To anyone who hasn't seen Love Live, if your put off by the "idol" stuff: 90% of the time they are just goofing like a slice of life anime 5:25. Bocchi the Rock is getting pretty popular this season, and this is probably a short step away from that. Also new Twitter account twitter.com/milkboobatea If you wanna follow me 👉👈

as a huge fan of love live, I'm so glad someone noticed how good the CGI is. I've never liked CGI in anime but BOI if it wasn't for the hair in some scenes I really could not tell if it is 2D or 3D

Funny how Love Live is one of the notorious offenders of bad cgi in animes and got shitted upon it but they didn’t gave up and went on a different direction but improved and master it to almost perfection.

I've been saying for years that Love Live is amongst the best CG in anime and I really hope this video takes off because it deserves so much more credit than it gets.

Even if idol anime isn't your jam, I don't think any anime fan can really deny the immensely positive downstream effect Love Live had on CGI in modern anime as we know it for its constant pushing of the envelope for just how good 3DCG can look. Great video!

As a former animator, I've always say this when it comes to CGI in anime. The problem is never CGI itself. CGI is a tool. It's how you use it that makes the results. Other than making a fully CGI anime movie that looks amazing like Lupin III that could rival or even beat Disney, the best use of CGI is when you can blend traditional 2D and CGI cleanly and Love Live is one of those examples that has surprised me over and over again. Plus, I could flex out as a Love Live fan too. Unfortunately, as much as I want to go back to animation, passion could only take me so far here.

"Love Live is built DIFFERENT" you're God damn right

This is my first impression of love live when I saw LoveLive Lanzhu's Eutopia: "CGI Animator: Boys! We finally made it! The perfect CGI Animation! Producer 1: Let's use it for Action film. Producer 2: Let's use it for Fantasy animation. Producer 3: Let's use it for an Idol Anime. CGI Animator: *shakes Producer 3's hand* You got a deal. Ultron after discovering this: You made the best CGI Animation and you use it for an Idol Anime?" I enjoyed this anime so much.

honestly great review. people don't seem to take love live seriously because it's a slice of life idol franchise and it's really sad, not just with things like anime production but as well as story but that's a discussion for another day. i'm glad you actually put in the work to show people that love live isn't just some idol series with nothing to it when there's so much going onto it even with production value, costs, and the sheer passion people have for the series

Yasss, finally someone appreciates the art. Love live has gotten super underrated over the last few years and it’s sad to see the western audience completely miss out on it. I’ve always planned on going to a concert but the lotteries just kill me

I've been a fan of LoveLive series since like 2015. and honestly, the CGI quality of newer LL anime is just astonishing. In the most recent show Superstar Season 2, I can't even tell when the CGI scene changes to 2D scene! It's crazy to see what the Sunrise have accomplished.

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all". So much of the CGI hate is because only bad CGI is noticable, while the good ones aren't. I could say it's like an invisible art. Thank you for putting light on this. I've been meaning to explore idol CGI, but didn't know where to start. Now I do. On a similar topic, I think it's also fun to explore Toei's CGI, considering they're one of the industry giants comparable to Sunrise. They seem to have been developing CG throughout the Precure series. And that the CG dev they did in Precure is what eventually benefits the recent One Piece and Dragon Ball movies.

Even back when Aqours first started the CG was insane. Niji and Liella is insanely underappreciated in the outside anime community

I got my sister into anime through SpyXFamily, Tokyo Ghoul, and some of the more popular single season seasonal shows and when I showed her Love Live she immediately fell in love with it. We're pretty much halfway through the entirety of the series

Love Live is my absolute favorite anime, I'm so glad people are talking good about it and it's cgi because I love it

