The REAL Idol Anime Gateway. And NO!!! It's not Zombieland Saga. 

Cool, at least I'm not crazy, there's proof it happened at least once. I had to check some of the data I had on Anilist, I had first started with a seasonal release since I was huge on seasonal back in 2021 with Idoly Pride, I then watched Zombieland, then through the love lives to be caught up when Superstar was airing. And yes I'm also very excited for the new season, I've been refreshing tabs hoping episode 2 comes up any moment now. I had started working on this back in August and was planning to release it earlier, but I had many technical issues which pushed the upload close to the start of season 3 which is probably for the better. Not only for performance, but honestly be fun to chat some season 3 stuff with fans.

Thank you!

The weakest one! That hurts, it's my favorite, but would say if I had to pick another Love Live I would go with Sunshine I think the a big limiter as a gateway is that it keeps on bringing up the OG love live and if feels like it's insisting to watch it first which is not what you want a gateway to do, but otherwise I think it has a pretty well balance first and second season and I actually really liked the spin from the og where they fail in reviving the school but still they see the value in how far they have come and feel in love with the journey, it's surprisingly quite mature. OG love live I think has a strong s2 but a weak first season, and Niji I do enjoy a good bit but it's weird because the best part is Yuu and her realizing that her role is not front in center but behind the curtain. As a film major who didn't go to school to be a director like everyone else a story of finding a love of behind the curtain work connects well with me, but the direct Idol narrative is the weakest in the all the entries. Also I'm ride or die with Idoly Pride, I love it so much and I really like the music for the composers behind it, just the tracks backing the singing just feel very different and distinct from other idol shows. I had cut it from the final cut but I had said in the recording I own the collectors CDs and play them in my car and have subjected my passengers to it. And legit got some non-weebs vibing with LizNoir. I do apologize for the Aquors slander there, the first ed is my favorite ed song wise from any love live and is probably in my top 10 EDs. And thank you for watching the video!

@@NoobertonAnime Definitely agreed on Sunshine really insisting on watching the OG and I do believe you should as Sunshine is at it's best when you see it evolve from the OG but as you said you don't want a gateway to do that making Superstar still the best gateway. I'm ride or die for a majority of idol anime including the generally considered more mid ones like Idolmaster Cinderella Girls (2011 and U149 are definitely the strongest Idolmasters but still CG deserves more love) but Idoly Pride is certainly up there as my 3rd favorite idol anime ever behind Sunshine and barely behind Idolmaster 2011.

@@Poipletoitle331 I completely neglected Idolmaster from my video but there is some good stuff. I personally really think the CG ones are any good, i stomached through Millions Live and dropped Shiny Colors. Think I really dislike Millions just for how they try to play the main three and connect them to the OGs. They felt like the wish version to me. But man OG idolmaster is a ride, it really sits in second with Superstar for me. Cinderella Girls is solid but nothing special, and I feel U149 is an amazing s1 and I think it could make a season 2 if it happens a top idoly anime. Otherwise it feels like good character establishment without enough of a overall buildup and payoff. Besides Arisu's story, stand alone that was amazing. While OG idolmaster is so good to a degree as first idol anime it's such a different yet high bar for everything to live up to.