Recaps

μ's learned about the upcoming Love Live! school idol competition and discovered that their ranking had risen enough to place them on a list of strongly recommended idols. Maki Nishikino explained that the attention followed their new PV, and the group prepared to practice as someone arrived on the rooftop.

• Honoka Kosaka reached the rooftop room and called for everyone to begin, while Nozomi Tojo told Eli that μ's needed her guidance.
• Hanayo Koizumi rushed into the clubroom and announced that Love Live! was being held, then explained that the top twenty ranked groups could perform.
• Honoka Kosaka urged μ's to aim for the competition, and Umi Sonoda checked their ranking on the group's webpage.
• The members saw that μ's had risen onto the strongly recommended idols list and read excited comments about their new song and seven members.
• Maki Nishikino explained that students from another school had begun approaching her for photos after the PV was released.
• Rin Hoshizora teased Maki Nishikino about accepting a photo, and Maki struck Rin on the forehead before the rooftop door opened.

μ's sought permission to enter LoveLive, and Kotori Minami approved their application on the condition that every member pass her finals. The group began studying after Honoka Kosaka, Rin Hoshizora, and Yazawa Nico revealed their academic struggles.

• Yazawa Nico announced that the school idol festival would be held that summer, and μ's decided to apply for LoveLive.
• Maki Nishikino proposed asking chairwoman Kotori Minami directly after the group anticipated Eli Ayase would reject their request.
• Kotori Minami approved μ's participation in LoveLive, but required every member to pass their finals.
• Honoka Kosaka and Rin Hoshizora apologized to the group for their weak math and English skills.
• Maki Nishikino scolded Rin Hoshizora for dismissing English, while Senba Gari pointed out that Yazawa Nico was holding her math book upside down.

Senba Gari left μ's chaotic tutoring session and ran into Arisa Ayase, whose affectionate greeting made Eli Ayase mistake him for a threat to her sister. The chapter ended with Senba restraining an angry Eli in a compromising-looking position as Umi pointed out that others were watching.

• The μ's members assigned tutoring duties, and Nozomi Tojo took charge of Yazawa Nico while Senba Gari received a call from Takai Geki about a serious incident involving strange tracks and hair.
• During tutoring, Rin Hoshizora and Honoka Kosaka tried to evade their lessons, while Nozomi Tojo used her teasing methods to make Yazawa Nico study.
• Senba Gari left Otonokizaka and encountered Arisa Ayase, who ran over and hugged him excitedly.
• Eli Ayase saw Arisa hugging Senba Gari and accused him of harassing her sister, then attacked him.
• Senba Gari caught Eli's punch and pinned her arm behind her back, and Umi Sonoda warned them that their position looked suggestive to onlookers.

Senba Gari parted awkwardly from Arisa Ayase, then discovered that a black sedan was following him and evaded it. He met Takai Geki at a hotel to investigate a matter involving celebrity Wako Hirota, while the pursuers’ leader, Tsuchimikado Kan, plotted to seize their power.

• Senba Gari left Arisa Ayase without telling her his name, and a black sedan began tailing him.
• Umi Sonoda and Eli Ayase discussed μ's, but Eli rejected school idols and refused to approve of the group.
• Senba Gari confirmed the sedan was following him and escaped down a narrow road, while Tsuchimikado Kan ordered an investigation into Senba Gari and the Takai Family boy.
• Takai Geki brought Senba Gari to meet Wako Hirota and Mr. Sakamoto at a hotel about a case Senba Gari was expected to resolve.
• Takai Geki teased Senba Gari about smelling like a little loli, so Senba Gari knocked him unconscious before asking Wako Hirota where the crime scene was.

Senba Gari and Takai Geki guarded Wako Hirota, then followed Shadow Dog to a grove where they encountered the injured Mlortha and six Tsuchimikado Family fighters. Divine and Spirit fought Heavenly God Fang and the Yin-Yang Guards, while Mlortha remained trapped nearby.

