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The story
On 5ch’s Love Live! board, news that an encore performance of the Love Live! Fest will be held at the Tokyo Dome became a hot topic. Announced as a follow-up to the Aichi (Nagoya) shows, further details have come out too: the 102nd-class members will only appear on Day 2, while μ’s and Aqours will perform with fixed lineups. The thread filled up with questions about the casting choices — why weren’t cast members who seem available being invited, with some suspecting the organizers are skimping on fees — along with complaints that the lineup actually looks smaller than the Nagoya show.
What people said
And get the veteran members front and center across every series for Aisu, and have them sing
Does everyone just have time on their hands?
Konakotoko can't make Day 1 — they've got a different event
Tokyo looks like the "real" show, but the lineup's smaller than Nagoya's — power's down.
They already used Sunny Day Song too, so this one might just be the leftover ashes
Details are out.
The 102nd class is Day 2 only.
For some reason Soramaru's gone
With a lineup this full of holes, Day 2 alone would've been enough
Oh yeah, true.
Barely enrolled and already at Tokyo Dome, lol
It's a different date, so they could've invited people like Komiya who didn't come to the other show
And here I was watching the stream both days
The organizers are just being cheap with the appearance fees.
A Dome fest doesn't bring in enough to go into the red by inviting everyone
Komiya Arisa was live-commentating it, after all
Lol.
Just invite her already (lol)
This whole thing has gotten completely out of hand
Makes the 103rd class's graduation show look like an afterthought
If they're still not making offers, it's either the organizers pinching the budget, or the cast side turning them down
The cast themselves are probably thinking, "How many more times are you gonna dig up a franchise that already wrapped up cleanly?"
Is she just busy with solo work?
She is appearing at the local hometown-love festival though.
Thanks to her "Choke-Hold Goddess" role blowing up, she's gotten busy, so they need to lock in her schedule early
there are clearly several cast members who were intentionally left off the invite list
Among Aqours' third-years, Suzuki Aina has the Oto no Wa Matsuri, but it's not like Komiya and Suwa couldn't have appeared.
Suwa just doesn't seem motivated anymore, though
Is Suwa ever coming back from Puroland?
If anything, she's thriving thanks to "India power"
but calling him in for a full Fest show seems off.
He doesn't sing, doesn't dance, doesn't host,
and he's not even a school idol, yet "SDS" gets to sing.
Why is everyone just going along with this?
I think his role at crossover events is genuinely awkward.
If he had a role like at Unit Koshien or the Different Dimension Fest, that would at least make sense, but…
Yeah, it's probably not selling out
Even someone from Earth Star Entertainment can make it, and yet not her?
With the weak yen and inflation right now, a round-trip flight between the US and Japan alone realistically runs about 1.5 million yen… add the appearance fee and Mimori alone would cost over 2 million yen in expenses. lol
Background and Key Points of This Story
Love Live! Fest is a franchise-wide crossover event that’s continued since the μ’s era, and this time an encore show at the Tokyo Dome was confirmed as a follow-up to the Aichi (Nagoya) performances. Opinion in the thread split over how to read the fact that, despite being an encore show, the lineup is more limited than Nagoya’s — some attributed it to the organizers’ cost calculations, while others pointed to individual cast members’ personal schedules. The reasons certain μ’s and Aqours members weren’t invited remain speculation within the thread itself, and the actual casting negotiations can’t be known from publicly available information alone. Also, while the term “encore show” tends to give the impression of something smaller than the main event, the venue is still the Tokyo Dome, so it’s a common misunderstanding to assume the scale itself has shrunk.
※This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “Love Live Fest Encore Confirmed for Tokyo Dome.”
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