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Love Live! Sunshine!! Gets Original Anime Movie


Get ready to say it once more, with feeling! Aqours, Sunshine!

earlier today, Sunrise announced that Love Live! Sunshine!! will receive a theatrical film. As of press time, no details are known outside of the fact that the movie will tell an original story.

A short teaser was shown off to announce the news ahead of the final episode of Love Live! Sunshine!!‘s sponsor message. You can check it out below:

The final episode of the series aired earlier today.

Love Live! Sunshine!! is the latest entry in the Love Live! School Idol Project franchise. Kazuo Sakai (Mushi-Uta) helmed the project at Sunrise. Yūhei Murota and Jukki Hanada both reprised their roles on the project as character designer and series composition, respectively.

Funimation currently holds the domestic rights to Love Live! Sunshine!! The company describes Love Live! Sunshine!! as:

Uranohoshi Girls’ High School, a private school in the seaside neighborhood of Uchiura at Numazu city, Shizuoka prefecture.

A small high school in a corner of Suruga Bay, it is home to nine teens,
led by second-year student Chika Takami, driven by one seriously big dream:

To become the next generation of bright, sparkling “school idols”!

As long as we don’t give up, any dream can come true…
All we have to do now is keep pushing hard for glory!

Now their “School Idol Project” begins to make their dreams come true!

Sources: Otakomu, Twitter (LoveLive_Staff)

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