Last updated: 2020-06-12

TL;DR: If you’re here, you’re probably looking for Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. “NijiGaku” or “Niji” are perfectly fine shortened forms.

Perfect Dream Project is the code name for the game “Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS”, used by Love Live! staff in between April and September 2017.

Because the initial reveal of the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club only had “Love Live! Perfect Dream Project” to indicate anything like a group name, this became our way of describing NijiGaku in those few months.

Now (in 2020), they’re no longer denoted by PDP in any official material, except for old content and brief callbacks to the early days.

If “Nijigasaki” is too long for you, the usual shorter terms used in Japanese are “NijiGaku” (short for Nijigasaki Gakuen, “Nijigasaki High School”) or sometimes “Niji-chan”. In the EN fandom, “NijiGaku” or “Niji” are common.

If you’re looking for information about NijiGaku, I suggest the (much more up-to-date) Love Live! Wikia article on them.

Original post (mid-2017)

These 9 idols were divided into three groups, with content for each group appearing in a different site: Dengeki Online, Famitsu App, and Bushiroad’s own website. 

Three of these idols, forming Bushiroad’s group, are N girls from Love Live! School Idol Festival, chosen by a poll: Shizuku Osaka, Emma Verde (previously known only as “Emma”), and Kanata Konoe.

The rest of the idols were brand new. In the Dengeki group are: Kasumi Nakasu, Setsuna Yuki, and Karin Asaka. The Famitsu group is: Rina Tennoji, Ai Miyashita, and Ayumu Uehara.

Here’s a small table with some information on each idol and their seiyuu:

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And a visual guide to the seiyuu (HQ version here):

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The concept here is that each idol is viewed as an individual competitor in a sense. 

Every month, there is a poll (lasting a few days) where you can submit a vote for your favorite idol, and near the end of the month, the results are released with comments from the top three ranking idols. (2020-06: This monthly ranking ended in December 2019.)

When this article was written in mid-2017, the content released was(spread out among the various sites):

  • brief comments, introductory dialogues, lengthy interviews with each individual character (in text form),
  • a 4-koma (4-panel comics) series for each group,
  • an assortment of dialogues for each group, featuring all three members (ranging from discussion of rankings to game playthroughs),
  • a livestream showing off new costumes and the seiyuu for these idols, and
  • video clips where the seiyuu voice the brief comments in the original member profiles.

I’ve translated a good amount of this content, with the help of the wonderful Xin ( @belphegor-xin ) for typesetting the 4-koma.

Here’s a (2020-06: very outdated) spreadsheet that organizes the existing translated content from me (for now): https://goo.gl/CSdBGa

There’s also the (2020-06: much less outdated) Translations page on this blog that I’ve been updating from time to time.