Recaps

The Idol Research Club lost the lottery for a school festival performance slot in the auditorium, leaving μ's scrambling to find another venue. On the eve of the festival, they had not yet settled on a place to perform.

• Eli Ayase explained that the group should focus on preparing for the school festival, and Yazawa Nico volunteered for a task.
• The Idol Research Club drew a white ball and lost its chance to use the auditorium.
• The club members despaired over the loss while Senba Gari reminded them that other venues might be available.
• On the eve of the festival, Eli Ayase said the gym and field were already occupied, and Honoka Kosaka rejected Nico's suggestion to perform in their cramped clubroom.

μ's decided to hold its concert on a stage built on the school rooftop, and Senba Gari agreed to help arrange it. As the group prepared for the performance and LoveLive, Minami Kotori struggled with a decision about an opportunity overseas.

• Honoka Kosaka suggested building a stage on the rooftop, and μ's agreed to hold its concert there and sing loudly to attract an audience.
• After practice, Minami Kotori hesitated to tell Honoka about an overseas opportunity, then asked her mother whether she should go; Kotori Minami told her to decide for herself.
• At the next club meeting, Honoka Kosaka praised Maki Nishikino's new song as a possible opening number, while Eli Ayase worried about having enough time to learn it.
• Honoka Kosaka urged μ's to do everything possible to prepare for LoveLive, and the members supported her goal.
• Senba Gari told Honoka Kosaka to go for it boldly, and Honoka thanked the group.

Honoka Kosaka pushed herself through extra training and urged μ's to practice a new dance move for their school festival concert, while Minami Kotori quietly struggled with something she could not bring herself to tell Honoka. The chapter ended with Umi Sonoda asking Honoka about Kotori over the phone.

• Honoka Kosaka promised Eli Ayase she would meet the stricter demands for the lead singer and later went out at night to practice running shrine stairs.
• Honoka Kosaka promoted Minami Kotori's hand-drawn concert poster, while Yukiho Kosaka studied the National Otonokizaka Academy admissions guide.
• Honoka Kosaka proposed an energetic new dance move, and Minami Kotori agreed to try it despite Umi Sonoda's concern about changing the choreography.
• Senba Gari complained as Teacher Yamazaki made him carry school festival props backstage.
• Honoka Kosaka pushed μ's through repeated practice of the new steps, and Minami Kotori backed her when Umi Sonoda urged her to rest.
• Umi Sonoda called Honoka Kosaka that night to ask whether Minami Kotori seemed different, and Honoka said Kotori seemed normal.

Honoka Kosaka pushed herself through illness to prepare for μ's culture festival performance, while Minami Kotori privately struggled with news she planned to reveal afterward. Despite the heavy rain and Honoka losing her voice, μ's prepared to perform on the rooftop as the audience gathered.

• Umi Sonoda told Honoka Kosaka that Kotori seemed troubled, while Honoka dismissed it as excitement about the approaching concert and went out to practice in the rain.
• Minami Kotori called Umi Sonoda and later explained that she would tell everyone, including Honoka, about her decision after the performance.
• Honoka woke with worsening symptoms, collapsed, and discovered she had lost her voice before arriving at the culture festival clubroom feeling weak and hoarse.
• As heavy rain threatened the rooftop Live, Honoka urged μ's not to give up, and the other members rallied around her resolve to perform.
• Yukiho Kosaka and Alisa Ayase arrived for the rooftop performance, and Alisa held an umbrella over the rain-soaked Senba Gari as he arrived.

Senba Gari rushed Honoka Kosaka to the hospital after she collapsed with a high fever during μ's rainy performance. Several days later, he visited her family and learned her fever had passed, while Honoka's parents discussed her habit of pushing herself too hard.

• Alisa Ayase and Yukiho Kosaka spoke with Senba Gari as μ's began performing in the rain.
• Honoka Kosaka collapsed after the performance, and Senba Gari carried her offstage and rushed her to the hospital.
• Honoka Kosaka insisted that μ's continue with the next song before losing consciousness in Senba Gari's arms.
• Senba Gari visited the Kousaka family with μ's and apologized to Honoka Kosaka's parents for what happened.
• Kousaka Yukiho said Honoka's fever had gone down and explained that Honoka often took too much on herself.

Senba Gari visited Honoka Kosaka’s family while μ's gathered to see Honoka recovering from her cold and sprained ankle. Honoka learned that μ's had withdrawn from Love Live! and disappeared from the rankings, while Minami Kotori prepared to leave in two weeks and Senba Gari learned she had not yet arranged a place to stay.

