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 11 – Tae and Her Love For Poppin’ Party
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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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Bang Dream and the Girl-Band Boom, Does it Even Exist or is it a Pipe dream?
For a while now, I have come across an article about BanG Dream. It’s about a statement that Kidani Takaaki made. He said that “the idol boom that has continued until now is already finished this year.”
In other words, he believes that idols will make way for the girl-band boom. However, I am very skeptical of that for many reasons that I will share.
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BanG Dream! – Episode 12 – The Moment of Truth
Now that Kasumi got over her difficulties, will Poppin’ Party pass their last try at an audition?
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BanG Dream! – Episode 11 – Kasumi Admits Her Weaknesses
After Kasumi lost her voice during the second audition, will she be able recover from this?
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BanG Dream! – Episode 10 – Kasumi’s Denial and Loss of Passion
Last time, Poppin’ Party did not pass the audition and Kasumi wonders why. Is Kasumi in denial about her performance after the owner tells her what’s wrong?
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BanG Dream! – Episode 9 – The Surprising Announcement
After a small intermission, it’s time for Kasumi to audition at her favorite music venue. Will she make it?
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BanG Dream – Episode 8 – Festival Time and Saya Overcomes Her Fears
The big day has come. Will Saya finally make her final decision?
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BanG Dream! – Episode 7 – Saya’s Dilemma
Kasumi is wondering why Saya doesn’t want to join the band. The reason becomes obvious.
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BanG Dream – Episode 6 – Saya’s Dilemma
With the culture festival coming up, Kasumi decides to volunteer and enlisting the help of Saya. She doesn’t realize how hard it is to organize it.
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BanG Dream – Episode 5 – Kasumi’s Takes Tae’s Music Challenge
After Tae said it’s impossible for Kasumi to pass an audition at the space music shop. I wonder why?
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