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Love Live! Superstar!! Group Adds 2 New 1st Year Members

The official website for the Love Live! idol franchise announced two new characters for "Liella!," the main idol group of the Love Live! Superstar!! part of the franchise, on Friday. The site unveiled a new visual and profile details for the characters. The new visual below shows the Omotesando street and Jingumae overpass that appears as a key location in the anime's story

Yuina reprises her role as Wien Margarete (left in image above), who already appeared in the second season of Love Live! Superstar!! as a constant rival figure to Liella!, and [highlight the white text to read spoilers] transferred to Yuigaoka High School at the end of the season. A native of Austria, she is known as a vocal prodigy with a gifted musical sensibility.

Tomari Onitsuka (right in image above, no cast announced) is the sister of Liiella! member Natsumi Onitsuka. Where Natsumi chases after every money-making opportunity, Tomari is ruthlessly practical, prizing efficiency and optimization of time and effort above all else. She becomes curious at the school idol activities that Natsumi has recently been obsessed with.

The site also revealed that Liella! will be organized into official sub-units, as with previous Love Live! groups. The first unit will be Kanon, Sumire, and Mei. The second unit will be Keke, Ren, and Wien. The third unit will be Chisato, Kinako, Shiki, Natsumi, and Tomari. The project is currently solicitng unit name submissions from fans.

The anime's second season premiered on NHK Educational in July 2022. The anime will have a third season.

Crunchyroll streams the anime in the U.K. and Ireland, and it describes the story:

The first students have arrived at Yuigaoka Girls' High School, a new academy built on the crossroads of Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama. With no history, no upperclassmen to rely on, and no name to speak of, this school's totally starting from scratch!
In the midst of this, a team of five girls led by Kanon Shibuya discover “school idols.”
—I love singing! I really do! And I want to accomplish something with it!
So the hopes of these stars, still small in stature, begin to accumulate…and so begins the “School Idol Project” of five girls with a blank slate and infinite potential.

Hajime Yatate, the collective pseudonym for the staff of Sunrise, is credited for original work. Sakurako Kimino is also credited for original concept. Takahiko Kyōgoku, the director of the original Love Live! School idol project and subsequent film, returned as director alongside Love Live! School idol project and Love Live! Sunshine!! writer Jukki Hanada. Atsushi Saitō (Black Fox) adapted franchise character designer Yūhei Murota's original character designs. Yoshiaki Fujisawa also returned from the first Love Live! series as composer for the music.

Source: Love Live! franchise's official website, Comic Natalie