Overlapping Colors

Overlapping Colors (重なる色) is the second episode of the ''Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Season 2'' anime series. It aired on April 9, 2022.

Summary
Nijigasaki is planning the next School Idol Festival. While discussing, Emma Verde brings up that she knows a few school idols. The idols propose a joint live. Emma askes Lanzhu Zhong if she wants to join, but she declines. At Yu Takasaki's music test, Mia Taylor walks in to do her test, leading Yuu to find out she comes from the Taylor family. Later, Ai Miyashita and her meet up with Mia, asking her if she's friends with Lanzhu. Mia tells the pair that she just wants to be noticed through Lanzhu. Afterwards, Emma, Kasumi, Rina and Kanata go to spy on Lanzhu. They see her joint live, and afterwards Lanzhu invites them to her home, in which the foursome tries to tell her to join the club, where she declines again. Afterwards, they talk about Lanzhu.

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

 * The combination of Rina Tennoji, Kasumi Nakasu, Emma Verde, and Kanata Konoe makes the sub-unit QU4RTZ.
 * Kanata and Emma's monologue at the start of the episode is a reference to the lyrics in the first two stanzas of Sing & Smile.
 * The Nijigaku acrylic key chains that Lanzhu purchased is later made available as a real-life product.
 * In the Odaiba Gamers' sequence:
 * Various CD albums, such as the subunits' singles, Liella!'s songs such as "Nonfiction!!", and several of the real-life voice actresses' singles, made an appearance in the product shelves, albeit extremely blurred.
 * One of the entrances feature a similarly-blurred promo advertisements of the POP UP PARADE figurines of the School Idol Club members.
 * In the scene where the girls watch Lanzhu pay for her purchases, a "BanG Dream!" logo can be seen under the shelves.
 * Sakuya and Sakura Kurobane from School Idol Festival make their animated debuts, but neither of them have voice roles.

Callbacks to previous Love Live! Series

 * The futon-wrapped Kanata teru teru bozu doll is based on Fujimaru's drawing from the School Idol Festival app 4komas.
 * The remaining members of the Y.G. International Academy (aside from Emma who has been studying in Nijigasaki High School in this continuity) appears in a poster promoting a joint concert between them and the Idol Club.
 * Emma, Kanata, Rina, and Kasumi sitting on the swings is similar to the illustration cover used for "Swinging!", albeit with swapped positions.

Errors & Goofs

 * 00:26 Kasumi's arm was underneath the table, however the next cut shows her arm on the table.
 * 15:52 Teacups were placed on the table instead of being on Kasumi's seat.
 * 21:07 Emma's expression is flat despite smiling in the shot before.