Introduction
Kasumi Toyama and the members of Poppin'Party—their high school band—are now second-year students, but with the new school year comes their latest set of challenges: student council duties, cram school, and part-time jobs, among other things. Furthermore, they are now separated into different classes, and as a result, their free time together is shortened. Looking back, their joyful times together seem like nothing more than an unachievable fantasy when their members are too occupied to even gather in Arisa Ichigaya's basement for practice sessions. As the band ponders over the situation, an unfamiliar girl suddenly emerges, unknowingly pulling them into the spotlight once more.
In this rising era of girl bands, Afterglow, Pastel*Palettes, Roselia, and Hello, Happy World! begin to make their appearance as well. Each band, comprised of musicians with their unique personalities, illuminates the stage with its performances. As Poppin'Party returns to the music scene and encounters new friends, the sparkling, heart-pounding music starts to play once again!
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HOLOADDICT
Bang Dream's 2nd season is quite a far cry from its predecessor, which satisfyingly improves on the quality of the series as a whole.
The first and most notable difference is the presentation. The characters are mostly CGI, and it's a stylistic choice that works wonderfully to blend them into the environment instead of ostracizing them. Having the CGI makes it so the characters can display a wider variety of emotion and have a smooth range of movement. Comparatively, season 1's more traditional animation feels half-baked, and as a result makes the movement feel rigid.
New characters and bands appeared to diversify the cast and enrich the world around them. The amount of new faces and musical genres guarantees there's something that will appeal to your taste. While there aren't enough e…
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I don't even have words to express how much I love Bang Dream and its characters, especially Toyama Kasumi. The story of the game and the anime are very engaging, the characters are charismatic and have a lot of personality, the music is to please many tastes, and the seiyuu are also very charismatic and quite talented. Some people are prejudiced against the anime from the second season onwards, because of the CGI, but in my opinion it has been improving more and more, and I also think it is much better than the animation in the first season, apart from the sexualization that it had before.
Watch the anime, play the game, also watch Garupa Pico, the movies, I guarantee you won't regret it!
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After finishing season 3, I am returning to give my thoughts. I rank the seasons 3 > 1 > 2. Season 2 is my least favorite, but it's worth watching to be ready for season 3. What do I not like and what do I like?
> What do I not like?
The biggest problem is introducing 25 new characters (5 bands with 5 girls each). These characters are in the mobile game, and the anime has to introduce them to grow the franchise. That is understandable, but it is challenging.
The biggest challenge for viewers is in episodes 4, 5, and 6, which introduced Hello Happy World, Pastel Palettes, and Afterglow. We meet 15 new characters in 3 episodes, and there is not enough time to learn their personalities, names, and faces.
In contrast, the girls from Roselia had a cameo in season 1 (and an appearance in the s…
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After the god awful animation from xebec it got transferred to another studio and they did 3d animation so that's a plus
The anime is pretty good the art was okay-ish but there are quite a handful of times where the shadow of the 3d model is just all over the place for example look at aya maruyama's 3d model in and off the stage. the in stage model is horrible, then we move on to the story which is a mess like continue where the last season took off directors not everyone plays the game and be like "oh is that poppin party, roselia, afterglow, pastel*pallettes and hello happy world!?" (what i meant to say is give a proper introduction on the bands) the sound is good because it's from the game lol shat did you expect the characters are diverse but other characters are lacking.
In this ani…
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Bang Dream! is a pretty okay tier. I played their game and watched their anime. For someone wanted to watch this series. I guess it's not that bad to watch.
Plot 5/10:
The same, nothing is so much that standout. But more groups and running out of the idea. Also the graph for the main plot is a bit like function graph which means the starting was very nonsense completely full of fanservices in my opinion I don't like it so much, It's just not from the artist himself but for fans themselves.
Story 5/10
The story is a little bit worse because poorly made 3D but accurate. Also the emotional scenes are also function graph.
Art 5/10
Pretty okay, I genuinely have to say it's pretty disappoint for the big company to animated 3D not so great. Lack of effects light beams and stuffs. Just a bunch…
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After falling into Gacha hell aka the BanG Dream! Video game, I decided to watch the show. The first season was flawed but enjoyable, but the second season really had me speechless at points. The second season of BanG Dream! is a result that is far greater than the sum of its components.
