#ll live show

[baltharino]

Yoshino Nanjō & Aina Kusuda performing Garden of Glass μ's 4th Love Live! ~ ENDLESS PARADE ~ (2014)

#happy 10 year anniversary to this!!!! #love live #love live school idol project #eli ayase #nozomi tojo #nozoeli #garden of glass #garasu no hanazono #yoshino nanjo #aina kusuda #jpop #ll live show #µ's 4th Love Live! ~ ENDLESS PARADE ~ #kusuda aina #nanjo yoshino #gif #gifset

[flickerngflower]

There is a Daily Love Live DTIYS account on Twitter and the cutest nozoeli panel showed up..

#love live #nozoeli #eli ayase #nozomi toujou #nozomi tojo #sorry to my hxh/wha followers #but if you scroll back enough years on this account #the most unfomathomable amount of ll art shows up #i was very autistic for ruby kurosawa yes (still am) #but this was my favourite ship for sure

[nebulanewts]

Ok so I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet,but here’s the poster for the Ijigen (?) fes! Honestly,the more that comes out about this event the more curious I get about it - like they’ve made it abundantly clear that this isn’t a live…but what it is it then?? Is it like the Hakodate Unit Carnival but with more baseball related activities??? Or are they ACTUALLY going to be playing baseball? We don’t know,but either way I’m pretty excited about it :] it’s been a while since we’ve had a subunit specific event like this,so this will definitely be fun to watch!

(Also these baseball jerseys and hats are SO cute,they should sell them if they aren’t already but they probably are dndjdj)

#you ever realize how many LL girls there are now #like not even including muse it’s like WOAH #this poster really puts it all into perspective #but thats not a bad thing #it just shows that love live’s rlly grown :’] #love live #love live! #aqours #nijigasaki high school idol club #liella #hasunosora #saint snow #sunnypa #yuu takasaki #mars babbling

[deadmansbistro]

MIRACLE WAVE !

#love live #sifas #aqours #mari ohara #ruby kurosawa #kanan matsuura #yoshiko tsushima #yohane tsushima #you watanabe #riko sakurauchi #chika takami #making gifsets of my fav mvs before the games gone #sobgifs #I FORGOT TWO WHO GIRLS IN THE TAGS IM SORRY #dia kurosawa #hanamaru kunikida #also i didnt know that anju inami does the flip live thats crazy to me #sorry my newer-ll-fan condition is showing #flashing gif #flashing tw

[nanisorezura]

#link! like! love live! #Nonfiction Hero Show #Mira-Cra Park! #Hasunosora Girls’ High School Idol Club #rurino osawa #megumi fujishima #love live! #ll! #love live! audio #love live! music #audio #music

[the-paris-of-people]

For those of you that thought Kimberly and Canaan were out of left field...

Oh boy, buckle up, because I am going to explain how Kimberly and Canaan make perfect sense together and the show has been building to them since their first interaction. I'm going to be examining their scenes together, their scenes in other romantic relationships and interactions with friends, and ultimately investigate the events of the finale, which culminated in them developing feelings for each other.

In the first scene where Kimberly and Canaan are introduced, Canaan takes advantage of Kimberly's naivete by telling her he has to work multiple jobs to support his family because his mother is addicted to crack. I personally love this scene because it reveals Kimberly's lack of exposure to POC and touches on her unconscious biases prior to coming to Essex, but it also establishes the fun, banter-y dynamic between Canaan and Kimberly from the get-go. Kimberly later stands up for Canaan and this choice was 100% deliberate on the writer's part for K/C relationship building. Christopher Meyer's background reactions (in a lot of these scenes) suggest he's in awe at the different side of Kimberly that's shown to him through this interaction. Kimberly may have that sweet, kind, girl-next-door vibe but she also has a backbone and is not afraid to stand up for herself. Moreover, Canaan's being in agreement of Kimberly's speech and their shared position at Sips together implies shared values that bind them together, at least in the affluent world of Essex.

A few episodes later, when she and Bela attend the comedy gala, Kimberly understands from Canaan that he and Lila are not being tipped well as caterers. She leaves them a large tip and announces to everyone that they are on financial aid, which elicits pity tips from the attending gala members. Canaan initially doesn't believe this will work, and he's so surprised and grateful to Kimberly for her shrewd assessment of the situation, he gives her a portion of their tips later. Again, Kimberly's resourceful advice surprises and compels Canaan, setting them up for a deeper connection down the road.

