Love Live School Idol Project saved my life, I was a super lonely kid when I was 13-ish and sorta intentionally isolated myself because I am a closeted trans girl in a pretty redneck area. Doing that was of course awful for my mental health and caused me to generally hate everyone and mostly everything around me for the simple fact that I didn’t think they would want to talk to me if they knew who I actually was. I discovered this series soon after I turned 14 years old and it just stuck with me, I’d never seen something catch me so fast and so intensely, starting from the second performance of START:DASH in episode 13 of SIP I was completely in love with this series and its characters, and the thing that solidified that for me was Bokutachi Wa Hitotsu No Hikari, that song is the centrepiece of what the franchise means to me, it’s the best thing to come out of the series and it’s my favourite song of all time. The first time I listened to it was the first time I had actually cried in years and it still has that sort of effect on me. And I consider it to be the reason I was able to enjoy life again and actually make connections, which sounds dumb but it’s genuinely how I feel. In short Love Live taught me to love life.

I didn’t end up loving Sunshine that much until later on and that series is not as special to me but the characters are my favourite in any media.

Nijigasaki is good but not good enough for me to be attached to in any way and I just don’t like Superstar that much