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A thread titled “Why isn’t anyone hyped about today’s 106th-gen reveal?” popped up on 5ch’s Love Live! board — but instead of discussing the new unit reveal itself, it turned into a pitched battle between fans of Nijigasaki (虹), Hasunosora (蓮), and Liella (星, nicknamed “star” after “Superstar!!”) over whose livestream pulled bigger concurrent-viewer numbers. Posters threw out figures — 8,500 concurrent viewers for Nijigasaki’s broadcast, 15,000 for Hasunosora’s reveal, and just 500 for Liella’s JAXA collab stream — arguing over which series actually commands the most support. Opinions were split on the trending-chart rankings too.
Translator’s note: 5ch’s default anonymous handle on this board is “Anonymous Dreamer,” with a parenthetical tag auto-appended showing the poster’s mobile carrier or browser (a well-known site quirk, not a chosen username) — e.g. “Mushroom” and “SIM” below are just different devices, not different people. “>>21” means “replying to post #21,” and the trailing “w” is 5ch shorthand for laughter (like “lol”).
What people said
The storyline too, tbh
Everyone already fled to X (Twitter) or Shitaraba (a rival Japanese forum site)
Guess that means Liella fades into the background again…🤭
Meanwhile Liella…
…oof.
Getting close though, that's impressive
Nijigasaki's final-movie livestream: 8,000 lol
And Liella, after all that buildup, does a JAXA collab
500 people.
To be fair, they were just a guest on a JAXA program
Pathetic that ragebait is the only way they rack up numbers
It's trending though
For the record, even at full power with the whole cast it only hit 6,000 lol
Starting at 8pm, Nijigasaki can't even hit 5,000, which is why they fled to a 9pm slot lol
Lately they've sneakily been starting at 8:30 instead — probably because the later slot runs too long
Still loses to Liella's 500 people on the JAXA collab though
…oof 😵
For the record, Liella's broadcast ran well past 9pm and still only gained 300 viewers in 30 minutes lol
Hasunosora's anime got a broadcast date too
As a Nijigasaki/Hasunosora fan, I'm way too hyped…………🤭
People are genuinely excited for Hasunosora's anime, but Nijigasaki's movie? Even the faithful probably won't show up lol
Lol, checking now is pointless
It was No. 1 trending while the broadcast was actually live
As a Nijigasaki/Hasunosora fan, I'm happy Love Live's getting this much buzz………………🤭
Hasunosora was No. 1 trending, lol
Even the official account posted about it
Nijigasaki, on the other hand, has never hit No. 1 at anything — livestreams included
Background and talking points
The Love Live! franchise currently runs several parallel series — Nijigasaki, Hasunosora, and others — and fans of each camp frequently clash on 5ch’s Love Live! board over whose livestream concurrent-viewer counts or social-media trending rank prove superior. This thread followed the same pattern: there was little actual commentary on the new unit reveal itself, with most of the discussion consumed by Nijigasaki-vs-Hasunosora-vs-Liella number comparisons. It’s worth noting that concurrent-viewer counts swing heavily based on broadcast time slot, platform, and whether a collab tie-in is involved, so treating them as a clean popularity metric is shaky — and that pushback did surface within the thread itself. It’s also easy to misread the headline’s “isn’t hyped” as meaning the thread itself fell flat; in reality, the thread stayed lively right to the end, just fueled by inter-fandom sniping rather than reactions to the reveal.
※ This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “Why isn’t anyone hyped about today’s 106th-gen reveal?“
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