Dream with You - Why I love Ayumu Uehara
In the summer of 2019, I held my breath and took the plunge into Love Live. I loved School Idol Project so much that I cried, and I loved Sunshine so much that I cried. They opened my world to something new and I quickly fell in love, but in this story I've told so many times, there was a third as well. Around the corner, just out of view, was a group of solo idols I'd grow to love, and one especially who I could find in myself to call my favourite. This is my story with Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, but more specifically, this is my story with one girl: Ayumu Uehara. Being a Love Live fan in 2019, it was hard to avoid hearing mentions of what was known at the time as Love Live Perfect Dream Project. This strange side project no one really seemed to know much about wasn't something like School Idol Project or Sunshine; PDP wasn't a new anime series, it was a new group of characters often being featured in magazines or promotional material. We got weird sil...