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!!) | |
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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 | |
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 |
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Original network | Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, BS11, TVA, SBS, TVh, TVQ |
Original run | July 2, 2016 – December 30, 2017 |
Episodes | 26 |
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 | |
Released | January 4, 2019 |
Runtime | 100 minutes |
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.