I had this ad put up in Times Square in NYC. From all of your fans all over the world, Happy Birthday Sayurin!
ニューヨークのタイムズスクエアのビルボードにこんな広告を貼ってもらった。世界中のさゆりすより、さゆりん誕生日おめでとう!!
#伊達さゆり生誕祭2023
#伊達さゆり誕生祭2023
@Taaaaamas
Why would you assume that? The only reason this is happening is because Elno is mad at NPR and similar outlets for publicly leaving the platform.
It was never intended to be reasonable policy. It’s all just a pretence for petty revenge.
For everyone on the "omg Liella going so fast!!!" train, I would like to point out something.
Aqours 1st: Feb 25 2017
Aqours 4th: Nov 17 2018
Time: 628 days.
Liella 1st: Oct 30, 2021
Liella 4th: Aug 19, 2023
Time: 658 days.
#lovelive
#Liella
My conversation with Sayu. Everything in Japanese unless stated otherwise.
Honestly this was the best experience ever.
Thank you Sayurin for being so incredible, even with all my bumbling. I will support you forever and always!
#伊達さゆり
#伊達ちゃんと一緒に1年を過ごそう
Respectfully, Lily, because I know you do care, this is a bad take. You live in Japan, you speak Japanese. You do not know what it’s like living overseas where content, if it even exists, is extremely expensive to access. Not to mention the language barrier.
So a funny thing happened today. There was a LL Superstar Intro Quiz at ANYC today and, well, I ended up on the podium. It was essentially name that tune. Most important thing is that the prizes were handed out by each of the CatChu! members.
#CatChu
@chikachanbeam
A note here: Love Live has never left the top 5 since it first entered it in 2013. We’re talking about a decade.
Yes, it will go up and down and will be overshadowed sometimes by “the next big thing”, but it’s always there.
Apparently this is a thing people are doing, so okay.
Hi, I’m Corey. I’ve been around these parts since early 2016. Started traveling for Lives in 2018.
Sayuri Date is my life and soul.
Kanon, Chika, Anchan, Honk are all very nice too.
#lovelivetwt
@BenCptcatz
@ChrisJacksonSC
Yes, but divers spend years perfecting a very specific position that allows them to hit water from heights safely, a position you wouldn't be in when falling from a scissor lift.
A lot of people seem confused by this, so an explanation.
Aqours, Liella, Hasu, these groups, as groups are and have always been managed by Bandai-Namco. If you see any of them at something as reps of Love Live and/or their individual groups, Bamco is behind it. (1/)
Sayurin's recurring segment "Sayuri Date's Face Panel Collection" that airs on local Sendai television is now available for PPV!
This is the first time it is viewable from outside Miyagi prefecture.
440 yen each. Foreign CC ok.
#伊達さゆり
@DaisyG_VA
There's this concept floating around that English VA's are cringey whereas Japanese seiyuu are all flawless, amazing actors.
This misconception arises because if you don't speak a language, you can't recognize when someone puts in a poor performance.
Happy birthday to the most incredible, amazing Sayuri Date!
Thank you for being such an inspiration and source of joy in my life!
#伊達さゆり生誕祭2023
#伊達さゆり誕生祭2023
Entirety opposite ends of the world, connected by love for Sayurin.
It’s amazing, isn’t it? How she brings us all together?
#伊達さゆり生誕祭2023
#伊達さゆり誕生祭2023
k, so it's been several days and people probably don't care anymore, but I was at AX and I got to do the meet and greet and it was amazing. So I have to talk about it. This will probably consist mostly of gushing and nonsense but here we go.
#伊達さゆり
@ScarletSlike
Exactly! In a franchise as big as Love Live, it is not surprising at all that foreign fans aren’t particularly interested in engaging with the one branch of the franchise that has zero localized content, especially when the other branches make many explicit attempts at outreach.
@DragonNexus
@bestgirlyazy
Simple:
1. Dunk on crunchyroll/funimation
2. Make some vague comments about “bad translations”
3. ????
4. Profit
There’s a whole group of people willing to believe anything as long as they perceive it will harm the people who are “destroying anime according to them.
And before you say "but Liella tours!",
Aqours 2nd and 3rd were tours, they also had multiple fanmeet tours, Asia tours and performed in the US during that time frame.