STORY: 7/10
Not spoiling anything, the story has a very typical goal for the main band of girls. I don't think any of the stories were great by any means, and often it felt like stories and characters acted in ways that would heighten drama rather than a story that made sense. The show also had a flaw of giving each band their own introductory episode, which had various plotlines that felt not very necessary such as the Pastel Palettes episode. But the show came with absolute BANGER episodes like the epis…
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Before I go into this one, let me add I am bias toward Bandori in general because of how much I really do enjoy it as a whole. I've played the game a lot and I've watched the first season, so knowing the characters very well already makes it easier to write this review, just makes it a bit more bias because of my love for this franchise.
Story: The story to the second season is a step above and beyond the first season, revolving around Popipa yet again but this time actually giving the story something to really get behind and to enjoy. The addition of RAS was something that seemed a little random at first but as the story progressed and I started to get a feel for them, it made everything connect and it connected the story together very nicely.
Art: I'm not the biggest fan behind the C…
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Oh boy, off the bat the animation here went full change and the back stories into last season style...completely boggled but it was rather unique.. Sadly due to this many hated this direction and its completely understandable, but it made the show better at least for me.
The first episode you will get ALOT thrown at you so heads up, but what made this season better than the first is how you get not one, or two, but multiple stories of the other bands, music, not to mention really good comedy. By far the better of the 2, and its ideal to watch the first season so you'll know the girls and bands better.
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What BanG Dream! 2nd Season managed to pull off from a slightly below average first season totally caught me off guard and make me happy a lot.
I'm not a big fan of idol anime but I do enjoy a good one, and Bang Dream! 2nd Season is one of those few ones. While still follows the usual path of other shows, its differences lies in those unexpected plot twists with great character developement.
Although the side characters are still very one-dimensional, the main ones are great and pleasant to watch. Combining with great songs, I can assure you that Bang Dream 2nd season is one of those idol anime you must watch
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So, I'm not one to write reviews very often, and when I did, they were very brief and pretty sarcastic. I don't even write thorough reviews for my absolute favorite shows. But I come today with a heavy heart to announce to the world that just when people thought the first season of BanG Dream!'s anime adaptation didn't do the franchise any justice, the second season made the former look pretty good.
The mobile game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! has had a massive popularity explosion since its release, and the release of the English server in April 2018 made the franchise even more accessible to the community, and I've seen more and more LLSIF players hopping over to Garupa just to see what all the hype's about, only to end up *staying for good.*
Why did this happen, you ask? I've seen ma…
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I don't know if I can even fully articulate how disappointing of an experience watching this show was for me. This won't be very strictly constructed, but hopefully at least somebody can relate
Right off the bat, I can admit that a lot of the characters in Bandori aren't very well written. A lot of them are incredibly weak, one-note and pretty cliche, but in the game it worked because the event stories being told were more about simple fun little short stories about how different combinations of the 25 girls interact in different scenarios. It's not perfect and it's incredibly basic, but it's a fun and addictive formula that takes advantage of it's huge cast and keeps you wondering what story and dynamic they'll explore next. In fact it's for that exact reason why PICO is still my favouri…
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So, as someone being a big fan of the Bang Dream franchise who plays the game, likes the songs, and somewhat enjoys the characters, I should be the perfect target audience for this anime, should I? Turns out that this wasn't turning out to be true.
The story was all over the place and sometimes really dragged, which is surprising considering that this is only a 12-episode anime. You have six bands: Poppin' Party, Hello, Happy World!, Pastel*Palettes, Roselia, Afterglow and Raise A Suilen (RAS). This makes it 30 characters to be placed in a coherent story, which already sounds like a task destinied to fall flat. Sure, every band (except RAS) is introduced with a small gig at ep. 1 but you don't actually learn backstory about the charaters and the band respectively. It is assumed you play t…
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You can't really fully enjoy this anime without playing the game, regardless of whether you've watched season 1 or not. This is the kind of anime where seeing your favorite character get screen time already makes your day.
