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Speculation mixed with leaked information is swirling on 5ch’s Love Live! board over Liella! (Love Live! Superstar!!)’s upcoming 8th live tour. Counting all three new songs performed since the 7th tour — “Koi no Tutorial,” “Hyper Glowing!,” and “Riera no Uta” — the total comes to only about five or six new tracks, prompting one thread comment tinged with anxiety: “There was even a show with only two new songs.” Meanwhile, with no new anime developments to draw a live theme from, some posters called for the production team to greenlight a movie or OVA — though others questioned how realistic that is, noting that key staff members Kyogoku, Hanada, and Saito have all since moved over to the Hasunosora project.
What people said
Don't cause trouble for the production committee.
These days X is basically the new 5ch, honestly.
Even if they announce a movie at the 8th tour finale next year (maybe?), the actual release would still be like a year out.
Hanada → done with Love Live entirely
Saito → cleared out his desk at Sunrise
Fujisawa → working on Hasunosora
Kisaragi → working on Hasunosora
Everyone else → working on Hasunosora
How are they supposed to make an OVA with that lineup?
Besides, they're busy making Hasunosora's TV anime right now.
The Hasunosora anime is probably animated by Sublimation, same as the movie — Sunrise is only handling planning/production.
・Koi no Tutorial
・Hyper Glowing!
・Riera no Uta (3 songs)
— only 5 total. Is it really okay to run a tour on that?
Oh wait, there's also Rieakura's "Skip Capsule," so that makes 6 total.
There's been shows with like only 2 new songs before… (voice trembling)
Koi no Tutorial's already been performed and people are sick of it — the reception's been bad. If the Hyper Glowing stuff gets performed at the upcoming sports festival, that's zero stock left for the 8th tour. And if it doesn't get performed there, that pretty much confirms the sports festival is just a lame variety show with no live segment. Either way, they're screwed.
And yet somehow the setlist's still gonna be a copy-paste job — funny how that works.
That kind of goofy setup feels more suited to a fan meeting or unit live, if you ask me.
Honestly I kind of love Superstar being that dumb lol
It's 8,500 yen precisely because there's no live segment. If they'd brought in the music-live staff, it'd be over 10,000 yen.
Haven't you seen the movie's credits? It's made almost entirely by Superstar staff.
Wait, so Nijigasaki fans have been gushing over a movie made by Superstar staff this whole time…
Why are we even talking about Nijigasaki when it's a Hasunosora movie? Makes no sense.
How did a Nijigasaki movie even come up in this conversation lol
Turning it into a tour lets them pad attendance numbers with the folks who go to every single show.
The fanbase itself is small, so the only way to boost attendance figures is to make it a tour and get people to attend multiple dates.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Liella! is the school idol group at the center of Love Live! Superstar!!, whose anime concluded its story arc with season 3. Key staff — including screenwriter Juki Hanada and director Naohiko Kyogoku — have since shifted their focus to the successor project, Hasunosora Girls’ School Idol Club. The thread’s wish that “a new anime or movie would make it easier to come up with live themes” isn’t just idle hoping — it reflects the real constraints of the current staffing situation. The recent slowdown in new songs for live tours similarly stems from the fact that the anime pipeline supplying new material has stalled, a circumstance common to media-mix franchises. It’s also worth noting that while the word “finale” took on a life of its own in the thread, the production committee has made no official announcement to that effect — it remains pure fan speculation.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “Superstar’s 8th Live Tour“.
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