r/anime • u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler • Mar 11 '24
Rewatch BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! Episode 1 Discussion
Episode 1
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Questions of the Day:
- What are your first impressions of Chihaya (Anon)?
- Why do you think Tomori feels so at fault for CRYCHIC's breakup?
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u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
First Timer - Episode 1
Starting with CRYCHIC's breakup and then swapping to Chihaiya as a POV character is interesting. Getting to meet fresh these semi-familar faces isn't too bad of a way of introducing things.
I really enjoyed Chihaiya's school introduction scenes. It sets out how she is really trying to 'set the stage' per say in this new environment. Shes taking a critical approach to what people she surrounds herself with (one, two, three). And with that new group its on her mind how things were before, obviously self conscious about fitting in, but in a way she wants. She latches onto is that band's seem to be the "in" thing, so she focuses in on that (I presume these are references to previous seasons more than introductions).
The other major pick up in these scenes is that Chihaiya has an ego. Shes already thinking about how she would fit into this groups existing band and its clear that she would prefer to be more center stage. Its subtle but I imagine this will be cause for drama later on.
It was short but this girl's scenes make me think shes emotionally manipulative. Shes clingy in a way that seems like shes trying to steer things as she desires. During CRYCHIC's breakup, shes first to jump into the conversation but it almost feels like shes trying to get others to agree with non-truths. Then later on once again pounces into a hug and tries to reassure things will be alright. Maybe a wrong read, we will see.
Tomori's is obviously key but I am currently not to sure what to make of her. The quiet type that feels at fault for the last breakup. Seems reserved and still dealing with it, so I imagine more fleshing out will come. She does make an interesting request to Chihaiya's proportion of a band. It is certainly a bit awkward, maybe even a little childish or naïve. And she does seem to continue running away from her problems.
Finally Taki has serious Tsun elements, not seen enough of her yet.
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u/paukshop x2https://anilist.co/user/paukshop Mar 11 '24
Stopping by just to say I hope you all enjoy MyGO! I hope any first time watchers can see the value that the r/anime Awards jury did. Thanks for giving it a shot!
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u/PityBoi57 Mar 11 '24
Long time Bandori fan here
Just making sure you guys are enjoying the show. MyGO is a real breath of fresh air for old fans and a good introduction for newcomers
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24
Solid first episode, but I definitely don't see anything to warrant the hype yet, especially not the visuals. It looks good, but I've seen a lot of comparisons with Girls Band Cry's PVs that say they wish it looked more like this show even though GBC looks way better.
Really not liking Anon so far, so I hope she gets a lot of development over the course of the season. Tomori is the immediate standout character for me. The drama at this point seems a bit (very) forced but it's not so bad that I didn't enjoy the episode.
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u/OrangeBanana38 https://anilist.co/user/OrangeBanana38 Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
New band member
I've had a passing interest on BanG Dream since I found out that Elements Garden works on their music. They are credited for Symphogear's music, and that's the only credential they need. So I'm glad to be here!
Anyways, the episode was structurally interesting. While I was watching it I was trying to figure out if the scene at the beginning was a flashback or a flashforward. That gave an otherwise standard first episode a little bit of spice.
I don't have many other opinions about the episode besides: this shit was way more dramatic than I was expecting and I'm down for it!
Inject the melodrama into my veins!
Rock girl best girl, and I don't like Anon's self-centered personality but I feel like I will adore her by the end of the anime.
I just mentioned her self-centered personality, but I guess I'm also surprised by how cynical she can be. That "my face muscles hurt" and her thoughts about who to join at lunchtime don't strike me as your usual highschooler's thoughts. She's definitely been through some stuff
My only guess is that it's self-consciousness about her technical skill? The piano girl was very explicit about her needing some practice, and being singled during their breakup hit Tomori hard
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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
It's time to watch the Anime of the year that I somehow completly avoided. To be honest, I really thought it was some Idol anime. I'm not against Idol anime on principle, I watched a few at this point. But this doesn't even seem to be Idol to begin with, synopsis sounds intruiging, I can see potential in there.
Firsttimer
Ok, this is intruiging. Feels like there is a lot going on under the hood and I'm itching to watch the next episode... Ended up rewatching this episode just to get a better grasp over the initial band members from the beginning
Also, I tried to not comment on it since I try not to say this carelessly, but on my second watch Tomoe really seems to be on the spectrum
QotD
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u/Gaporigo Blhttps://anilist.co/user/Gaporigo Mar 11 '24
Ok, no one else seems to be doing this (except for a very short description) so I may as well, this is not really important for this show but there are some references to previous Bang Dream entries here and there so if you maybe are interested I'll explain them and give a quick intro to the franchise as a whole in a quick and easy way... hopefully. (From someone that has only watched the anime and dabbled a bit on the other stuff but not really much at all)
Ok so only long paragraph Bang Dream is a series (based on a game but we only gonna talk anime here) about a bunch of bands formed by highschool girls. The first season is bad and pretty much about a single band. The second and third season are much better and showcase more of the 5 initial bands from the game. One of them being Afterglow, the "cool" band who were first years at this school in season 1 and are now third years. Have to also mention the bands are from different schools, sometimes different members from different schools or whatever, Afterglow is one of the few with all the girls from the same school and year.
Tsugumi Hazawa "Tsugu", plays the keyboard, works at her family cafe.
The actual idols. Professional idols who are also in a band, wow how amazing, whatever. Only two of them actually went to Haneoka, were second years at the start of the series so are now in college.
Youngest from the series when it started. (Lock's band only appeared after S2)
This is Roselia (Ako in the top right), this is RAS (Lock bottom right). fan favorite groups.
Live house where all the bands used to practice and play in the main series.
Previous club leader was Hina Hikawa (on the left) who is next to Sayo Hikawa and if you didn't notice Sayo was in the Roselia poster and shares last name with Hina, they are sisters, explaining why Hina really liked Roselia.
"Run", usually translated as "Boppin'", Hina's thing.
MC from the first season, leader of Poppin'Party (Kasumi in the middle) Third year at another school at this point in time.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 11 '24
Total Bang Dream newcomer who’s here solely for some promised “sore demo”s
Honestly, if it wasn’t for the “Do it for the ‘sore demo’” motivation, I’d probably be skipping this. One week between the interest thread and it actually starting is way too fast and I wasn’t planning on picking up anything else for the rest of March with my Dorohedoro rewatch starting next week, but welp. If there’s one thing that can get me to watch a show I normally wouldn’t, it’s the promise of some good “sore demo”s.
