Hasu no Sora Anime Reveals First TV Footage at Love Live! Anniversary Fes

The Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club anime debuted its first newly animated TV footage in a special video on Saturday. The “Love Live! Series 15th Anniversary Love Live! Fes” presented the video.

The video also previews “Dream Believers (106th Class Start Ver.),” performed by the story’s 106th class of Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club.

The anime follows that class between April and June of their school year. The game and anime film previously featured only characters from the 103rd through 105th classes.

The main staff:

• Director: Gō Kurosaki (Shikizakura), at Sublimation
• Scripts: Fumiaki Maruto (Engage Kiss; SI-VIS: The Sound of Heroes; White Album 2)
• Character design: Haruko Iizuka (Ensemble Stars!; Tamayura)
• CG director: Kaito Hamakawa
• Sound director: Keiichi Nozaki (Ongaku Shōjo; L/R: Licensed by Royalty)
• Music: Yoshiaki Fujisawa (Apocalypse Hotel; Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation [Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu])
• Music production: Lantis

Other staff members include:

• Design works: Yū Kisaragi
• Art director: Yasuhiro Okumura
• Stage concept art: Marina Manode
• Color key artist: Hikari Komiya
• Compositing directors of photography: Fumika Takahashi and Hiroshi Tanaka
• Editing: Manabu Kamino

Most staff return from the Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party anime film. Hikari Komiya replaces Emi Chiba as color key artist. Fumika Takahashi joins returning compositing director of photography Hiroshi Tanaka.

The seven-episode anime’s broadcast schedule is:

• Tokyo MX: January 10 at 10:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. EST)
• BS11: Later on January 10
• Sun TV: Later on January 10
• KBS Kyoto: Later on January 10
• TV Aichi: Later on January 10
• RKB Mainichi Broadcasting: Later on January 10
• Shizuoka Broadcasting System: Later on January 10
• Hokkaido Broadcasting: January 11
• Hokuriku Broadcasting: January 17

The Bloom Garden Party 3D anime film opened in Japanese theaters on May 8. It follows the 103rd class’s final day before graduation at Hasu no Sora Girls’ Academy.

The Love Live! franchise’s “Hasu no Sora Jōgakuin School Idol Club” idol group includes these members, among others:

• Kaho Hinoshita
• Sayaka Murano
• Kozue Otomune
• Tsuzuri Yugiri
• Rurino Osawa
• Megumi Fujishima

The group primarily appeared in the Link! Like! Love Live! smartphone game app, which launched on April 15, 2023. Odd No. Inc. published the game. Project character designer Haruko Iizuka’s other credits include Little Busters! and Horimiya.

The group’s first album, Dream Believers, debuted on March 29, 2023. The game ended service on June 30 earlier this year. Odd No. filed for bankruptcy on August 5.

The project lets fans follow the school idols’ story across 365 days and accompany the girls toward graduation.

Beyond the app, the members and their cast participate in activities across various media, including:

• Streaming videos
• Magazine appearances
• Music CD releases
• Concerts

A manga launched in Shueisha’s Ultra Jump magazine in November 2023.

The Love Live! school idol franchise launched in 2010. Its spinoffs include:

• Love Live! Sunshine!!
• Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dōkōkai)
• Love Live! Superstar!!
• Most recently, the Ikizu Live! Love Live! Bluebird project