Mari gets word that the school open house has been postponed by a week due to road repairs, putting the event on the same day as the Love Live qualifiers. With their only way of attending both events seemingly foiled after a failed attempt at being chosen first to perform at Love Live, the girls are left with the tough decision of either choosing one event over the other or splitting their group between them. Thanks to a moment of inspiration from Chika, however, all the girls manage to perform at the qualifiers before using a monorail used for delivering mandarins to reach the open house on time.
This episode contains the following tropes:
- Epileptic Trees: One of the interior of the Kano Dome reveals that one scene of the Kano Dome's restroom halls had the men's restroom sign being removed, which strongly hinted/confirmed that the male gender is a truly non-existent concept in the Love Live! universe after all.
- Insert Song: A rare case of an episode having more than one insert song in the franchise.
- "MY Mai TONIGHT", the song for the Love Live Preliminaries
- Like µ's in SIP, Aqours used their debut single "Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai?" in the open house event.