I believe the way we structure Love Live copyrights could be organized a bit better. The Love Live franchise currently comprises three main entities (on danbooru at least):

LL School Idol Project, the original series featuring the idol group "μ's" at Otonokizaka High School
LL Sunshine, a follow-on series featuring the idol group "Aqours" at Uranohoshi High School
LL School Idol Festival, a rhythm/collection game with characters from both series, as well as original characters

As it stands, Sunshine implies School Idol Project and Festival implies nothing. With the Sunshine anime airing in July, I expect the number of Sunshine posts will increase a fair amount. In the interest of making searching more robust, future-proofing and cleanliness, I propose we turn Love Live! into an overall tag for the franchise as a whole. As the majority of our current Sunshine posts don't feature any crossover with School Idol Project, I think it makes a lot of sense to give them separate tags under a franchise tag. Festival would continue to be applied as it currently is, with either series tag on posts featuring elements unique to the game, or alone when featuring a game-original character.

The steps would be: unalias Love Live! from SIP; unimply Sunshine from SIP; imply Love Live! with SIP, SIF and Sunshine. Then go through the Sunshine posts and manually remove SIP as appropriate. The movie implication can be left as is.

Before I create the request, does anyone have any thoughts or objections? Thanks!

remove alias love_live! -> love_live!_school_idol_project
remove implication love_live!_sunshine!! -> love_live!_school_idol_project

Link to request

Step 1 (The system won't let me request the implications until the alias is removed.)

I updated the request to include the proposed implications. It can be done as long as the unalias and unimply are ordered first.

So now, the request looks like:

remove alias love_live! -> love_live!_school_idol_project
remove implication love_live!_sunshine!! -> love_live!_school_idol_project
create implication love_live!_school_idol_project -> love_live!
create implication love_live!_sunshine!! -> love_live!
create implication love_live!_school_idol_festival -> love_live!

Link to request

BTW, I agree with the proposed changes. +1

What about tag cleanup for older posts?

BrokenEagle98 said:

I updated the request to include the proposed implications. It can be done as long as the unalias and unimply are ordered first.

Thank you! I thought I'd tried ordering them, but I was probably tired and screwed it up.

Kikimaru said:

What about tag cleanup for older posts?

I'll remove the irrelevant School Idol Project tags from Sunshine once the implication is removed, they'll just get added back while it's still in place.

The bulk update request #774 has been approved.

Kikimaru said:

What about tag cleanup for older posts?

Done. Also edited the wikis a bit and listed the original characters for Idol Festival.

Thank you, everyone!

Blue_Trident said:

I believe the way we structure Love Live copyrights could be organized a bit better.
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Blue_Trident said:

Done. Also edited the wikis a bit and listed the original characters for Idol Festival.

Thank you, everyone!

Fiiiiiinalllyy. Thank you for doing this.