• Senba Gari and Takai Geki agreed to stay at Wako Hirota’s residence and used Shadow Dog to guard the room with fur from the crime scene.
• Senba Gari explained the ancient writing on the Beast Soul Bracelet’s stone boxes, describing the balance between light and darkness and the powers of humans and beasts.
• Shadow Dog detected danger, and Senba Gari and Takai Geki transformed into Divine and Spirit before confronting the injured Mlortha in a grove.
• A talisman thrown by an unseen attacker exploded, and Heavenly God Fang arrived with five Yin-Yang Guards, revealing the Tsuchimikado Family’s interest in Divine and Spirit’s Beast Soul Drivers.
• Heavenly God Fang attacked Divine with a steel-enhanced fan while the Yin-Yang Guards surrounded Spirit, who fought back with his Vine Dragon Staffs.
• Heavenly God Fang ignited his fan and threw it at Divine, who deflected it toward the trapped Mlortha.

Divine and his allies fought the wolfdog Mlortha while Hagoromo Gitsune confronted Heavenly God Fang, but Mlortha escaped after protecting Wako Hirota’s photograph. The next morning, Wako explained that the photo showed his childhood with his father and their pet, and began to share how his relationship with his father had broken down.

• Hagoromo Gitsune attacked Heavenly God Fang, and Divine stopped her from striking him before Heavenly God Fang teleported away with the Onmyo Guards.
• Divine and his allies rushed to Wako Hirota’s home, where Mlortha had cornered him and then shielded a photograph from their attacks before escaping.
• Mr. Sakamoto scolded Senba Gari and Takai Geki for failing to protect Wako, but Wako asked him to give them another chance.
• Senba Gari asked Wako about the photograph, and Wako explained that it showed him as a child with his father and their pet wolfdog.
• Wako told Senba Gari that he and his father had become estranged after the photo was taken, then agreed to explain how it happened.

Wako Hirota learned that the wolfdog Mlortha was Pochi, who had brought him to his father’s grave, while Divine and Spirit fought Heavenly God Fang to protect them. Mr. Sakamoto appeared at the grave and ominously threatened to separate Wako and Pochi again.

• Wako Hirota recalled how arguments with his father over his musical ambitions had driven him from home, and he and Senba Gari went to retrieve his old trophy.
• A wolfdog Mlortha attacked, carried Wako Hirota away with the trophy, and was pursued by transformed Senba Gari and Takai Geki.
• Heavenly God Fang and the Onmyou Guards ambushed them, but Divine freed Mlortha and let it carry Wako toward the mountain.
• Heavenly God Fang attacked Divine with Samadhi True Fire and flying leaf blades while Spirit, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament fought the Onmyou Guards.
• Mlortha brought Wako Hirota to his father’s grave and placed the trophy there, leading Wako to recognize it as Pochi.
• Mr. Sakamoto confronted Wako and Pochi at the grave and warned that they were about to be separated again.

Divine rescued Wako Hirota and Pochi from Mr. Sakamoto, but Pochi died after Mr. Sakamoto stole the Seed of Original Sin. After Divine defeated Mr. Sakamoto and helped Wako Hirota face his grief, the story shifted to Honoka, Rin, and Nico being caught skipping their studies by Nozomi.

• Mr. Sakamoto transformed into a Yin-Yang Guard, defeated Pochi, kicked Wako Hirota aside, and revealed that he had withheld letters from Wako Hirota's father, who had died a month earlier.
• Mr. Sakamoto stabbed Pochi, took the Seed of Original Sin from its forehead, and prepared to kill Wako Hirota as black mist rose around him.
• Divine arrived, kicked Mr. Sakamoto away, and the Seed of Original Sin flew into Divine; he struck Wako Hirota until the black mist faded and urged him to live on with his father's love.
• Pochi licked Wako Hirota's tears before dying in his arms, and Wako Hirota remembered a childhood photograph with his father and Pochi.
• Divine used Shadow Sickle to defeat Mr. Sakamoto, then Senba Gari comforted Wako Hirota and gave him his father's final letter; Wako Hirota said he already knew what his father wanted to say.
• Honoka, Rin, and Nico practiced on the rooftop instead of studying until Nozomi caught them and threatened to punish all three.