#lovelive
#Liella
#Aqours
@0xJacket
@AltHistCody
I’m pretty sure Japan would have liked to be able to use all those brand new facilities they spent so much money building.
They had all the cost of hosting the olympics with none of the benefits.
First of, cuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!
Second, am I being conspiracy here and/or wishful thinking about wanting to see these outfits worn irl, but aren't these outfits suspiciously similar to the 5L logo colour scheme and such?
#SunnyPassion
#Liella
I finally got the chance to see it! It’s such an honour to be able to participate in such a wonderful project! I’m happy to see how loved Sayurin is by everyone.
Thanks for letting me join
@MORIO_va
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#伊達さゆり生誕祭2023
#伊達さゆり誕生祭2023
@Casval27
See, that’s the thing. Everyone is like “these are all so horrible” but a year from now we won’t be able to imagine the names any other way than what is chosen.
This happens every time.
I never saw anything like this level of panic back in 2017-2018 like we see now. It boggles my mind, especially for something that isn't even that intense of a schedule.
6 Months is somehow too short of a time between performances?
#lovelive
#Liella
@CHADXHX01
@teamonibe
Short version: NHK appears to have some sort of 2 day exclusivity deal for LL in exchange for the prime time airing slot. This is huge for LL's visibility and accessibility but means all other outlets, both foreign and domestic, have to wait 2 days before releasing new episodes
Happy birthday to the most wonderful,amazing, incredible Sayuri Date!!
You have brought such joy and light and happiness to my world.
I wish you nothing but smiles and success!
You deserve the world, but I can only give you my support.
Happy birthday!!
2nd place was originally going to be handed out by Paychan, but upon seeing I had won, Sayu and Pay immediately started talking and Pay said, well, I think Sayurin should hand out this one. So she did! I was handed the award board by Sayu directly!!
#CatChu
AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I actually got a ticket!!!
Sure, I only hit the Osaka leg, but I can sort that out later.
I actually won! I can go!
Sayurin, I'm coming!!
I'm so excited!!!
#伊達さゆり
#伊達さゆりBDパーティー
This community actually is actually more willing than most to pay for official content when it exists eg buying concert streams. But you come off as saying someone has no right to be a fan if they are poor. I know that’s not what you meant, but that’s how it reads.
@NorthOntDad34
@Noellenarwhal
@Jess116116
@truckin4freedom
Nobody on the Canadian side will stop you from driving across the US border. If the US doesn't let you in for whatever reason, that's their decision. The Charter has no power in another country.
It’s finally here!! I’ve been trying hard to avoid looking at scans and the like so I’m really excited to look through this one.
The cover alone is breathtaking.
#伊達さゆり
#ぶいぶい
The thing that impresses me is when you compare this to the visuals from the earlier seasons, the girls actually look older. It’s subtle enough that you wouldn’t notice immediately. But once you do, it’s pretty clear.
@MiropereiraB
@sissythatpatch
Yes, but that’s not a single country, which is the point being made here. You can similar distances in Europe too, but not within a single country.
@ChibiBuizel
@Crunchyroll
As cool as it would be to get Shu, it's not as simple as just hiring her. The logistics involved in hiring a Japanese VA to work on a US production are quite intense, especially when there's a 2-week turnaround.
I'm sure Lindsay will do a great job.
And that’s not even counting times where the only way to access subtitles is through unofficial means. If the official channels don’t want to provide the content, people will access it elsewhere.
Essentially, if you want, say, Liella or one/more of its members, you go to StarRise. If you want Sayuri Date the individual, you go to Apollo Bay.
If anything, the most this does is to make LL cross-gen activities potentially easier to do as they are all under one roof. (4/4)
There is a large portion of the fandom who have since gone on to financially support the franchise who wouldn't be fans today if it weren't for watching pirated content initially.
Do those people have no right to be fans?
It has come to my attention that today is #いい推しの日
As such let me introduce you to the wonderful Sayuri Date! She is cute, cool, amazing, talented and deserves the world and more! She is my guiding light and I support her with everything I have!
#伊達さゆり
This scene. The pain on Kanon's face, the incredible acting from Sayurin, it's all too good and this piece captures it perfectly. 😭
Give the artist a follow if you haven't yet. They're one of the best Liella fan artists, imo.