• Senba Gari gave Honoka Kosaka’s parents homemade snacks as an apology and chose not to visit Honoka.
• Umi Sonoda, Minami Kotori, and the other members of μ's visited Honoka, who thanked Maki Nishikino for a disc of piano music and suggested holding another concert.
• Eli Ayase told Honoka that μ's had decided not to apply for Love Live! after the chairwoman warned them about pushing themselves too hard, and Honoka learned that μ's had vanished from the rankings.
• Yukiho found Honoka crying over the rankings on her laptop after the others had left.
• Minami Kotori prepared to leave after accepting an invitation, and Senba Gari learned she planned to depart in two weeks and expected to stay in a school dormitory.

Senba Gari reminded Minami Kotori to choose whether to study abroad without regret, drawing on his own childhood departure. After Love Live! ended with A-Rise in first place and μ's out of the spotlight, Honoka Kosaka began recovering from her disappointment and prepared to return to practice.

• Senba Gari recalled leaving Minami Kotori as a child and urged her to think carefully about whether to go abroad or stay.
• Senba Gari told Kotori Minami that Minami Kotori had to make her own choice, and Kotori Minami admitted she would not blame her either way.
• A-Rise won Love Live!, while μ's faded from attention after not participating.
• Honoka Kosaka regretted that μ's had withdrawn from Love Live!, and Minami Kotori struggled to tell her something.
• Nozomi Tojo startled Honoka Kosaka, and Eli Ayase and Yazawa Nico encouraged her to stop dwelling on the loss and return to practice.
• Honoka Kosaka regained some resolve to continue working toward saving Otonokizaka, and Mika called to her from the top of the stairs.

Honoka Kosaka and the others learned that Otonokizaka Academy would continue operating after more middle schoolers expressed interest in enrolling. Minami Kotori remained troubled about a decision to leave, and Umi Sonoda met her in the park to urge her to stop delaying.

• Nozomi Tojo noticed that Honoka Kosaka seemed better, while Minami Kotori continued to hesitate over a secret she had not confessed.
• Eli Ayase told the others that the chairwoman would allow their activities to continue, and Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda discussed their next concert.
• Maki Nishikino, Hanayo Koizumi, Rin Hoshizora, and Senba Gari brought news that enrollment interest had risen, meaning Otonokizaka Academy would stay open for now.
• Honoka Kosaka and the others celebrated the school's future with Minami Kotori and Alisa Ayase, while Kotori quietly left to buy something.
• Senba Gari asked Umi Sonoda to speak with Minami Kotori, explaining that Kotori could not decide because she could not bear to leave Umi.
• Umi Sonoda met Minami Kotori in a park near the school and told her that delaying her decision would only make it harder.

At a celebration for the school staying open, Umi revealed that Kotori would leave Japan in two weeks to study fashion design, and Honoka was devastated that Kotori had not told her. Kotori fled after their argument, leaving Honoka alone with regret as Kotori prepared to leave.

• μ's celebrated the school staying open while Kotori and Umi sat apart from the others.
• Umi announced that Kotori would study abroad in two weeks and likely remain away until she graduated.
• Honoka confronted Kotori about keeping the decision from her, and Kotori explained that she had waited for the concert to end before talking to Honoka.
• Kotori broke down, pushed Honoka away, and ran from the clubroom despite Gari trying to stop her.
• Umi explained that Kotori had hesitated to leave and had wanted to discuss it with Honoka, while Kotori packed her first-performance dress and read a message.
• Honoka sat alone in her dark room and drafted an email admitting that she had been too caught up in herself to notice how everyone felt.

Honoka Kosaka blamed herself for μ's failure to reach Love Live! and rejected the others' plan for a farewell concert before Minami Kotori left to study abroad. After Honoka quit being a school idol, Umi Sonoda slapped her, and Senba Gari warned the others that μ's might as well disband; a day or two later, Mika invited Honoka to spend time with her friends, easing her expression slightly.

• Honoka Kosaka watched A-RISE perform and, the next day, learned from Eli Ayase that μ's planned a concert before Minami Kotori left to study abroad.
• Honoka Kosaka said the concert was meaningless, insisted μ's could never catch up to A-RISE, and announced that she was quitting as a school idol.
• Umi Sonoda slapped Honoka Kosaka and called her the worst before Honoka ran off in tears.
• Senba Gari caught Umi Sonoda, rebuked the group for falling apart, and warned that μ's might as well disband.
• A day or two later, Umi Sonoda and Honoka Kosaka left class without speaking, and Mika invited Honoka to go home with her and the others.
• Mika reminded Honoka Kosaka that μ's had already fulfilled its goal of protecting the school, and Honoka's expression relaxed slightly.

