?
Well, they've gotta cover the deficit somehow.
"At least it's better than Liella."
Liella had its anime announced within a year of the project being revealed, though…
So basically no anime until they crack 100k!
Foreshadowing paid off — in an academic textbook, lmao
Sure there's no anime or app yet, but μ's didn't get an anime for two and a half years after it started either.
No need to rush — they'll get around to an anime eventually.
It's not the μ's era anymore.
These days, if you leave a project sitting with zero fuel like that, it's guaranteed to rot before it even gets off the ground.
Are you dissing IkiZu Live (a sarcastic fan nickname for the new unit's live, punning on "ikizurai" — "hard to live/breathe") for betting everything on just voice-actor events?
You could feel it seeping through in their posts after the live, too.
You should wait at least two more.
Seriously, for some reason even people I know were all "IkiZu is number one!" Were they brainwashed or something?
Well, everyone gets hyped right after an event.
Give it a month and they'll feel the emptiness set back in.
Giving up after just 2-3 days — no patience at all.
If you're seriously trying to bury it, you've gotta keep it up every day for at least a few months.
You're quick to drag Aqours into it, but Aqours already did its job and is basically living out its retirement now.
It's rough that IkiZu Live has to be compared to something in retirement.
The sub-unit split vote just started, so there'll probably be a new song around year-end — I don't think Tori (fan nickname for the unit) is really in a void.
Who's even gonna listen to that new song? Just the inner circle, right?
That's still a void.
If there's actual content being delivered to fans, isn't that the opposite of a void?
Bring the Love Live board back to life.
No, doing the anime is the right call — what is management even doing?
Management has a real talent for deliberately doing the one thing that's obviously wrong, even to amateurs.
https://x.com/fps_Qoofu9/status/2101705942433980540
IkiZu is about to flip the script with this live and blow up like Gakumas to become the new top dog, though?
Background and Key Points
The Love Live! franchise has expanded with a new unit centered on Hasunosora Jogakuin, following “μ’s,” “Aqours (nicknamed ‘Hoshi’/Star),” “Nijigasaki (nicknamed ‘Niji’/Rainbow),” and “Liella! (Liella).” The timing of anime and app adaptations has never been uniform across units — μ’s went roughly two and a half years without an anime after its launch, while Liella had its anime announced within about a year — so the gap between units can be substantial. That means this latest “no announcement” isn’t unprecedented in itself. One thing readers may easily conflate: the thread’s theory that “hitting 100,000 subscribers is a precondition” was never laid out as an official roadmap — it’s a fan interpretation based on past remarks. The latter half of the thread also drifted into rivalry between fans of different units, which is a separate issue from the core anime/app development story; this article has been compiled with exchanges that risk identifying individuals left out.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “[Total Bad News] IkiZu Live — No Anime, No App“.
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