Bamco appears to be renaming/consolidating their artist management division into this new StarRise subsidiary division agency thing. Probably for financial reasons or simplicity or possibly just to get everything under one roof. Bamco has done this a lot lately. (2/)
Nothing actually changes in regards to the groups or the individual members still being a part of their own agencies. Love Live group activities are managed by StarRise (Bamco), individual activities outside Love Live are managed by each person's respective agency or label. (3/)
@99sillywalks
@douglasboberg
Different swastika. The Buddhist swastikas are oriented differently and are most certainly not inside a white circle on a red flag.
Happy birthday to my most precious, wonderful Kanon.
May your song and bright smile ring out to the world!
かのんちゃん、お誕生日おめでとうございます!!🎊🎉🧡🎧
#澁谷かのん生誕祭2023
#澁谷かのん誕生祭2023
There was some drama about the person in 1st place actually being ineligible to win, which is kinda crappy because it cheated the person in 4th. But I don’t care about my own placement because it was given to me directly by Sayurin herself!
I attended all 5 screenings yesterday.
The movie? Well it’s a B movie horror flick, it’s what you expect. But Sayurin was wonderful and the talk sessions afterwards were a ton of fun. She was so cute!
If you can see it somehow, go for it. it’s only an hour
#伊達さゆり
#ドラレコ霊
If you want to go to a concert, you buy tickets and you go. You don't have to worry about getting an eplus account because you can't get a phone number, or paying for them because the site won't take your credit card, or spending $2k and 14 hours on an international flight.
@Papahrf
@MarzGurl
Yes, actually. Most also believe Japan is some right-wing conservative paradise unsullied by western “wokeness” where people they don’t like still “know their place”, hence the current screaming.
It’s pretty wild.
Context: Sayu used a hinatazaka46 song for her latest Febri interview. She's a big fan and spoke how their music motivates her.
One of the members just posted on her blog that Sayu is her favourite seiyuu and she listens to DateRaji every week.
Wow! I'm so happy for Sayu! 😊😊
Seriously, listen to these two self-intros.
You don't even need to speak JP to notice the growth that has occurred. You can tell just by listening to her voice.
That is both a testament to said growth and to Sayurin's voice acting.
@GreedLinggg
@Ozzilla22
@Musicharlie
@EnglishVAFails
@Funimation
But that's not accurate. You're completely missing out on the fact that the characters were talking in slang in the original language. A proper translation should, as much as possible, give you the same experience as you would have had in the original language.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
That smile. That smile is everything.
She is so amazingly pretty 🥺🥺
That dress, her smile, everything.
She looks so amazing in blue!!
And we get a full pb too!!
I'm beyond thrilled at how successful Sayurin has been. 😌
There is a reason why the overseas community is generally so tight knit and passionate. It's because we have to be. Because it takes so much effort to stay connected. I think it would be a humbling experience for JP fans to try living overseas for a while to see what it's like.
I have to say, it’s quite surreal hearing Sayurin’s voice and then have CatChu songs play over the sound system while I’m eating a Big Mac.
#ミュージックバリュー
#Liella
#lovelive
#伊達さゆり
Oh wow, it filled up within about an hour or so. I was not expecting it to book up so fast. Good news for our girls! Seems like a great turnout!
#CatChu
#Liella
Yeah, delays suck, but at least we have
A) acknowledgement that this is still happening.
B) an actual month rather than just a vague "sometime later this year".
📢 SIF2 GL Version Development Update 📢
We announced a release in 2023, but we're facing development challenges in coordinating with the JP version.
The GL version release is now set for February 2024. Please ear with us a bit longer until the release.
#lovelive
#SIF2
Hey look! It’s me! Again!
Thank you, once again, for letting me participate in this wonderful flower stand project!
くみちょさん、わべさん、本当にありがとうございます!
#Liella_3rd_
北海道Day1
#伊達さゆり
@skaharumi
At least you understand the relationship. The number of arguments I’ve had with people who insist she is this hateful, abusive monster attacking a helpless Sumire is wild.
@liellastar
They did before too. The reason she sounds so much better now is that, to put it simply, she re-learned how to sing.
Singing as a hobby and singing professionally are extremely different things and she essentially had to relearn how to sing from scratch.