The Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie Over the Rainbow film recently opened in Japan at #4.
Police from Numazu City and Shizuoka Prefecture arrested two shop managers on Wednesday for their involvement in a shop that was allegedly selling fake Love Live! Sunshine!! merchandise in Akihabara, Tokyo.
The suspects allegedly offered hoodies bearing a logo similar to that of Aqours — the name of both the franchise’s in-story idol unit as well as the real-life idol unit composed of the anime’s voice actresses — and thus infringing on the copyrights of the anime studio Sunrise.
Police seized seven allegedly copyright-infringing hoodies on the day of the arrest, and are investigating how they were produced.