For those of you who don't regularly follow my blog, I'm also obsessed with Ben and Devi from Never Have I Ever (another MK show) and love that Ben acts to "save Devi from herself" and often is her voice of reason, pushing her to be a better person. Canaan acts as this voice of reason throughout the remainder of season 1 for Kimberly, reminding to focus on her Econ homework instead of obsessing over Nico because it's likely not worth it (a hard lesson Kimberly learns on her own), imploring her not to cheat because she cannot pull it off. The latter observation suggests that over the time period of working together, Canaan knows her, knows that she cannot cheat, knows that is the least discrete person in the world and she cannot pull it off (again, Canaan is right again) He even calls her cute during this conversation, yes he compares it to when Nemo gets mad at his Dad, but it's clear during this commentary that while he may be passing it off as a joke, he genuinely finds Kimberly attractive on some level.

There's another comment in this scene Canaan makes to Kimberly that sets them both up to be together. Canaan tells Kimberly he sees her with "more of a sweet boy" and describes a nerd. All we know about Canaan at this point in season 1 is that he's funny, sarcastic, DTF (with Whitney at this point), and kind, the "nerd" aspect of his personality hasn't come up - at least for now.

During season 2, Canaan and Kimberly embark upon parallel journeys to date a great person, but not the right person for them. We can argue Leighton goes through a similar journey in another post, but that's for another day. At the end of s1 and beginning of s2, Canaan dates Whitney (who btw I would die for, no Whitney slander in the comments please) and while the two are attracted to each other, have good conversation, and seem to get along, they seem to have different attitudes towards their family and academic goals. Canaan defends Whitney's mom to her for coming to make sure she was okay after the whole Coach Dalton (aka the most heinous man known to society) fiasco and has a much more clear plan about his career/future than Whitney while Whitney is still trying to navigate her nascent relationships with her mother and biochemistry. I want to make it clear that there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with Whitney trying to figure that out and she's amazing and deserves the best and 100% deserves all the love in the world, but it's clear from the Zoe/phone incident (although CANAAN hello you 100% should have told Whitney and not invited Zoe to the Kissmas party) that Canaan values being with someone who's completely secure with themselves in order to build a strong relationship. It's notable that when Canaan is reassuring Whitney about Zoe he calls her "A dream girl" rather than "MY dream girl" and that may be reading too much into it but I think the article choice was deliberate on the part of the writers. Also before Canaan asks Whitney to be his gf, he compliments Whitney that the study geek vibe on her is cute. Again, interesting considering how he thinks the perfect guy for Kimberly as a nerd because she is one ... and at the same time he is also attracted to them.

On the flip side, we have Kimberly who begins a little romance with Jackson. Jackson seems like a great, nice guy who really likes Kimberly, which is a refreshing break for my girl considering she had been through the ringer and back with Nico, losing her scholarship, and donating her eggs. However, yes she has this great, hot guy who's into her- the issue is, she's not into him and she feels they don't fully understand each other. Jackson initially doesn't participate in the food worker's strike even though it's near and dear to Kimberly's heart, she's incredibly passionate about social causes and is helping organize the movement as well! Once Kimberly explains she wants him to support her, he does, but to Kimberly, she shouldn't have to explain. She feels Jackson immediately should have understood how the strike was important to her- worker's rights are in her core belief system (see: her upbringing and her speech at Sips in the first episode), and she should have a partner who immediately is willing to join which again, why I think it's intentional that this episode highlighted that Canaan helped her with the strike and was her team member while Jackson did not. After a conversation with Lila and Canaan (in which Canaan seems VERY jealous, might I add), she realizes how much it bothers her how little she and Jackson have in common. She doesn't get his EDM/country playlists, his love of wrestling, and while Jackson is willing to learn about the things he cares about and doesn't think that it's a big deal, it still doesn't seem like it's fully resolved.

In the background of these relationships, Kimberly and Canaan are orbiting each other. They update each other about their lives at the coffeehouse, they complain about Lila getting drunk on power, they work together on the strike, Canaan is there to observe Kimberly being supportive and prepping Lila for her manager interview, all until their journeys converge in the final two episodes of the season.

