BanG Dream!

BanG Dream!
Original title	バ ン ド リ
transcription	Bandori
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genre	music

BanG Dream! ( バンドリ Bandori ) is the name of a multimedia - franchises of the Japanese media group Bushiroad , the beginning of the year has started, 2015.

The franchise consists of several manga and light novel series, several anime series and a smartphone game .

history

The series started in January 2015 with the publication of the manga series BanG Dream !: Star Beat of the mangaka Aya Ishida in the monthly Bushiroad . A month later, Aimi Terakawa announced that it had become part of the franchise . Linked to this is the founding of the group Poppin'Party in which she is a singer and guitarist . In April, Seiyū colleagues met Rimi Nishimoto and Ayasa Itō , so that the trio gave their first concert for BanG Dream! played. Shortly before their second concert in June, the group got their name. In addition, Sae Ōtsuka became the fourth member. The group is completed by Ayaka Ōhashi , who joined the quartet during the fourth concert in October. On February 24, 2016, the first single Yes! BanG Dream! , which was followed by the first concert with the full line-up two months later.

A collaboration between BanG Dream and the Lawson chain in Chongqing , PR China , 2019.

In 2017 the franchise was expanded to include an anime series and the smartphone game BanG Dream! Girls band party! expanded. To produce the anime series, Bushiroad entered into a partnership with the animation studio OLM back in 2015 and opened the joint venture studio Issen. With the release of the smartphone game, more groups were announced: Afterglow, Pastel ＊ Palettes, Roselia and Hello, Happy World !. Roselia made her first appearance on the Tokyo Game Show in 2016 and released her first single Black Shout in April of that year. In May 2018 the band celebrated great success with the release of their debut album Anfang , which sold 25,000 copies in the first week of sales and thus reached number two on the Japanese album charts .

The Third, a backing band that played the instruments for the groups whose members are not professional musicians, appeared as a separate group with Poppin'Party and Roselia in April 2018. The Third, the project name of the group was later RAISE A Suilen renamed and received in Risa Tsumugi growth as a DJ . With Morfonica , a seventh volume was presented in March 2020 to celebrate the release of the mobile game in 2017. Like Poppin'Party, Roselia and RAISE A SUILEN, Morfonica also perform live and produce their own music.

In January 2020 Poppin'Party released their single Initial / Yume wo Uchinuku Shunkan ni! , which contains both the opening and closing titles for the third season of the anime series. This rose to number one in the Japanese single charts with 27,000 units sold , making this the first number one position for a group from this franchise in the official charts. In May 2020, the fourth cover compilation album BanG Dream! Girls band party! Cover Collection Vol. 4 released, which also reached the top position in the Japanese charts.

The anime series has meanwhile received three seasons, an OVA , a movie and two offshoots . Four more anime projects were announced in 2020. Each of these is an anime film. These are BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd Stage , Episode of Roselia , which receives two films, and Poppin'Dream . The films are scheduled for 2021 and 2022. With ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream! a new part of the franchise was also announced, which is focused on a male target group. A stage work that focuses on the group RAISE A SUILEN was performed from July 15th. The last performance will take place on July 19, 2020 at the Galaxy Theater in Tokyo .

The smartphone game was the second most successful rhythm game in 2018 in Japan by revenue behind The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage and ranked 15th overall among the most commercially successful games.

media

Print media

Name of the plant	Authors	Art	Started	Completed	Published volumes
BanG Dream !: Star Beat	Aya Ishida	Manga series	0January 8, 2015	0December 8, 2015	2
Motto! GaRuPa Life!	unknown	Yonkoma , web manga	2016
RAiSe! The story of my music	Ko Nakamura	Manga	August 25, 2016	August 25, 2016	1
BanG Dream!	Ko Nakamura	Manga	March 14, 2019	March 14, 2019	1
GARUPA ☆ PICO Comic Anthology	various	Manga	March 14, 2019	March 14, 2019	1
Roselia Stage	Pepato Dokuta	Manga	February 10, 2017	25th September 2017	2