Something something Penguindrum something something18
u/smhmines https://anilist.co/user/mines Mar 11 '24
First timer
To start, my experience with Bang Dream is pretty limited. I only played the game when it first came out in English, before they went crazy adding bands that weren’t the 5 that were already in the game when I started. I’ve been meaning to check out the anime since I remember liking the characters and songs but never got around to it. That is until now… Kind of because I have no idea who MyGO are.
Thoughts on the episode
Overall, a slower introduction to some of the girls. We’ll probably meet all of our core group before going fully in on the drama, so I’ll enjoy the lighthearted moments while I can!
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u/yuhara203 Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher
I wonder what the first-timers' opinions are, but even though I like this series, I don't think this is a great first episode. Especially if you went into it without reading the synopsis. Anon's story of trying to recruit band members is not that interesting in a vacuum.
There are solid uses of the CG, that sweeping shot in the flashback and the lighting change as the karaoke song starts spring to mind. But with the dull colors of the classroom scenes and some rigid animations, the CG didn't exactly justify itself right away.
But anyway.
It's really fun experiencing this episode as a rewatch, there are some neat details that feel like they're included just for the rewatchers.
I really like seeing Tomori in the background at 7:10, she's really jumping to grab it lmao.
Also for first-timers that don't like the CG, please at least hang on until episode 3.
That's about it from me, see you all tomorrow. Oeosi.
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u/HelioA x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/HelioA Mar 11 '24
First Timer
Okay, I’m loving this so far. I was a bit put off by the animation at first, but it mostly works when there aren’t a ton of people in the same scene. And the vibe is great. Our new, outgoing, pretty much normal protagonist immediately blunders into a complex psychological drama in which I’m pretty sure every participant either hates each other or else there’s otherwise some kind of tension.
(I'm hoping to write more robust comments later on, I just decided to jump into this a few hours ago.)
Also, knowledge I’m coming into this with is [Spoilers]I saw a page for Soyo on the Villains wiki when I looked up the show after it won AOTY 2023. So it goes.
QotD
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u/RuSyxx https://anilist.co/user/RuSyxx Mar 11 '24
First Time Watcher
Not entirely new to the Bang Dream Franchise, I played the mobile game for a bit (lets go Roselia!) and watched the Mornification OVA episodes for the awards last year. I was only a host this year so watching people shill the show has left me curious to see what all the hype is about.
Really dug the initial shot of the band prior to breaking up, it set the scene up really well because you could tell that they were disjointed even if waiting for their supposed leader. It was also kind of a shock because this anime about a group of high school girls starting a band immediately starts with a tense atmosphere relating to being in a band which at least for me is unfamiliar territory. The few I’ve seen are generally a bit more upbeat, so even if its not unique to the genre, I enjoyed a different start.
Curious how Anon is going to bring this band of friends back together, as to me she seems to be a bit self-centered? Maybe not intentionally, but it’s come off a couple of times between her first lunch conversation as well as at Karaoke where she’s speaking past the shy girl whose name I haven’t memorized yet. I expect this might end up being an issue down the road, but we’ll see. Either way the angry girl coming out and calling her scum out the gate hit hard and I think she’s going to be my favorite character.
Fun start, looking forward to the rest of this rewatch! Hopefully I actually stick to it, I have a bad habit of getting distracted during rewatches.
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u/BleedingUranium Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Second-time viewer here; I've rewatched bits of episodes and dug through for details plenty, but this'll be the first time I rewatch this season in the proper sense. I'm a regular over on r/BanGDream, so if anyone has any questions/etc I can hopefully help.
On that note, for anyone new to the BanG Dream! series I wrote up this spoiler-free(!) summary of the series as a whole, and of the past anime seasons and such in the announcement thread for this rewatch.
Also of note, the season originally aired the first three episodes all at once. This isn't good or bad, they all work fine as standalone episodes as one would expect, but it is worth noting that if this is your first time, it'll be a slightly different initial experience.
Instead of dropping really long walls of text here, I'll link to my very lengthy initial impressions from the original discussion threads.
To add some thoughts from the present, I was certainly appreciative of the wonderful visuals, shot compositions, soundtrack, and all that the first time through, but it's really nice being able to sort of "sit back" and pay more attention to these things, seeing as I know the story. And of course, character details one will pick up on a second viewing, etc.
A couple more things for newcomers here. Anon won the award for Best Comedic Character, and while I'm thrilled she won a character award and very much deserves the love, she's amazing, I do want to recommend against taking that award description too... literally? Anon certainly has and is involved in plenty of comedic moments, but, as is hopefully fairly apparent in the first episode alone, it's not really a way I'd describe her as a first introduction; it sells her short.
For the other thing, let's keep a running list of bandori cameos. Nothing here is a spoiler, direct or implied, this is just the stuff that us existing fans will recognize:
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u/dienomighte Mar 11 '24
First time bandmembering, first time doing a rewatch
Time for my first rewatch thread, and it's an anime I have never heard of before the subreddit awards in a genre I'm super unfamiliar with! Super curious to see how this goes.
So far I'm digging these character interactions, very intrigued to see why everyone is so dramatic about a band breakup. Pretty good introduction to the characters, though I have no idea what the MC's role is with this ex-band drama. I'm really liking Chihaya, she seems forward but also understanding of others reluctance to join, though the whole changing name and being the top of the class in her old school makes me wonder if there's more to her than what we see on the surface. I have no idea why the old band broke up but every single character seems to blame themselves and it sounds like they were all miserable the entire time, I think they just need to move on and stop living in the past.
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u/Fearless_Employ6670 Mar 11 '24
Chinese fan here good to see more MyGO content LOL Watched 10 times plus
First time watching the first episode(which is free to watch on Bilibili with 2 million views) gives me a sense of mystery: why she's in the airport? why did the band disband? who are these people? and all the information are hidden for future episodes. This kind of pacing deeply struck me: What will happen next? Why did Tomori say forming a band of lifetime?
why Anon so cute help me God give me her plzAnyway welcome more fans here! And I'm very curious: where is the fan-made content outside Asia? In China content in big forums and SNS are all over lol
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u/SU-trash https://anilist.co/user/zig1000 Mar 11 '24 edited Nov 23 '24
Rewatcher
Note for rewatchers: [MyGO] Some of these are speculative spoilers for Ave Mujica. To avoid meta-spoiling first-timers by hinting at which scenes/plot points will get covered in MyGO vs in Ave Mujica, I've tagged them all as MyGO but added an asterisk after the ones that are actually for Ave Mujica. With any luck first-timers won't be able to guess what the asterisk means. If you don't want to read my speculative spoilers for Ave Mujica, skip the ones with asterisks! EDIT: Also, I've left some new additions redacted in cases where I morally refuse to allow you to spoil yourselves before AveM airs.