Senba Gari brooded over saving the wolfdog Mlortha, while Umi Sonoda decided to study with Honoka Kosaka before pursuing dance lessons from Eli Ayase. After everyone passed their exams, Honoka learned that Otonokizaka Academy would stop accepting students and soon close, leaving her demanding to know if the announcement was true.

• Senba Gari struggled to reconcile his mission as Divine to destroy Mlortha with his decision to save the wolfdog Mlortha.
• Umi Sonoda told Nozomi Tojo she wanted to learn dance from Eli Ayase, then moved into Honoka Kosaka's home to study with her before exams.
• Eli Ayase spoke with her grandmother and looked at photos of their ballet performances.
• Honoka Kosaka revealed her score of 53, and the μ's members celebrated that none of them had failed their exams.
• Honoka Kosaka overheard Kotori Minami announce that Otonokizaka Academy would stop accepting new students and soon close, then demanded to know if it was true.

Honoka Kosaka and her friends learned that Otonokizaka would close if the upcoming open-campus event failed to attract applicants, so μ's prepared to perform while Eli Ayase's student council planned the event. Umi Sonoda remained dissatisfied with their dancing and proposed asking Eli to teach them, leaving the group poised to seek her help.

• Senba Gari clarified that the school would close only if the open-campus results were poor, and Eli Ayase took charge of planning the event.
• Honoka Kosaka urged μ's to perform at the open campus, while Eli's student council discussed ways to attract applicants, including featuring the school's uniforms, alpacas, and school idols.
• Eli Ayase encountered Hanayo Koizumi and the others at the animal shed, where an alpaca made a mess of her, and she stopped students from treating a μ's live show as already approved.
• μ's practiced for the event, but Umi Sonoda said their performance still could not move people, despite the others' efforts.
• Umi Sonoda called the group that night and said she wanted Eli Ayase to teach them to dance after seeing her ballet.

Honoka supported asking Eli to teach μ's how to dance, while Alisa questioned whether Eli truly wanted to save Otonokizaka Academy. Senba Gari deciphered an ominous message, then discovered a brutally mutilated corpse in a dark alley.

• Honoka persuaded the others to ask Eli for dance lessons, and Eli rehearsed a presentation to attract students to Otonokizaka Academy.
• Alisa told Eli that her presentation was boring and asked whether saving the school was truly what Eli wanted.
• Senba Gari deciphered a sentence saying that everything had a hidden true self and that its appearance would change everything.
• Senba Gari pranked Takai Geki with headphones before leaving to buy a late-night snack, while Golden Firmament called a funeral home.
• Senba Gari investigated a shadow in a quiet alley and found a severed hand and a dismembered man's corpse.

Senba Gari transformed into Divine and fought Amazon Omega while pursuing Mamoru, then Amazon Alpha arrived and clashed with Omega over whether to protect or destroy the Amazons. After Gari and Takai Geki prepared to intervene, the story shifted to them visiting the injured Jin Takayama and Nanaha Izumi, leaving Divine’s Garuda transformation unfinished.

• Senba Gari transformed into Divine and attacked Mamoru, but Amazon Omega intervened to protect him.
• Divine changed into KingKong form, overpowered Omega and Mamoru, and learned that Omega wanted to protect the surviving Amazons.
• Amazon Alpha arrived, declared that he intended to exterminate all Amazons, and began fighting Amazon Omega.
• Takai Geki and Nanaha Izumi arrived, and Izumi asked Divine to stop the fight; Geki and Gari then prepared to transform into their fire-wielding forms.
• Gari and Geki later sat with Nanaha Izumi in her apartment while the injured Jin Takayama ate; the chapter ended as Gari began transforming into Garuda.

Senba Gari learned about the Amazons and struggled to choose between Jin Takayama’s and Haruka Mizusawa’s opposing views, while Eli Ayase agreed to teach μ's how to dance. The chapter left Gari and Takai Geki unexpectedly meeting Haruka and Mamoru at a restaurant, as Eli began putting the idol group through demanding dance practice.

