SimilarScreen
Love Live! School Idol Project

Love Live! School Idol Project

I'll do my best no matter what. I won't give up on saving our school. I'll make it happen!!

20137.42 Seasons26 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Otonokizaka High School is planning to close within three years. However, nine female students come together with one thing in mind—form a pop idol group to revive the school’s popularity and keep it from shutting down. 'In order to protect our beloved school, there’s only one thing we can do...become pop stars!'

Created by Sakurako Kimino
Written by Sakurako Kimino, Jukki Hanada
Produced by Tadashi Hirayama, Shigeru Saito, Yuki Makimoto
NetworksTokyo MX

Top Cast

Emi Nitta

Emi Nitta

Honoka Kōsaka (voice)

Suzuko Mimori

Suzuko Mimori

Umi Sonoda (voice)

Aya Uchida

Aya Uchida

Kotori Minami (voice)

Pile

Pile

Maki Nishikino (voice)

Yurika Kubo

Yurika Kubo

Hanayo Koizumi (voice)

Riho Iida

Riho Iida

Rin Hoshizora (voice)

Yoshino Nanjo

Yoshino Nanjo

Eli Ayase (voice)

Aina Kusuda

Aina Kusuda

Nozomi Tōjō (voice)

Sora Tokui

Sora Tokui

Nico Yazawa (voice)

Themes & Keywords

competitiontalentsportsfriendsslice of lifeschoolsingingfashionschool lifeanimejapanese high schoolidol groupmusicidol

About Love Live! School Idol Project

Love Live! School Idol Project is a animation, comedy, drama series that first aired in 2013 exploring themes of competition, talent, sports, friends, slice of life, school. Created by Sakurako Kimino, it stars Emi Nitta, Suzuko Mimori, Aya Uchida. Otonokizaka High School is planning to close within three years. However, nine female students come together with one thing in mind—form a pop idol group to revive the school’s popularity and keep it from shutting down. 'In order to protect our beloved school, there’s only one thing we can do...become pop stars!'

Shows Similar to Love Live! School Idol Project

Discover shows like Love Live! School Idol Project — ranked by similarity and community votes

We found 15 shows similar to Love Live! School Idol Project

If you enjoyed Love Live! School Idol Project, you'll love these handpicked recommendations. Each title below shares similar themes, tone, and storytelling style. Our algorithm analyzes genres, keywords, creator filmography, and cast connections to find the closest matches. Whether you're looking for the same emotional depth, narrative structure, or visual style, these picks are curated to deliver the best viewing experience for fans of Love Live! School Idol Project.

Love Live! Sunshine!!
44% Match

Uranohoshi Girls’ High School, a private school in the seaside neighborhood of Uchiura at Numazu city, Shizuoka prefecture. A small high school in a corner of Suruga Bay, it is home to nine teens, led by second-year student Chika Takami, driven by one seriously big dream: To become the next generation of bright, sparkling “school idols”! As long as we don’t give up, any dream can come true... All we have to do now is keep pushing hard for fame and glory! Now their “School Idol Project” begins to make their dreams come true!

LoveLive! Superstar!!
40% Match

Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no upperclassmen or alumni, and no reputation, it is a school full of unknowns. Five girls, among them Kanon Shibuya, have a fateful encounter with school idols. Kanon decides, "I love singing. I want to make something come true with song!" Many feelings converge upon a star that has only started to grow. The future is blank and full of possibility for these girls, and their story that everyone will make possible has only just begun. Soar with your wings, our Love Live!

Free!
38% Match

Free!(2013)

TV Show8.2/10

The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways. Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.

Haikyu!!
38% Match

Haikyu!!(2014)

TV Show8.6/10

Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.

Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life
37% Match

Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?

Stars Align
35% Match

Stars Align(2019)

TV Show8.4/10

Toma Shinjo has one mission: save his school’s tennis team. And his only hope rests on the talent of Maki Katsuragi, who’s reluctant to part from his studies. This will be the team’s last summer together unless they convince Maki to step on the court!

Tsuredure Children
35% Match

A series depicting various scenarios of young love. These stories range from a boy, crippled by his absolute lack of confidence in himself, cannot even accept the fact that the girl of his dreams actually asked him out on a date, to the near-psychotic girl that pours her own blood into her homemade chocolate in order to win his heart.

Sound! Euphonium
34% Match

Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko can’t make up her mind. She recollects her experience with Reina at a competition in junior high school.

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
34% Match

So exactly what’s going to happen when Hachiman Hikigaya, an isolated high school student with no friends, no interest in making any and a belief that everyone else’s supposedly great high school experiences are either delusions or outright lies, is coerced by a well meaning faculty member into joining the one member “Volunteer Services Club” run by Yukino Yukinoshita, who’s smart, attractive and generally considers everyone in her school to be her complete inferior?

HANEBADO!
34% Match

HANEBADO!(2018)

TV Show6.9/10

Ayano Hanesaki, a first-year student at Kanagawa Prefectural Kitakomachi High School, has a badminton ability able to surpass others effortlessly yet avoids playing the sport. She meets Nagisa Aragaki, a third-year student who practices day and night aiming to become the best player in Japan. Encouraged by coach Tachibana Kentarou, supported by club colleagues, and fired up by various rivals, the two engage in their youth and adored sport so thrilling like a shuttle flown at high speed!

Skip and Loafer
33% Match

Iwakura Mitsumi, a tenacious country girl, prepares for high school in the big city. She meets the handsome Shima Sousuke, whose easygoing ways help her adapt in the real world.

Kokoro Connect
33% Match

Five members of the school culture club—Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki—encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into chaos. At first the five students find some amusement among the confusion, but this connection also exposes the painful scars hidden within their hearts... When their calm lives are shattered, the relationships between the five students also begin to change!

Lucky Star
32% Match

Lucky Star(2007)

TV Show7.4/10

Having fun in school, doing homework together, cooking and eating, playing video games, watching anime. All those little things make up the daily life of the anime-and chocolate-loving-Izumi Konata and her friends.