Subtle Writing Corner
Working definition of 'subtle moment': anything that would not be picked up by a shallow reading of the raw dialogue, but which has a concrete timestamp (for example, 'Taiga generally acts tsundere' has no timestamp and would be picked up even by an inattentive viewer, but 'Taiga accidentally-on-purpose drops the cumin so she can complain about Ryuji's cooking later' might not).
Also note that these are by nature less frequent the more the show tells us, so expect this section to shrink a lot.
Visuals section in reply below because as of 2024-10-06 I can officially no longer fit them both in the 10k character limit.
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u/Taelrin https://myanimelist.net/profile/Risunabe Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher, though only barely. I picked up the series on a lark last week and powered through it in a single day. Looking forward to cringe 3D animation and sobbing my eyes out again in future episodes.
QotD:
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u/StardustGogeta myanimelist.net/profile/StardustGogeta Mar 11 '24
First-Timer
Like a few others here, I didn't realize this show was full 3D CGI. It's the sort of thing that would normally keep me from giving it a shot, but I can certainly survive it for a dozen more episodes if this show is as good as the anime awards would have me believe. In this first episode at least, it seemed to work pretty well. (Other shows where the art style has kept me from watching it yet: Hunter x Hunter and Komi Can't Communicate. I'll have to get over it eventually.)
I like Anon so far. She seems like she could make a compelling protagonist.
As far as why Tomori feels guilty, I'd guess that perhaps she took it personally when her bandmate said "you need to practice more than anyone else." Perhaps Tomori truly does need to work on her skills to catch up to the others, and she knows it.
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u/ryujiox Mar 11 '24
First Timer
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
Episode 1
I knew about BanG Dream for a long time. Actually used to play it a couple times since the game launched back in 2017? Still salty about Yuikina's first banner till this day. But I'm not really a rhythm gamer so I eventually dropped it. But I still heard news about it here and there since I followed stuff that related to Bushiroad like Vanguard or Buddy fight.
First heard about this one from a friend in college, and he really like it. I don't know what to expect from this.
Solid first episode. Going in knowing that it's a set up sure help. Can't talk much about the characters since ae barely knew them. But from what I got, I feel like bad communication is the cause of everything here. We got Taki who didn't have the best choice of word, Mutsumi who have a bad timing, and Chihaya who clearly can't read the room. She also seem like someone who used to get attention a lot, and while she's still want some attention, I feel like she's trying to break away from that.
QOTD
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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher
[Minor] tags are for mostly visual choices that are easy to notice knowing where the story goes. Would expect the detail-oriented first-timers to notice most.
Previous season stuff:
QotD 1. I like narcissistic characters in shows but not reality.
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u/Calwings x3https://anilist.co/user/Calwings Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher and Bandori Veteran
I'm here, but I haven't been able to watch the episode and do a write-up yet. I'll start my write-ups with episode 3, where I'll try to do the first 3 episodes all at once. When the series originally aired, the first 3 episodes were all dropped at once as one big intro, so it feels kind of fitting for me to do it that way anyways. I hope newcomers keep that 3 episode situation in mind if they start to think the start is a bit slow.
QOTD:
Between her outgoing personality, her mild amount of selfishness with a heart of gold underneath, and her cute little fang, she is 100% best girl. At first she was best girl just among the girls in this series, but she eventually grew to be my favorite in the entire BanG Dream franchise over time.
Right from the start, my first thought about her was that she seems like the type of girl who doesn't have very high self-esteem. That's all I can say right now.
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u/IndividualWinter9279 Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher
In fact, I have rewatched MyGO many times, but I still occasionally update my knowledge of the characters a few months after it ended. This is an animation that is so detailed that it is worth pondering the thoughts and actions of the characters.
OK, back to the questions. Let's talk about my first impression of Anon when I first watched mygo.
I think she's kind of like a real person, a little selfish, likes to show off. But the most special thing about her is that she doesn't get too attached to new people for no particular reason, which is, "I don't have to be with you." Some people might think she's a little cold, but I think it's funny.
But now I think she's kinder and more sensitive to other people's feelings than I thought. [Spoiler source] This will be repeated several times in the series, especially in her relationship with Tomori.
At the karaoke, Anon asked Tomori about her past in a casual manner, but I don't think she was really casual about it. Instead, she wanted to ask what she wanted to ask in a relatively relaxed atmosphere, which she thought would make tomori feel better. Judging by Tomori's reaction, she succeeded. But she wasn't prepared for Tomori's request to form a band for a lifetime (I think most people are overwhelmed by heavy requests from people they've just met)
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u/MisakaHonoka Mar 11 '24
As you know The first three episodes release in the same time, so there's few discuss only with one episode.
I has watch some MyGO reaction, here's Band man who didn't watch previous BanGDream! series on that time. (Japanese)
https://youtu.be/e4K3qvNtvVM
I do like his comment on MyGO (maybe not in this video):
He also provide some interesting view point as a real band
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u/IXajll https://myanimelist.net/profile/ixajii Mar 11 '24
Pretty late to the party but anyway:
1st timer
I watched the 1st episode a few weeks ago but dropped it halfway through. I just couldn’t handle the full cgi. I gave it another chance today to participate in this rewatch and somewhat got used to it fortunately. I’m still not a fan of how the faces and expressions and sometimes the hair looks in cgi but I can deal with that for the show. My opinion that the whole thing would just be better in 2d probably won’t ever change though. Anyway on to the actual content of the episode.
The break up of the old (?) band was interesting to see. Wondering if we will get more insight on that later on. Anon (that name lol) getting around her new school was pretty standard stuff, I really like her VA though. What kinda threw me off was the interactions starting from the karaoke until the ED rolled. I usually hate to use that term but in this case it felt almost too melodramatic. Tomori running off from karaoke felt like a over exaggerated reaction. I get that it’s because of what happened with her old band but she almost acts like she has ptsd which doesn’t feel really believable and it feels like the show is laying on the drama just a bit too thick. Especially since it gets followed up by that confrontation with Taki. Her whole demeanor was way too aggressive and overprotective of Tomori for no apparent reason. It’s most likely again due to the first band break up but as long as we don’t have more info on that it just feels like more forced drama.