When Kimberly learns that Canaan is getting an award from the econ department, she's so excited for him and encourages him to attend. Canaan, who initially wasn't go to, has all of these dormant feelings for Kimberly that have developed over the past year which come to a head when he realizes how grateful he is to her for being so excited and supportive for him. He nervously invites her to the econ banquet, but because he's calm, collected, Canaan and he knows she's dating Jackson, he passes it off as a back-up invite. At the banquet, Kimberly, who is of aware that Canaan is kind, funny, and handsome, discovers a different side to him and sees that he's also humble, intelligent, hard-working, and cares about his family deeply, which reflect all of Kimberly's own positive qualities and values. On a value level, she realizes they have more in common than Jackson and Kimberly. They've worked together the whole year, there's been a small flame flickering between them, and once they're finally in a more romantic context, it's the match that lights the fire. Once he and Kimberly have that conversation about Canaan's mom's Alzheimer's, which is sure to come up in the future if I know Mindy's shows, she realizes that her hot work friend is much deeper than she knew he was, and she's interested in him and wants to know more, enjoys and wants time with Canaan more than she wants with Jackson. I don't think that Kimberly broke up with Jackson because she realized she had feelings for Canaan. I think she broke up with him because she realized, upon spending time with Canaan, she didn't have feelings for Jackson. Meanwhile, Canaan enjoys Kimberly's fun energy and openness at the banquet- she constantly is talking about how much fun she's having and wants to know more about his life and his mom and even though she's not cool or chill or fun, she's so unapologetically herself and happy about the way she lives her life and conducts herself (even when she almost eats the flowers off Canaan's dessert) and Canaan's into it.

Throughout the entire series, the writers set Canaan and Kimberly to get together. They always got along, were good for each other, balanced each other out, have a great platonic chemistry, and needed to date other people to realize the qualities they valued in each other as future potential partners. I know a lot of people wanted a classic "slow burn" situation and I was a little disappointed they didn't do it with them, but upon reflection, I actually like the route the writers took. They dropped little hints that Kimberly and Canaan would get together, and when they finally saw each other in a new light, away from work and their friends, and got to know each other more deeply, they realized they wanted to explore something more. Honestly, it's super realistic to have that one event that puts your hot friend in a new light and to just go for it and date afterwards instead of dragging it out. Based on the very first episode though, and even the whole first season, it's obvious they were setting up some kind of conflict between Kimberly and Whitney over dual interest in Canaan so while I think the situation is shitty and low-key devastates me, it was ALWAYS bound to happen and didn't just "come out of nowhere." Anyway, I urge you to rewatch the series and watch Canaan and Kimberly's interactions closely, it surprises me that there was so much uproar over them getting together when although not completely explicit, it was built into their arcs in s1 and s2.

#i will comment on the whitney stuff in another post if yall are curious #but genuinely it's not petty drama or ruining their friendship #it's very built into the character flaws of both kimberly and whitney to behave the way they did #and again the show was setting up for this conflict #and obviously whitney and kimberly going through this is going to make their friendship stronger #kimberly should have absolutely told whitney but also why is everyone acting like kimberly shot someone and is this backstabbing bitch when #she's been one of the most loyal friends and is the “mom” of the suite but she just made a mistake like a normal 18/19 year old that she wi #ll likely learn from and never hurt whitney like that again #anyway yall are sleeping on canaan and kimberly they are adorable and they are full supportive husband/wife energy and endgame potential #canaan x kimberly #kimberly x canaan #tslocg #the sex lives of college girls #canaan greene #kimberly finkle #i will protect whitney kimberly and canaan with my life #also canaan was very resolute in his decision to break up with whitney #it was clear to him they were not right from each other

[bellshazes]

you ever think abt the only time bdubs and etho said love you in LL addressed to each other they both prefaced it with "just kidding!" and laughed. just kidding our cows love ya! he didn't win it for me either just kidding bdubs I love you. they can be serious about each other to other people (he loves me to the reds, cleo consoling etho) but when it's just them love is stored in the poking and prodding and making fun and it is never serious until they have to say it out loud through laughter, or when they are alone and it might be final.

#etho in 3L bombing the crastle and etho in LL coming back after nearly being blown up by bdubs enchanter trap to give advice #bdubs he loves me he cares he does alone among enemies and etho choosing not to shoot bdubs in 3L in a battle #as long as it isnt permanent. anything goes!!!! #game shows DO touch our lives

[animebw]

You know another weird issue I'm having with Sunshine? The music direction. Not the songs or BGM themselves, but how and when they're used. There have been quite a few moments where the characters are having a quiet, intimate moment (usually at night) but for some reason, the music being used is big and bombastic like you'd get for a big inspiration end-of-episode speech. It's like it doesn't have the confidence to let those quiet moments just be quiet, so it fills them with a sonic wall of sound instead of letting the music fit the atmosphere more naturally.

