Love Live! School Idol Project

Otonokizaka High School is facing closure as enrollment continues to fall, with the end slated to come once the current first-years graduate. Second-year Honoka Kousaka can’t accept that fate, and after discovering the popularity of the school idol group A-RISE, she decides to rally support for her school in the same way. Alongside her childhood friends Umi Sonoda and Kotori Minami, Honoka forms μ’s (“muse”) to raise Otonokizaka’s profile.

Getting started proves difficult: student council president Eri Ayase strongly opposes the idea and works to stop it, and μ’s struggles to draw in additional members. With the Love Live competition offering a chance to earn national attention for school idols, Honoka and her friends race against time to build their group and aim for the spotlight—hoping it will be enough to keep Otonokizaka alive.