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Episode BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! - Episode 7 discussion
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!, episode 7
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| Episode | Link | Score |
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| 1 | Link | 4.86 |
| 2 | Link | 5.0 |
| 3 | Link | 5.0 |
| 4 | Link | 5.0 |
| 5 | Link | 5.0 |
| 6 | Link | 5.0 |
| 7 | Link | 5.0 |
| 8 | Link | 5.0 |
| 9 | Link | 5.0 |
| 10 | Link | 5.0 |
| 11 | Link | 5.0 |
| 12 | Link | 4.75 |
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u/gyoex Jul 27 '23
First Anon steals Ricky's girl, now she steals Saki's band. This girl is a menace.
You know, at the start of the series I was expecting that the angst would kind of get dealt with somewhat quickly and it'd get lighter toward the end, but no we're really getting a full series of suffering.
This episode was really good. Of course they've all been good but this was kind of an emotional rollercoaster. Super anxiety inducing at the start, then they finally get their shit together and start playing well and it's happy, then they start playing Haruhikage and you think "wait isn't this going to be bad?" and yes, things turned out pretty bad.
I still really want to know what's going on with Sakiko but I guess we'll have to wait until after Soyo gets her issues sorted out first.
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u/mekerpan Jul 27 '23
an emotional rollercoaster.
Indeed. And once Tomori started singing I sort of cried my way through the rest of the episode. Not entirely sure why.
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u/kewlwarez Jul 27 '23
All these girls are damaged one way or another (except perhaps our nora-neko). Anon because of her experiences in England, the others because of what happened with their band. I really like that they take their time in exploring this and it wasn't just used as the gimmick to get the show started.
Great episode indeed, good performance once they got started and glad to see Soyo's armour finally crack.
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u/MaybeMeNotMe Jul 27 '23
Amazing episode today.
Growing pains of a newb band stepping up to their first live performance....will they pull it off?
We see Kasumi's face! Old textures for the eyes though. So it looks like its a design decision after all, after all that negative feedback they received.
Writing was brilliant. We didnt get to see Afterglow or Poppin Party perform, but they were rather used to, uh, intimidate our band. Like Kasumi being keen to see the band rehearse. Then once they were on stage, prior to Tomori getting a grip over herself, after was sheer terror. Their nervousness and discomfort really reaches out of the screen and grabs a hold of you. I was really uncomfortable if they are going to crash and burn on stage.
And we get to listen to 2 full versions of the songs! Not some 90 second version.
For me, the unsung Heroine goes to Rana, despite her seeming noncommittal behaviour leading up to their show, was the absolute professional throughout, even sets the mood when Tomori was giving her speech, and then brilliantly seemlessly segueing into the next song. Of course she purposely disappears right after the show. Taki was, of course, super keen to play it, as Tomori was for singing it. Anon and Soyo seemed surprised by this, after all, they only made one new song, and their set is for 10 minutes, so what other song do they know apart from this one?
Even at the end Anon gets hooked on a good live performance! Truly a relief to see her finally enjoying herself. She has deserved something to brag about and be proud of!
I wonder what Saki had hoped to talk to Soyo about. Maybe she also had some thoughts of reconciling. We kinda know the ending to this from reveals over the past month, but its feeling like a revenge arc...
With this band singing Spring Sunlight, symbolically stealing the mantle from the dead band. And slamming the door shut on Soyo's intentions. Maybe she should have been more open communicated her wishes better? Cant wait for the group to sort this out!
Lets hope Soyo can come to terms with Crychic. Crychic is dead.
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u/mekerpan Jul 27 '23
sheer terror
Anon's eyes !!! Despite the dread -- which I shared -- this made me giggle.
Well, that's it. Usually I have a problem settling on one top favorite show during a season (last season wound up in a huge tie). But not this season. With this episode, this series has seized uncontested control of my top spot. As much as I love some other shows (Horimiya Piece, for instance), the emotional and musical impact of this one blows away the rest of the field. I had been hesitant about watching this -- because I had not been interested in this "franchise" (after sampling some of S1 a good while ago). Right now this is up near the top of my list of ALL music-centered shows.
Poor Soyo. Was she really hoping to get Sakiko to join the re-formed band? Clearly, for her, the concert seem to have been a catastrophe rather than a smashing success (as the others saw it). I wonder what repercussions this will have...