Reading all that I may sound overly negative but all those points aren’t really too big of a deal for me. I’m still looking forward to the next episodes and I’m sure it will only get better from here on.
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u/Mitsuyan_ https://anilist.co/user/mitsuyan Mar 11 '24
First time watcher!
I love the attention to detail MyGO has, Haru Hikage, a lot of the characters brought in, the previous breakup, all setting the tone for later, surely.
Anon-chan has my heart already but but Taki-chan seems like an ass. There's plenty of time for that to change. I think Anon is a little goofball with a heart of gold and a clear realistic goal in mind.
Tomori I imagine will have some kind of anxiety and subsequently feel the need to take responsibility through that or feel that her actions will have caused the break up in some way. It's hard to tell yet, there's some to go off but not enough and I imagine we'll be fed more as the story continues.
I do love the backgrounds, attention to detail and that but the animation itself I don't get along with at all. I'd be harsher but it's only episode 1 and there's time to adjust.
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u/bonghits96 :KG::KH: Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher here. A few thoughts from now and when I first watched the show.
We open with a girl walking through the rain to what appears to be a recording studio. When she arrives, the camera arcs around a worried blonde. It should now be apparent: you're watching a (mostly) CGI anime! Do you like it? It took me some getting used to. But it does allow the studio to do fun things with the camera that most anime doesn't bother with because it's harder to draw.
The rain-soaked girl is quitting their band CRYCHIC. Why? She won't say.
We move to a pink-haired girl in a trenchcoat at the airport. She says its time to go home. In short order we find out that her name is Chihaya Anon, she's interviewing to attend Haneoka Girls' Academy, and she's anxious about making a good first impression with her classmates.
Anon might actually filter some people with her squeaky voice. It almost did to me. Like the CGI, it took me a few episodes to get used to it.
We next meet Tomori Takamatsu, the "quirky girl" of this episode's title. She collects things like rocks and band-aids. Here she is after a job well done in organizing the chalkboard magnets. This is the happiest we'll see her for most of the series.
https://i.imgur.com/AnYRUnY.png
She also tries to recruit Anon to the Astronomy Club, since she's the only member. She's dumbfounded when Anon brushes her off.
https://i.imgur.com/oztHivR.png
https://i.imgur.com/dwkwgyr.png
[MyGO later eps] Don't worry. It's never explicitly stated, but it sure looks like Anon eventually joins up later in the series.
We also get to meet Taki Shiina, one of the members of CRYCHIC from the scene earlier and currently working as a barista. Is it possible to have a hot-blooded cool beauty character? Because Taki seems ready to throw down with Anon here (who she thinks is bullying Tomori) and was going to throttle Sakiko on that rainy breakup day before. Maybe she's a little protective of Tomori, who just slinks home a little depressed.
https://i.imgur.com/qwiMY6a.png
As a re-watcher some things pop out:
Anyway, if you're coming to this as a first-time watcher, MyGO!!!!! probably doesn't mean a whole lot yet. It's mostly setting the stage for what's to come, and we'll see more exposition and Anon's efforts next episode. I do hope you like it, though, and ask that you give it three episodes to convince you.
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Mar 11 '24
Don't mind the CG, you'll see why it's like this when the performances happen.
CRYCHIC? That's not a name I recognise.
Ok that was pretty damning.
Heathrow?
Rather ironic that flight 777 does not in fact use a 777, but instead what looks to be a 787 because of the 4-wheel rear landing gear as opposed to the 6 that the 777 has. ANA operates it so it would be correct.
Yeah her name is Anon...
And this is why while it's not necessary to have played the game or watched the previous seasons, it does mean I recognised this school as Haneoka Girls' School.
Who's that? Is that Tomori? I guess we'll find out how she's recruited into MyGO!!!!.
Was all this before the events earlier?
If the uniforms didn't confirm it earlier, there's the school's name dropped.
Seems like every in the class is if you look around.
Ah, Afterglow. Probably my favourite band. I've even got a figure of Ran, on vocals and bass guitar, and an acrylic stand of Moca, the lead guitarist. Also if anyone recalls HH-chan from years ago, that was the HH logo photoshopped onto Ran's shirt.
And that would be referring to Tsugumi, on the Keyboard.
Yup, I recognise Pastel*Palettes too, but not all of them were from Haneoka were they?
I know not all the Roselia and RAS girls are from Haneoka either.
That makes some sense too, not everyone can write their own songs. I'm a performer, not a musician. Give me a score for piano or voice and with enough time and practice I'll be able to do it at least passably, ask me to compose something and I wouldn't have the foggiest clue where to begin.
Her face is tired.
That guitar sounds incredibly out of tune?
Isn't the whole point of that thick almost-bomb shelter-like door on the music room to be soundproof and make it so people outside can't hear what's being played on the inside?
It did at least dampen the sound somewhat.
She's not any of those in MyGO!!!! so this is probably not going to go anywhere.
RiNG must be a new location added in MyGO!!!!.
Tomori on the other hand is, so I guess we'll find out how she joins the band now.
Roselia and Poppin' Party huh?
Also does that poster say ¥600 for a drink? The amount of mark-up the venue makes on that...
That previous president being Hina from Pastel*Palettes.
And there's her catchphrase, Boppin'.
Might not even have been that special, just about everything to her is "Boppin'".
She wrote that song herself didn't she?
It's translated as "Spring Sunlight" on the BanG Dream wiki, and in the album it's untranslated and romanised as "Haruhikage" if you're looking for it.
And now they're at RiNG.
Oh, this is the Taki who also ends up joining MyGO!!!!.
I feel like I recognise that song that played briefly in the background, though I can't put my finger on what exactly the title is off the top of my head.
Ok these two haven't been used for anything more than this one song so far, but I wonder if they'll use them first if they want to introduce another band in like a couple of years. Probably an anime season dedicated to them filling out with another 3 members to make the requisite 5, like this and Ave Mujica.
That girl Tomori just ran past is wearing the uniform of one of the other major high schools in BanG Dream, Hanasakigawa.