μ's struggled with whether to continue after Honoka Kosaka quit and Minami Kotori prepared to leave Japan. While Honoka spent the day shopping and playing games with her friends, a song triggered memories that began to bring her back to μ's.

• Umi Sonoda focused on archery, while Nozomi Tojo and Eli Ayase discussed whether μ's could continue without all its members; Senba Gari regretted how harshly he had treated them.
• Eli Ayase called the available members together and proposed suspending activities and repositioning μ's, while Maki Nishikino said the group was not the same without Honoka Kosaka.
• Yazawa Nico asked Rin Hoshizora and Hanayo Koizumi to continue being idols with her, while Maki Nishikino returned to the piano and remembered Honoka.
• Umi Sonoda visited Minami Kotori, admitted she had refused Nico's invitation to continue, and learned that Kotori was still planning to study abroad.
• While playing a dance game with her friends, Honoka Kosaka heard the music and began recalling a past performance, then joined in with practiced dance steps.

Honoka Kosaka reflected on μ's past and questioned what kind of activity could make people smile without making anyone sad. After Nico, Rin, and Hanayo invited her to their next concert and Eli apologized and encouraged her, Honoka put on her old practice outfit, but still felt that something was missing.

• Honoka Kosaka earned an AAA dance score, watched A-RISE perform at UTX, and wondered whether she could find a fun pursuit that would make more people smile.
• Honoka met Rin Hoshizora, Hanayo Koizumi, and Yazawa Nico training at the shrine, where Nico explained that she continued as a school idol because she loved idols.
• Hanayo, Rin, and Nico invited Honoka to attend their next concert, and Honoka accepted their invitation in spirit before leaving.
• Eli Ayase visited Honoka and apologized for suspending μ's activities, then confessed her insecurities and thanked Honoka for giving her courage to move forward.
• Honoka checked the Love Live! rankings, took out her old practice outfit, and put it on, but felt that something was missing.

Honoka Kosaka realized she still wanted to sing and, encouraged by Umi Sonoda, raced to the airport to stop Minami Kotori from leaving. She reached Kotori just as she was about to go, but the chapter ended before Kotori answered her.

• Minami Kotori left for the airport while Honoka Kosaka prepared to speak with Umi Sonoda at school.
• Honoka Kosaka told Umi Sonoda she loved singing and wanted to continue being a school idol, and Umi encouraged her to lead them forward again.
• Umi Sonoda told Honoka Kosaka that Minami Kotori wanted her to come and ask her to stay, so Honoka ran from the auditorium.
• Senba Gari took Honoka Kosaka toward the airport on Silver Phantom and launched the motorcycle over a broken bridge.
• Honoka Kosaka reached Minami Kotori in the airport waiting hall and grabbed her arm.

Honoka Kosaka reunited with Minami Kotori at the airport, and they returned in time to join μ's for their concert. The nine girls performed before a cheering audience, while Senba Gari watched proudly from backstage.

• Honoka Kosaka apologized to Minami Kotori and embraced her, persuading her to return to the school idol group.
• Senba Gari and Kotori Minami watched the girls reconcile before Honoka and Minami Kotori hurried back to the auditorium.
• Honoka Kosaka and Minami Kotori arrived backstage just before μ's was due to perform, and Senba Gari encouraged the nine girls to take the stage together.
• μ's performed START:DASH!! before a packed, cheering audience, with A-Rise watching their performance.
• Kousaka Yukiho and Kyosuke Kousaka watched Honoka perform, while Senba Gari wiped away tears backstage.

After μ's celebrated Kotori’s return, Nozomi’s tarot reading gave Gari the Death card just as Takai called him to fight a powerful Mlortha attack. Gari arrived at a burning city, where Cerberus attacked and blasted Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament backward.

• Honoka led μ's in celebrating their successful performance, and the girls later gathered with Gari to celebrate Kotori’s return.
• Nozomi read Gari’s tarot card as Death, and Takai called to report that a powerful Mlortha had appeared.
• Gari left the restaurant to join Takai, while Nozomi worried over the Death card she had drawn for him.
• Cerberus devastated the city with flames, and Gari and Takai arrived amid the burning ruins.
• Cerberus attacked Gari and Takai, and Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament transformed to shield them but were blasted backward.

Cerberus overwhelmed Senba Gari, Takai Geki, and their spirit partners, but Divine risked a final attack to protect a little girl before Heavenly God Fang intervened and drove Cerberus away. Minami Kotori then learned that Senba Gari had been taken to the hospital for emergency treatment.

