>pathetic anime with stereotypical characters, plot that a 9 year old girl could write, genertic songs and an opening so shitty it basically gives spoilers to the entire show
>gets S2, a movie, a game, doujin, vocaloid tier shows and at least 2 threads all the time on the catalog
is this evidence that anime in general is shit?
>>138849585
Anime in general is shit.
However, Love Live stands for what is good about anime, so no wonder it's popular.
If you want to see shit, go look at the battle harems, ecchi shit, mecha/sci-fi or the trainwreck "we can write a plot!" series.
First time finding an idol anime, anon?
>>138849631
>Love Live stands for what is good about anime
>>138849672
>Cross Ange shit
Nice try, Trainwreck funposter.
Now THAT show is a shining example of why anime is shit.
>>138849585
Hey you cant make treads criticising anime on /a/! Youll be reported and your thread deleted!
>>138849585
Love Live is literally what 80% of anime should be about i.e cute girls doing cute things
If I want some deep plot and characters I'd read a book cause no matter how many times anime writers try to make something "serious" it always ends up being tryhard overly dramatic shit.
>>138849884
Exactly.
>>138849884
>If I want some deep plot and characters I'd read a book
But certain things can only work in anime.
Tell me.
Can you imagine a TV series, book or movie adaptation of pic related?
>>138849966
No, but not because of the plot or the story, but because of the cuteness, so you're just further proving his point.
>>138849585
I also don't understand why Love Live! is so popular.
The songs aren't good, the art isn't that nice, the plot is boring as hell, the "funny moments" aren't funny, most of the girls aren't good singers, (Minami's voice especially makes me want to gouge out my ears), and to top it off, none of them are even cute? Excluding Honoka and Nico, of course.
Someone explain why this generic idol shit is so popular.
>>138849966
Are you telling me that pic related doesn't have stereotypical characters and plot that a 9 year old girl could write?
>>138849585
shaft is what´s wrong with anime. fanservice garbage selling like cakes.
>>138849772
Greentexting is not a criticism.
Form rational arguments like a normal human being instead of inflammatory bullshit.
>>138849966
But that was originally a book. It wouldn't work as a movie because you would have to deal with teen actors.
>>138850065
You probably couldn't write a plot like it has, anyways.
>>138850053
Some of the girls are godly tier.
You won't get any gril from Idolm@ster on the same level as Nico, Maki or Kotori.
>>138849585
>>gets a doujin
Damn, seriously? That's a hard feat to accomplish!
love shit is cancer and gives anime a bad name
>>138849585
No matter how much you hate it, it was successful. And will probably keep being the record holder for a lot of shit for a while.
>>138850210
>>138849631
>Love Live stands for what is good about anime
>>138850395
But it's true, at least partly
What show stands for what is good about anime, in your opinion?
>>138849585
I tried watching this and I didn't care for it.
Honestly j-idols are retarded crap, and an anime about them is that much worse. Except for locodol.
>>138850504
Not him by I'd say Eva is the pinnacle of everything anime stands for. Not exactly what is good about anime, but Evangelion is the very Platonic essence would be in a world of perfect ideas.
>faggot MC
>robots
>aliens
>mythical, folktale elements
>catchy theme song
>genertic OP
>hot redhead tsundere
>dead inside blue hair kuundere
>evil technological corporation group
>daddy issues
>tears everywhere
>higschool element to it
>>138849585
kid, is too late for shitposting.
go back to bed.
>>138849585
>surprised a cartoon made and marketed towards children that also has otaku appeal does well
is it autism?
![[Mori] Futsuu no Joshikousei ga [Locodol] Yatte Mita. - OVA 2 Christmas Special [CDAD2BFF].mkv_snapshot_18.42_[2016.01.02_00.09.31].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/figF9CW.jpg "[Mori] Futsuu no Joshikousei ga [Locodol] Yatte Mita. - OVA 2 Christmas Special [CDAD2BFF].mkv_snapshot_18.42_[2016.01.02_00.09.31].jpg")
>>138850561
>Except for locodol.
The only idolshit that matters.
This nigga gets it.
>>138849631
>Anime in general is shit.
I hate when people fall to this when someone calls something shit.
>>138849884
>Love Live is literally what 80% of anime should be about i.e cute girls doing cute things
But idolshit isn't cute. It's retarded collectivism and heinous CG.
