The Fall of Love Live?

Oh boy, Love Live, probbaly the greatest, most heartwarming and wonderfully written anime show, with amazing character design, whether it be the singing, the dancing, the music that absoloutely SLAPS, and the wholesome scenes like the sunrise scene in episode 10, the first 7 episodes were all great, episode 1 saw honoka seeing arise and wanting to become an idol, episode 2 is when her, kotori and umi do some stuff, episode 3 is when they do their first live as eli enviously watches, same with nico, episode 4 had the introduction to kotori loving alpacas, hanayo the rice lover, and who cant forget rin-chan? everyones favourite cat-girl, and maki-chan, the best darn singer ive ever heard, props to pile for having a great singing voice, then episode 5 came along, that was the first stab, with the entire episode being centered around nico the annoying angry 17 year old git, and everything was ALL ABOUT HER, however, after that huge blow, love live still went strong with episode 6, but then episode 7 came around, giving us hints of what was to come, eli ayase returned, everyones least favourite antagonist, just wouldnt stop pooping on honokas dreams, and even called arise amateurs, which ill get to again later, it hurts me and i mean HURTS ME to write this rant, i loved the show, and now just 1 episode away from the end of love live season 1, im not at all hopeful itll be good So here we go, episode 8, and where do i even begin with this travesty of an episode? eli was returning from older episodes, meaner than ever, at that point i was already hating on eli, but these episodes made things worse, especially when elis sister is so supportive, but behind the scenes, eli was trying to be a huge ass and an antagonist, calling EVERY school idol, even the wonderful arise, amateurs, say that when all the muse members do so well and good and eli is probably still a wet blanket later on in the series, during that time however, nozomi, my previous worst girl up until this post, known for her bland personality and nasally singing voice, actually grew on me, she wanted them to succeed while eli grumbled on, where eli failed, nozomi succeeded, she really did grow on me, the only gripe i had is that she is a huge lesbian who grabs and rubs peoples boobs to see if they are "idol enough", which can be considered very inappropriate here in the UK, but in Japan, its just playful humour? i dont get this breast rubbing joke, although i will admit, i did laugh when nico was running away from her and maki having a huge anime girl scream, but then episode 8 came, at the end of episode 7, we saw that eli was formally a ballerina, but in episode 8, they just made it all about that scum, eli, at this point, i already HATED her so much that i was considering for her to be worst girl, but then, they started to get all emotional and garbage, they wanted me, and these fictional anime girls, TO FEEL SORRY, for eli flipping ayase, the stingy part russian, it starts with her being rejected, the others going "oh noes" even though, they already knew about this, eli then does a school meeting, everyone suggests make it fun like those school idols, but like the salty piece of garbage she is, she says no, then, when her sister said muse was uplifting, eli than got jealous of them and tried to OUTDO them... with a boring speech, and when people fell asleep, she then had vietnam flashbacks of her crying because she didnt get to be a la dee da ballerina, but despite that, honoka then has a change of heart and like umi in episode 7, FORCES THE OTHERS to work with eli, and all eli does in return, is say "youre not working hard enough" "you need to be more flexible" "youre not doing that correctly", she reminded me of the nasty fandom admins, the idiots at my school and all the nasty people in the world, in one russian anime girl, and then honoka said that they STILL WANT HER (for some reason), and then, like the ultimate middle finger she is, she WALKED AWAY, and then nozomi did it, she broke elis shell, she told her everything, basically saying she was a complete ass, and instead of saying sorry, they did emotional anime garbage and make her cry like a little wuss, at first my reaction was "HAHA, GET LOST" because i hated the way she was portrayed so much, and then, the cherry on top on our poop sundae, HONOKA ACCEPTS HER INTO MUSE AND GIVES ELI WHAT SHE