LLAS Ch20

Season 2.

Alright so apparently we have an Association to compete w/ our club. Lanzhu obv leading it. Uh and apparently Shio, Karin, Ai joined. They aren't singing tho, just playing background dancers to Lanzhu.

WTF THEY CAN JUST PLAY MVS NOW INSTEAD OF MAKING US PLAY STAGES. I hope that means we don't have to alternate stage and story now, we could appropriately place stages after story nodes where needed. Otherwise just let me read the story!

We see Mia say something who cares, we see Kasumin who tells us now that we're back we can declare war and we ask wtf happened? We literally left for 2 months and 1 month and 10 days ago everyone was happy and united. Apparently the club imploded.

Spoke too soon, random stage w/ music that's not relevant to story. Also looks like the difficulty got reset back down to beginning of Season 1. Oh right the hard mode switch. Do I want to try this right now or should I just wait til I know I can S-rank them all. I'll clear the chapter and try coming back I think.

Ayumu says Okaerinasai in a teary voice.

Anyways we meet up w/ the club. We lost the clubroom lol? Their room was taken from them, can't get permission to auditorium, you have to be part of Association to continue being a school idol at Nijigasaki, they set up a "Monitoring Committee" to make sure you don't break these rules. Actually too funny. Yeh so Lanzhu's Chairwoman's daughter so we can just do big nepotism and blatantly take control. Can't believe we're doing Shio's arc but again 2.0.

Ai and Karin show up, so Kasumi tells them to screw off. We offer to hear their side of the story. Ai says she wanted to know the other side before opposing them and also her top option is being w/ the club, but since she can't do that, she might as well be able to practice still. Karin says lol we're friends, but I don't think working together is correct, we're also rivals. Actually omegalul.

The Association hires industry professionals for their lyrics, composer, choreography, stage producer, etc. Is this why we always emphasize the school part of school idol? Anyways Karin can't do her own performances since they gotta center around "the most perfect person". Anyways yadda yadda, this conversation has gone back and forth multiple times w/ nothing solved, was waiting for MC. When we decide to go talk to Lanzhu, Ayumu offers to go with us and w/ a sad face and we say no.

Wtf I don't remember from the anime, but it says here Mia was a college student in US, but was moved back down to senior high school for JP. Anyways blah blah blah, Lanzhu thinks we're jealous that we'll lose our job as song writer since she has Mia and that's why the other idols won't join and we won't convince them.

Shioriko pops up and apologizes to us for not being able to stop Lanzhu. She says don't worry she's not evil she's just privileged. Anyways we get hit MC angst #... uh? like 9 or something? Saying we can only make music after getting fired up and having lots of conversations instead of being able pump them out like Mia does (she did 5 last night apparently). So we're limiting the other girls. Anyways Shio continues being a therapist and telling us to get our heads out our asses. That she'll do her best to bring back the club and then hints she'd rejoin as well. Well you know this sure would be more impactful if you weren't also currently supporting what Lanzhu was doing by being apart of the Association.

We tell the other idols they should at least consider joining the Association for their futures as idols. Ayumu says I'm just here to be w/ you so... Emma, Kasumin, Kanata also agree. Setsuna, Rina, and Shizuko want to think about it.

Yo Aquors and Muse are still here. Honestly thought w/ the way the writing was turning, they were 100% getting removed. Anyways Honoka invites us to just practice at their school. Which kinda bodes the question why didn't we just practice off campus. Like wtf are they gonna do? Tell us we can't do that while not during school hours and not on school property?

We practice at Muse's and also decide to do guerrilla lives (lol literally what it's called in game) since we wanna show off that practice. Spread rumors, prepped to do first live w/ large crowd, and then they announce Association live is happening. Only have few people left over, but they perform. Shizuko sees Kasumin performing in spite of doubts and small crowd and in gay panic decides to join the association because she can't be gay. Well okay so she says Kasumin is just as good as Lanzhu, and seeing Kasumin almost tearing up on stage, but still performing anyways was very inspiring. She doesn't get how the Association can be better than Kasumin even though your average person would say so. She says she wants to join them and figure that out and then she'll come back.