Wow- terrific review! The CGI has totally progressed over the decade- and frankly I had no idea how passionate even the animators of the show are. Really good research and story telling, learned a whole lot about Love Live’s creation process and franchise, while I was thinking I already knew everything there was to know! 😂 Edit: As for any viewers coming to the series, or are being introduced to the series now for the first time, I would have never guessed I’d end up loving a slice-of-life musical anime- but hey it’s literally my favorite anime to this day! Love Live is such a terrific franchise and I’m so glad I got into it when I did back in 2019. It’d be a crime and monstrosity to say even the first of Love Live, SIP, isn’t worth watching- because objectively it’s still the best in the franchise, even if yes the CGI has improved bounds over the years. The stories impress and the characters stick, it’s such an amazing series to me and thousands of others

AAAAAAAAA I'm so happy this video exists! I've been thinking a lot about Love Live's CGI so this felt like a blessing! Love the Sublimation appreciation too! They really deserve all the praise! If you were to have gone more in-depth though, while mostly a speculation of mine, Love Live's CGI got this good mostly because they stick with Sublimation all throughout the production of Sunshine and later on pretty much every LL anime production. One reason why I think SIP's CGI looked really rough is because every CGI sequences were pretty much done by different studios (and presumably some were done in-house). They weren't able to stay as consistent and improve that way.... I dunno, just a theory of mine. Anyways, I'm just really happy that someone finally talked about Love Live's CGI in video form! It's a topic that I'm 'lowkey' obsessed with and I'm just very grateful for this!

old love live CGI still look decent, they looked more like MMD than the "traditional CGI", which made it slightly better

Indeed, bro. I've watched love live for years and damn that shit is good, never really thought about it being a great CGI

Love Live fans here ✋ i rly happy someone make this kind of content

D4DJ also has really good cgi, I can’t recommend it enough honestly,, it’s so expressive and pleasing to look at

I'm not a huge love live fan but I think your video might've hit the algorithm and rightfully so. Your editing is amazing! I loved the video and how insightful it felt!

WAIT THIS VIDEO ISN'T VIRAL?!?! IT'S SO GOOD HOW???

and this video will increase the current population of the love live fandom

This is a killer video with a solid premise, strong script writing, and focused delivery. as soon as you mentioned Love Live I was like fuuuuuuck you're right and you have me hooked. Great job

Between Sunshine season 2 and Superstar s1 there was a huge improvement in the CGI, but that was only the start, I could not believe when Nijigasaki Season 2 was able to almost perfectly blend the CG with animation

It's funny to watch how dismissive people can get about idol anime despite it being such a huge business. I'm not very fond of watching those shows, but I can see the appeal. So many idol shows have such good dance scenes, and I remember back when Love Live first started and Snow Halation was everywhere for a bit. I will admit to being one of those people that didn't know that they were using CGI in the more recent videos. It is so clean it's unnoticable to an untrained eye

Love Live has been my best Anime since 2020 and the CGI has been improved a lot ❤

5:36 "Time is money" Natsumi: You're god damn right.

They improved a lot.... It's really fast, at LL movie we can see The CGI getting good and more good at sunshine series

This is very well researched. I've been an idolmaster fan for years, but i think its time to try out love live now. Looking forward to your next video dude.

Finally! It's been really unfortunate seeing so many different Anime get insanely popular out of the blue whereas Love Live with its consistently beautiful animation and CGI never gets noticed, and if it does it get shrugged off as "Just Idol Anime bruh". The Animation **is** solid.. It's one of the very best out there right now, and the CGI work is so fantastic that you won't notice most of the time when the animation switches from 2D to 3D. The best example of this in my opinion is KURU KURU CRULLER. Top notch animation with a lot of beautiful, eye-candy effects. It's such a pleasure seeing how far Love Live has gotten with its Animation and songs, it brings a tear to my eyes... And I hope this video gets popular enough so more people realize what they've been sleeping on.

Thanks for covering this. As a love live fan (both the anime & games), watching their CG evolves over the years have been such a treat

finally a person of tase who also appreciates just how well the CGI in LL has improved since their debut

Holy shit. If not for the perfectly interpolated movement i would think it's rotoscoped. This is amazing and it was under our noses for a long time.

