Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie Over The Rainbow

"Love Live Sunshine! The School Idol Movie Over The Rainbow" is an animated motion picture from ''Love Live! Sunshine!! series, announced as part of "Aqours Hop! Step! Jump! Project"''. The movie premiered on January 4, 2019. The Blu-ray disc will be released on July 26, 2019.

Summary
The movie begins with a scene from the second years' childhood, where You and Chika were at the beach. They throw a paper airplane to the beach, near where Riko is at. They interacted with each other.

The story takes place after the events of the second season, after the closing of Uranohoshi Girls' High School with the first and second years' initially singing the insert song Bokura no Hashittekita Michi wa… with the third years joining later. After the song, the third years left. Chika decides the group continues as six members. They eventually get transported to the brand new school the six are transferring to. Later, Saint Snow appears to be at the beach. Later, a loud airplane sound which happens to be Mari's Mother tells them that the third years are missing. She tells the group that the third years are in Italy and tell them to find the missing third years.

While in Italy, Aqours were to find the third year. They eventually spot the third years in one of the tower. Mari drops a costume, dropping the costume, leaving You and her cousin to try to catch the costume. Eventually, the third years left at the same moment, leaving them to sing Tousou Meisou Mobius Loop. Eventually, after the second years found them, they found out that Mari is about to get married only due to the fact that her mother is trying to control her. She eventually wanted to tell her that she wanted to stay being a school idol. So her mother tells her to give proof, so they sang Hop? Stop? Nonstop!.

Saint Snow sang Believe again with Aqours singing Brightest Melody.

At the end of the movie, the school decided to decorate Numazu to give Aqours perform live. The movie concludes with Next SPARKLING!! where Aqours originally performing as 6.

Cast

 * Anju Inami as Chika Takami
 * Rikako Aida as Riko Sakurauchi
 * Nanaka Suwa as Kanan Matsuura
 * Arisa Komiya as Dia Kurosawa
 * Shuka Saito as You Watanabe
 * Aika Kobayashi as Yoshiko Tsushima
 * Kanako Takatsuki as Hanamaru Kunikida
 * Aina Suzuki as Mari Ohara
 * Ai Furihata as Ruby Kurosawa

Notes & Trivia

 * This is the 2nd motion feature in the Love Live! franchise.
 * Several of the locations in this Movie are based on real life locations:
 * The place where Aqours dance in the PV teaser is Piazza di Spagna, one of the most famous squares in Rome.
 * The decrepit school that the 2nd and 1st years transferred to are based on a Storage Facility building located at Numazu.
 * This film marks the first full appearance of Mari Ohara's mother.
 * The film features a different origin for Riko: In the manga, she is first transferred to Uranohoshi High School for the first time as her father went to work here. In this film, a younger Riko made an appearance during Chika and You's childhood flashback.
 * The camera that a woman wields is able to film an 8K resolution video, which is similar to the FDR-AX45 Professional Camcorder manufactured by Sony.
 * The Rhododendron Flowers seen in the Hop? Stop? Nonstop! segment is used as gifts for Mother's Day in Italian countries in real life. In that case, Mari standing beside the flowers while singing to represent her actual feelings to her mother, complete with the petals flying forward, solidifying the fact that Mari thanked her mother for her great care.
 * Official Bio Inconsistencies: Mari's official character introduction in the Love Live! Sunshine!! Fanbooks, the TV Anime Official Book (1st Season) and the flashback in Finding a Way to Shine reveals that her mother is Japanese, but the said character in her full appearance in this movie has blonde hair instead of brunette, and speaks in a heavy foreign accent, implying that she's a mixed blood like her daughter.
 * Likewise, this is not the first time that a character's appearance is completely inconsistent to the bio (or any other adaptations), as Maki Nishikino's Father had two different appearances in the manga adaptations of School Idol Project and School Idol Diary.

Continuity Notes
'The notes below are from the trailers/special PVs before the movie's release. Further details will be added/updated many weeks later after the movie's premiere in the US.'


 * A younger Chika and You made their reappearance since I Want to Shine!!. Likewise, a younger Riko also appears since Catch the Transfer Student!.
 * Aqours began to sing Bokura no Hashittekita Michi wa… after WONDERFUL STORIES in the second season's last Episode.
 * The shop that Aqours passed by (along with the same cat that the owner helds) is previously seen in Awaken the power.
 * The 2nd Years (Chika, Riko, and You) and the 1st Years (Ruby, Yoshiko, Hanamaru) are now transferred to a new school since Uranohoshi Girls' High School's closure in the final episode of the Second Season.
 * Mari took a trip to Italy since the reveal of her plan in Finding a Way to Shine.
 * Mari Ohara's mother reappears in full since her daughter's flashback in Finding a Way to Shine.
 * Chika refers Dia with a "-chan" suffix since Don't Call Me Dia-san.
 * Mari's mother does a similar low-flying ability on her helicopter, as a callback to her daughter's in First Step.
 * Yoshiko points out Hanamaru's metabolism since the latter is seen eating a large amount of food in the Anime's two seasons.
 * During the night time sequence in Tousou Meisou Mobius Loop, The three girls' headbands are shaped after constellations: Ursa Major (Dia), Polaris (Kanan), and Cassiopeia (Mari). The third's headband is also a callback to younger Mari's stargazing chart in Finding a Way to Shine, as the Cassiopeia can be seen in the chart.
 * Mari's mother pointed out that her daughter's goal of being a School Idol as pointless in spite of her approval, which implies that she knew that her daughter (and her two friends) previously lost to Love Live! in Young DREAMER.

 'NOTE: This section contains a small number of spoilers, mostly from attendee bonus film strips. Click expand if one doesn't mind about reading it.'
 * You wore her pair of glasses since Aye-aye, My Friend.
 * Prelude (Riko's pug) reappears since Our Own Radiance.
 * Chika's father finally appears in full body since his partial appearance in Finding a Way to Shine and Sea of Light, though his face is still obstructed.
 * Likewise, You's mother also reappears since Sea of Light.

Errors & Goofs
''The errors below are from the trailers/special PVs before the movie's release. Further details will be added/updated many weeks later after the movie's premiere outside Japan.''


 * Continuity Errors: While the flashback in the beginning of the movie is considered as Chika and You's first meeting with Riko, none of them actually remembered each other after Riko transfers to Uranohoshi Girls high.