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The story
A thread announcing the anime adaptation of the new brand “Hasunosora Girls’ School Idol Club” went up on 5ch’s Love Live! board. The broadcast is said to run April through June, but reports indicate the main story will be just 7 episodes total — contradicting the thread title’s claim of “4 cours total” — prompting a string of replies pointing out that it actually falls short of even a single cour. Some see the cause as the mobile game Linkura (“Link! Like! Love Live!”) ending its service earlier than originally planned. The thread’s discussion ended up spreading into comparisons of revenue and reputation with other Love Live! spin-off series like Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and Superstar!!.
What people said
Wait, seriously? That's straight-up garbage lol
I mean, that's still basically 2 cours worth though
but Hasunosora only gets 7 episodes and that's it? Unacceptable.
Stop pulling this "everything past episode 7 moves to another medium" nonsense.
They're hemorrhaging money left and right — "acceptable" doesn't even enter into it.
Hint:
Official statement from the producers:
"Even after the anime ends, Hasunosora will continue."
They're already running a trash anime and a trash life-support movie, so they'll probably squeeze out a few cours at least.
That's just wishful thinking.
It's far more likely they just do a quick 7-episode cash grab and bail.
Even if they wanted to do that, the 4 earlier Love Live series are dead or dying, so they've got no choice but to keep Hasunosora on life support…
Hasunosora, which has probably bled money like crazy itself, has no business talking.
You guys are the biggest dead weight of all.
Guess "Ikizulive" suits you guys just fine then (a pun mocking "Love Live" with ikizurai, "hard to survive")
The losses were only on Odd Number's (the production company's) side though.
Even SukuSuta (the mobile game) ran at a deficit, but Nijigasaki's still going strong.
Apparently Bandai Namco took over the rights and is the one handling Linkura's refunds now, so the Love Live team must be sitting on pins and needles internally.
That amount can't be that much, come on.
Lol, saying "can't be that much" after causing real damage to the company.
Why would they expect to still get investment after that?
The money people spent on in-game purchases isn't that big a deal.
You think they're seriously shouldering Odd Number's debt or something?
Lives turn a profit from merch sales, you know?
Ticket revenue alone is basically break-even.
Still not as bad as Nijigasaki, whose mobile game and movie both flopped hard.
Hmm…
Juria's great though…
Comparing Superstar!!, which doesn't have a single redeeming quality, to the other series is just disrespectful.
It's Nijigasaki that blew up in controversy, tanked Love Live's reputation, and now has only its diehard fans making noise — it's disrespectful for it to even call itself "Love Live" in the first place.
Dead weight content that keeps screwing up, cast included.
Nijigasaki fanboys should come back and act tough after they actually beat Superstar!! in sales and attendance numbers.
The plan was always 7 episodes of actual anime, with the rest covered by activity-record footage (lives, streams, etc.).
Then Linkura's service ending earlier than even the producers expected threw the whole thing out of whack.
There's no way they're doing more anime for a 2nd cour after this.
So what, you're saying Mion was never scheduled to appear in the anime at all from the start?
We're talking about Hasunosora here.
Translation: "I can't stand losing to Nijigasaki in the numbers, so pleeeease stooooop!!!" 🤣
Honestly, μ's might be the only one who nailed their exit — but then right after the final there was the "black nipple" scandal, remember?
They've just been dragging it out for 2 years with no anime at all.
μ's had their FINAL the year right after their movie wrapped, and Aqours would've had a dome tour finale too if COVID hadn't happened, no?
There's no way they'd end it without even getting one character on screen.
It's probably just that since it's "April to June," people are mentally converting that into "so July through March must be anime too!" on their own.
Barely anyone on Edge (a fan forum) or X is actually that clueless.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Love Live! franchise runs several brands in parallel, including “Hasunosora Girls’ School Idol Club,” and its anime adaptations typically run around 2 cours. That’s what makes a total of 7 episodes so unusually short, and the mismatch between that figure and the thread title’s claim of “4 cours total” is what kicked off the debate. Commenters speculate that the mobile game Linkura (“Link! Like! Love Live!”), which served as Hasunosora’s core platform, ending its service earlier than planned derailed what was originally meant to be a split between anime episodes and activity-record content (lives, streams, etc.). This is purely speculation from 5ch users — no official breakdown of the episode structure had been given by the production side as of this thread. There’s also lively comparison with sister brands Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and Superstar!! over sales and buzz, but those comparisons are likewise driven by individual impressions rather than cited figures.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “Hasunosora Anime’s First Cour Is April–June! 4 Cours Total!“
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