Love Live! Sunshine!!

Love Live! Sunshine!!
Promotional image featuring the main characters of Love Live! Sunshine!!. Left-to-right, from top: Mari, Yoshiko, Kanan, Dia, Ruby, Hanamaru, You, Chika, and Riko.
ラブライブ! サンシャイン!!
(Rabu Raibu! Sanshain!!)
GenreMusical[1]
Created byHajime Yatate
Sakurako Kimino
Manga
Written bySakurako Kimino
Illustrated byMasaru Oda
Published byASCII Media Works
English publisher
MagazineDengeki G's Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original runMay 2016 – present
Volumes3
Anime television series
Directed byKazuo Sakai
Produced byTadashi Hirayama
Yūki Makimoto
Written byJukki Hanada
Music byTatsuya Kato
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, SUN, KBS, BS11, TVA, SBS, TVh, TVQ
Original run July 2, 2016 December 30, 2017
Episodes26 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
Directed byKazuo Sakai
Written byJukki Hanada
Music byTatsuya Kato
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
  • Crunchyroll (streaming)
    • AUS: Madman Entertainment
ReleasedJanuary 4, 2019 (2019-01-04)
Runtime100 minutes
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Love Live! Sunshine!! (ラブライブ! サンシャイン!!, Rabu Raibu! Sanshain!!) is a Japanese multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project is the second series of the Love Live! franchise and is a spin-off sequel of Love Live! School Idol Project. The story of this project revolves around a new group of nine schoolgirls who become idols in order to save their school from shutting down. It launched in April 2015 with music CDs and anime music videos, followed by a manga version in 2016.

An anime television series was directed by Kazuo Sakai at Sunrise; the first season aired between July and September 2016 while the second season aired between October and December 2017. Both seasons are licensed in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand by Funimation, Anime Limited and Madman Entertainment, respectively. An anime film titled Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow was released on January 4, 2019 in Japanese theaters.

An anime spin-off television series titled Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror premiered in June 2023.

  1. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (May 22, 2016). "Love Live! Sunshine!! TV Anime Premieres on July 2". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 3, 2022. Retrieved September 13, 2019.