• Divine and Spirit fought Amazon Omega and Mamoru, but Divine stopped Spirit from pursuing them after Omega carried the injured Mamoru away.
• Jin Takayama and Nanaha Izumi met Senba Gari and Takai Geki, and Nanaha explained how Amazons were created and why they craved human flesh.
• Jin asked Gari whether he agreed with Jin’s or Haruka’s view of the Amazons, and Gari said he did not know.
• Gari and Geki went shopping, and Gari admitted he still had no answer to Jin’s question.
• Eli accepted Honoka, Kotori, and Umi’s request to teach them to dance, then began sternly correcting μ's during practice.
• Gari and Geki arrived at a restaurant at the same time as Haruka and Mamoru, and the two groups unexpectedly came face to face.

Eli Ayase pushed Honoka Kosaka and the others through demanding dance and stamina training, then agreed to keep guiding them after Honoka thanked her. Meanwhile, Senba Gari and Takai Geki shared a tense meal with Haruka Mizusawa and Mamoru before investigating a corpse connected to the previous night’s fight.

• Eli Ayase made Rin Hoshizora and the others work on flexibility, balance, and stamina until Hanayo Koizumi fell from exhaustion.
• Eli Ayase told the group to stop wasting time if they could not perform, but Honoka Kosaka thanked her and asked her to continue training them.
• Senba Gari, Takai Geki, Haruka Mizusawa, and Mamoru met awkwardly and went to a restaurant together, where Senba Gari explained that he had spared Haruka because he did not want to keep fighting.
• Takai Geki received a phone call, and Senba Gari recognized that the meal’s steak seemed suspicious before paying with Takai Geki’s bank card and apologizing to Haruka Mizusawa and Mamoru for the previous night.
• Mamoru persuaded Haruka Mizusawa to help Senba Gari and Takai Geki investigate who had framed him.
• Senba Gari and Takai Geki found a corpse reduced to white bones in an alley, and Senba Gari called out to Mr. Jin and the others, who were listening nearby.

Senba Gari used himself as bait to draw out the Amazon responsible for killing people and turning their remains into food. After Divine and the others cornered Crab Amazon, it transformed into a giant crab, leaving them facing a much larger threat.

• Jin Takayama agreed to postpone killing Haruka Mizusawa and Mamoru so the group could pursue the Amazon responsible for the murders.
• Senba Gari waited alone at night, and Crab Amazon disguised as a chef tricked him into carrying a bag containing a murdered girl's head.
• Crab Amazon bragged about eating people and serving leftover human meat as food, enraging Senba Gari, who transformed into Divine and attacked it.
• Crab Amazon drove Divine back with explosive bubbles and its pincers, then fled toward the restaurant where it worked.
• Mamoru, Spirit, Amazon Omega, Amazon Alpha, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament helped Divine ambush Crab Amazon and attack it.
• Crab Amazon covered itself in black mist and grew into a huge, hideous crab, shocking Amazon Omega and Amazon Alpha.

Divine and Amazon Omega defeated the fused Crab Amazon by attacking its mouth and crystal at the same time, while Takumi Inui awoke after ten years. At Otonokizaka, Eli Ayase walked away from Honoka Kosaka’s earnest appeal, troubled by her feelings and her sister’s path.

• Spirit transformed into Black Tortoise armor and helped the others restrain Crab Amazon as Silver Phantom identified its mouth and back crystal as simultaneous weak points.
• Divine told Amazon Omega that he would protect what was in front of him, then destroyed Crab Amazon’s back crystal as Amazon Omega pierced its mouth, causing the creature to explode.
• Takumi Inui awoke in a mansion after ten years and a few months, and Kadoya Tsukasa suspected the power inside a child was beginning to awaken.
• Senba Gari told Nozomi Tojo that Eli Ayase was lost and needed to let out her feelings, while Nozomi revealed a Justice tarot card.
• Honoka Kosaka told Eli Ayase that the group would keep practicing to save the school, but Eli left the rooftop and wondered whether this was what her sister wanted to do.

Eli Ayase confronted her doubts about becoming an idol, accepted Honoka Kosaka’s invitation to join μ's, and learned that Nozomi Tojo had chosen the group’s name. At the campus open day, the nine members performed their first song together, showing how much they had improved through practice.