There's a reason modern westerners would never consider some show with 89 bitches singing at once to be acceptable as culture or entertainment.
Plus the songs and dancing are horrible. It's just bad on every level. Worse than pro-wrestling.
>>138850749
>>There's a reason modern westerners would never consider some show with 89 bitches singing at once to be acceptable as culture or entertainment.
We both know this is not true.
>>138850599
You mean pinnacle of what anime is shit for.
Love Live on the other hand stands for its good part, you see.
>>138850749
>There's a reason modern westerners would never consider some show with 89 bitches singing at once to be acceptable as culture or entertainment.
American idol exists for areason
>>138850800
No, Morning Musume or AKB would never work. Our group acts max out at 5 people, and are generally more diverse in demographics and singing.
>>138850821
Because people want to be famous?
Love Live feels nothing more than a Saturday morning cartoon.
The characters are a hit and miss and it fails to deliver the comfiness and poignancy that normally comes with SoL shows.
love live was designed from the ground up to be as commercial as possible. why are people surprised it sold well.
What are you saying fag, the songs are incredible good and it's why im@s will never beat LL.
>>138849884
>no matter how many times anime writers try to make something "serious" it always ends up being tryhard overly dramatic shit.
>implying LL doesn't also try hard to be "serious" and "over dramatic"
>>138850892
>No, Morning Musume or AKB would never work. Our group acts max out at 5 people, and are generally more diverse in demographics and singing.
Brazilian carnivals have hundreds of women dancing half-naked on the street.
Only a deluded retard (or a faggot) would think that girls dancing and singing are not appealing.
>>138849585
>This is what Idolmaster fanboys actually believe
>>138851055
>Brazilian carnivals have hundreds of women dancing half-naked on the street.
Fine, you can have an exception for nudity. Heck, I'd even give you dancing, but not the awful "dancing" j-idols do
>>138851003
>it's why im@s will never beat LL.
They are both managed by Bamco though, don't see why there would be differences between them. Besides, I have the feeling that the new girls will sell worse than Cinderella Girls.
>>138850749
>Plus the songs and dancing are horrible
Well that's like your opinion
For all I know you might be one of those "all pop is shit!! Listen to some real music like slipknot and acdc" people
>>138851113
They have different composers though and is clear how LL has an approach to a more pop sound while im@s focuses in vocals and slow songs.
![1708258e6504f6d1b7a36b8e57a87906[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5NtABxb.jpg "1708258e6504f6d1b7a36b8e57a87906[1].jpg")
>>138849585
>current year
>hating LL
Don't worry OP, not matter how many new seasons, movies, games, or other efforts to prop up the franchise, LL will always just be a mediocre idolmaster doomed to forever perform in their shadow.
>>138849585
>gives spoilers to the entire show
>spoilers for a show like love live
>>138852626
>LL will always just be a mediocre idolmaster doomed to forever perform in their shadow.
Which is why LL is 10x more successful than idolm@ster has ever been.
>>138849585
>gives spoilers to the entire show
What the hell did you expect to happen from an anime made out of an already stablished franchise? Some plot twist out of a tragedy movie or something?
>>138849585
The only reason I watched the whole thing is the animation WAS really good.
Nico was the only memorable character and I can't recall hardly any of the plot points.
Idolm@ster is superior, I can still remember individual gags and although the animation was not as good most of the time, it gets a lot of points for not resorting to CG for the singing/dancing scenes.
>tfw you want to watch it for the cute girls but them aside it would just be terribly boring
>>138851099
Maki a slut
>>138849585
>is this evidence that anime in general is shit?
it's evidence that anime relies on virginity in order to survive.
>>138850504
Madoka and NNB.
>>138855239
The singing and dancing is absolute shit. Most of the songs are garbage too. It literally is only worth watching for the character interaction and even then most of them are generic as fuck.
>>138849585
>OP: I like cocks
>>138849631
How does it stand for what's good about anime? What does it have that actual good anime like NNB doesn't? (Besides that tired save-the-rec-center plot that was last popular during the Reagan administration.)
>>138856884
Well, somebody has do since those girls don't.
>>138849585
Love Live is about waifus and it does that extremely well.
I think what you're looking for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto
Now leave and never come back.
>Non Non Biyori is the standard for good anime
Oh come on senpai, the show is okay but not THAT good.
