Ai Love Triangle

Ai Love Triangle (アイ Love Triangle) is the fourth episode of the ''Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Season 2'' anime series. It aired on April 23, 2022.

Cast

 * 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

Trivia

 * Despite both girls making a cameo appearance in the opening...
 * The episode marks the first animated appearance of Misato Kawamoto, with Yui Ishikawa reprising her role.
 * Kaoruku Mifune appears at the end of the episode, with Yoko Hikasa reprising her role.
 * The episode serves as an origin story for the DiverDiva subunit.
 * Unlike previous episodes, this only lasted for one episode.
 * During DiverDiva's performance, some frames in the MV referenced the girls' UR cards in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS.
 * Like most contact photos on their phones, Ai's photo is also taken from Muteki-kyuu*Believer MV.
 * A scene of Yu holding her camcorder references what her voice actor does in the Anime's pre-show lives.

Callbacks to previous Love Live! Series

 * The episode also serves as the third time a dark blue-haired (Karin) and a blonde-haired (Ai) character interact with each other in the franchise after Nozomi Tojo/Eli Ayase and Kanan Matsuura/Mari Ohara.

Continuity Notes

 * Lanzhu performs Eutopia for the third time (she performed for the second time off-screen in Overlapping Colors).