• Nozomi Tojo asked Eli Ayase what she truly wanted to do, and Eli broke down over her fear that it was too late to become an idol.
• Senba Gari encouraged Eli to look beside her, where Honoka Kosaka and the other μ's members invited her to join them.
• Eli took Honoka’s hand and agreed to practice, while Nozomi revealed that she had named the group μ's after the nine goddesses.
• At the campus open day, Honoka introduced the nine-member group and announced their first song, “Bokura no LIVE Kimi to no LIFE.”
• μ's performed in unison as the chapter recalled their training, daily outings, and moments with Senba Gari.

After μ's debuted with Eli and helped delay the school’s closure, the group celebrated their expanded clubroom and rising ranking while Kotori kept leaving practice early. Senba followed Takai’s summons to a maid café in Akihabara, where he suspected a scheme was waiting.

• μ's performed at the temple steps with Eli, and Eli realized that joining them was what she had wanted most.
• Honoka told Umi and Kotori that the school would postpone closure based on the open-day survey, and she showed them the group’s new, larger clubroom.
• Kotori left practice early again, while Senba received Takai’s summons to Akihabara after Cangqiong sent coordinates to Phantom.
• Honoka checked μ's’s ranking and found the group had reached fiftieth place, while the members discussed how difficult it would be to climb higher.
• Senba rode Silver Phantom to a maid café in Akihabara and told Phantom to wait outside.

Senba Gari met Takai Geki at a maid café, where he discovered Minami Kotori worked as a maid and promised to keep it secret. Meanwhile, Honoka Kosaka and the others explored Akihabara and found merchandise featuring Hanayo Koizumi and μ's.

• Senba Gari confronted Takai Geki for choosing a maid café to meet, then teased him by imitating a maid calling him “Onii-chan” and recording his reaction.
• Senba Gari recognized Minami Kotori in her maid outfit, and she tried unsuccessfully to hide her identity from him.
• Minami Kotori explained that she had started working as Minalinsky after being recruited in Akihabara, and Senba Gari promised not to tell her family.
• Yazawa Nico led Honoka Kosaka and the others around Akihabara in disguises, though the group removed them after finding a shop filled with school-idol goods.
• Rin Hoshizora and Hanayo Koizumi spotted a badge resembling Hanayo, and the group discovered a counter selling μ's merchandise, leaving Umi Sonoda embarrassed.

μ's discovered that Minami Kotori was the maid Minalinsky and learned she had been hiding the job because she felt less capable than Honoka and Umi. After her friends promised to keep her secret, Honoka, Umi, and Eli reflected on how they encouraged one another to keep growing.

• Honoka Kosaka and μ's found a photo of maid Minalinsky at an idol shop and recognized her as Minami Kotori.
• Takai Geki told Senba Gari about people becoming dangerously obsessed with food from a restaurant across from the maid café, then met Honoka and the others.
• Nozomi Tojo showed Senba Gari the photo of Kotori, and Senba knocked Takai unconscious before leaving with him.
• Kotori admitted to Honoka and the others that she was Minalinsky and explained that she had become a maid after feeling she had little to offer μ's.
• Kotori asked her friends to keep her maid job secret from her mother, and they agreed.
• As they walked home, Honoka, Umi, and Eli discussed how friends inspired each other to work hard and grow.

Eli Ayase decided that Akihabara could serve as μ's stage, while Senba Gari and Takai Geki investigated a restaurant whose addictive food drove a patient to suicide. The next day, Minami Kotori struggled to come up with an idea for μ's planned Akihabara street performance.

• Eli Ayase brought Nozomi Tojo back to Akihabara and said the town could be the right stage for them.
• Senba Gari and Takai Geki questioned a patient about the restaurant Taste of Food, whose dishes had made customers dangerously obsessed.
• The patient described how the restaurant's food drove people to ruin, then broke free and killed himself by striking his head against a wall.
• The hospital director noticed Senba Gari leaving the room where the patient had died and asked a nurse who he was.
• Eli Ayase proposed holding a live street performance in Akihabara, and Honoka Kosaka and Minami Kotori enthusiastically agreed.
• Minami Kotori sat alone after training, trying to think of an idea for the performance, but could only write down random thoughts.