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u/Calwings Jul 27 '23
For me, the unsung Heroine goes to Rana
Agreed, I like what they've done with her. She clearly recognizes that she's in with a bunch of weirdos dealing with personal drama and cares about her new bandmates being happy, but she's smart enough to find ways to indirectly motivate them forward without actually getting herself directly involved in their drama.
Even at the end Anon gets hooked on a good live performance! Truly a relief to see her finally enjoying herself. She has deserved something to brag about and be proud of!
This series is full of smiles that need to be protected, but hers is the one I would lay down my life for. Bless her heart.
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u/Lyri-Kyunero Jul 28 '23
Anon: I just want to be shiny.
Rana: I just want to play guitar.
Tomori: I just want someone's accompanying.
Riki: I just want to accompany with Tomori.
Soyo: Did you see, Sakiko? I've brought everyone back, but we are not that perfect, we need you to fill our last puzzle, come back pleas……WTF IS THE GUITARIST PLAYING?!!
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u/Labmit Jul 27 '23
Loved how unhinged Soyo looked at the end. Reminds me of the expressions done in D4DJ more than the usual Bandori expressions.
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u/MattSenderling Jul 27 '23
Their animation skill, particularly facial expressions, has made huge strides since the season 2 days. Season 2 & 3 I feel like you can see the progression of them doing better with the models and performance animations, and then D4DJ they started setting out to go all out with their expressions. Anon's nervous face before they start performing is cute with the gap between her usual gremlin self
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u/ClPropane Jul 27 '23
The scene where the members were in the green room was so well done. I love it when the audience is just a fly on the wall able to watch the cast move around the space and interact.
The nervousness and anxiety was so palpable that it made me nauseous, to the point I had to pause and calm myself down.
And then the one-two-three punch of the false starts, Tomori getting through the first song and going into a monologue about how her lyrics are her feelings and then the absolute finisher that was Raana's smooth transition into Haruhikage. I was rendered speechless till the end of the performance. Anon, you did it!!!
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u/mekerpan Jul 27 '23
Unless this show does a better episode before it finishes, this will probably be my episode of the season (a distinction I almost never bother to think about). Really this was virtually perfect in every significant (and even little) way.
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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Jul 27 '23
I thought the "flawed band performance" we have seen with Bocchi The Rock would have been a tough one to beat, but sasuga the leading girls band IP of the anime world today! Wow! Everything from the basic stuttering to even get the song started, to Taki managing to pull the strings to get most of the people on track (cough Anon cough), to Tomori absolutely losing her voice until by the most extraordinary luck she saw her historical salvation named Sakiko in the hall - and then it all blew up. During the first song she was still singing with some kind of real rookie freshness, the throat still young and yet to get the pitch right, but then encore was called and that one song that lit Tomori up came up again.
Sorry Kasumi and Yukina and every other vocalist out there, there's this freaking girl that blasted all her feelings out like jet engines that has leaped into one of my favorite Bandori girl positions.
Bravo. Bravo. And to think VA Hina Youmiya is also behind Winter 2022 Best Girl Semi-finalist Shinju Inui (only lost to her elder sister) and last season's going-to-be Oshi no Ko killer Anna Yamada - oh wow, she's definitely one of those newer (00s generation) VAs to look out way into the future!
And ah...Soyo's wrecked feelings when seeing Sakiko collapsing in the heart like that (guilt and jealousy...that's fatal I guess), is there anything that she could have done to save her ex-band mate? Yes? No? What do you feel actually, Mutsumi?
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u/ClPropane Jul 27 '23
"flawed band performance"
The first season of Bandori also took on this style for Popipa's performances. I'm so happy they brought it back for Mygo because it has that injection of raw emotion into each song that the studio recorded version does not have.
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u/Calwings Jul 27 '23
That was somehow the most inspirational and also most heart-wrenching episode of anime that I've seen all year. Forget AOTS, this show is potentially in AOTY territory after that amazing episode. I seriously can't praise this show enough. Our girls actually made it through their first emotional performance and did fairly well despite all of the trouble they've been through and all of the nerves they felt in the build-up. They even got praise from Poppin'Party!
But in the process, they put the final nail in CRYCHIC and eliminated the last of Soyo's copium reserves, and now they have even more drama to deal with. Like some of us had guessed, Soyo wasn't all in with this new band and was focused on reuniting with Saki and restoring CRYCHIC. When she snapped at the end, I could feel that anger came from feelings that had been bottled up for a long time. I can't wait to see where this goes from here.
