Love Live! Nijigasaki Movie’s 2nd Part Gets Key Visual, November 7 Premiere

A key visual has been released for the Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kanketsu-hen Dainishou (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club The Movie – Finale – Chapter 2) movie. It was also revealed that it will premiere in Japan on November 7 JST.

The official social media caption for the visual says that the new movie takes place at the same time as last year’s Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club The Movie – Finale – Chapter 1 and features Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe as its settings. The premise is still related to the Idol GPX (Grand Prix), and it seems that the focus of the new film will be on Setsuna, Ai, Rina, Mia, Karin, and Shioriko.

Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kanketsu-hen is a trilogy that takes place after the two-season Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TV series and its OVA. The first movie saw Ayumu, Kasumi, Shizuku, Kanata, Ema, and Lanzhu heading off to Okinawa for the Idol GPX, a competition where idols compete for rankings individually and utilize a streaming app.

Bocchi the Rock! character designer Kerorira had a visual director credit for Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club The Movie – Finale – Chapter 1.

The Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TV anime’s seasons aired in 2020 and 2022, while the OVA was released in 2023. Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club is one of the titles in the Love Live! multimedia franchise. 

Update: Corrected Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Kanketsu-hen Dainishou’s release date.

Staff (returning)

• Director: Tomoyuki Kawamura (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Scriptwriter: Nii Tanaka (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club series composer)
• Character designer: Takumi Yokota (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Design works: mebachi (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Animation production: Sunrise 

Cast

• Hinaki Yano as Yu Takasaki
• Aguri Oonishi as Ayumu Uehara
• Koko Hayashi as Setsuna Yuki
• Mayu Sagara as Kasumi Nakasu
• Kaori Maeda as Shizuku Osaka
• Miyu Kubota as Karin Asaka
• Natsumi Murakami as Ai Miyashita
• Akari Kito as Kanata Konoe
• Maria Sashide as Emma Verde
• Chiemi Tanaka as Rina Tennnouji
• Moeka Koizumi as Shioriko Mifune
• Shu Uchida as Mia Taylor
• Akina Homoto as Lanzhu Zhong