I’m really really hoping that once Beastars is over we get more Land of the Lustrous with that sweet improved CGI.

I’ve been a fan of LoveLive since Sunshine but recently haven’t been really looking into LL content or been recommended any in my feed, BUT seeing this video pop up in my feed really put a smile on my face. LoveLive is such an important series to me and outsiders only really view it as girls dancing in dresses… they’re more then that, really. The CGI for the anime is beautiful and I think NijiGaku and Liella really enforce that, but GOD SUNSHINE SEASON 2 HAD BEAUTIFUL CGI WATER BLUE NEW WORLD WAS SPECTACULAR!! So glad it was shown in the video aha

I’m glad you’re putting the good word of love live out there, I’ve been a fan of the series forever and even when the cg was kinda junk I still thought it was really good but I’m glad the upgrades are getting the recognition they deserve!! Love live is easily the best of the best

It's crazy how I didn't really realize that the CGI was that good before you mentioned it! The video was very entertaining too

Wait, some of the Love Life dance videos popped up on my feed a while back. I did not even know they had full body CGI. This is amazing

I love watching people talk enthusiastically about things they love , you can see the passion for the content

Bandori's one is also very good. For those of you who haven't seen it, check their MV's.😄

Thank you for this wonderful video!!! When the CGI talk got popular because of chainsaw man, all i hoped for was to someone show to everyone how GOD tier the CGI in Love Live especially in Nijigasaki and Superstar...

As someone who was never interested in Love live and idol anime in general, I'm glad to have stumbled upon this video on my feed. :D

If you want a CGI show you've never heard of, watch Etotama. The show itself is silly as hell, but the full CGI fight scenes are absolutely beautiful and the show is a fun watch.

I love the way you delivered this!! My first Love Live gen was Nijigasaki, and holy did they blow me away with the CGI. That cut at the end had me dying HAHAHHAHAH

oh man. as someone who's been into love live since 7th grade (2013 for me), and im now 21. i've cosplayed love live since i was 16-17. the section about the fans is so true. any con i've gone to ive never NOT seen a single love live cosplayer walking around. usually they have some of the biggest fanciest cosplays (i am also guilty of this). its crazy to watch the comparison between bokura no live kimi to life and the recent niji and liella stuff. its so great to see the CGI get the applause it deserves. the switch from 3d to 2d used to be so noticeable, but now you don't realize it unless youre REALLY looking. love live's animation has always been interesting to me, and normally i dont pay attention to that type of stuff in an anime. the dances capture my attention like no other series really can. if you also want to look further, i'd recommend taking a look at ensemble stars MVs. they're all 3d animated for the game, but the models and MVs are some of the best i've seen, especially just for a rhythm game. you can switch around the characters in the positions as well, so it's not like they're just animating it for one exact character. they even have little secret easter eggs where if you watch the MV with the original character, something about the animation can change. the dedication and love put into these MVs, in my opinion, can rival love live. don't perceive the anime MVs though. they've come a long way since then LOL

You know, I genuinely forgot about Love Live after years of not watching them after I finished Sunshine... You put them back in the radar for me, thank you man.

Love Live is interesting because it's rare seen anime like this keep getting anime by the same studio. I never thought they can do this many anime for slice of life anime with music. I love that they use the same animation style and improve them. Nijiyon is going to be CGI and I don't mind because I know it's going to look great. Cgi in love live 2013 not look great but it still better compared to CGI from other new anime. Artiswitch have great CGI and also made Sunrise. It's interesting because Sunrise keep try to do new music anime. Their new work is Hi-Driver. People always talk about Mappa and Ufotable but I don't those studios can do 2D mecha like Sunrise. I mean, Chainsaw man have better animation than Gundam Witch but I more impressed detail 2D mecha in Gundam Witch. I can see the animators take a lot of time with animated that 2d mecha.