#anime #tabw #the anime binge watcher #love live! #love live! sunshine!! #love live #I'm 80% sure this is a director issue to be clear #kazuo sakai's filmography is much less extensive than the first LL #and it shows in all these weird little bumps #all the weird personal conversations happening in front of crowds that have no reaction to them #the occasional awkward shot composition

[franeridan]

I'm sorry I'm lowkey losing my mind but i just read someone say something along the lines of i haven't gotten to law yet but I'm starting to wonder if people don't ship him with luffy just to stick someone with luffy that's not zoro and I just, oh, oh, I wish I could be there to see them actually reach law, that's going to be. beautiful. I wonder if they'll feel my same extreme delighted bewilderment in realizing that luffy just has a thing for grumpy silly swordsmen, apparently

#law is deeply enamoured with luffy completely against his will #and luffy hadn't been this insistent about wanting in his crew someone who obviously genuinely doesn't want to join straight up since zoro #it's a delight i never thought i could multiship luffy until law got there #i mean I'm serious that comment had me delighted for real #i was like i hope they'll scream when law shows up in marineford i hope they'll have the time of their lives in dressrosa #i get the scepticism tbh i know why they thought that #but it really is first mate vs first ally #then again I'm not saying their brain will be like mine and go zolulawluzolulawluzolu for the rest of time #there's ton of zl that don't ship ll #I'm just saying itd be neat to see them realise that nah it's not just a rebound ship ll DO have that chemistry #also...........law is just....................... y e a h...........

[baltharino]

Yoshino Nanjō & Aina Kusuda performing Garden of Glass μ's 4th Love Live! ~ ENDLESS PARADE ~ (2014)

#2014...... #love live #love live school idol project #eli ayase #nozomi tojo #yoshino nanjo #aina kusuda #nozoeli #garden of glass #garasu no hanazono #ll live show #µ's 4th Love Live! ~ ENDLESS PARADE ~ #jpop #gif #gifset

[thrilling-oneway]

i remember when i first got into love live and the way i worked out the system of the LL competition in my head was to compare it to glee and then i found out about the 2013 tumblr controversies of SIP copying elements from glee and it all made sense suddenly

#i watched all of glee when i was like. 12? 13? i think it was during my first year of high school #didn't get into LL until a few years later #love live! #mine #i have a dark past. glee may or may not be the not the only 2013 tumblr show i've watched

[aceyanaheim]

Carl having all the schemes while literally Every Single sibling is spinning out in one way or another is just

This family man

#idk why its so funny to me #i think the writing went for it like Wacky Hijinks To Break Franks Legs #Carl is out here getting his fahter son time while Fiona screws her bfs brother #Lip Destroys Prperty After Flunking A Test ( which..wev all thought about if youre a perfectionist/used to being smart ill give him that bu #Jesus/Debbie is being told to go after somonee Lip s Age and listening #shoout to liam the only one living his best life this season #and carl bc kiddos just vibing having fun with frank unaware all thats happening #oh and Ian is being traumatized by the army I inferred by his mental illness cropping up after) #literally s4= why cantthis famly ever have a funky goodtime #im so normal about this show im so normal ll #acey watches #shameless

[new-lorien-artist]

One of my worse fears when I do rereads of the series is that I look at moments where the characters are obscenely rude and/or make offhanded comments and gestures, and they're actually not OOC moments or contradict previous establishing character traits, because the reality is that they're total assholes and we just choose to believe they're nicer than that

#delete later #ernest talks #it's a late night thought and i usually don't trust my own words #but i think about how the narrative leads you away from realizing half the questionable thoughts and actions the characters have #range from 'why would you do this?? at all??“ to 'im starting to think they're assholes' #I'd be horrified if this is frey's idea of crafting a cast of morally gray characters based on trauma and war/abusive environments #and going overboard on the 'their decisions are based on questionable doctrine and living as child soldiers so therefore they are assholes' #'but as the main characters and children of war they are slapped on with the hero label' #'and though their decisions are horrid it makes sense for them and i don't want the readers to hate them' #which i doubt was a reason going forward because the series really pushes you to hate five #who embodies a lot of attributes associated with villainy or the low brow joke so as fat = wealth and power #but also fat and autistic = the weird joke #and is continuously dragged through the series so successfully we have ll fans with a 60/40 chance of going through a five hate phase #was frey trying to do a whole 'show me a complicated man' thing odyssey style when doing this #i doubt the research into references and basing lorien on anything was this deep #but even if it were #the series really dates itself showing a womanizer and an enabler and fatphobia and ableism and racist remarks and poor use of culture and #pushing this really upsetting narrative to its audience #a YA novel series mind you which means middle schoolers seeing this rep and not fully developing critical analysis skills to see what's on