Nevertheless, my hopes for this season was for all 5 bands to interact with one another, with the bonus of RAS joining the fray. Safe to say that the show did this to a certain degree.
One interesting move is advancing everyone by a year, with some interesting turn of events. For example, Rinko became the SC president for Hanasakigawa and Hina either ended or saved Haneoka HS by being the boppin SC pres there. While the show had its concert-style premiere and finale episodes, along with single-band focus episodes early on, the best part without a doubt was the cultural…
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Regarding this anime, there are many flaws yet it still can shine. If you haven't played the game, watched the first season only, or even played on the EN server, there's a lot that you will miss in this anime. Nevertheless, don't let my first sentences dissuade you from enjoying this franchise.
Talking about the story, there's no other way to cut it. Let me reiterate, if you have absolutely no background whatsoever, you will be very confused watching this. Furthermore, the first few episodes are basically an advertisement for each of the 5 bands that we can see in the game. The story only picks up towards the end, and even then, the upcoming third season will probably wrap things up the story.
For the art, before watching this, I've heard many people characterize CGI anime as being ba…
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First, let me get one thing straight: the first season was a goddamn masterpiece. The characters were awesome, the plot was heart-wrenching, and the art/sound design was beautiful in spite of its unfortunately low budget. I love the game too, but I'm only a fan of Popipa after playing for 2 years; the other bands are meh. Biases aside, season 2 is by far one of the worst shows I've ever seen. People who are fans of the franchise tend to say they love it, but I can't. For the most part, it's unoriginal and lazily produced.
Let's start with the plot. The show starts off with some vague exposition that doesn't really go anywhere, and the conflict ends up being dropped for the next 4 episodes or so, where instead the other bands get obligatory (and completely irrelevant) screen time. In the e…
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A step up
BanG Dream as an franchise for LA was kinda hard especially when the lackluster, "in your face" attempt in trying to say that "idol animes are gone, bands are future" and everything and the first season didn't exactly pan out for LA for several reasons, The 2nd Season makes some redemption towards the failures of it's first season but also brings in new flaws into the mix but overall this 2nd Season is presented in a much more focused light than the first season ever did.
BanG Dream!'s 2nd Season starts off with many of the bands working on their latest lives but with Roselia being the first to maker their first self-sponsored show, this enlightens Kasumi of Poppin' Party to make one of their own, so they get ideas from the other bands. That is the first half of the anime as a…
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With a multimedia franchise like BanG Dream, it can be difficult to figure out where to start. While this may be labeled as the second season, it’s also something of a soft reboot, and intended to be viewable even if you haven’t seen the first season. But at the same time, this season doesn’t include formal character introductions, even for characters who hadn’t been present in the first season, so new viewers may be a bit lost initially. If you want to consume some other material before jumping in, it probably wouldn’t hurt, but at the same time, if you’re interested in the franchise because you saw some 4komas on Twitter or whatever, that’s probably enough.
But if you are going in blind, be prepared to be overwhelmed by the size of the cast. Between the project’s five main bands, there…
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One thing that I want to note is that you DO NOT have to watch Season 1 of the anime, or have to had played the mobile game (BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!) in order to enjoy this series. But, the full derivation of enjoyment will undeniably be obtained only if you've done the aforementioned. It enables you to treasure the characterization/seiyuu references of the main characters that are scattered throughout the episodes — namely Poppin'Party and a few newly introduced characters.
The first few episodes serve as an introduction to the viewers who are unfamiliar with the characters from the mobile game, with the main plot coming in after that. It may feel a little awkward, and even filler-ly if you're a hardcore fan of the franchise. But in order to draw in a larger audience/newcomers, I…
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The first thing i want to say is that its a huge improvement if we compare it to the previous season even the animation is better.
STORY/PLOT
I actually discovered the game first and ended up loving it to the point where i decided to give the anime a try and im not going to lie, I was pretty disappointed with season 1 because it just wasn't good in any aspect, unless you just want the backstory on poppin party. Since the first season was bad i was pretty hesitant going into the second one but to my surprise it turned out better than i expected.The story finally contained more emotion(at least for me) and wasn't half bad. All the bands face their own challenges and they overcome them together. You could skip season 1 and get straight to this but even if it was bad it would help you know th…
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