>>4373192>JP title's a portmanteau of "live" and "it hurts to live"No, it intentionally sounds like that but the actual portmanteau is of "club" and "it hurts to live".
And it gives so much "how do you do fellow kids" energy I'm sure that the showa-era boomer Bandai Namco suit who came up with it was really proud when he first thought of it.
Like, the only ideas they can come up with is either "copy muse for the nth time" or "copy the latest trend" it's not even funny anymore.
They did the same thing with the vtuber trend 3 years late to the bandwagon, and now they're doing it with that bang dream mygo thing also 3 years late.
They could've made something to actually differentiate the franchise like I dunno, a canon yuri kiss or something but noooo "that's not profitable, the waifufags would go ballistic" said Suzuki-san the senior marketing executive.