Cinema and television

Name of the plant	Director	Art	Started	Completed	Episodes
BanG Dream!	Atsushi Ōtsuki (1st season) Kōdai Kakimoto (2nd / 3rd season)	Anime series	January 21, 2017		39 (planned)
BanG Dream! OVA	Atsushi Ōtsuki (1st season)	Original video animation	22nd November 2017	22nd November 2017	1
Pastel life	Atsushi Ōtsuki (1st season) Kōdai Kakimoto (2nd / 3rd season)	Anime miniseries	May 16, 2018	June 21, 2018	6th
BanG Dream! Girls band party! ☆ Pico		Anime offshoots	05th July 2018		26+ (planned)
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE	Tomomi Umezu	Anime film	13th September 2019	13th September 2019	1
BanG Dream! FILM LIVE 2nd stage		Anime movie	still unknown	still unknown	1
BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: Yakusoku		Anime movie	2021	2021	1
BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia II: Song I Am		Anime movie	2021	2021	1
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!		Anime movie	2022	2022	1
Argonavis from BanG Dream!	Hiroshi Nishikiori	Anime series	April 10, 2020 (planned)

Video games

Name of the game	Type of game	developer	operating system	publication	languages
BanG Dream! Girls band party!	Smartphone game , rhythm game	Craft Egg	Android , iOS	Japan : March 16, 2017 / / : April 4, 2018 South Korea : April 6, 2018 0  0	Japanese , Korean , English , Chinese

music

→ Main article : BanG Dream! / Discography

Web links

• Official homepage (English, Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Jessica Long: BANG DREAM: Poppin 'Party's Rise to Stardom. ComicsVerse , July 10, 2017, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ブ シ ロ ー ド ラ イ ブ 発 表 速 報！ BanG Dream !, December 14, 2015, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved March 10, 2020 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kara Dennison: "BanG Dream!" Is Here to Invade All Your Media with CD, Smartphone Game. Crunchyroll , January 2, 2017, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
4. ^ Paul Chapman: Bushiroad and OLM, Inc. Form Joint Venture "ISSEN". Crunchyroll, December 21, 2015, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
5. ↑ 『バ ン ド リ！』 Roselia （ロ ゼ リ ア） メ ン バ ー 初 顔 出 し！ 音 楽 に ス ス イ イ ッ ク な 彼女 ら の ス ト ー リ ー は 修羅 場 必 TG 2016？ 【. Famitsu , September 18, 2016, accessed March 20, 2020 (Japanese). 
6. ↑ 【バ ン ド リ！】 Roselia 1st single 「BLACK SHOUT」 発 売 決定！ Bushiroad Music , February 25, 2017, accessed March 10, 2020 (Japanese). 
7. ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: "Bang Dream!" VA Band Roselia's 1st album Ranks No.1 in Japan's Digital Album Charts. Crunchyroll, May 7, 2018, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Kara Dennison: "BanG Dream!" to Debut New Band in Concert Event. Crunchyroll, April 3, 2018, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: BangG Dream! Franchise's 3rd Girls Band Reveals Their Official Name "RAISE A SUILEN". Crunchyroll, July 18, 2018, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: BanG Dream! 'S 4th Real Band Morfonica Members Introduce Themselves in Video. Crunchyroll, March 5, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: BanG Dream! Unit Poppin'Party Gets Their First No.1 Single on Weekly Charts. Crunchyroll, January 13, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
12. ↑ 6/8 付 週 間 ア ル バ ム ラ ン キ ン グ 、 1 位 は 『バ ン ド リ! ガ ー ル ズ バ ン ド パ ー テ ィ! 』カ バ ー コ レ ク シ ョ ン Vol.4. Oricon , June 5, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 (Japanese). 
13. ↑ Robin Hirsch: "BanG Dream!" Receives three more films. Anime2you.de, April 23, 2020, accessed April 23, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Mikikazu Komatsu: BanG Dream! Franchise's 1st Stage Play "We are RAISE A SUILEN" Reveals Key Visual. Crunchyroll, April 7, 2020, accessed April 23, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Roselia ニ ュ ー ・ ア ル バ ム 発 売 、 RAISE A SUILEN は 舞台 が 開幕. Billboard Japan , July 15, 2020, accessed July 17, 2020 (Japanese). 
16. ↑ 2018 年 ア プ リ 収益 予 測 @ Game-i †. Game-i.daa.jp, accessed March 1, 2020 (Japanese).