Feb 22, 2025
it is always a good day to find out that the character you’ve liked the most so far in your watch of love live superstar is a descendent of the samurai who founded the city you live in
#listened to zettaiteki lover on Spotify saw that kanon’s va’s last name is Date went I Know What You Are#she’s also the niece of the last celebrity who I found out was related to date masamune#funny very funny to me#but yeah I watched s1 of superstar last weekend!! I have s2 downloaded to watch this weekend#idk if I was just not paying enough attention (was baking and doing chores) but it kinda struck me as fast and a little less interesting#than I had hoped#there were some things I really liked#it was interesting how close they were to their main rival (and interesting that the rival represented one of tokyos remote islands)#the music was all solid and sweet#it’s very odd to have a ll group /start off/ outstandingly good and i laughed when s2 pointed that out#‘why are our kouhai scared to join our group’ ‘idk maybe because you represent the biggest talents of your arts high school and you have#thousands of followers and have been getting prizes since your very first performance’#I giggled#i also liked that it wasn’t the protagonist who raised the idea of making a group this time!!#speaking of which yeah I like kanon a lot#it’s interesting to think about how anime has changed w the times to reflect todays kids#one point i saw was that honeyworks uses to tell mostly super down to earth wholesome high school love stories#but since the kids are into idols and oshikatsu these days that’s what they write about now#influencing and getting influence from the current kids#kanon being not quite so shiny-eyed hopeful also felt relevant to that to me#kinda shy negative straight man whose family jokes about her laziness and sarcasm#plus a sort of edgy internal conflict of not being able to sing in front of people and the traces of self hatred and regret from her#failed audition#it feels like the kind of character kids these days would see themselves in#anyway will be back w more thoughts upon watching season 2!!#last note is I didn’t love sumire at the start#idk if this is fair but she felt wayyy too pander-to-male-otaku w the sense of humor around her#but the most touching moment of the season by far was her running and singing and screaming about how she was /finally/ going to be center#oooooooh hit hard I wish nothing but good things for you girl#personal
