Entertainment to the death, make a tokusatsu film that will crush the entire internet.

Thursday, sunny.

For fans of the Land of Light, there is no distinction between a weekday and a day off on this day.

The alarm clock is set for 6:30 in the morning not to catch the morning rush hour, but to see that familiar icon change from gray to color as soon as possible.

The trending topics lists on major social media platforms have been in extreme testing mode since midnight, with automatic refresh rates constantly being tested.

The arrangement is fine-tuned almost every ten minutes.

But the one in first place remains unchanged.

#LoveLive Season 2 premieres today#

The topic has garnered over one billion views and more than four million discussions, with dozens of new posts popping up in the real-time discussion area every second.

In the content department groups of several video platforms in the industry, someone posted a series of ellipses, and someone else posted an emoji that said "Is this reasonable?"

No one answered.

Because everyone knows that the emotional connection between the LoveLive IP and its fans is not within the scope of normal data models.

At 7:30, the number of people who had made reservations to watch the show on the official website of the Land of Light officially surpassed ten million.

When this number reached the ears of editors at various media outlets, several people added a to-do item to their year-end summaries.

This data will need to be included in a separate chapter when we do the annual review next year.

Ten million pre-registrations is a phenomenal number for any animated film.

But everyone knows that this number is far from reaching its limit.

Because of the true core audience group.

Those office workers and students are currently on the subway during the morning rush hour, and haven't had time to take out their phones yet.

In the elevator of an office building in City A, a young man wearing a plaid shirt was looking down at his phone, muttering to himself.

"Fifteen minutes left, fifteen minutes left."

His colleague next to him patted him on the shoulder: "What new game are you waiting for to launch? You seem so nervous."

"no,"

Zhou Ming didn't even look up, his thumb repeatedly scrolling down and refreshing the homepage of the Land of Light's official account, "Waiting for μ's."

The colleague's expression changed from confusion to realization, and then to a sense of shared misfortune.

He silently took out his phone and opened the same page.

Similar scenes were quietly unfolding during the morning rush hour, at thousands of workstations, in thousands of classrooms, and on hundreds of subway lines.

No one organized it, no one called on anyone, but everyone seemed to have agreed to repeatedly pull down and refresh the same page on their phone screens.

According to data from the Land of Light's backend, in the five minutes before 8 o'clock, the instantaneous number of visits to the official website was sixteen times higher than the same period on weekdays.

The maintenance engineer in the technical department stared at the ever-increasing curve on the monitoring screen and silently finished his third cup of coffee.

It's exactly eight o'clock.

The official account of the Land of Light animation studio updated its first post on time.

It only has three words: 【It's online】.

A redirect link is displayed below.

In the office, Zhou Ming suddenly stood up from his workstation and said to the colleague next to him, "I'm going to the restroom."

Then, clutching his phone, he quickly walked towards the restroom at the end of the corridor.

I closed the door, put on my headphones, and held my phone in both hands.

The moment the screen lit up, he felt his heartbeat synchronize with the first rays of dawn appearing on the screen.

The familiar opening theme song began to play.

The moment the sound came through the headphones, a thick layer of comments had already covered the screen.

"Here it comes! Here it comes! Here it comes!!"

"Everyone stand up!!!"

"μ's will always be there!! I've been waiting since the first season ended, and I've gone through two different phones, but I haven't deleted a single μ's song! That's the self-discipline of a true fan!!"

"I fucking watched it right there in the company restroom stall. Don't ask me why, same reason as above!!!"

"You're not alone upstairs! I took the day off today and stayed home to watch TV openly and legitimately! My boss is also a lesbian, and when he approved it, he said he'd take the afternoon off too."

"At least your boss gives us time off! My boss said the whole company's team meeting this morning was going to be shown on a screen in the conference room, as a team-building activity!! Our company culture is a mystery!!"

Before the opening sequence had even finished playing, the density of the comments had already reduced the image to just an outline.

But the moment Honoka's voice came from the screen, all the comments seemed to reach a tacit understanding and unanimously cleared a clean area of ​​the screen.

"Hello everyone! I'm the new student council president, the one known as the school idol—"

In a bright and sunny scene, Honoka opens her arms and shows her signature radiant smile to the camera.

"Honoka Kousaka!"

That ever-energetic girl reappeared on the screen, her voice carrying an infectious quality that made people unable to help but laugh.

"Holy crap, the Queen of Fruits has ascended the throne!! A whole year, a whole year, and I've finally waited for this day when the Queen of Fruits officially takes the throne of the student council!!"

"My concubines, your Emperor Guo is back! The harem is open for business again!!"

"Waaaaah, my dear Eri, you've stepped down as student council president, but you'll always be my beloved president!!"

"Wait a minute, Kotori and Umi are vice presidents? This student council lineup is too luxurious. It's the strongest in the history of the Otonokizaka student council."

Accompanied by cheerful background music, the story of the second season slowly unfolds.

In addition to Honoka becoming the student council president, Umi and Minami Kotori also became vice presidents to assist Honoka.

However, the job of student council president is not as easy as imagined. They need to handle a large number of club proposals, activity applications and budget approvals submitted by students.

Even the color of chalk to be used in the corridors has to be decided by the student council.

The scene of Honoka running down the corridor carrying a thick stack of documents elicited knowing laughter from the viewers in the comments section.

"Guo Huang: I want to be the student council president! Reality: Approval, stamping, meetings, mediating club disputes."

"Honoka is starting to have a class flavor."

"This is the price of growing up, sisters."

I thought my career as an idol had come to an end with the conclusion of the first LoveLive.

In fact, it did come to an end.

but......

Hua Yang came across a major news story on his phone.

Honoka needs to know about this!

must!

Nico and the others, who had also heard the news, finally found Honoka eating bread in a corner of the campus.

Nico patted Honoka's shoulder, panting heavily, "Honoka...it's starting again..."

The members of μ's all chimed in, "Again!"

Honoka held the bread in her hand, looking blankly at her panting companions.

"again?"

"LoveLive!!!!"

Everyone shouted it out in unison.

The first LoveLive event concluded perfectly with A-Rise winning!

The organizers have decided to hold a second tournament!

This competition will not only be larger in scale than the previous one, but the venue will also be several times larger.

In addition to online live streaming, theater viewing is also in the works!

Furthermore, with the expansion of the competition, the second LoveLive! will abolish the ranking system and change the competition format so that participants must first pass the regional qualifiers to enter the official competition.

Even the least popular idol groups have a chance to advance to the main competition if they perform well in the preliminary rounds!

This is an example of an idol's subjugation of his superiors.

In other words, μ's has another chance to participate in the competition!

Although they might face a formidable opponent like A-RISE in the preliminaries, the members of μ's showed no sign of backing down.

However, Honoka Kousaka, who had just been elected student council president, remained silent.

She sat quietly in front of everyone, holding her tea.

"Isn't it fine if she doesn't participate?"