*spits tea* GOD DAMN, Japanese passion on idols is just insane.. Is it heresy to say that the love live you've shown us is better than fate fight scenes? I did not think an Idol anime could have such amazing animation, 3D-2D transitions on top of choreography.. This is insane for even me as an artist. Dancing and Fighting really share the same stuff.. but this amount of improvement is hands down.. the best.

It's the progression of 3d animation through the various Love Live productions that's really striking. Love Live started as a multimedia deal with a lot of audience input after Sunrise had some success with that model with Strawberry Panic (a weird little yuri series), and even before the first School Idol Project anime, they released a few music videos with 3d dancing - and they started _atrocious_ . There's scenes where the girls look like stick figures, and their heads are cylinders with anime girl faces pasted on. The 3d animation in the School Idol Festival All Stars cell phone game is miles better than what they started with. They really did commit to it, though, and every anime season and music video since has shown amazing improvements, as both the animators got better and the tools advanced. I mean, one of the biggest reasons _Eutopia_ looks so good is that they have really good cloth and hair simulation, and you see that in all the Nijigasaki and Superstar work. As far as time/money savings, I think they end up plowing that back into the product. I mean, I don't think you could physically do the 1-2 music videos per episode that Love Live series pull off without that CG time savings.

I saw this video last month, then binged Love Live until Nijigasaki over the last two weeks, and came back to this video again now that i have a newfound love for Love Live

Glad to see someone singing the praises on Love Live's CGI particularly in Nijigasaki (which I feel is largely underappreciated). The music videos throughout that show are always so clean to watch.

i took around a 3-4 year break from idol hell (primarily im@s and love live) but the main thing that dragged me back was the nonfiction mv from superstar and the niji s1 opening where the cgi was notably really good (as well as the production of the songs being so refreshing from what i typically thought love live sounded like). even if this video doesn't hit the algorithm bug, i'm glad i have a video to reference when trying to sell idols to my friends, good work 👍

HOLY C R A P ! That’s actually amazing! Hold on! It doesn’t feel unnatural! It feels like part of the same visual language! I barely notice it!

Every passing second of this video, I just got rubbed more in the face how big Love Live! is. And it seems like it ain't stopping anytime soon, thankfully!

Bro I damn near cried seeing μ's come back and the PV had such amazing CGI models for all the characters I think I prefer the CGI in almost every way compared to the 2D work (not that it’s bad at all) and I hope we see a full transition

As a "hardcore love live fan" that's been a fan from 2015 I would say that personally I think that going forward from "My Mai Tonight" every instance of CGI looked GOOD like the transitions between 2d and 3f often are hard to tell and currently love live's CGI is at some insane levels

Fun fact: Sunrise was one of the first studio introduced CGI to anime way back to 1988, when the classic movie Gundam Char's counterattack release. And robot shows since has somewhat the best CGI and Hand drawing technologies until this day, as both fan of gundam and lovlive, I'd say gundam's CGI is still much better, although I'm not a big fun of The origin series.

Finally, someone appreciate the quality of this series. I like this series from the first series. Some of their songs are always on my playlist to cheer me up

Never really thought of love live as proper "anime" been a fan for ages, now I've actually realised, it definitely is top tier CGI, good video, I always love LL getting attention

OH MY GODD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING A DETAILED VIDEO ABOUT THIS, when i see someone talking about cgi animation in animes they most likely mention popular animes like: Attack on titan, chainsaw man, demon slayer, and many more popular animes and i remember ppl sayiny like omg where was this years ago or wow glad they have a new production. sorry- dont get me wrong, its just that CGI animation ISNT NEW, a lot of animes has used it since the 2000s-10s. i remember pripara and aikatsu, pretty cure and many more idol animes has used cgi and aikatsu as i recall had a pretty wacky animation but within 2 years their animation WENT UP the visual is just *chef kiss.* bushiroad also uses cgi for most of their animes besides d4dj & bandori, theres argonavis, d-cide traumerei and dcide was just great. what im trying to say cgi is actually/have been REALLY common in the anime industry, but now a lot of companies have started to use them, its not just mappa that can do it. you dont need to watch an cgi from mappa, theres other animes that does even if idol genre is cringe or boring or isnt worth the plot, watch the perfomances! its really satisfying.