>>138849884
Slowly but surely I've kind of started to see this point as valid if not just objective truth though it took a while and a lot of really tryhard bad fucking anime to convince me it's true. A-1 Pictures recent output really helped a fuck ton in me eventually agreeing with this conclusion especially. At this point all I want it bad writers who are woefully unqualified to stop trying to dazzle me for what they think of as good drama and start focusing on just trying to make shows that are fun or enjoyable wacky shit that's fun to watch. There's gotta be a happy medium in there between boring as sin slice of life and overwrought melodrama that takes itself far too seriously.
I'm not confused that LL is popular I just don't get how it has managed to become this huge mainstream property.
>>138852626
>perform in their shadow
Anon, you when you get invited to perform on the highest rating TV show of the year in all of Japan, I don't think you're in the shadow of some niche chinese cartoon group anymore.
The reason Love Live sold so well is because it's also popular with normies, both the game and the anime. It started out as otaku pandering like im@s, but somewhere along the line they realized that a huge part of the fanbase consists of normal teenage girls and capitalized on that.
>>138857135
More easily accessible. Focuses on characters more since there isn't a million of them like im@s. The VA's actually operate like an idol unit while im@s VA's do it as a side job, this lets high school girls relate to that shit easier as idol groups are all the rage in Japan. Basically Love Live gets recognized as an actual Idol group by the general public there, while im@s is just some chinese cartoon.
>>138849585
It is without doubt one of the greatest Idol Anime of this generation.
It has surpassed the venerable K-On, Im@s and Madoka.
>>138853863
The only gag I remember was the box gag.
About 90% of my memory of Im@s was being bored out of my mind.
>>138857610
Season 1 didn't even manage to beat K-On in sales.
Namco forced its popularity by cutting the price of S2 vol1 by half and bundling it with a chance ticket to be at the idol concert, there's also the video games factor and the huge advertisement campaign it had for S2. Love Live success is fabricated, the way they are handling the franchise reminds me a lot of western companies like Disney.
>>138851251
There's some overlap.
Aki Hata wrote both LL and Im@s songs.
I remember that EFFY (composer of BokuHikari) will be composing one song for ML.
>>138857682
S1 is pretty bad desu, S2 is when things start to pick up.
>>138857682
That one S1, then came the S2 BDs followed by the Movie which far outsold K-On.
Are you saying use of advertisement is inherently proof of fabrication? Because a bunch of other franchises do that. DxD had a mobage so did WUG. WUG was pushed a lot by Avex.
Back in 2010, Love Live had nowhere near this level of popularity. It was not promotion alone that got here but it comes down to a few factors
-Good songs
-A Great Anime
-A deccent Mobage
That have catapulted Love Live from an unknown franchise to the top of the world.
>>138857682
>25million USD from Movie screenings
>230k total movie BD sales so far
>67,206 average sales per volume for s2
>26million USD from music sales alone in 2015
Sure is fabricated success.
>>138858026
>25million USD from Movie screenings
>230k total movie BD sales so far
After hard shilling and huge incentives to be part of the LL fandom
>67,206 average sales per volume for s2
While S1 had 30k avg sales per vol on the first release
Season 1 sold decently, Namco pushed hard to have such a huge success for S2 and movie. It didn't happen naturally like Bakemono, K-On or Free for example. The *extra* success(because I'm not denying part of it is legit) it got was all brewed in a meeting room.
The fact that it had a HUGE drop, 50%+, from vol1 to vol2 should tell you that something is off. Normally the drop is between 10% and 30%.
○ラブライブ！ 2nd Season 【全7巻】
巻数 初動 2週計 累計 発売日
01巻 *82,119 *97,191 115,870 14.06.20 ※合計 116,266枚、通常版 *,396枚
02巻 *41,865 *49,164 *58,400 14.07.25
03巻 *41,482 *45,578 *53,264 14.08.27
04巻 *41,243 *46,467 *53,991 14.09.24
05巻 *38,997 *43,202 *49,018 14.10.29
06巻 *30,960 *41,769 *50,867 14.11.21
07巻 *51,985 *57,672 *70,873 14.12.25
※1巻は第1話のみ収録
>>138858425
It's a multimedia franchise, in fact majority of its popularity comes from it's musical and idol side of things. Why are you so hung up about s1 anime sales?