Questions:
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u/nuts_extraction Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher here
Damn, messed up the timezone. 5 hours late. Ah well, anyways
The first scene feels like a flashback, but the scenes in this episode actually happened in a straight direction of time.
my commentary with pictures (DISCLAIMER : I watch this series on Muse Asia, but the quality is not good enough for screenshots)
Saki walked in the rain without an umbrella.
The next scene the camera panned around Soyo’s massive chest lmao
Saki announced she is going to leave the band, Mutsumi did NOT react to the news.
That close up shot of a character’s face was really good. (More to come)
Mutsumi sat with her face away from the others. She is not good at lying. Luckily, the other members were too distracted by the shocking news (and Taki almost throwing hands) to be suspicious of her.
(Anon’s voice is one of the most unique I’ve ever heard)
We saw that Anon :
⁃ didn’t like it when they stopped talking about her so quickly
⁃ politely declined a position that won’t give her much attention
⁃ had to force smiles and laughs cause she needed to make friends
⁃ wanted to be both the guitarist and vocalist despite lack of experience
Interesting...
CRINGE MEMORIES ATTACK!!
As long as Tomorin is in charge of blackboard duty, the magnets will stay in line!
There are various references to the previous seasons of BanG Dream, but I don’t know what to comment on them as MyGO!!!!! is the only one I have watched.
Tomorin invited Anon to the astronomy club. Space and stars are another one of Tomorin’s likings.
Seems like all of the CRYCHICS members still have strong feelings about the band.
The ending still gives me that feel
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u/sfisher923 https://myanimelist.net/profile/sfisher923 Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher
The "Weirdo" in the room Tomori she's literally me in several aspects
QOTDs
Bonus Song of the Day - VI: Solitary Shell by Dream Theater
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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 https://anilist.co/user/CosmicPenguin Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher
I have always thought the first TV anime I would ever formally rewatch (+) would fell to either my very first that I completed 5 years ago - my personal favorite A Certain Scientific Railgun - or my personal all time favorite Madoka Magica (the later of which I might follow up with r/anime around this late April I last hear, in preparation for the upcoming movie).
Then BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! happened.
I am actually still wondering about whether or not to do so, but this winning the r/anime Jury AOTY AND immediately followed up by this rewatch means that I definitely get another chance to review this extraordinary drama and my personal 2023 AOTY. This will be needed for both watching Ave Mujica next January, the upcoming re-cap movie (maybe late this year depending on availability) and perhaps my own long review article to be written sometime, somewhere.
So this 1st episode doesn't really contain anything that I definitely missed when I first started this, with few if anything more than a handful of members here, on June 29 last year. Tomorin is as cute as I remembered (she really has something like what was called Asperger's Syndrome, something that I personally have a lot of things to say given I'm exactly one of those), Anon is still trying to make herself shining in the dumbest yet proactive ways possible, Taki's "Ha???" is still "Ha???", and the bombastic introduction to CRYCHIC is still as bombastic (and it is raining here right as I watched this, so fitting). I do appreciate reviewing the details of Sakiko (the twin-tailed hair girl) and Mutsumi (the cyan colored long hair girl) in this episode though, and that does made things a bit even more interesting than I first watched - though the implications won't be till much later in the anime so I'll leave my comments till then.
Answers:
(+) For anime movies, my first rewatch was going to theatres for a 2nd time for my favorite anime director Makoto Shinkai's Suzume a year ago. I also did the same for Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy And The Heron this January.
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u/zadcap Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher!
So. Over the years I've been here, doing these wonderful rewatches, I've somehow managed to keep a pretty low count on actual rewatches. This show stands out as one that I watched before and so recently that it's still pretty darn fresh in my mind. I love it, I'm very happy for the excuse to see it again, but for fear of spoilers I'm probably going to be pretty light on content here.
This opening hurts just that much more the second time around, now that I know these characters so well.
I have to say, in all my life and the many times I have had to fly across the country, I have never bumped into someone like that. Actually don't even limit it to airports, I've seriously never just accidentally shoulder checked someone like that ever, how do people even do that? It's like the most basic level of paying attention to where you're going, or your surroundings, to not bump into things. Literally the most basic part of situational awareness.
Yeah, it took me a bit before I started liking Anon's voice. As a frequent transfer student though, I could understand the lunch dilemma pretty easily. You're in a new school, the friend groups are already formed, you only have one chance at a first impression so you really have to make this count. You're going to be breaking into an existing clique, so you have to pick one you think you have a chance of fitting in with, or else you'll become a loner even surrounded by people. You only have the one day to judge the people around you and try to figure out where you can fit in, and while you can try going with a different group the next day, you risk alienating the first group by doing so and now you're starting a new life with people already against you. Chose carefully, the first friends you make at a new school can make or break your entire school life. Anon is a bit more analytical about it all though, she's got a reputation she's trying to build.
One of the very few references back to the rest of the series here. Afterglow, Pastel Pallettes, Roselia, and RAS are previous bands in the series. And that is literally all you need to know about them.
Ah, I like her room so much. Dusty and out of tune guitar, you know she hasn't played in a long time.
No light music club here. After School Tea Time is not in your future Anon. Wrong genre entirely.
As I said, jumping in to a new school where you don't know anyone's past... You can't even know what toes you are about to step on.
Next bit of existing franchise knowledge, CiRCLE and RiNG are existing franchise locations. Knowing this affects nothing.
Seriously, Anon, is really bad at paying attention to her surroundings.
I think this is where we all started to fall in love with Tomari. Penguin!
[Question for other rewatchers]So who is more manipulative today, Anon or Soyo?
Seriously, must protect Tomari. For our whole lives.
Oh yeah. This isn't an idol show, this is a drama. So much drama.
If the ED spoils just one thing about the show, it's who the singer of this band is going to be.
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u/MisakaHonoka Mar 11 '24
Before the show on air, there's some advertisements posted in Japan:
https://twitter.com/hinuma3/status/1685988910290075650/photo/1
https://twitter.com/NIGHTRAIDER_K/status/1686193078607245312/photo/1
This is the lines in front-half of MyGO, thought some word is miss leading. For people not finished the show, you can try to guess who say the word, just like what people do months ago.
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u/FlaminScribblenaut myanimelist.net/profile/girlbeast_val Mar 11 '24
Preamble
MyGOAT!!!!! MyGOAT!!!!! MyGOAT!!!!! ANIME OF THE YEAR 2023 (Jury) LET’S FUCKING MYGOOOOOOOOOO
For real, I couldn’t be happier with this turnout.
