Madman Entertainment has announced a new license with release plans for Australia with Love Live! Sunshine!! with a February 21st, 2018 release for the first season. The show is getting a regular edition DVD priced at $59.95 and a Blu-ray limited edition priced at $89.95 that will include a Weiss Schwarz card and nine character art cards. The set is likely to mirror the on-disc extras that Funimation’s release had which includes the Promo Video, Commercials, Textless Opening Song, and Trailers.
Animated by Sunrise, the first season it was directed by Kazuo Sakai based on the series composition from Jukki Hanada. Yuhei Murota worked on 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.
