Love Live! Hasu no Sora finally shows its TV anime in a special video

The Love Live! Series 15th Anniversary Love Live! Fes event left an announcement we had been waiting months for: the first promotional video for the TV anime of Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club. For the first time we see animated TV footage of the project, and it also confirms that the story will focus on class 106.

The video also previews the song "Dream Believers (106th Class Start Ver.)", performed by the members of that generation within the story. It's a direct nod to the group's first album, which debuted in March 2023, but now with the arrangement corresponding to the new protagonists.

The series will cover stories set between April and June of class 106's school year. Until now, the game and the film had only explored the characters from classes 103 to 105. This time jump completely changes the dynamic: we no longer follow the girls we met in the app, but a new generation within Hasu no Sora Girls' Academy.

The team returns, with a couple of adjustments

The staff remains almost identical to that of Love Live! Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party, the 3D film that premiered in Japanese theaters on May 8 of this year. There are two specific changes: Hikari Komiya joins as color artist, replacing Emi Chiba, and Fumika Takahashi joins as director of photography alongside Hiroshi Tanaka, who returns in the role.

The previous film followed the last day before class 103's graduation. With the TV anime, the project turns forward in time and leaves those protagonists behind to focus on a different stage of the academy.

Premieres January 10 on Tokyo MX

The anime will have seven episodes and will premiere on January 10 at 10:30 p.m. on Tokyo MX. That same day it will also air on BS11, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, RKB Mainichi Broadcasting, and Shizuoka Broadcasting System. Hokkaido Broadcasting will air it on January 11 and Hokuriku Broadcasting on the 17th.

With seven episodes, the series aims for a short and contained format, something unusual for a franchise as big as Love Live!.

A project hit by the game's shutdown

The group Hasu no Sora Jōgakuin School Idol Club was born as part of the Love Live! franchise with six main members: Kaho Hinoshita, Sayaka Murano, Kozue Otomune, Tsuzuri Yugiri, Rurino Osawa, and Megumi Fujishima. Its main medium was the smartphone game Link! Like! Love Live!, launched on April 15, 2023.

The game's service ended on June 30 of this year. Two months later, on August 5, Odd No. Inc., the company that published it, declared bankruptcy. The project's manga, launched in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in November 2023, continues its course, but the game's shutdown left the project in a complicated situation.

That a TV anime arrives now is a bet on keeping this branch of the franchise alive. The original concept of Hasu no Sora sought for fans to live "alongside the school idols for 365 days" and accompany the girls on their path to graduation. With the app dead, the anime becomes the group's new narrative axis.

Character designs are handled by Haruko Iizuka, known for her work on Little Busters! and Horimiya. Her style has marked the project's visual identity from the start, and it remains in this TV adaptation.

The question is whether the series will manage to sustain interest without the interactive component that defined Hasu no Sora since its launch. Seven episodes don't leave much room, but at least the material shown at the event confirms that production is moving forward and that the January premiere is on track.