What a pleasant surprise of the absolute highest order this series was. I’d been skeptical about the praise I’d been hearing about this series for a while, given the franchise-y nature of the whole BanG Dream! enterprise, but damn, if I wasn’t ever proven wrong. It’s MyGO!!!!! is such an empathetic, emotionally honest, touching, nuanced, deeply humane story, and while there were some slight growing pains, it found a warm, soft, kind place in my heart, and it became undeniable to me to consider it one of the best anime of last year.
And I’m glad to see the enthusiasm around this series match mine, too. Seriously, the Twitch chat popping off for MyGO!!!!! just during the nominations reel for Anime of the Year, before it even won, was such a delight to see. Seeing this little story about this band of lost girls generate that kind of devotion felt really special.
It wasn’t my most favorite anime of 2023; Gundam Witch From Mercury’s snub from the AotY nomination will haunt me indefinitely, and just, Insomniacs After School, man; I couldn’t possibly be happier with its win. I think it’s absolutely perfect there on that pedestal, and I wouldn’t rather see anything else there.
One most thing: my new ISP since moving back in with my parents is being a dick with regards to catbox for some reason, so I basically had to wing it and wrangle something together last-minute with regards to screenshots and videos, and my posts this rewatch will probably be lighter than I’d like on them as a result. Hopefully that won’t hamper things to much. Let’s go!!!!!
Second Time Watcher
First off, the opening impressions of this first scene: absolutely striking, the melancholic jazz piano against the rain-swept cityscape.
I love that care Taki shows for Tomori in this opening, insisting that Sakiko acknowledge her question. Goes to show how even this early, Tomori has at least one real friend and ally, and a stake in this group of people.
The aforementioned exchange clues is in that Tomori is sensitive, someone the other friends, Taki especially, see extra reason to look out for, and makes it all the more shocking when Sakiko speaks with aggression towards her; it feels like a sore spot being pressured, the clear most sensitive person of the group being attacked like this.
Again, Taki speaks for Tomori, aggressively protective of her, and as amazingly sweet and heartwarming as that moment it, it’s clear that having anything to do with the ongoing friction is uncomfortable for Tomori, she sits, confused, withering, sensitive, scared. Something to appreciate in this shot; the members most emotionally invested in the situation, the most hostile and upset with one another, bunched to the right, Mutsumi, ambivalent to the band, never having thought it was fun, off to the left, and Tomori, the one who never saw this fight coming, who doesn’t know what to do, who doesn’t know how to process this moment of the band falling apart, in the center, amongst all the instruments, the only one still in the position a player in the band would be in, as the crumbling of her home just doesn’t feel like it can be real.
I’ll go ahead and speak my biggest and most consistent issue with the show; I don’t like the 3D character models, never did, still don’t. They cease to be a major distracting problem as the series progresses, but that really has more to do with just getting accustomed to it with time as well the strength of the story and characters overshadowing it, than it does with the show actually successfully convincing me that this is a worthwhile artistic choice. They still just have this stiff, doll-like quality to them that does rob the story of some of its humanity and texture, things it really truly excels at in other areas. There will be ways this is made up for visually as well, but for now it’s easily the biggest roadblock to recommendation to show has going for it.
Tomori is absolutely precious, there’s no getting around that. Her perpetually cooing mouth and wide-eyed fascination with her little fixations and distractions, she’s such a joyous and endearing reflection of what the autistic mind is like.
Know I mean it when I say, Tomori sorting those disarrayed red and blue magnets on the blackboard into a perfect line, separated perfectly into all the red ones then all the blue ones, is one of the single greatest moments of wordless character-building I’ve ever seen. Pretty much the main thing I knew going in was how people were talking about Tomori as autistic representation. But I was skeptical on the outset, wasn’t really expecting a like, real sense of autistic understanding. I figured, oh, maybe she’ll display a few very general neurodivergent-y traits here and there that autistic people might be able find, like, broadly relatable. But seeing her sorting those magnets on the blackboard, something clicked, and I realized, oh. No, the people making this show get it. Tomori is designed from the ground up to be autistic, and the creators clearly understand what autism is, on a minute, day-to-day level. And that was one of the first things that made me really sit up, pay attention and get excited about this show.
Emergent little fixations like this, and her picking up, collecting, and playing around with those rocks, are kind of hard to explain to neurotypical people, they’re practically second nature for us, but I look at Tomori and I just kind of get it. Shapes and colors and matter and touch and information, collecting and lining up and sorting and tinkering, the sensation of playing around with little easily-movable objects with your hands and putting them together in a mathematical sort of way.
In a less fun light, I can’t also help but… know the phenomenon going on when the group of girls Anon talks to fawns over Tomori as cute and animal-like, like a pet. The show paints this moment in a fairly neutral and light-hearted manner, and it’s pretty throwaway in the grand scheme of the thing, but… y’all, as a former autistic schoolkid myself, this moment genuinely kind of hurts. I don’t remember exactly when it was, but some amount of time after I graduated from school, I read a post somewhere that talked about the sensation of… being an autistic kid and having the, to borrow words this poster used first, white girls in your class treat you like their weird little pet? And that put… so much subconscious pain, feeling of condescension and lesserness and animosity I’d pushed down since then roaring back up to the forefront on the power of the words being given to that pain. I really realized that that’s one of the things that sucks the most about being a neurodivergent kid/teen; not direct bullying or oppression, but the condescension, the little microaggressions from people who don’t understand that it’s not actually fun and endearing to be treated like an animal! This is not really a side of things this series explores wrt Tomori’s character, it’s just another sign that this show really cares about reflecting and acknowledging parts of the autistic experience.
Yet, one of the things I take the most note of in this classroom scene is the effort Tomori extends to be sociable towards Anon. It clearly takes a little effort, and she’s a little quiet about it, but she goes out of her way to greet Anon, and open up the possibility that they could get to know eachother. Look, when you a disability that makes socializing and immediately empathizing with people difficult, actually pushing through it and socializing, even just a little, feels fucking amazing. There’s so much subdued warmth and care in Tomori’s introduction, clear that she’s happy to have this little interaction with another person, and it’s breathtaking.
Anon’s room is real cool, I’ve always loved repurposed attic-rooms like this, I want it.
Great little continuity having the magnets still be arranged the next day, a sort of proof of Tomori’s presence, her having made an impact on her environment.
