Overlapping Colors

Overlapping Colors (重なる色) is the second episode of the ''Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Season 2'' anime series. It aired on April 9, 2022.

Summary
Nijigasaki is planning the next School Idol Festival. While discussing, Emma Verde brings up that she knows a few school idols. The idols propose a joint live. Emma askes Lanzhu Zhong if she wants to join, but she declines. At Yu Takasaki's music test, Mia Taylor walks in to do her test, leading Yuu to find out she comes from the Taylor family. Later, Ai Miyashita and her meet up with Mia, asking her if she's friends with Lanzhu. Mia tells the pair that she just wants to be noticed through Lanzhu. Afterwards, Emma, Kasumi, Rina and Kanata go to spy on Lanzhu. They see her joint live, and afterwards Lanzhu invites them to her home, in which the foursome tries to tell her to join the club, where she declines again. Afterwards, they talk about Lanzhu.

Cast

 * Japanese
 * Hinaki Yano as Yu Takasaki
 * Aguri Onishi as Ayumu Uehara
 * 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
 * Tomori Kusunoki as Setsuna Yuki
 * Maria Sashide as Emma Verde
 * Chiemi Tanaka as Rina Tennoji
 * Moeka Koizumi as Shioriko Mifune
 * Shu Uchida as Mia Taylor
 * Akina Homoto as Lanzhu Zhong
 * English
 * Madeline Dorroh as Yu Takasaki
 * Suzie Yeung as Ayumu Uehara
 * Kayli Mills as Kasumi Nakasu
 * Jill Harris as Shizuku Osaka
 * Shara Kirby as Karin Asaka
 * Daisy Guevara as Ai Miyashita
 * Lindsay Seidel as Kanata Konoe
 * Laura Stahl as Setsuna Yuki
 * Lisa Reimold as Emma Verde
 * Hayden Daviau as Rina Tennoji
 * Caitlin Myers as Shioriko Mifune
 * Lindsay Sheppard as Mia Taylor
 * Courtney Lin as Lanzhu Zhong

Trivia

 * The formation of Kasumi Nakasu, Kanata Konoe, Emma Verde, and Rina Tennoji makes up the unit QU4RTZ.
 * Lanzhu's suite is based on the Royal Garden Suite in Hilton Tokyo Odaiba.
 * Kanata and Emma's monologue at the start of the episode is a reference to the lyrics in the first two stanzas of Sing & Smile.
 * The Nijigaku acrylic key chains that Lanzhu purchased is later made available for pre-order as a memorial item.
 * In the Odaiba Gamers' sequence:
 * Various CDs, such as units singles, Liella!'s singles such as "Nonfiction!!", and several Love Live! voice actresses' CDs, made an appearance in the product shelves, albeit extremely blurred.
 * One of the entrances feature a similarly-blurred promo advertisements of the POP UP PARADE figurines of the School Idol Club members.
 * In the scene where the girls watch Lanzhu pay for her purchases, the "BanG Dream!" logo can be seen under the shelves.
 * Sakuya and Sakura Kurobane from School Idol Festival made their anime debut, but neither of them have voice roles until the latter part of Choose Your "Love".
 * During their vocal practice, Emma, Kasumi, Kanata and Rina were humming the opening part of their new song ENJOY IT!.

Callbacks to other Love Live! series media

 * The futon-wrapped Kanata teru teru bozu doll is based on Fujimaru's drawing from the School Idol Festival app 4komas.
 * The remaining members of the Y.G. International Academy (aside from Emma who has been studying in Nijigasaki High School in this continuity) appears in a poster promoting a joint concert between them and the Idol Club.
 * The QU4RTZ members sitting on swings references the fact that swings are used in live performances of Sing & Smile!! and Swinging!. They also appear in the CD jacket illustration of their 2nd single, Swinging!.
 * A still shot of Yu using megaphone to cheer for Ayumu and Ai is similar to the School Idol Channel mode in ALL STARS.

Differences from the ALL STARS game

 * Lanzhu held some surprise concerts around the campus, albeit on her own solo concert without the other members in.

Continuity Notes

 * Parts of Lanzhu's suite was already shown during the previous episode's Eutopia MV.

Errors & Goofs

 * 18:48 At least two frames apart of Kasumi's right hand initially showed six fingers. It is unknown whether it's an animation error or was an intentional part of the hand motion as Kasumi's hand moves rapidly.
 * 21:07 Emma's expression is flat despite smiling in the shot before.