Love Live! School Idol Project
2025 has been a bang-up year for anime . With goliath strike likeSolo LevelingandThe Apothecary Diariesdominating fan conversation , competition for the year ’s biggest Zanzibar copal enfranchisement has never been fiercer . Given the already heat competition for top spot , it ’s surprising that a franchise that is n’t even ventilate a new anime this class just broke a heavy book and has of a sudden catapulted itself to the forefront of conversation about the biggest franchises of 2025 .
Recently , theX story for the multimedia graven image franchiseLove Live!made a office announcing that their song AiScReam has achieved over 25 million purview on YouTube . More than that though , dearest Live!‘saccount claim that total vista to video related to the song on YouTube have exceeded 6 billion views . The songis clearly a massive bang with anime fans and is a great reminder of just how big idol civilization still is , both in Japan and abroad .
How Love Live!’s New Song Grew To Be Such A Massive Hit
The Idol Group’s Hit-Making Status Is Unquestionable
start up in 2010 withLove Live ! School Idol Project , Love Live!is one of the most far-famed graven image anime franchises . The up-to-the-minute song from the multimedia dealership comes good manners of the subgroupLove Live ! All Night Nippon GOLD , consisting of Ai Furihata , Aguri Onishi , and Wakana Ookuma comes from across theLove Live!franchise . Their latest hit ’s name is a combination of each artist ’s character name ; Ayumu Uehara , Shiki Wakana , and Ruby Kurosawa , alongside ice ointment . AiScReam raise in popularity thanks in big part to the success of a TikTok draw a call and response section from a springy show .
Kunihiko Ikuhara turn a scrap Sailor Moon plot into Revolutionary Girl Utena , one of the bold anime of the 1990s .
WhileLove Live!has proven time and time again to be a genuine hit God Almighty in the man of anime , AiScReam ’s success is unprecedented . The TikTok that plunge the song into the stratosphere currently has 23.1 million sight , more than any other shortstop of the dealership ’s official TikTok account .
Love Live’s Massive Hit Is Forcing Us To Reconsider How We Think About The Top Anime Franchises
Anime Itself Is Only One Arm Of A Franchise’s Reach
Though anime fans are , of course , primarily focalize on the achiever or loser of single serial , AiScReam ’s winner is a expectant model of how the mankind of Zanzibar copal is so much braggart than just anime . product , music , and other related material can often be the deviation in deciding what is a top - grade franchise and one that is only modestly successful .
In terms of global rankings , for illustration , Pokémonis actually the metier enfranchisement with the highest gross . Though Western fans may think ofDragon Ballas an absolute juggernaut , and it certainly is , Akira Toriyama ’s foundational series is beaten by Nipponese franchisessuch asAnpanman , Pac - Man , Hello Kitty , andRillakuma . All franchises with intense merchandise offering .
All of that is to say , though anime fan are rightly looking atSolo LevelingandThe Apothecary Diariesas huge , multimedia system juggernauts likeLove Live!are still out there making cultural wave in unexpected places and ways .
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