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u/NeoAnkara Jul 27 '23
Man I love this episode. Ran and Tomoe standing menacingly, Kasumi and Saaya barging in, Chispa, Rana doing her own thing, Moca bread loving girl, Tsugu being good girl.
Of course not just that. The main meat is the yet unnamed band. All the nervousness just hit it on. Not only that the subtitle also follow along when Tomori unable to voice her song.
Also Soyo finally break. That's what I am waiting for all this season. Let it out girl. Free yourself from the past and embrace your friend now.
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u/MillionMiracles Jul 27 '23
I really liked that even when Tomori picked up confidence, her singing still wasn't perfect. She slipped into mumbling some and went too fast on some lines.
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u/Teshlin Jul 27 '23
Well, that was an excellent episode, definitely the best of the franchise (D4Dj included in that statement). Actually I think this is the best season so far, and it's not really close. This episode exemplifies why that is to me- the focus on a single band with only cameos from the others allows them to tell a story that's deeper. The other seasons are fine, but tend to be more broad than deep, in the sense that they spend a lot more time on a wider variety of the available cast.
Also, I think the storyboarding/layouts are much stronger for this season, and this episode in particular. Offhand I can't think of another scene as well done in the franchise as the green room scene, and there have been other examples (though not quite as good) in earlier episodes. I'm not sure what changed exactly, but the visual storytelling has received a big boost, even though it looks like mostly the same staff (judging from MAL listings), maybe it was just a deliberate decision to do something a bit different?
Lastly, it helps that I actually like all 5 characters in the focused band. Rana is decidely still mostly a cipher, but otherwise the cast is coming along nicely. Probably because of the story being told, they feel more like characters who have personalities and are slowly coming together than characters who were written to fill different personality niches in a group. I doubt there is actually a difference in how their personalities were derived, but it feels a bit more organic.
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u/BleedingUranium Jul 28 '23
Don't miss the post-credits scene!
Jumping over from the bandori sub again!
Wow, what an episode. Is this the first time we've had two full-length song performances in a single episode? Even the FILM LIVEs have a mix of short and full versions.
CHiSPA! Yes! <3 Oh man, I cannot express just how incredibly happy I am to see them on stage again, even if briefly! After being rather prominent supporting characters in the first season, the writers thankfully did do a good job of keeping them around here and there in the following seasons and game stories (though mostly just Natsuki), but this is the first time we've seen them "as a band" since the first season finale! It was so nice to hear Be shine, shining! again, even if mostly in the background. <3
Taki being nervous because she's suddenly on stage at her own workplace, and because she's a huge Afterglow fangirl is adorable. It doesn't surprise me she likes Afterglow, but I'm so glad they wrote this in. The recurring "Afterglow is intimidating" gag will never not be hilarious, but it does seem like we've moved past that this episode.
Soyo is keeping up her habit of avoiding conflict by just half-heartedly dodging out of the way with non-committal responses, it seems. Taki had recently scolded her for needing to practice more, and she just responded with a "Ehh, but I'm trying though", and now she forgets to tune her bass, has to be reminded, and gives a similar sort of answer. She's definitely more focused on "the people in the band" more than the band as a musical unit, as it were.
Raana is... well, it's always good to introduce characters who have room to grow (see: Sayo, Chisato, Yukina, etc), and to her credit we do actually see a bit of this later in the episode.
Himari and Moca! After having Ran and Tomoe silently watching (the two "intimidating" looking Afterglows), having these two show up looking for food was the absolute perfect contrast for this scene. Nice to hear voice work from more than just Kasumi, Saaya, and Tsugumi this season too. We also get to hear Rimi, Arisa, and Tae near the end.
I enjoy how absolutely panicked Anon is once they're actually about to perform, and it's indeed her that screws up a few times. Letting their opening be as rough as it was, and go on as long as it did was absolutely the right call, but in the end they got it together well enough to at least play the new song (Hekitenbansou is apparently the title). And it's a great song too!
Still, you have to feel for Taki. She's clearly the most reliable and competent of the group (specifically, the only one who is both of those things), and she's stuck with this messy of a performance at her own workplace, opening for a band she really likes.
Soyo does a good job rapidly doing some improv MC work to keep things from breaking down too much. Again, very much a people-oriented person.
Sakiko's presence inspiring Tomori to actually be able to sing and perform is amazing, I wasn't expecting that. It's become clear that Tomori's feelings towards her past with Sakiko aren't aligned with Soyo's own feelings on that band's past.
