Ikizulive! Love Live! Bluebird

Ikizulive! Love Live! Bluebird (イキヅライブ！ LOVELIVE! BLUEBIRD) is a project in the Love Live! multimedia franchise. It is a mixed media project with content primarily on X and YouTube. The project was officially launched in May 2025.^[1]

Plot

Love Academy High School (Love 学院高等学校, Love Gakuin Kōtō Gakkō), also known as L High, is a blended learning school with online classes as well as in-person education.^[1] The school has satellite campuses in Asakusa, Fukui Prefecture, Umeda, and Sendai.^[2]

Hoping to raise funds and attract new students, Polka Takahashi starts a school idol club called Ikizulive! (いきづらい部！, Ikizuraibu!) The name stems from an old club, which Polka felt was fitting as she had failed her entrance exams.

Characters

Ikizulive!

Asakusa

The club members at the Asakusa campus comprise the cover group Chaki!, which is stylized in all caps.^[3]

Polka Takahashi (高橋ポルカ, Takahashi Poruka): Voiced by: Honon Ayasaki; Polka is an energetic first-year student who attends L High's branch in Asakusa. She loves to break out into dance and move her feet. Polka is bad at mathematics. Her parents live in Argentina.
Mai Azabu (麻布麻衣, Azabu Mai): Voiced by: Rina Endō; Mai is a first-year student at the Asakusa campus. She is a web programmer and vice president of the club.
Akira Gotō (五桐玲, Gotō Akira): Voiced by: Seiri Miyano; Akira is a first-year student at Asakusa. An avid rock climber and weight lifter, she is from Numazu while her aunt lives near Otonokizaka Academy, so she is fairly knowledgeable about school idol groups like μ's and Aqours.
Hanabi Komagata (駒形花火, Komagata Hanabi): Voiced by: Kokoro Fujino; Hanabi is a first-year student in Asakusa. She is the daughter of a family who operates a kimono store and eager to prove how they can still be worn in modern times.

Fukui

The two members attending the Fukui satellite are part of a cover unit called "Mi×Nori=Tea", a portmanteau of Miracle and Noriko's name and a play on the word "minority" to represent their unique style compared to the other groups.^[3]

Miracle Kanazawa (金澤奇跡, Kanazawa Mirakuru): Voiced by: Aiha Sakano; Miracle is a second-year student at the Fukui campus and a chef who runs an online bakery. She formerly attended a cooking school but clashed with teachers, prompting her to transfer to L High so she could study by herself. Miracle is good friends with Noriko.
Noriko Chōfu (調布のりこ, Chōfu Noriko): Voiced by: Ria Seko; Noriko is a first-year at the Fukui campus. An anime otaku from the Hokuriku region, she aspires to become a voice actress. Noriko and Miracle are close friends.

Umeda

The Umeda campus members form the cover group Plumina, a portmanteau of "plum" and "lumina" to respectively symbolize the plum blossoms in the city and the Osaka night skyline.^[3]

Yukuri Harumiya (春宮ゆくり, Harumiya Yukuri): Voiced by: Yuki Okumura; Yukuri is a first-year student at the Umeda campus. Skilled at ballet, she is an aspiring theater performer who hopes to join the Takarazuka Revue.
Aurora Konohana (此花輝夜, Konohana Ōrora): Voiced by: Akane Amasawa; Aurora is a beauty YouTuber who frequently travels overseas with her family and lived in Los Angeles before returning to Japan. She is a second-year student in Umeda.
Midori Yamada (山田真緑, Yamada Midori): Voiced by: Honoka Motomori; Midori is an environmentalist and first-year student at the Umeda Campus. She enjoys camping and nature, and works part-time jobs to donate her payments to charity.

Sendai

Shion's cover unit is called "SH1ON" as a reference to being the only member.^[3]

Shion Sasaki (佐々木翔音, Sasaki Shion): Voiced by: Aoi Suzunose; An online streamer and a first-year student at the Sendai campus. Shion was initially doubtful of the club, but is ultimately the final member to join. She is a fan of Umi Sonoda from μ's.

History

The project was announced at the end of the Yokohama leg of the Love Live! Series Asia Tour 2024 on February 2, 2025.^[4]^[5] It officially launched on May 12.^[1]

"What is My Life?", the first single by Ikizulive!, was released on July 30, 2025. Each of the ten club members also received solo songs.^[6] The group's first live show took place between February 14 and 15, 2026 at Makuhari Messe.^[7]