While Funimation has picked up the North American rights for Love Live! Sunshine!!, the fun of international licensing is in play as Anime Limited has picked up the series for UK release. While there are obviously no plans laid out for any home video release at the moment, they’re going to be bringing the series out for streaming in the UK and Ireland beginning July 2nd and they’ll be doing it through the Crunchyroll service.
“Nobody can deny the impact that Love Live! has had on anime fandom around the world” says Andrew Partridge, President of Anime Limited. “Being able to bring the next generation of Love Live! to the United Kindgom is something I’m very excited about as we know there are lots of passionate fans of the franchise in the UK. At the moment we can only confirm we’ll be bringing the series to Blu-ray and DVD and that will happen next year.”
Animated by Sunrise, it’s directed by Kazuo Sakai based on the series composition from Jukki Hanada. Yuhei Murota is on board with the character designs for it.
The Aquors cast includes Inami Anju as Chika Takami, Rikako Aida as Riko Sakurauchi, Nanaka Suwa as Kanan Matsuura, Arisa Komiya as Dia Kurosawa, Shuka Saito as You Watanabe, Aika Kobayashi as Yoshiko Tsushima, Kanako Takatsuki as Hanamaru Kunikida, Aina Suzuki as Mari Ohara and Ai Furihata as Ruby Kurosawa.
Plot concept: Love Live! Sunshine!! follows the nine-member school idol group Aqours (pronounced “aqua”) at Uranohoshi Girls’ Academy in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Chika Takami, who is a fan of the Otonokizaka Academy’s μ’s school idol group, similarly forms Aqours in order to save her school from being closed down.