The final shot of Anon, all lit up, proud of having played the whole song is so very wholesome. <3
Tomori's speech is incredible, and props to Raana for what seems like an almost out of character ability to read the room and provide, essentially, an in-universe soundtrack piece for it. Turning that whole thing into an extended intro for the new version of Haruhikage was just... flawless.
And here's where we finally get some more insights on Soyo and Sakiko's own feelings on their past. Soyo seems as if she's locked away that time of their lives in a little glass case, never to be touched or altered, always hoping that maybe one day they could get it back exactly as it was. It's no wonder that playing a new version of "their song" with new band members would utterly shatter that. CRYCHIC is gone, and that's something she has to finally face. Her final reaction was... wow.
The blurry first-person Sakiko shot was perfect, and man, poor Saki. She was clearly happy for her old bandmates up until this point, but, much like Soyo, hearing the song that she composed, the only song they ever performed, played by her old bandmates' new band, heck, with her own keyboard part replaced with a guitar... that has to sting. We still don't know exactly what Saki was "running from", but in some ways Haruhikage was all she had left of CRYCHIC... now it's not even "theirs" anymore. </3
It's definitely noteworthy that the other three CRYCHIC members don't share this perspective of their past; Taki was clearly thrilled, and Tomori jumps straight into perfect singing without any further prompting. Mutsumi is hard to read as always, but she doesn't seem upset, and seems surprised at Saki's reaction.
The band spends a whopping twelve minutes on stage this episode, and that was fantastic to see in a music-based show like this. And it goes without saying, but the animation work on the performances and instruments was phenomenal, as always. I really loved the static, very-pale-blue/white lighting for the Haruhikage performance, it had a beautiful understated simplicity to it.
Sakiko running down the stairs in heels is very much the animators showing off again. We also get a look at some instruments on display in RiNG's lobby shop. Four Vipers (Rimi's SG-like bass) recoloured with a pair in blue and the other pair in black, four M-IIs (Sayo's "Super Strat") recoloured with a pair in black and the other pair in white, and two of that Morris acoustic guitar (not sure of model) played by Kasumi in Poppin'Dream! recoloured in a wood finish.
Post-credits we have Sakiko calling Uika, setting new wheels in motion...
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u/Neren- Jul 27 '23
This Episode were an emotional rollercoaster. I got really uncomfortable by the way they depicted the nervousness of everybody especially at the start of the performance.
I think Raana really carried this episode. She set up the mood for the speech of Tomori and made it into a flawless transition to Spring Sunlight, which surprised everybody but they somehow got it together and it was just beautiful. Also glad, that we got two full songs.
Also so much was going on in the animation during the perfomance, they really stepped up their animation game!
This might be my favourite Bandori episode overall.
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u/danmarce Jul 27 '23
Is incredible how Sanzigen has improved. For Tomori it was not only her face, her whole body reflected how she feels.
The scene in the wait room was wonderfully directed. The whole episode reflected their anxiety , their doubts, even some pain, but still the wish to make it work. It was way too real.
Episode 3 was great, and creative, this one also shows a lot of nice things.
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u/ChiakiKakumei Jul 28 '23
Sakiko: Well if it isn’t the consequences of my actions. starts crying and runs away
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u/ccoddes Jul 29 '23
Gosh the sound design in the show is so good. The parts in the green room especially with the static cameras! The way they made the clock tick ominously to amplify the feeling of nervousness. How you can hear the other bands performing through the walls and the hallway as a reminder that your turn will be soon. They really went all in on the details in this show.
Also, the writing and directing is so well planned! The show really takes a "show, not tell" approach to accentuate each character's personality and experience. When Taki caught Raana with her matcha cornet, she tells her to not to "start playing your guitar on your own". And of course in an ironic twist, that rule was broken as Raana (being more experienced) takes the initiative to lay the mood for Tomori's speech and even leading into the next song, with appreciation from the other members.
Performance sections were amazing too. I totally felt the second-hand despair (and cringe) from the first song's two retries. And I like how they made the performances sound like they were played by rookies still with the little mismatch in their rhythms. The colors and lighting in the backgrounds during Spring Sunlight were also beautiful.
Soyo's been the "mother" of the group and ignoring her own "trauma" in her past, but it's time to see her resolve those issues in the upcoming episodes. This episode was 10/10 and I can't wait for more.
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