[nebulanewts]

Ok,so I said I’d make a separate post for my theories about the new virtual group that will MOST LIKELY be the major announcement in this big SIF / SIFAS-related event bc this event just has the wheels in my head turning ok anyways,so here’s that

- First,probably the only teasers we’ll get at this event is a promo pic of all the girls together,their names,and their individual PNGs because that’s how they always tease a new group this will never change

- One theory I saw on Twitter was that their image color would be green,which makes a lot of sense since we have Muse = pink,Aqours = blue,Nijigaku = yellow,and Liella = purple so that way we have a nice Love Live rainbow :]

-To sort of piggyback off of that,another thing some were saying is maybe this group will sort of have a nature theme / motif? Kind of like how Aqours with the sea,Nijigaku with rainbows and Liella with stars (sort of) and I just think that would be fun

- Piggybacking off of that again,I also saw a few people say that the leader will have pink hair and her image color will be pink,because all the “main series” leader girls have orange hair and image colors while Ayumu,who’s part of the “spin-off” group (even though I kind of disagree w/ the idea that Nijigaku is just a spin-off group now but not the point) is the only leader with pink hair and a pink image color so we’ll see if that’s true

- As for the amount of members,I feel like they’ll either have 7 or less members and add new members over time (to keep people interested in this group) OR since even adding 4 new members to Liella later on just to make it 9 wasn’t too well received at first,they’re just gonna have 9 members right away to cut out the middleman basically gbbjnj

- We most likely will be getting either little animated shorts like Nijiyon or Kyou wa Aqours (?),OR a full possibly YouTube exclusive anime but we’ll have to wait (maybe even their own game?? Not sure)

-On the topic of subunits,this could go one of two ways imo,one they’re going to be formatted like Nijigaku with the 2-3-4 method or two we get to create our own idk I think they’re gonna be a little creative with how they’re gonna do subunits for this group

-And finally (for now),we MIGHT be getting the first LL group that does covers along with their original songs but idk for sure that might be too similar to Bandori and Project Sekai

#ok so jsyk #i am 100% spitballing with all of these #like that’s obvious but still these are all guesses #and i could be totally wrong #but we’ll see 👀 #i’m curious to see what this group will be like #also side bar i love that love live is trying new things now #like the aqours spin-off the nijiyon show #adding new members the musical etc #it’s just a good time to be a ll fan right now #love live #love live! #mars babbling

[nofr1lls]

David Byrne wrote this song about the character Merlin from the bbc’s 2008 television masterpiece Merlin specifically in Season 5 Episode 5 The Disir. actually.

#CANT AFFORD TO STOP THAT IS WHAT HE BELIEVE HE"LL KEEP ON DIGGING FOR A THOUSAND YEARS!!!!!! BITCH! #WE ARE WATCHING MERLIN DIGGING HIS OWN GRAVE WHILE HE WATCHES ARTHUR DIGGING HIS OWN GRAVE #HE'S WALKING A LINE JUST BARELY ENOUGH TO BE LIVING HES TURNING AROUND NO TROUBLE AT ALL!!!! THERE CAN BE NO PLACE FOR MAGIC IN CAMELOT!!!!! #merlin #''masterpiece'' lol #the bbc's 2008 television masterpiece merlin is the full name of the show to me #talking heads #room tempo

[bmpmp3]

ALSO im so RELIEVED that wein’s songs’ full versions are coming out at the end of this month because i was SO WORRIED they would do the same thing they did with sunnypa and wait until like february of the next year

#ll posting #really like edelstein and how haunting it is #but butterfly wing is awesome with how its got a bit of a groove #also what on EARTH were they thinking with sunnypa btw i know we've been harping on this for a year but WHAT #showing us only like 2 seconds of their song each time and didnt release the songs until months after the anime aired #girl. love live has had some squandered potential with characters and groups but nothing quite like this #and like have you HEARD til sunrise....they sound great i dunno why they held off so long? #maybe they needed a release to help fill out february? who knows