Love Live! Nijigasaki 2.11: Familiar Dilemma

What started as a big announcement became thoughts about the past, future and present time as indicated in the actual title.

As our heroines reflected on their previous weekend together Kasumin rushed in with a big announcement. She overheard discussions about making the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club an official school club complete with better equipment and the opportunity to compete in Love Live! Skipping ahead a bit they eventually agreed to not become official. They all have individual goals but still want to accomplish a lot together. Although some would have liked to compete in the tournament the joy of being part of the club and doing school idol stuff together was more important.

Before we get to the main plot some cool extra developments.

Lanzhu went around asking her new homies tips on how to improve her bond with everyone and fans on and off the stage. Nice to see the growing desire to improve her social skills. This moment here was also when Yu was officially recognized by her harem as #13 though technically she’s either #10 or #1.

Shioriko saw an ad about the upcoming seitokai elections. Later she asked Nana if she planned on running for reelection. She didn’t, wanting to focus more on being a school idol. Shioriko took the time to announce she’d run for seitokaichou because her desire to support others was still strong and what better way to do so than become president. Of course she’s still a proud member of Yu’s harem.

Not entirely sure what Haruka’s off to train for in the Tokyo Preliminaries but my best guess is to prepare for Love Live.

Now we can talk about the main plot. Karin and Kasumin had two important things on their mind. The first were exams. Fortunately they had plenty of help from the gang, especially Mia, to prepare for that. Their grades were good enough to survive…yes. The second thing on their minds was different. Kasumin’s was the aforementioned state of the club going forward. Karin would be lost in thought for a while quietly listening to her homies being cool together along with students loving Nijigasaki. One day Emma invited Karin to hang out with Kanata but she claimed to be busy. Emma and Kanata spotted Karin and decided to follow. Eventually they caught up to her and got the scoop. Basically it’s the 3rd Year tradition of worrying about their time as school idols coming to an end after graduation. Like 3rd year trios before them she loved her time with the gang but was sad it would soon end. Emma and Kanata could relate. Both said it’s best to not worry about the future and focus on creating more awesome memories with NijiGaku while they still could. This gave Karin a great idea.

Her big idea was to host a NijiGaku concert. All their Solo, Unit and Group performances in one super show. The gang were of course pumped.

Great stuff as always. We ended the episode with Yu and Ayumu noticing and receiving big things respectively. I’m 95% sure the next episode will have the two discuss the high likelihood of going to separate colleges and having to be apart for a while before living together post-graduation. I could be wrong but that’s what I gathered from the Post-ED scene and preview.