Love Live Life 08 - Muse (Crescendo)
The characters and story in this show have all been really good so far, but once again, I must talk about the editing. Whoever's producing this show gets the language of film. See the phone sequence. It showed with the background music and editing this week. The entire episode felt like a large scale symphony, beginning with the opening number and building to the first song that wasn't newly written for the show which, now with some context behind it, felt even more powerful than when it first appeared a year or two ago. The whole episode felt like a less dramatic (read: not worse) episode of TARI TARI, though there are still some episodes left to go. The issue of A-RISE and the titular Love Live still remain, as well as if the school will stay open (my bets are that it will. Power to the underdogs!), but if this was the finale, I can say that I'd be satisfied with closing the story here.
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