This Yet Unknown Feeling

This Yet Unknown Feeling (まだ名もないキモチ) is the first episode of the ''Love Live! Superstar!!'' anime series. It aired on July 11, 2021.

Summary
Kanon Shibuya is a girl who wants to be a singer. But she can't when she has to do it in front of a crowd. This is why she wasn't accepted as a music student. To recall her singing, she was singing while going to school where she met a girl named Tang Keke. Keke asks Kanon to join the school idol with her. But she refuses as she doesn't know Keke. So she hid behind a car to hide from Keke. And there is the time when she meets Chisato Arashi, her childhood best friend, and went to Yuigaoka with her. Then in her class, while introducing, she sees Keke again, and after the class, she ran out to get rid of Keke. But Keke finds Kanon and introduces her to Kanon and asks her to be a school idol. But at that time, Ren Hazuki comes and asks to stop inviting for school idol as this is no use in their school. Then Kanon and Keke went home together. And Kanon explains to her why she couldn't sing, she also tells that instead of joining she'll help her make one. But they failed and then Keke revealed her that she just wants to sing with Kanon and no one else.

Cast

 * Sayuri Date as Kanon Shibuya
 * Liyuu as Keke Tang
 * Nako Misaki as Chisato Arashi
 * Naomi Payton as Sumire Heanna
 * Nagisa Aoyama as Ren Hazuki
 * Akane Matsunaga as Aria Shibuya
 * Mamiko Noto as Kanon's mother
 * Romi Park as Chairwoman
 * Azumi Waki as Nanami
 * Miyu Tomita as Yae
 * Haruka Shiraishi as Kokono
 * Anna Mugiho as Manmaru

Notes & Trivia

 * NHK-E broadcast exclusive End Card: Kanon Shibuya
 * The plate number (27-71) on a vehicle where Kanon hid is a reference to both Anju Inami and Naomi Payton's birth dates (February 7 and July 1st).

Callbacks to previous Love Live! series

 * The prologue had Kanon (in her middle school years) singing in vain to Honoka Kosaka performing Susume→Tomorrow in the opening sequence in Come True! Our Dreams!.
 * Keke's reaction to Kanon singing had a similarity with Hanayo Koizumi seeing Tsubasa and Honoka passing by in The Door to Our Dreams.
 * A White Feather appears from the sky and lands on Kanon's bag.

Errors & Goofs

 * Kanon had irregular animations at 00:55 and 00:58.
 * 04:34 Kanon is shuffling in place instead of properly moving.
 * 05:46 Kanon's right thigh is misaligned upon hiding from Keke.
 * 11:23-11:28 Keke is standing behind Kanon, however, in the next scene she just showed from the left; Keke's eyes appear broken.
 * 13:06 A red stuffed toy appears on the sofa instead of on the side.

Changes in the BD/DVD release
TBA