fully do not understand the panic about class 102 graduating in fiction and the club gaining new members
the different class years are just subunits by a different name, calm down. 102 will still be at concerts, you know they’ll be doing MiraPa Radio or similar, and they’ll probably make story cameos. it’s not like Saya is gonna lose Tsuzuri’s phone number or any of these girls have had trouble facetiming each other before (well, Kozue).
it’s also not like the story has been confined to campus or members of the club, though I do hope the story feels their absence since it would be weaker if we didn’t.
Hasu has always done really solid character work and felt emotionally grounded while exploring its overarching theme of growth and time and how we make each other better. It’s a really good way to tell a Love Live story. I was nervous when they introduced 104, but I loved them and I laughed and cried as much this year as I did the first year. most of my complaints have been largely a product of the logistics of how they chose to tell the story and real-world constraints (the monthly lives were clearly too much to sustain as they went on) resulting in weird pacing or what is functionally exposition of important story moments instead of seeing them - but the actual meat of the story is good!
even if Hime’s sister and her favorite FPS both deserve a fucking name
anyway the point is, change is the whole point of the story, it literally opens year one with Kaho finding a change wasn’t what she expected and trying to run away before learning it’s fun here, and year two with Ginko learning that things always change with time but that doesn’t make them bad - in fact it’s a product of love and interest. Idk how much clearer they could be. 102 is going to graduate and 105 is going to join and it’s going to be okay.
