The Disney Channel in Japan will begin running the first season of the Love Live! anime on April 20. The series will run every Monday through Thursday at 9:30 p.m. and 24:30 (effectively 12:30 a.m. the next morning). The Disney Channel is also listing Love Live! among its recommended shows for April.

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" which 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 an full anime series had been green-lit for the following year. The second season of the anime was announced in June 2013. A film will open in Japan on June 13.

Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan, and NIS America has licensed both seasons for North American release.

[Via Yaraon!]