• Takai Geki and Senba Gari transformed and attacked Cerberus, but Cerberus caught their strikes and blasted them and their spirit partners through a building wall.
• Cerberus defeated Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament, broke Divine’s Flame Feather Blade, and pinned the badly injured Divine to a wall.
• When Cerberus threatened a crying little girl, Divine pulled the blade from his abdomen and used Skyfire Fall against Cerberus before collapsing as his armor shattered.
• Heavenly God Fang negotiated with Cerberus, which departed after warning that it would return, and he ordered a Yin-Yang Guard attendant to call an ambulance.
• Minami Kotori answered a call from her mother and learned that Senba Gari was in the hospital receiving emergency treatment.

Senba Gari hovered near death after fighting Cerberus, while his friends and family waited anxiously outside the operating room. In the Rift Between Reality and Illusion, the five beast souls revealed that they had sealed the Beast Soul Bracelet because Gari could not control its power, and Garuda invited him to try using it.

• Minami Kotori rushed to Nishikino General Hospital, where Senba Gari and Takai Geki had been taken after Cerberus's attack.
• Honoka Kosaka and the others learned that Gari was in surgery, and Takai Geki blamed himself for Gari's injuries.
• Zuifei Nishikino described Gari's severe wounds, and a nurse warned that he was near death and the hospital had run out of blood.
• Honoka Kosaka, Minami Kotori, and Nozomi Tojo offered to donate type O blood, but a black-haired man arrived and offered his own blood; four people recognized him as Hunter Uncle.
• In the Rift Between Reality and Illusion, Garuda, Fenrir, Unicorn, Diamond, and Flood Dragon scolded Senba Gari for risking his life to save a child.
• Garuda explained that the beast souls had sealed the Beast Soul Bracelet because Gari could not control it, then invited him to try using it.

Senba Gari recovered consciousness after three days in the hospital and learned that Senba Ryo had visited before leaving again. That night, Hagoromo Gitsune appeared at his bedside to deliver something at another person's request.

• Senba Gari insisted on using the Beast Soul Bracelet despite the beast souls' warning that its full power could overwhelm his body, and Garuda allowed him to try.
• Senba Ryo visited the unconscious Senba Gari, left Kotori Minami in charge of his son, and returned with Hagoromo Gitsune after taking one last look at him.
• Three days after Cerberus attacked, Senba Gari woke in the hospital as Honoka Kosaka and the other μ's members visited him.
• Kotori Minami told Senba Gari that Senba Ryo had visited three days earlier and asked her to take care of him, while Senba Gari chose not to explain his injuries.
• Hagoromo Gitsune visited Senba Gari that night and said she had come to deliver something at another person's request.

Hagoromo Gitsune left Senba Gari a healing pill and his mother’s necklace before warning him that Cerberus would attack the human world. Despite promising Minami Kotori he would stay behind, Senba Gari took the pill, transformed into Divine, and joined the battle against Cerberus.

• Hagoromo Gitsune paralyzed Senba Gari, returned his mother’s necklace, and left him a pill that could heal him at the cost of unbearable pain.
• Minami Kotori begged Senba Gari not to fight, but he knocked her unconscious and swallowed the pill.
• Senba Gari transformed into Divine and flew from the hospital toward Cerberus’s attack.
• Tsuchimikado Kan refused to send his family to stop Cerberus, while Takai Geki transformed into Spirit and fought alongside Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament.
• Cerberus defeated Spirit, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament, then caught Divine’s flying kick and grabbed him.
• Divine struck Cerberus in the waist to escape its grip, and Spirit reacted in shock at Senba Gari’s arrival.

Senba Gari unlocked the Beast Soul Bracelet’s full power, transformed into a fiery Garuda-like form, and defeated Cerberus. After waking from another short collapse, he faced an angry scolding from Minami Kotori and the other members of μ's.

• Divine activated the Beast Soul Bracelet despite the immense strain, and an unfamiliar voice urged him to release the power within him.
• Divine transformed into a blazing, eagle-like beast form and overwhelmed Cerberus, destroying two of its heads and carrying it into a flaming attack.
• Hodenig saw a crystal on the eight-headed serpent totem glow and said Cerberus’s defeat would help the Creators awaken.
• Senba Gari returned to his human form and collapsed, then woke after a day and a night unconscious.
• Minami Kotori and the other members of μ's confronted Senba Gari for leaving to fight while injured after knocking Minami Kotori unconscious, while Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda commented on Kotori’s anger.