The game came out after the anime, along with much more constant song releases, and was one of the main driving forces of hitting the mainstream market and making sales go up.
The first volume got huge sales due to concert lottery, but what you can't deny is the absolute huge amount of time and effort the VA's put into being an idol unit. Just compare their first live to their recent ones, they got professional enough to be invited to perform on Kohaku and held their own against the mainstream idol groups.
Also you are delusional if you think no other franchises get games and other forms of "shilling", just look at the amount of marketing im@s gets, it's certainly isn't much different but the end success speaks for itself.
>>138857682
If success could be fabricated, then several more of Aniplex's originals would be on the level of Madoka.
Fuck Rin.
I just wish they'd use some of those massive amounts of otakubux to make the dances 100% hand-drawn like iM@S but CGI shit has permeated the industry too much for them to change the way they animate the dances.
>inb4 b-but it's getting better
>inb4 mentioning Etotama, Precure EDs, Aikatsu, etc
I don't care, it still looks worse than 2D dancing.
>>138861212
I was hopping they would at least do it for one song in the movie, but not even. It's like they think their CG dances are fine or something.
>>138861450
I think some of the CG animators might have been animating LL for a few years even before it became huge, and instead of being fired for 2D dance animators they're just kept on the project doing CG dances due to precedence.
>>138849585
What are you gonna do about it? Nerd
>>138861450
All 3 of the year level songs had no CGI.
I don't care.
Post Honk.
>>138849585
>>>/reddit/
>>138849585
>audience is hardcore otaku that can buy 10-40 dvd each times
>its best seller guys!
no shit
The fact that the dances are in fucking 3d is enough reason to trash on this show.
>>138849966
It's a LN adaptation. Also Rikka is waifu.
At least the fucking movie for this had fucking choreography, even with the retarded 3D.
Idolmaster Movie's finale concert was fucking retarded.
Secondaries crying how hard their training is and shit. Quitting, perspiring like maggots making people believe how hard they are working.
Then my fucking face when all they did in the finale was clap like retards in the fucking background.
Holy shit.
>>138849585
Are all animes about idols?
>>138851099
LL > LL
Aren't love live fans seen as the worst fanbase in the industry by other otaku? I've seen quite a few people complaining about their behaviour in concerts and movie theaters.
>>138851003
>>138851113
>>138851251
As someone who watched only the anime, so is probably talking about something he doesn't know about, imho he difference between Im@s and LL is that LL is a lot safer and "for everybody". I don't mean this as a critic or to say LL is shit, it's just a difference in approach: Idolmaster came up with girls for every niche and varied songs, LL girls on the other hand are all highschool girl + 1 trait.
Compare Rin with Makoto, Makoto being a tomboy and manly is a lot more serious than Rin's flat chest.
The only somewhat interesting character in LL is Nico.
There is also a difference in fanservice, Im@s is a lot tamer.
Personally I like Im@s more, I prefer their songs even if I have listened to only a few of them, and I liked the anime (both originals and cg) more.
>>138849585
What do you expect?
They have an idol industry.
>>138858425
And praytell how Bakemono, K-On and Free's success came naturally.
>>138862459
But 40% of the audience are actually 13-17 year old girls.
>>138849585
This thread is shit.
Post LoLi.
>>138862706
Rin is a flat-chested tomboy who is very insecure of her lack of feminity.
Maki is a sheltered tsundere ojou-sama, but can still be straightforward and honest to herself from time to time.
Nozomi seems like the mature onee-san type but she jokes around a lot, and under all that she's actually just a lonely girl who wants friends.
How is that just one trait to you?
>>138863686
I'll rephrase myself: love live girls are first and foremost high school girls with some trait to pander to someone.
Im@s girls are the trait, the niche they pander to.
Iori being an oujo-sama is lot more important, relevant, than Maki being an oujo-sama because Maki is a high-school girl AND an oujo-sama.
This makes the Im@s better for specific pandering but worse for pandering to everyone.
Nico is the best raibu.
>>138862459
You forgot to say that sales don't mean anything.
>>138863855
So they are both flat, undeveloped archetype characters but one of them happens to be a high school students?
Gotcha.
I love my waifu so much.
>>138866636
Me too.
>>138857682
Technicaly, isn't every big franchise made of fabricated success, even the ones that had a growth into success considered as "natural"?
