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A thread on 5ch’s Love Live! board speculated that Liella!’s new jacket artwork for their 8th live might really signal the end. Posters pointed out that the artwork’s all-members-together composition lines up neatly with Season 3’s subtitle, “Everyone Gather,” and that the album title “Our Songs, Our Dreams” also has people thinking it marks some kind of milestone. Others pushed back, arguing that if it really were a finale, the official announcement would surely say so outright to boost ticket sales, and the discussion spiraled into comparisons with other groups like Nijigasaki. In the end, the thread split between those convinced it’s a “complete ending” and those who see it as merely “a milestone.”
What people said
There'd be people who'd specifically come because it's the finale, so just announcing it would boost attendance
Only a hardcore yuri otaku (a fan obsessed with girl-on-girl romance subtext) wouldn't find anything off about this
Looking back, the sloppy work started way back then
Liella! will probably keep going for a few more years
Nijigasaki fans have been saying Liella! is ending any day now, forever
Meanwhile it's Nijigasaki that actually looks like it's about to end (lol)
It's probably not the literal final, but I do think this live and album are meant to be a culmination—a milestone moment
It's got an all-members track plus three grade/year-group tracks, so if the preview video drops something tear-jerking, that'll pretty much confirm it
There's zero causal connection here, lol 🤭
If Nijigasaki ends next year, I'd guess they'll hold off on ending Superstar (Liella!) until the year after
Because they've gotta run the 'farewell tour' sales strategy (hyping a 'final' event to drive tickets and merch)
If the 'Ikizura Live' (a mocking fan nickname for another group's concert) — which sold upgrade packages and even obstructed-view seats — still only broke even on the live itself, there's no way Liella!, which has empty seats, is doing better than break-even
Oh, the one where they put obstructed-view seats on sale without even selling out the regular seats first (lol)
Lives make their real money from merch, not tickets, you know
Setting aside whether the numbers are even true, it's kind of sad that the claim 'Ikizura-chan was nearly full and still only broke even' ends up as collateral damage for poor Liella!-chan…
What are they even going to do for 3-4 more years?
Sports day, then a school festival next?
What about the anime? The movie?
Are they gonna leave the characters behind again? 🤭
They're not gonna hold an open public audition
That's just a fantasy
A whole new Love Live series, with things looking like this?
Who's even going to fund that?
It'll just end up like Aqours
Too bad it's not ending (lol)
Then the same goes for Nijigasaki too, huh 🤭
If you're saying only Nijigasaki ends and nothing else does, gimme some grounds for that besides wishful thinking 🤣
Even if Nijigasaki and Superstar (Liella!) get wound down, keeping Hasunosora and Tori (another, lesser-known spin-off group) running will be about all they can manage
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Bandai Namco has Sunrise and Lantis—basically Love Live!'s own production staff—working on a new girls'-band anime project
Honestly, it's too late already
The girls'-band anime boom is already fading
What a tone-deaf move to launch a project like this now
People keep waving this around like it's some golden rule, but a cast member said Hasunosora's 104th class might not have even debuted—might have been scrapped entirely—depending on how the 103rd class's launch and reception went. So I think when it's time to end, it ends regardless of 'order'
Oh, they're gone? Guess it's hopeless then
Background and Key Points of This Debate
Liella! is the unit made up of the members from the anime Love Live! Superstar!!, and the 8th live is believed to be built around an all-members-together concept echoing Season 3’s subtitle, “Everyone Gather.” What split the thread was whether a single piece of jacket artwork is solid grounds for concluding the show is ending, or whether it’s simply staging for a milestone moment. There’s been no official confirmation of a finale, and some pointed out that announcements like that are normally made in advance specifically to boost ticket sales. The latter half of the thread also saw plenty of fan-vs-fan sniping over when Nijigasaki and other groups might end, but it’s worth noting this wasn’t based on any official announcement—just individual guesses about each group’s profitability and management plans.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Love Live!) thread “Hey, isn’t this really the finale for Liella!’s 8th live….”
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