After Senba Gari’s reckless actions worried the girls and Takai Geki struggled to keep up with him, new enemies formed an alliance around an experiment and Shub-Niggurath. The chapter ended as Divine and Spirit confronted the heavily armored Snapping Turtle Mlortha, who began a counterattack.

• Minami Kotori and the other girls scolded Senba Gari for knocking her out and fighting while injured, and he apologized.
• Takai Geki recalled Senba Gari’s warning that the Beast Soul Bracelet’s power was forbidden and carried a price, then resumed running to keep pace with him.
• Four armored men, including Kazuraba and Shouichi, escaped through a mercury-colored ripple after their target got away.
• A white-shirted stranger offered Hodenig and Doctor Shinigami a partnership involving an experiment, an unfinished belt, and Shub-Niggurath, and they accepted.
• Snapping Turtle Mlortha rampaged through the city, but Divine rescued a man from a thrown car while Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament’s attacks barely damaged the monster.
• Divine and Spirit struck Snapping Turtle Mlortha without moving him, and he spun around with his tail swinging.

Divine, Spirit, and Heavenly God Fang fought Mlortha until Naraku arrived and released a red smoke cloud over Divine, Maki Nishikino, and Heavenly God Fang. The next morning, Senba Gari had turned into a six- or seven-year-old child, and Nozomi Tojo mistook him for an adorable boy.

• Divine prepared to use the Beast Soul Bracelet against Mlortha, but Heavenly God Fang trapped the monster in a pentagram formation.
• Mlortha broke free, wounded Heavenly God Fang, and battered Divine into a piano shop where he found Maki Nishikino hiding.
• Naraku appeared, threw a smoke-producing ball into the shop, and left with Mlortha as the red cloud enveloped Divine, Maki Nishikino, and Heavenly God Fang.
• Senba Gari woke up in a child’s body, and Silver Phantom confirmed that he was still Gari.
• Honoka Kosaka and the other girls arrived at Gari’s house, where Nozomi Tojo picked up the transformed Gari, thinking he was a little boy.

Senba Gari and Maki Nishikino discovered that a red smoke bomb had turned them into children, and learned there was no known way to reverse it. Gari offered to let Maki stay at his house and led the girls to a beautiful room to find her something to wear.

• The girls recognized child-sized Senba Gari, then found that Maki Nishikino had also become a little girl; Takai Geki stared at Maki until Senba Gari had Silver Phantom knock him unconscious.
• Senba Gari and Maki Nishikino traced their transformations to the red smoke from the previous day, while Tsuchimikado Kan learned the same smoke had transformed him and that no solution was known.
• Eli Ayase warned that Gari and Maki would need to keep their changed appearances secret, and Gari invited Maki to stay at his house until they returned to normal.
• Maki Nishikino admitted she had no other clothes that fit her, so Senba Gari led the girls upstairs and opened the door to a beautiful room.

The girls discovered a room of old clothes and accessories, then dressed Senba Gari as a catgirl while Takai Geki repeatedly tried to convince himself he was seeing things. The chapter ended with Gari giving in to the girls’ requests and meowing for them.

• Senba Gari showed the girls a room full of his mother’s old clothes, and they began picking out outfits and accessories.
• Rin Hoshizora tried on a white wig, while Nozomi Tojo caught Senba Gari trying to leave and dressed him in a wig and a princess outfit.
• Takai Geki opened the door, saw the girls surrounding the dressed-up Gari, and shut it again in disbelief before looking a second time.
• Senba Gari remembered how his mother, Otonashi Yukine, had dressed him in girls’ clothes when he was young.
• The girls pleaded with Senba Gari to meow, and he finally made a shy catlike sound that delighted them.

Takai Geki met Kira Tsubasa by the lake and began telling her how he first met Senba Gari. Eight years earlier, Geki and Gari clashed after the Takai Family rescued Gari’s archaeological team, and Geki defied his father, Takai Mamoru.

• Takai Geki met Kira Tsubasa by the lake, and she encouraged him to explain his worries about Senba Gari.
• Takai Geki asked Kira Tsubasa about rivals and began recounting how he and Senba Gari became friends.
• Senba Ryo’s archaeological team fled a giant earth spider after he plucked a hair from its leg, and the spider trapped Mamoru with its web.
• Takai Family guards rescued the team, while young Senba Gari and Takai Geki immediately provoked each other.
• Kun brought Senba Ryo’s group to the Takai Family mansion, where Takai Mamoru punished Geki for his defiance and ordered a guard to keep him inside.