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Aniplus on Demand to Air Love Live! TV Anime in Singapore

Southeast Asian channel Aniplus-Asia announced on its Facebook page on Friday that it will begin airing the Love Live! School idol project TV anime in August. The show will only be available on the Aniplus on Demand channel on StarHub TV in Singapore.

Aniplus-Asia describes the anime:

"The story which we make our dreams come true.“

With their high school planning to close within three years, nine female students come together with one thing in mind: form a pop idol group to revive the school's popularity and keep it from shutting down.

Their goal is simple: Become an overnight sensation and use their nationwide media exposure to promote their school and bring in a wave of new students to the ailing area. A simple but solid plan, they figure. Naturally, they're nervous and wonder if this plan can really succeed, but for better or worse their new journey has begun...

In 2010, the anime studio Sunrise, Lantis, and ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G Magazine launched Love Live! as a self-described "ultimate user-participation project" that lets its fans vote on the future of the fictional idols. A series of music CDs and animated music videos then followed. The members of the project announced in 2012 that a full anime series had been green-lit for the following year. The second season of the anime was announced in June 2013.

The final episode of the anime's second season announced a theatrical film for the franchise, which premiered on June 13. The film topped the Japanese box office for tickets sold for its first three weeks in theaters. As of July 21, 38 days since its premiere, the film has earned a total box-office gross of 1.9 billion yen (about US$15.3 million).

The film will premiere in select cities in the United States on September 12. The film will also screen in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, and Indonesia.