I agree, LL! Has one of the best if not the best CGI, also I want to add that D4DJ has good CGI too!!

The CGI for their PVs slay too.

always thrilled so see someone talk about love live. there are plenty of moments like it but eutopia had me stunned when it aired

i’m an animator by passion and i haven’t come across love live previously. i’m super into creating 2d and 3d so this video is a bit of a gem to me!

so glad to see you mentioning that zombieland saga group dance cgi - cracked me up when i first saw it. guess today's the day that i find out love live! of all franchises is the anime cg goat

Although not anime, don't forget fighting game studio Arcsys had a presentation years ago on how they achieved the 2D cell animation aesthetic for their fighting games by warping the models to look more reminiscent to traditional animation. This is another avenue for research where the staff of Sublimation could have either worked for or inspiration from.

The CGI in Love Live reminds me of the CG mvs in Idolmaster Side M Growing Stars. The CG is good in other idolmaster games, but Side M's is clearly a pre-animated music video, so you can't change the outfits, but that's okay because it looks so good. The way the boys move there reminds me of how the girls move in LL!, so it must be the same software. Readyyyyy!! also had really good CG mvs even though it came out before the Nijigasaki anime, so it was before it's time. Too bad the game got shut down, but we still have some of the best CG mvs I've ever seen to show for it.

You see how far they've really come with the CGI from muse days to having full CGI PV's it's amazing and thank you for this amazing video.

What a lucky recommendation! I never knew about the Love Live anime so I may have to watch some of this!

I didn't care much about idol animes and never watched any, until one day, one of my friends nagged me like hell and more to watch zombieland saga, so I decided to give it a try, first I got interested in the story, then the songs and music got me invested and finally the CGI caught me like a bear trap would catch a rabbit, for whatever reason I started watching Idol animes just for the CGI, until I finally found myself with a lot of idol songs saved from different animes, games and vtubers, from covers to original songs

i've been a fan of love live since around SIP season 2, and its been such a treat to see the animation evolve in real time

This video makes me want to go back to watching idol anime and reliving the nostalgia 😤

I have always said to my friend group and others who said that they don't want CGI in their entertainment, My response will always be "you don't want things to grow and improve."

As a Love Live! fan since their beginning days, I am really joyful to see people appreciating them. Even us old fans are always in awe cause every year that pass, the development of the anime's CGI keeps on improving. Not to mention, the transitions between 2D to 3D and vice versa is much smoother than butter. It's so satisfying to watch that you'd repeatedly look at it and still be amazed.

Finally KZfaq recommended some love live content

Im also impressed how Kyoto Animation use pure 2d animation to animate Haruhi,Kyoukai no kanata,Lucky star and other kyoani anime project with dancing scene.

Ok but knowing that the animator of Love Live did Candy Pop animation is still feels unreal to me, especially as a Love Liver who enjoys Twice songs a lot. The animators deserves more recognition really...

Damn, I got some stuff to add to my watchlist. This video is so polished, I got a good feeling about this channel.