Minami Kotori struggled to write lyrics for μ’s planned Akihabara performance, so Honoka Kosaka took her and Umi Sonoda to work at the maid café for inspiration. Kotori regained her confidence in the café, while Senba Gari went into the rival restaurant, Taste of Food.

• Eli Ayase proposed that Minami Kotori write lyrics suited to Akihabara, but Kotori could not find inspiration and became distracted throughout the school day.
• Honoka Kosaka invited Kotori and Umi Sonoda to experience Akihabara together by helping at the maid café, where the rest of μ’s soon joined them.
• Kotori served the group with practiced confidence as a maid and drew Rin Hoshizora’s portrait on her omelet rice.
• Kotori explained that Taste of Food across the street had reopened, leaving the café without customers, and Senba Gari went inside the rival restaurant.
• Kotori told Honoka that wearing her maid outfit and being on Akihabara’s streets gave her courage and made her feel accepted.

Minami Kotori turned her feelings for Akihabara into song lyrics while Senba Gari fought Boar Mlortha at Taste of Food and Spirit confronted Heavenly God Fang. Divine protected Kotori and the others from the battle, while Spirit was left stung by Heavenly God Fang's comparison of his strength with Divine's.

• Honoka Kosaka encouraged Minami Kotori to write her feelings about Akihabara into a song, and Minami Kotori began writing lyrics.
• Senba Gari confronted the chef at Taste of Food, who transformed into Boar Mlortha, and Senba Gari transformed into Divine to fight him.
• Spirit, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament intercepted Heavenly God Fang and the Yin-Yang Guards on the road to Akihabara.
• Minami Kotori and the others left the maid café, then saw Divine fly out of Taste of Food as a rock hurtled toward them.
• Divine shielded the girls and fought Boar Mlortha, while an earthen wall protected them from the battle.
• Heavenly God Fang told Spirit that Divine was stronger, and Spirit recalled past criticism of his lack of improvement.

Divine defeated the transformed wild boar Mlortha in Akihabara, while Spirit drove Heavenly God Fang away after their fight. Days later, Honoka Kosaka and the others prepared for Love Live! by performing and working in maid outfits at a café, ending with Honoka, Minami Kotori, and Umi Sonoda reflecting on their success.

• Spirit pushed Heavenly God Fang back, and Heavenly God Fang withdrew with the Yin-Yang Guards after conceding the fight for the moment.
• Divine protected Honoka Kosaka and the others as the wild boar Mlortha transformed, then defeated it with a powerful attack that caused a crystal to merge with him.
• Honoka Kosaka and the others decided to hold a Love Live! performance in Akihabara and wore maid outfits while working at a café to draw a crowd.
• Eli Ayase, Nozomi Tojo, Yukiho Kosaka, Arisa Ayase, Yazawa Nico, Maki Nishikino, Hideko, Mika, and Fumika visited the café as the group served customers and performed their song.
• Honoka Kosaka, Minami Kotori, and Umi Sonoda finished work and met at the temple, where they credited their success to working together and the song they had created.

Maki Nishikino’s poor test score and an argument with her father left her feeling misunderstood, and she announced that she might quit μ's before running away in tears. Honoka Kosaka and the others went to the Nishikino residence to demand an explanation, while Senba Gari’s true seed continued forming.

• Honoka Kosaka, Minami Kotori, and Umi Sonoda promised to stay together forever as Kotori worried about graduating and parting ways.
• Senba Gari clutched his heart as three colored crystals inside him fused toward forming the true seed.
• Maki Nishikino received a 68 on her English test, then argued with Mari Nishikino after he criticized her grades and accused her friends of influencing her.
• Zuifei Nishikino advised Mari Nishikino to apologize, and he entered Maki Nishikino’s room as a video of μ's’ last performance played.
• Maki Nishikino told μ's that she might quit, then ran away crying and knocked Senba Gari’s cream puffs to the ground.
• Honoka Kosaka and the others went to the Nishikino residence, where Honoka rang the doorbell to ask Maki for an explanation.