#love live! nijigasaki high school idol club

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「エマ誕」 by ロッコ | Twitter

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[angelic-petty]

love live! x halloween

[lunarhanaa]

happy birthday rina 📶

[paradiseyuri]

Created by : ☆ヒライ☆ Respective credits to the creator ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

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Rina doodle bc I love her (2021) - Don’t repost.

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2024_03_11 虹ヶ咲 by 阿部かなり

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Takasaki Yuu - 高咲侑

【Love Live!】

[natsukashinico]

i’m so tired of ayumu being disregarded as the “annoying,” “petty,” “toxic,” “unlikable” leader of the love live! groups.

ayumu’s mere existence marks a huge turning point for the love live! franchise. she was our first leader who broke the trend of “genki smile-attribute girl who’s a ray of sunshine, but sometimes gets sad because not every day can be a sunny day. :(”

now, i love honoka and chika with my whole heart, believe me, but it’s so refreshing to break that formula. it’s such a breath of fresh air to have a leader who’s unsure of herself and her group right off the bat, who isn’t naïvely charging forward to chase her goals, hell, who isn’t even chasing her own goals.

ayumu doesn’t even particularly care for or want to be an idol, she just wants to fulfill her girlfriend’s (oh, it’s not technically canon yet? sighhh fiiiinneeee) “dearest friend’s” wishes. she is the first leader who doesn’t become an idol for her own sake or for her school’s, but for yuu’s.

she is selfish, she is petty, she is clingy, but she’s sixteen. like you were a saint when you were a teenager? like you weren’t just as, if not more, petty and unsure of yourself? please.

while honoka and chika highlight the wonderful impulsiveness and childish naïveté of adolescence, ayumu encompasses the insecurities, the dependency on others, and the desire to please others, even at the detriment of oneself.

… and honestly? for that reason, ayumu already immediately feels like a more grounded and realistic character. somebody that girls her age can actually relate to and see themselves in — insecurities, pettiness, clinginess, and all.

this isn’t even to say that honoka and chika don’t have problems — trust me, if you think that, you clearly haven’t read the stories in the games or watched the animes — but that’s all they are to them. problems. everybody has those, and frankly? the two of them resolve those problems rather quickly. they’re fleeting, inconsequential things to them. they solve their problems more like adults would, and take most things in stride.

(yes, i’m proud of My Girls™, how could you tell?)

ayumu’s problems are deep-seated. when something arises, instead of vocalizing her discomfort, she keeps quiet and internalizes it — we see her doing this at least once in every episode of the nijigasaki anime, up until it reaches a head later in the show with her confrontation of yuu. she lets things fester and build up inside of her until, regardless of how trivial they seem to those from the outside looking in, they seem like world-ending dilemmas to her.

in short, her problem-solving skills are nonexistent, not unlike those of most teens her age.

anyway! let’s all appreciate the love live! team for giving us more well-rounded, flawed, realistic characters in their media instead of hating on a sixteen-year-old for, well, acting like a sixteen-year-old.

TL;DR: stop hating on ayumu for acting like we know you acted at her age! teens are petty, insecure, and confused little critters, and that’s okay!

thanks for coming to my ted talk. 🎀

[citree]

A very sunflowery birthday gift for @lostherlemons !!!💛🌻🎶

[torseinen]

[a-titty-ninja]

「りなちゃんボード: 誕生日。」 by Hiroki Ree | Twitter

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Autistic Anime Girls Group 1 Round 2 Match 4

SUBMISSION PROPAGANDA:

Rei -

"She is very blunt and cold along with being very forward. This is not because she doesn’t feel emotions, she just doesn’t know how to express them nor does she particularly enjoy or care for those who do not interest her, seeing no point in sugarcoating answers when she is questioned. She slowly but surely comes out of her shell, but only to particular moments or people."

Rina -

"I've seen a lot of autistic people (including myself lmao) say they really relate to her and her struggles and I once saw a non-Love Live fan post a picture of her captioned "I don't know who this anime girl is but I think she's the embodiment of autism" and I think that's good enough evidence honestly. However, if that's too vague, she has trouble expressing her emotions (she basically always has this vacant expression on her face) and is noticeably very socially awkward; she's very much just "Lets Her Autism Flare Up Until She Kisses Me."

[tinsil]

rina :3

no particular canon outfit bc i didn't have a ref but just rina vibes

[paradiseyuri]

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