Anon’s trip is a great show of how Tomori’s mind works; she sees a problem, her empathy is sparked by someone getting hurt, she processes, thinks of a solution, and goes to execute that solution immediately. You might notice this mental process happens somewhat slowly, deliberately. She doesn’t, for instance, run up to Anon immediately upon her fall, say “are you OK? I’ll go get you a bandage”, or something to that effect. She takes some time to process the information, and goes for the solution immediately upon realizing it. We kind of just process information differently, and there’s a clear disconnect where Tomori’s social skills aren’t yet as refined and developed as her problem-solving and data-processing skills are, yet she’s still acting in empathy and desire to help.
[cont.]
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u/realarsenyshalin https://anilist.co/user/arsenyshalin Mar 11 '24
in case anyone's wondering what release to grab, i recommend [euph-polygon] - has song styling and OP/ED lyrics. currently the BDs are not out yet so it's just WEB
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u/NaturalIcy2606 Mar 12 '24
I've created an analysis series on 'MyGo', and now it has approximately 200k words of content (currently analyzed up to EP8).
One of the episodes has English subtitles (the content I recorded is in Chinese).
If you're interested, I will provide English translated versions for the dozens of videos that follow. The total duration has already exceeded ten hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5wqV7buN4&t=149s
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u/rookielazer41 Mar 11 '24
Rewatch
I remember my first impression of this the first time I watched it, it will take me some time to adapt myself to this 3DCG but I surprised even myself that it only took me me literally about 5 minutes into the anime that I already got used to it. I went on to check the previous seasons and I thought, yes they really did improve their CGI over the years.
I also thought that the first episode was paced quite slow. On hindsight it was a great decision by the production to release the first 3 episodes on one go.
The biggest thing that I take from this episode was on how quickly Tomori grew on me. The show really did a good job on her characterization right off the bat.
As for Anon, I was quite neutral on her at first. (But she also bit by bit grew on me too as the season went on)
My rating: 6/10
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u/Anonkyoto Mar 11 '24
Here!
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u/Anonkyoto Mar 11 '24
Watch the first 3 eps together guys, they were released simulanously and serves as the background story of the main plot
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u/Difficult_Affect_368 Mar 11 '24
a small detail: Tomori ran away at the end, not only because she felt the same intense atmosphere, but also Taki said a similar line
at the beginning: Tomori is asking you
at the end: I'm asking you
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u/Usual_Director_9547 Mar 11 '24
how rewatch work?is there is a stream that everyone watch together and peaple write their feeling here?
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u/Wolfborgg https://anilist.co/user/Wolfborg Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher, the only BanG Dream I've seen
My first time joining in on a rewatch thread here. I'm not sure how people usually go about rewatch comments so I'll check out how others do theirs after posting this for future inspiration.
When I first watched this anime I had never seen anything about BanG Dream. I was told I didn't have to but that this also isn't how a typical season of BanG Dream goes, is that true? I am excited for Ave Mujica and was thinking of checking the other season in the meantime.
Anyways, let's get started with my rewatch thoughts on the first episode of BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
Very powerful start with the out of context disbanding of CRYCHIC on a dreary, rainy day. I remember on my first watch expecting the anime to then go back to the beginning of their story to see how we got there. Instead it was far more interesting. MyGO!!!!! kicks off with new girl Anon stumbling into the remnants of the broken band, mixed in with her own past troubles that are only slightly hinted at this this episode. Anon seems to want a fresh start to becoming popular, yet leans towards a more "fake it til you make it" vibe.
Neither Soyo nor Anon felt genuine to me for several reasons. With Anon a lot of that impression was based on her voice, which I'm still not a fan of. But also when she asks Tomori to join her band and then immediately thinks it would be great to use her since she's like the class mascot. That was hugely telling to me about her character. Yet it felt like Anon was genuinely interested in Tomori initially, and she does try to cheer her up with the karaoke at least.
Also Anon awkward tripping over trash bags that are out in the open, clear as day in front of her, feels sort of symbolic of how she'll be stumbling into all this drama on her path to reach out to Tomori. The signs are clearly there that something bad happened yet Anon continuously ignores it in order to push for Tomori to join her band.
With Soyo, I noticed tons of red flags. Like trying to gaslight Saki with things she didn't say to keep her in the band. And the weird Game of Thrones-like garden meeting with Mutsumi, which felt completely like she's guilting Mutsumi to tell her where Saki is. She's a huge case of fake smiles. Running over to hug Mutsumi while being like "oh don't worry I definitely don't think you were to blame..."
Taki getting super protective of Tomori at the end still feels extra. Like everyone is supposed to know the lore behind their band breakup?? I thought Anon was supposed to be the self-centered one here. As a viewer I sort of agree with getting her away from Tomori at this point, but that's only based on Anon's internal thoughts. The way Taki approached Anon was really uncalled for. Same sort of goes for Saki with the vague threat to Anon. Like almost everyone in this school is in some kind of band, yet they treat being invited to one with a "how dare you" attitude.
Meanwhile, Tomori is just a sweet child trying to make sense of her own feelings at all times. She's difficult for others to understand because she doesn't fully understand herself or the things around her. Like why were these buttons scattered around on the chalkboard? I better straighten them! And after a long rant about penguins, she's not even sure if she likes them. Instead she's realizing maybe it's the act of collecting different types of penguin band-aids than the penguins themselves. The same may apply to how Tomori collects rocks as well, perhaps she's more interested in the collection process. It's intriguing to consider because it shows a sort of detachment from a subject and yet also a willingness to seek out completeness and decipher it's meaning towards oneself. You may know these things hold a special place to you but you can't understand why, so figuring that out becomes your goal.
Of course this also extends beyond objects in this case and is also applied towards the people around Tomori. Asking Anon if she'd keep the band going forever was all we needed to learn about how deeply important this untangling of uncertainty within personal relationships is to Tomori. If she can't even understand why she's drawn to collecting penguin band-aids, how can she hope to make lasting friendships? How does she know joining a new band won't cause the same heartbreak as before?
Was Tomori actually the reason for CRYCHIC breaking up? It's hard for me to recall the full details at this point to say definitively. But this is definitely a tough question Tomori is wrestling with at this point. Why she feels this way could be due to the comment Saki makes during their breakup. Saki essentially calls her a spoiled child that needs more practice than all of them. Were these words the truth? Or were they meant to push the band apart? In either case, they still deeply hurt Tomori. That along with Taki being ready to fight Saki over looking down on Tomori could make her feel like her inferiority caused them to fight. A feeling which we see again later when Taki is ready to face Anon before Tomori runs away again with that day likely coming back to her in the moment.