WANTS, after all the frick she put honoka through, honoka accepted her! what the frick? and even worse, the whole thing was NOZOMI THE WHOLE TIME, since the muse name was made by her, this whole thing wouldnt have happened without her, and then after that, they then did an eli appreciation song where they were doing dumbass happy go lucky dances, and then to top things off for the episode, kitto seishun ga kikoeru was sung by everyone, because they have the 9 members now, what an episode! worst love live episode yet! how could bushiroad stoop so low??? this episode was so bad it made me put my watching of love live on a 1 night hiatus, in all honesty, i cant believe what i watched, she is WORSE THAN CREAM THE RABBIT, and that didnt stop there, after a few cute ass episodes with kotori becoming a cute maid, i rediscovered my love for the series, the love live world was growing back to its normal self, and i loved it, and the song for episode 9 was so uplifting and sonic-like, then the 10th episode came along and it was the generic beach episode, but throw in a few heartwarming chemistry with maki and the now good character nozomi, and a very sexy beach scene with kotori in her bra and nico being hilariously hopeless, it was going back to the glory of the first 7 episodes, everything was going back to normal, but then i watched the 11th episode, it wasnt bad but it added some sort of arc where kotori, was hiding something, the episode ended with her frustrated to go, and trying to wake up honoka after the concert because she collapsed, was it something to do with the minalinsky persona? the awnser is... nope, not at all, episode 12 wasnt just a bad episode, it was an EMOTIONAL BACKSTAB to what i watched so far, where do i even begin? episode 12 starts with a scene where honoka is getting better, she happily says she wants to go to school tomorrow, everything is good, she even has soothing piano music from maki, a very nice gift indeed, very heartwarming and wholesome so far, and then just 2 minutes in, eli breaks the news that they were OUT OF LOVE LIVE, FOR GOOD, OUT OF THE RANKINGS! but it wasnt eli though... it was THE PRINCIPAL, THE WHOLE TIME! AND SHE IS KOTORIS MUM THE ENTIRE TIME TOO! WHAT THE HECK WAS WRONG WITH THE WRITERS??? doing another bs... i mean bravado plot twist we dont see coming just minutes into the episode and then after that, honoka crying really hard, at first, i didnt mind, i actually felt sorry for honoka, she wasnt being a wuss, her world collapsed in under 2 minutes, and you know whats worse? the next day, kotori tries and tries to break the news to honoka, but she STILL doesnt listen, "kotori! tell her already!" i was like, it was like i was in the world of love live, comforting kotori along with umi, it was emotionally heartwarming, the good type of drama, but then on the day where they ended up saving the school, i smiled, their goal was achieved! finally! hanayos reaction and honoka hugging kotori almost made me tear up! it was such a good scene! and nico even does a super cute celebration and goes "nico nico nii!" once more! but thats when the stabbing occured, as just a minute later, after hanayo had some rice, kotori was trying to say that she got an offer somewhere, but kotori, SHE STILL DIDNT SAY IT! i was so annoyed and ticked off, i was like "say it already, dumbass!" kotori was going down on the popularity ladder, she was not 2nd best girl anymore, but could she save this? NOPE, NOT AT ALL, UMI HAS TO BREAK THE NEWS! and she says that kotori wanted to do costume design and is ABANDONING ALL HER FRIENDS AND HER HARD WORK, ABSOLOUTELY BACKSTABBING EVERYBODY, INCLUDING ME, honoka, like me, was absoloutely flabbergasted at what happened, she was going nuts, and then kotori, tearfully started going all emotional, i wished i could go in but it isnt real, if it was real i wouldve hugged her, but no, she backstabs us more by pulling off an eli, her shell was broke, so she had a temper tantrum, before RUNNING AWAY CRYING, i was shattered, i was devastated, but most of all ABSOLOUTELY SPEECHLESS, also, nobody even tried to calm honoka down or even bring kotori back! FRICK OFF UMI-CHAN! FRICK THE HELL OFF! WHAT EVEN WAS THIS EPISODE? WHERE DID MY SMILING, SINGING, DANCING CUTE GIRLS GO???? I DIDN'T SIGN UP TO FEEL THIS. ALL THIS EPISODE IS IS MELODRAMATIC SOAP OPERA GARBAGE! AND IT DIDNT EVEN END HERE!

