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Best girl is You

My Twitter is @thedjsan

I've heard of Love Live back before it was big back in 2014. I would hear a few classmates on their phone screaming because they either failed a combo or got some kind of rare card. I really didn't pay much attention to it since I was sure it wasn't gonna give an impact to me.

HUGE MISTAKE

Fast forward to highschool, I overheard one of the students imitating the infamous "Nico Nico Nii!". I felt a mix of cringe but also curiosity. "Why was this show appealing to people again?" I thought, "Might as well try I guess, I don't have anything else to watch anyway". I downloaded both seasons of LLSIP and oh boy did I binge watch the whole S1 for 3 days (cause I still had school). The more I watched the Anime series, the more I got interested in the franchise as a whole. I finished S2 but halting the last 3 episodes cause I didn't want to cry immediately (lol).

I started searching for the franchise, started to learn about the voice actresses, I started admiring them. It was such an exciting feeling that I started downloading SIF, opened up the login screen and *BAM* a huge snowboarding girl that I wasn't aware of where she came from. "You Watanabe, who the heck?" I thought. I just carried on with the game without minding about the card too much. Played the game, but I wanted to see more Muse so I googled a few keywords and the first link that popped up broke my heart, "Muse Final Live, date: 6 months ago". I was so salty that I was regretting the time that I've heard of them 2 years ago. The site I found also mentioned something about a new season of Love Live. I forgot that I also downloaded LLSS with SIP. I watched it and was disappointed that there was no Muse. But I decided to give Aqours a try.

Oh boy was it worth it. Their songs started appealing to me, the voice actresses had the potential to continue the legacy that Muse left, as I'd like to say it.

The franchise as a whole made me start to study Hiragana, Katakana and even Kanji just to understand what they're saying. For some reason, after getting hooked with the series, I've started to become much more active and much more social. Even my academic performance started improving without realizing it.

Aqours gave me the feeling of hope. The desire and drive to achieve what you want. The feeling of having something to look forward to. The feeling of having an inspiration even when everyday is just a normal boring day.

P.S.: I apologize for rambling on the first parts of the essay xD P.S.S.: I just realized that the first parts were just telling a story of how I met You-chan lol