Now that Poppin Party’s promotional video explodes in popularity, they are doing their hardest to make up last ground. However, things turn south for RAISE A SUILEN.
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Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 9 – The Rebirth of Poppin’ Party
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Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 8 – Girl Bands Take a Breather
Now that Roselia finally recovered from their loss against RAISE A SUILEN, they finally take a breather at a hot spring hotel.
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episode 6 and 7 – The Surprising Result
At last, Yukina went ahead and took ChuChu’s challenge. However, it seems that Sayo is having second thoughts about Yukina’s decision.
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episode 5 – Poppin’ Party’s First Music Video
After seeing RAISE A SUILEN’s new promotional video, Kasumi and her friends want to create one.
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episode 4 – Rokka Proves Her Skills
At last, Rokka decides to join RAISE A SUILEN. However, she has to prove herself as a guitarist before ChuChu recognizes her as a true member. Does Rokka has everything it takes to prove her abilities?
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episodes 2 and 3 – ChuChu Chases After Rokka and Rokka Resolves Her Anxieties
After RAISE A SUILEN performed in front of Roselia and Poppin’ Party, ChuChu shares her intentions to recruit Rokka. However, Rokka seems so embarrassed that she can’t bring herself to do it. Or does she?
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Bang Dream! Third Season – Episode 1 – RAISE A SUILEN’s Obvious New Recruit
With Poppin Party pulling off a successful event, it seems that RAISE A SUILEN is still looking for another guitarist. ChuChu might have found the girl she was looking for.
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Winter 2020 Season Preview and Life Updates
With 2019 almost ending, it’s time to take a look of some shows I plan to watch along with some life updates. As always, this list is subject to change.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 12 and 13 (END) – Poppin’ Party’s Exciting Event
At last, Poppin’ Party’s self-sponsored show finally comes. Will it be a success?
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 11 – Tae and Her Love For Poppin’ Party
From last time, ChuChu won’t give up and asks Kasumi and her friends to hand over Tae. Will they give in or will Tae step in and share how she feels?
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 10 – Tae’s Decision
From last time, Tae didn’t quite make it back on time to perform with Poppin’ Party. Obviously, she was upset. With that, she decides to do something about it that will make ChuChu angry.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 9 – Disaster Waiting to Happen
The cultural festival has finally arrived, but does it go to plan? You should know that answer already.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 8 – Tae’s Dilemma
It’s obvious that Tae wants to play on the same band as her childhood friend, Lay. Is Tae making a big mistake?
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 7 – Tae Reunites With An Old Friend
As the cultural festival comes near, Hina tries to convince Sayo to do some joint cultural festival activities between the two schools.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 6 – The Origin of Afterglow
At last, Afterglow plans to perform at the annual Happy Go Festival. However, it doesn’t go well as expected in terms of weather.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 5 – Chisato’s Worst Kept Secret
At last, Pastel*Palettes finally get a day in the spotlight as they prepare for a performance. However, Chisato is missing out on all those practices for some reason.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 4 – Kokoro Making Flying Possible
As Poppin’ Party pushes ahead with their own sponsored event, Kasumi is still hung-ho with the idea of flying during their performance. Kokoro might have an idea that may work.
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Bang Dream’s Popularity Two Years Later, Girl-Band Boom or The Raise of Mobage?
Nearly two years ago, I wrote an editorial sharing my reasons why the Girl-Band Boom will never happen. Since then, Bang Dream has grown in popularity, especially with their overseas mobile game release. From this, I thought I was going to eat crow over this. With some thought, I wonder if the statement Kidani Takaaki made was correct. Or maybe, does it represent another trend for gaming in Japan? Here are my thoughts.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 3 – Asahi’s Band Searching Struggles
After Poppin’ Party performed, Yukina told Kasumi that she is not anywhere close to doing a self-sponsored event. From that, Kasumi and her friends felt down and eventually everyone starts to notice.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 2 – Kasumi Setting Expectations Too High, Again
It seems that Kasumi jumped the gun when she announced that they will do their own self-sponsored live show. The only problem is, they don’t know where to start.
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Bang Dream! Second Season – Episode 1 – New Bands and Familiar Faces
Kasumi and her friends finally past the audition at the Space live house and performed the last live there. Some time passed has as Kasumi and her friends enter their second year of high school.
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Winter 2019 Anime Season Preview
Now that the end of the year is approaching and of course, the end of fall, it’s time to take a look at what I plan to watch this Winter. As always, this list is subject to change.
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BanG Dream! – Final Review
A few months back, I shared my thoughts about Kidani Takaaki believing that idol boom will die and the band boom will happen. Of course, that never really went into fruition since girl band shows are not too different from idol anime.
Regardless, Bushiroad, the company behind the Love Live School Idol Festival mobile game decided to take gamble. They created a new franchise called BanG Dream focused on girl bands. They created an anime series to jump-start this trend. You might be asking yourself, did the anime succeeded in that goal? Not so much.
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BanG Dream! – Episode 13 (END) – The Performance to Remember
It’s finally the big day as Poppin’ Party perform at Space Live House. Will their performance go well?
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