I just marathoned Love Live! School Idol Project these past few weeks.
It's quite jarring to see why NicoMaki was popular in S1.
Then S2 piled all the subtext. Or should this be text? We still don't know the reason for this scene.
There's always a scene where they're just standing in close proximity to each other, or bickering, or having a warm moment. If you'd watch S2 without watching S1, you'd think these were childhood friends or something.