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!!)
Genre	Musical[1]
Created by	Hajime Yatate Sakurako Kimino
Manga
Written by	Sakurako Kimino
Illustrated by	Masaru Oda
Published by	ASCII Media Works
English publisher	MY: Kadokawa Gempak Starz
Magazine	Dengeki G's Magazine
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	May 2016 – present
Volumes	3
Anime television series
Directed by	Kazuo Sakai
Produced by	Tadashi Hirayama Yūki Makimoto
Written by	Jukki Hanada
Music by	Tatsuya Kato
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Crunchyroll SEA: Mighty Media UK: Anime Limited
Original network	Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, BS11, TVA, SBS, TVh, TVQ
Original run	July 2, 2016 – December 30, 2017
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
Directed by	Kazuo Sakai
Written by	Jukki Hanada
Music by	Tatsuya Kato
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Crunchyroll
Released	January 4, 2019 (2019-01-04)
Runtime	100 minutes
Anime and manga portal

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.