Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club

'''Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club''' (ラブライブ！虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会, Rabu Raibu! Nijigasaki Gakuen Sukūru Aidoru Dōkōkai) is a spin-off project under the Love Live! series.

The new school idols were first teased under the title "PERFECT Dream Project". The cast members were revealed during Tokyo Game Show 2017 on September 21, 2017. A new mobile game Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS, the official name of PERFECT Dream Project, was also announced during the show.

A TV anime adaptation was announced on December 15, 2019 during Day 2 of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club First Live with You! reinforcing its existence as the next major project after the success of Love Live! Sunshine!!

Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
Nijigasaki High School Idol Club is the 3rd set of girls originally intended to be exclusive to School Idol Festival: ALL STARS. It consists of 9 school idols and the player character from Nijigasaki High School, three of which are the top three most popular girls with the N rarity in SIF, and the other six being new characters created for the project.

Anime
An anime adaptation was announced with a teaser visual during Day 2 of [./https://love-live.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Live!_Nijigasaki_High_School_Idol_Club_First_Live_with_You! Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club First Live with You!] No further information was provided.

About That Project
Before the project was teased, a popularity poll started in SIF which asked the players to vote for their favorite N rarity character. Emma Verde won in first place, Shizuku Osaka in second place, and Kanata Konoe coming in third place. When the project was first announced, the preview image showed the silhouettes of the three winners. After revealing the three girls, six more silhouettes were added for the new characters.

From its inception until mid-December 2018, content was regularly pushed out under the Dengeki Online site, Famitsu App site and SIF app, with the nine girls split into three teams across the three platforms.


 * Dengeki Online: Karin Asaka, Kasumi Nakasu, and Setsuna Yuki
 * Famitsu App: Ai Miyashita, Ayumu Uehara, and Rina Tennoji
 * SIF app: Kanata Konoe, Shizuku Osaka, and Emma Verde

On September 21, 2017, a new game called ''Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS'' was announced. This new game will include characters from Nijigasaki High School Idol Club as well as their predecessors from μ's and Aqours.

Since December 18, 2018, the three company groups ceased any activities, and the 9 characters are reunited in a new, combined weekly 4-koma, featuring all of them. Then, from February 1 until March 1, a subunit election for the Nijigasaki High School School Idol Club was held, in order to determine the top 9 possible subunit configurations, to be chosen in a subsequent poll.

On March 30, 2019, the results of the first stage subunit elections were released in Dengeki G's Magazine. The next day, the second stage subunit elections started, in order to choose one possible configuration among the available 9 choices, and this election would last until April 15.

Information Programs
Information programs are currently airing to promote the whole franchise, with the voice actresses as hosts.

The program that airs on internet TV is:


 * Love Live! Nijigasaki High School School Idol Club "Nice To Meet You!" Public Live Broadcast (ラブライブ！虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会 はじめまして！公開生放送)
 * Love Live! Nijigasaki High School School Idol Club Mieru Radio (ラブライブ！虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会 みえるラジオ)

AbemaTV Ultra Games Image Girl Selection
AbemaTV started airing the program every Saturday fortnight from July 21, 2018. Each episode is 1 hour in duration except for the 6th and final episode which was rescheduled to October 20, 2018 and was 1 hour and 30 minutes in duration.

On each episode, the voice actresses compete in all sorts of games; pasttimes and party games, console games, VR games, and even visiting sports and amusement centers.

Mayu Sagara won the competition and her character, Kasumi Nakasu, was declared as the Ultra Games image girl.

Other Programs

 * Voice actresses from all three teams have been featured in YouTube videos that have been released on their respective teams' official YouTube channels (Dengeki Online, Famitsu App, and SIF). The main goal of these programs is to let the fans become more familiar with the voice actresses of the characters that attend Nijigasaki High School, as well as various other activities. These activities have ended on December 2018 to make way for new activities for 2019.