School Idol Project Series[a] is a Japanese multimedia project created by Hajime Yatate and Sakurako Kimino and co-produced by Kadokawa through ASCII Media Works; Bandai Namco Music Live through music label Lantis; and animation studio Sunrise.

School Idol Festival features characters across multiple Love Live!

franchise focuses on groups of teenage schoolgirls who become "school idols" as an extracurricular activity,[1] and their main activities involve singing and choreographed dancing to self-written songs they perform at concerts or other music events.

Top-class groups are very popular among fans of school idols, aided in part by exposure in magazines and other media,[1] in addition to merchandise of school idols sold in shops catering to otaku-related items.

However, participation in the event is very prestigious, and any group that wins the competition is afforded legendary status.

School Idol Project was first announced in the July 2010 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine, which revealed that the magazine would be collaborating with the anime studio Sunrise and the music label Lantis to co-produce the project.

[3] Starting in August 2010, online mobile phone popularity contests were periodically held to rank the characters, which influenced the positions of the idols in the anime music videos produced by Sunrise.

For example, the idol who ranked first in a given contest would be in the center position in the front row in the music video that followed.

School Idol Festival developed by KLab and published by Bushiroad's Bushimo for Android and iOS platforms launched in 2013.

[7] An arcade version of the game developed and published by Square Enix titled Love Live!

School Idol Festival All Stars alongside μ's and Aqours, and also appear in the main Love Live!

[18] Lantis released the debut album for Nijigasaki High School Idol Club in 2018,[19] and this was followed by two more albums and several singles over the course of the next two years, including performing their first concert in 2018 at DiverCity Tokyo Plaza Festival Square.

Fest, were held at Saitama Super Arena, in commemoration for the franchise's ninth anniversary.

[24][25] Fans also chose the name of the idol group for Superstar, deciding on Liella!

(Manaka Iwami) (Kaede Hondo) (Sayaka Senbongi) (Kana Motomiya) (Natsumi Hioka) (Nichika Ōmori) (Reina Kondō) (Saki Yamakita) (Aimi) A 13-episode anime television series of Love Live!

School Idol Project produced by Sunrise, directed by Takahiko Kyōgoku, and written by Jukki Hanada aired in Japan on Tokyo MX from January 6 to March 31, 2013 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.

produced by Sunrise, directed by Kazuo Sakai, and written by Jukki Hanada aired between July 2 and September 24, 2016 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.

[15] The series is licensed in North America by Funimation, in the United Kingdom by Anime Limited, and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.

Nijigasaki High School Idol Club produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks, directed by Tomoyuki Kawamura, and written by Jin Tanaka, aired between October 3 and December 26, 2020.

Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dōkōkai Yon-Koma, was announced on September 18, 2022.

was announced in 2020 as an anime television series,[25] and aired for 12 episodes between July 11 and October 17, 2021 on NHK Educational TV.

[29] Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror, a fantasy spinoff featuring the cast of Love Live!

[56] As of December 2015, the film had been shown in several other countries, including Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam,[57] and was also scheduled to be released in Canada at the start of 2016.

The magazine also gives fans the ability to influence the franchise by voting on ideas for songs and costumes.

This includes the raw yen totals of Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, music CDs, novels, and manga, but not video games, film tickets, digital downloads, and other forms of media sales.

[68] The franchise's physical media sales generated ¥23 billion ($209 million) in Japan between 2015 and 2018.