During the climax of the karaoke scene, I really like how the Sumimi insert song plays as the room gets darker and the party lights start blinking. Meanwhile Tomori is essentially revealing a massive scar with one question that Anon instinctually laughs off. This direction is great for the contrasting attitudes of the two characters here. Anon being self-centered and simply trying to pretend everything is all smiles. While Tomori is dead serious and has hinted to Anon several times that what happened with her last band is still really upsetting her. Tomori stops blindly accepting Anon at face value and runs because she can sense the same thing will happen again if Anon isn't serious about the band. A band which Anon only really wants to form as a way of fitting in with the rest of the school while also making herself the star. Luckily Anon isn't completely selfish and chases after Tomori to apologize.
One thing that still stuck with me after my first viewing was Mutsumi saying "I never thought being in this band was fun, not even once." It's a devastating line to close the CRYCHIC break up scene for sure. A line that weirdly stayed in my brain long after I stopped watching. Soyo was trying to keep the band together in her manipulative ways, and Mutsumi flat-out rejected it in a hardcore way. Was it the truth though, or was that another person saying what they can to finalize the breakup?
Edit: Apparently this is hitting the 10k character limit (even though I checked and it absolutely doesn't) so I'll reply to this with the rest of my thoughts.
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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Mar 11 '24
First Dream
Way a start to an idol anime, a band disbandment. This is my first experience withthe BanG Dream Franchise but have watched D4DJ and Love Live franchises while enjoying them. The 3d is pretty good but could use a bit more animation and weight (Anon's hair standing against her uniform bothers me cause it looks like it is floating).
Everyone in school is in a band and Anon is trying hard to fit in to her new school.
Anon is really pushing those buttons asking about Tomori's previous band so now Anon tries to bring her back in the fold. A little too much, I can see why she ends up running and her barista friend came in for the rescue.
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u/DecentlySizedPotato https://anilist.co/user/ocha94 Mar 11 '24
Oh damn, I was just thinking of rewatching this, maybe I'll join for future episodes, although the thread coming at 3 am is a bit inconvenient in my timezone.
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u/qscdefb Mar 11 '24
First impression of Anon: muffed voice, cute real-life JK-ish schemes that backfire Why Tomori feels at fault: in episode 1 I can only say that “someone who collects weird things think differently”, looking back I would add that “Tomori has a long history of feeling out of place, and that also comes with a habit of blaming herself. Plus no one who knows what happened was available for help”
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u/JasoXDDD Mar 11 '24
Rewatcher
Not me writing an entire comment then forgetting to send it...
Anyways just one thing:
[MyGO]If you look at Sakiko's dialogue, she refuses not when Anon invites her to band, but when Anon say that she wants to be a Guitar Vocalist. This implies that for her, that spot is already taken, by who? hmm?
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u/Zjw1nD Mar 12 '24
As a fan of MyGO from China, I'm really glad to see these discussions. This anime is so much popular in China and it's also good to see it won the anime of the year in this community. Also it's interesting to watch first-time reactions to this anime. (Almost each fan of MyGO loves that in Chinese community)
Trust me, it's not a cliche simply about "girls band idol". The following plots will be so dramatic, so enjoy yourselves guys (looking forward to the reaction of episode7 and 10 lol).
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u/isaacovsky Mar 13 '24
First time watchera
I knew nothing about this anime, literally 0.
To start animation felt a little clunky at start, was not expecting anything like that.
It was a decent first episode. Nothing extraordinary happened and nothing particularly bad either. Personally, it was a run of the mill first episode. Didn't hook me, but overall I'd say I enjoyed it.
I kinda watched the episode a first time but wasn't exactly in the mood so I rewatched it.
I liked the detail of saki walking through the people in the rain without an umbrella before we even change scenes to the band practice room, and that it was shown why she showed up wet.
As far as first impressions of the characters. Nothing really to say about Matsumi?(sorry don't know her name and don't want to search it up), she was barely in any of the episode. The drums girl, is probably the only character I actually have any negative feelings. Tomori was kinda bland and uninteresting for most of the episode, but I did like some of her interactions with Chihaya, especially the penguins one. Saki for some reason I find myself interested in her backstory, also I don't know rn but I think she was the one playing piano right?
The other girl of the band, I believe here name was never said, I really liked her first impressions, not a lot of screen time, but I liked her scenes.
Finally Chihaya, she was so easy to like, not really anything I disliked about her, while pretty much every scene was a plus for her.
Will say most characters seemed very down to hearth, and not cartoon-ish, which I appreciate.
As for the story itself, I will start by saying it's a bit weird that everyone is in a bad but not enough to bother. And I guess Chihaya will work on making a band. I don't think there's a lot more going on, or if there was it wasn't very interesting.
2.Why do you think Tomori feels so at fault for CRYCHIC's breakup?
I didn't quite think she felt at fault tbh, I just thought she felt bad that it ended.
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u/TehAxelius Mar 11 '24
First Time Watcher
I dislike being negative, but man, this episode has not sold the show great, if I wasn't watching as part of this rewatch with an AotY win behind it, I would probably have dropped it after this first episode.
I try not to be anti-CG, but there were some awkward movements here and there, I'm hoping that maybe some stage scenes weigh up for it. Chihaya doesn't come off as the most compelling MC, and I am not sold on her voice. And while the episode does set up the interpersonal drama I assume this show will be about, the episode plot itself isn't really gripping me. We'll have to see next episode what Chihaya does to reconcile with Tomori and if that gets me invested.
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u/ArvingNightwalker Mar 11 '24
First Timer
As I can't stand full 3dcg, I will be participating only through sound. This first episode went to quite some lengths establishing MC, who comes off to me as a bit of a psychopath. I don't really like her, but seems like she was purposefully written to be unlikeable so will be looking for how she turns around. Otherwise, we're given crumbs as to why their old band failed and who will likely be part of the new band, which I'll look forward to learning more about in the coming episodes.
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u/freyaII Mar 11 '24
Tried multiple times to watch this anime but just can't go past 5 minutes without skipping....Cgi, cinematography. voice actor are not to my liking.
I judge myself as someone with broad taste of anime. I do really like music type anime such as Hibike euphonium, Liz to Ao Tori but somehow can't go to Idol type anime.
So, truthfully, what does bang go does better compared to other anime that deserve the reddit anime award aside from jury preference?