Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24187738-20160106184644

Happy New Year! We're a bit late this month due to the celebrations, but here's what happened over the past month.

1. KLab President, Sanada Tetsuya assures fans that SIF will continue

After news of µ’s final concert was released, many questions remained unanswered. KLab's president stepped up to release a statement that new content would still be added to the game even after µ’s releases their final single. You can read a translation of his full statement over at Seiyuuri here.

'''2. Love Live! Wikia Fundraiser & First Giveaway'''

As magazine costs continued racking up, Admin Lucia turned to the fandom for help in funding the translation efforts, and there was a spectacular response from everyone! Our fundraiser raised 1275USD thanks to all our donors, and it was even enough for us to begin something we always wanted to do: Giveaways! Our very first Christmas Giveaway had a spectacular response and you can view the final results here.

3. μ's is ranked 8th Best-Selling Musical Act of 2015 on the Oricon charts in Japan

The Oricon charts, which tracks sales of all singles released in Japan, has ranked μ's as the #8 best-selling for 2015. In a special Rookie Category (for all musical acts that made their debut in 2015), Aqours' debut single actually pushed them all the way to the #2 best seller. Read the full article at ANN here.

4. μ's makes their first appearance at NHK's 66th Kouhaku Uta Gassen

The biggest countdown event in Japan, NHK hosts an annual music sing-off between famous Japanese artistes split into two teams. Having been invited to this show was a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and our girls at μ's made a strong first appearance, with viewership ratings of slightly over 40%. For comparison, viewership peaked for Arashi's and EXILE's performances, at 46.9%. Source.

There was also a short new introductory animated footage to introduce them to the general audience, and you can easily find the entire performance on Youtube by searching for "μ's 紅白".

5. Emitsun denies rumours of disbandment

On the 29th of December after a Kouhaku rehearsal, μ's had a short press conference where Emitsun strongly denied that μ's would be disbanding. Specifically, a translation of her words were "Our next live is the final solo live, but it is not a break-up live. We have no intentions of such." Soramaru also stepped in to say that "Our next live will be the culmination of all our one-man live concerts."

Though this is definitely a good thing, this has left many fans confused as to what is actually happening. What we know for sure is this:
 * Final one-man live
 * Final single
 * But not disbanding

What we speculate is that this leaves them free to pursue their own individual careers, while still able to make appearances at larger lives in the same tone as Lantis Festival last year, or Anisama, Tokyo Game Show, etc. And of course, the ability to appear at any future Aqours live to support their juniors. Wouldn't that just be a dream combination?

'''6. New Love Live! Wikia theme'''

It's been ages since we last had a change of background, so what do you all think? It's our own way of starting the new year and honoring the final leg of the active part of μ's career, so we hope you like it!

Meanwhile, this month's scans are already up and so are their translations, so do check out their pages for them! Alternatively you can refer to our tweets here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

It's been a crazy start to the new year, but we hope everyone has been enjoying it so far! We're looking forward to bringing everyone the latest news for this coming year too~

(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ Enjoy your idols!~  ♪ LuciaHunter ♪  18:46, January 6, 2016 (UTC) 