Love Live! The School Idol Movie

'''Love Live! The School Idol Movie' is a movie of Love Live! School Idol Project'', first announced at the end of Season 2. It has a listed screen-time of 102 minutes, and was released in Japanese theatres on June 13, 2015.

Its first trailer was revealed during the 5th live concert μ's Go→Go! LoveLive! 2015 ~Dream Sensation!~.

It will be released in theaters outside of Japan, starting in August of 2015. It will be aired at theaters in various regions and countries including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Thailand in August, followed by screenings in the United States, Australia and New Zealand in September. It will debut in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei and Indonesia in October.

More information about worldwide viewing of the movie can be found here.

Synopsis
First Press Release = The story of the film begins after the events of the second season, at the graduation ceremony of the third-year students. Knowing that the graduation of the third-year members means the end of μ's, the nine girls take a walk around the school filled with memories. However, when the students attempt to leave the school gates, a single email is sent to them, and the curtain on a new story for μ's is raised. TVCM Summary = Although μ’s, the defending champions of the school idol tournament, plans to dissolve their group after the graduation of their senior members, they receive news that leads them to holding a concert event! The 9 girls continue to learn and grow in this new and unfamiliar world. What is the last thing that these girls can do as school idols? With the clock ticking, what kind of meaning will the μ’s members find in performing the most exciting live performance?

Summary
The story takes place after the events of the second season, where μ's receives a notification that the organizers of Love Live! intend to hold a third competition, aiming to hold it within Akiba Dome this time. But in order to achieve that dream, they first require more publicity. Therefore, to spread the appeal of school idols to even more people, they have decided to send μ's to America to hold a live concert there. Even though μ's had already decided to disband, they agree to perform in order to help Love Live! gather more support.

While preparing for the live and doing their training in New York, μ's continues to enjoy themselves as tourists as well, with the insert song Hello, Hoshi o Kazoete playing in the background. During one of these times, however, Honoka gets separated from the rest of the group. Lost in a foreign land, she encounters a lone Japanese female singer performing on the streets, and is charmed by her beautiful voice singing As Times Go By. After hearing her story, Honoka realises that they were the same. The girl also used to perform music with her close friends, and ended up alone in New York after many encounters and partings. Honoka was led back to her hotel safely by the girl, but when she turned to introduce her to the rest of μ's, the girl had already vanished. Honoka was left with one question lingering in her head from their conversation: "What's most important is, whose sake do you sing for?" The first section of the movie concludes with them performing Angelic Angel in New York.

After returning to Japan, μ's had become tremendously popular, with the whole of Akihabara covered in their advertisements and goods. Since the video from New York was broadcasted across Japan, the girls are now stars, needing to sneak around wearing disguises, with the insert song ？←HEARTBEAT playing. But with all the fans telling them that they want μ's to continue forever, the girls' hearts begin to waver regarding their decision to disband. At this point, A-RISE approaches Honoka, and tells her about the possibility of lengthening μ's career just like they themselves had, and introduce their management company to her.

Honoka realises that they have to answer to their fans, and they have only two choices. To surpass the barrier of being only school idols and become actual idols, or to hold onto their original determination and halt activities upon the third years' graduation. Eli spoke on behalf of the third years about their conviction to leave μ's, but admitted that they did not know what was the right thing to do either, leaving the decision up to Honoka. Faced with the dilemma, what came to Honoka's mind was the figure of the female singer she had met in New York. In her mind's eye, the figure only told her, "It'll be fine. I'm certain that you all will be able to surpass anything." However, this line only convinced Honoka further, and once more, she renewed her determination to halt μ's activities upon the third years' graduation. The insert song Future style was played during this sequence.

Honoka returns to A-RISE, where she accepts Tsubasa's offer to get μ's to write a theme song for all school idols as their final contribution to the industry. μ's organizes the performance by teaching it to all other school idols to promote Love Live!. The song is SUNNY DAY SONG, and after its performance, Honoka announces at last that μ's will indeed disband. And so finally, for the sake of the fans who have supported them up till now, and to convey their feelings about what Love Live! means to them, μ's holds their final live concert in Akihabara. The movie concludes with Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari.

Appearance List

 * 1) Kousaka Honoka
 * 2) Minami Kotori
 * 3) Sonoda Umi
 * 4) Koizumi Hanayo
 * 5) Hoshizora Rin
 * 6) Nishikino Maki
 * 7) Yazawa Nico
 * 8) Toujou Nozomi
 * 9) Ayase Eli

Members of μ's

 * 1) Kousaka Honoka
 * 2) Minami Kotori
 * 3) Sonoda Umi
 * 4) Koizumi Hanayo
 * 5) Hoshizora Rin
 * 6) Nishikino Maki
 * 7) Yazawa Nico
 * 8) Toujou Nozomi
 * 9) Ayase Eli

Videos
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