I really do agree with it, they've been mastering their art since then and it's a no brainer for them to actually perfect it.

thank you, people say that they hardly noticed the csm cgi and that it looks good and its the same with the zombieland saga fans coping that their fav show has bad cgi and dont want to admit it. i appreciate you showing what actually good cgi use in anime looks like instead of the awful stuff we have now that people are praising

In case of Houseki no kuni(Land of the Lustrous), if they used 2d throughout the entire anime, then it would have been an absolute nightmare for the animators. Like even if it's full cgi, the studio still pays attention to great amount of details like the light passing through the semi transparent hair of the gems or the extremely detailed shots of the pieces of the gems whenever they're shattered. The 2d pv of Land of the Lustrous which is on KZfaq should give an idea of how difficult to it would have been to animate in both 2d and 3d, also another good cgi anime is Dorohedoro

this video was so, so, SOOO interesting!!! the research required for this video is quite impressive, and i learned so much about this franchise i love!!! wonderful video!

Will add the additional stuff maybe it relates the former Kyo-Ani's animator like Nakayama Naoya, Saito Atsushi (character design from Superstar) was on animator on KyoAni before got being a freelance same as Tsuji and I do believe that Sunrise and KyoAni had a strong partnership with them since the vice-president of KyoAni was also a former Mushi Pro animator and some of Sunrise staff are came from Mushi Pro before Also Sublimation is really a compasionate CGI team and didn't know that the whole Sublimation team are all Love Live! fan. This video need some more recognition

the instrumental xylophone of Neo Sky Neo Map in the background almost made me cry. Ive been watching LL since 2014 and the CG has gotten so good.

Love Live had such a beautiful evolution on the CGI. Also, about CGI I recommend PrettyCure too. The Ending CGIs are also equally beautiful

idolish7 is another idol anime and their mvs and usage of cg in the show is stunning. the wonder light mv that got released recently is so smooth and pleasing to watch, as well as their black or white showdown mvs. i never thought i would be a fan of cgi in anime bc when uta no prince sama made the switch from 2d, i was so disappointed in the quality. but it’s improved soooo much over the years. great video!

Yeah, Idol animes is whole different beast, there are reasons why they last really long time despite lack of attention of most western anime communities, their Fanbase and even their studios is just.... unique.

Did not expect that sub count. Quality content.

You earned yourself a subscriber! As mentioned by LITERALLY everyone, this is well-written, sufficiently researched, and delivered wonderfully. 👏 It's crazy how smooth the animation looks! I remember I dropped the first season of SIP three times because I cannot stomach the animation for susume tomorrow. Boy, am I glad I gave it a fourth try and here I am years later, still a devoted fan. I wonder how Superstar S3 will look 🤔

Omg thanks for making a video about the amazing animation! I've been a hardcore love live fan for years lol

this is very well put together dude, high production quality man. definitely deserve more sub 👊

Finally someone recognizes Love Live

You didn’t see the aikatsu’s cgi evolution. THAT was crazy. They jumped from straight up using the models from their game, onto some of the cutest cgi you might have seen. Like Lovelive has amazing choreography and stuff but … the pripara and aikatsu has some of the craziest costumes with all details to animate. It’s not amazing generally as anime or anything, it is content for kids pretty much BUT THE WORK PUT FOR IT IN DETAILS HOLY COW

what a well-researched, well-scripted video! I love the og LL artstyle, but I also really really love Nijigaku's artstyle!! it also always makes me so happy to see how much the LL staff and seiyuu love the franchise, it really is special :) I don't know if you saw any of Selection Project, but the CGI is soo stunning, totally blew me away when I watched!!!

The true kings of 3d "anime" styled animation, are not in working in animes, they are working on games Arc System Works is ungodly with how they are able to perfectly recreate 2d with 3d while rendering it in real time 60fps

I'm not even an idol anime fan but this found me in my recommended feed. The research you did for this was incredible and honestly it feels satisfying that anime girls are the law of the land before anything else. Great job and subbed as well! ;')

Yes finally SOMEONE SAID IT! This makes me so happy as a Love Live fan when people give recognition where it’s due, and when they do it so well too 🙌

Another big hidden gem for good anime CGI are kids anime that are aimed to sell toys like beyblade, zoids/zoids wild,& almost every card anime, they're quality is impeccable