So my suspicion about Kotori going to a new maid cafe was wrong. Didn't expect fashion designer, SHE CHOSE THIS OVER EVERYONES DREAM, SELFISH IDIOT. She tried so little to talk to Honoka about all of this, frick that garbage! i feel no sympathy and this made me not want to celebrate kotori anymore, i was going to (in real life) draw a picture of kotori to celebrate, but all this went out the window thanks to this godawful excuse for an emotional scene, I DIDNT EXPECT SOAP OPERA LEVEL DRAMA, THIS WAS JUST A COMPLETE SLAP IN THE FACE.

And then, there was the final blow, where they are at the roof, planning the final. ever. performance, maybe this could be a good ending to a controversial and terrible episode, but no, what happened was honoka being all sad when eli said it was the final ever performance, and then she did it, she GAVE UP, WHAT A HYPOCRITICAL A-HOLE MOVE! SHE JUST GAVE UP OUT OF FRICKING NOWHERE! ARE YOU PULLING ON MY LEG? ONCE AGAIN, WHERE DID MY CUTE DANCING ANIME GIRLS GO? THIS EPISODE IS A COMPLETE TRAVESTY, NICO TRIES TO BEAT HER UP! AND MAKI DOES SOME EMOTIONAL GARBAGE SAYING "leave her alone, dont bother", FRICK THAT, NICO CAN GO TO HELL AND HONOKA JUST FLIPPING GAVE UP, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SHOWS LITERAL MESSAGE? TO NOT GIVE UP? WAS THAT JUST FORGOTTEN? and the final part, is umi SLAPPING HONOKA AS HARD AS SHE CAN IN THE FACE, STARTS CRYING LIKE A WUSS, AND CALLS HER A *TERRIBLE PERSON!* WHAT A-HOLES! THEY MANAGED TO FLANDERIZE THE 3 MAIN CHARACTERS IN 1 EPISODE! AND THEN THEY HAD THE AUDACITY TO PUT KITTO SEISHUN GA KIKOERU WITH HONOKA SINGING IT AFTER!

How are they gonna throw this at us with one episode left? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON THE NEXT EXCITING EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL Z!!!

Anyway, this episode hurt my soul and made me depressed. Brought on some emotional trash and I was actually devastated and speechless during that last part. with just 1 episode left, i doubt bushiroad can pick this up, im so sad i wanna do a virtual cry, WHY WOULD BUSHIROAD DO THIS, THIS "EPISODE" WAS COMPLETE GARBAGE AND THERE IS NO TURNING BACK, RIGHT AT THE END, WHAT A BACKSTAB

So, in conclusion, episode 12 mightve just killed my interest in watching love live completely, i felt like nothing, i felt empty, i felt down and depressed, so much for the most positive show ive watched in years, everything got thrown out the window and its all kotoris fault for betraying everyone for fashion design! flipping fashion design! what in the hell was kotori even thinking??? she just broke the entire group up, made honoka leave for good, and umi chan cried like a wuss and called honoka the worst ever and then the episode ended with all hopes and dreams crushed Ashes and dying embers. That's what this episode feels like. What isn't gone is slowly guttering down to oblivion. The embers may flare up a bit with a desperate breath upon them, but that's only a temporary respite.

Ashes and dying embers. That's what this episode feels like. What isn't gone is slowly guttering down to oblivion. The embers may flare up a bit with a desperate breath upon them, but that's only a temporary respite.

The knowledge that she completely missed the signs from her oldest friend finally breaks Honoka's spirit and she just... gives up and quits being an idol.

So much for working together and prevailing in the competition, huh? and also so much for never giving up, hypocritical trash

This is so depressing, I don't even feel like watching the final episode.

And no, I'm not depressed over the state of things in the story. I'm depressed that they considered this a good direction for the end of the season! what an awful backstabbingly terrible end to the series! frick you bushiroad! FRICK. YOU.

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