BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!

In their last year of middle school, the five band members of CRYCHIC went their separate ways after an unpleasant disbandment. Each wrestling with their own regrets, the girls enrolled in different high schools, hoping never to hear from one another again.

Meanwhile, Anon Chihaya transfers to Haneoka Girls' Academy in the middle of the school year. As most students play in a band as a hobby, Anon desires to fit in and spends her first days trying to recruit members for her own band, envisioning herself as the group's vocalist. She befriends Tomori Takamatsu, a shy girl who seems interested but hesitant about joining. As it turns out, Tomori used to be part of CRYCHIC, an experience that has scarred her deeply.

Through Tomori, Anon meets Taki Shiina and Soyo Nagasaki, both former members of the same band. Although Taki detests the idea of playing with Anon, Soyo is delighted to help her out. Now with Soyo by her side, Anon's dream of forming a band is within reach—if only she could find a few more members.

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Takamatsu, Tomori Main

Youmiya, Hina Japanese

Chihaya, Anon Main

Tateishi, Rin Japanese

Nagasaki, Soyo Main

Kohinata, Mika Japanese

Kaname, Raana Main

Aoki, Hina Japanese

Shiina, Taki Main

Hayashi, Koko Japanese

Toyama, Kasumi Supporting

Terakawa, Aimi Japanese

Aoba, Moca Supporting

Misawa, Sachika Japanese

Ichigaya, Arisa Supporting

Itou, Ayasa Japanese

Mitake, Ran Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Shirokane, Rinko Supporting

Shizaki, Kanon Japanese

Kitazawa, Shiryuu Producer

Matsuura, Hiroaki Producer, Planning

Kanari, Takefumi Producer

Heishi, Shuuichi Producer

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Aug 27, 2024

johnbradshaw

Recommended

When I finished watching this show, I have to shout: "Wow!! That's how you should do drama in anime!!!".

What I'll be writing here is purely my thoughts on the show. Before you read it, I'm assured you there is no spoilers and you don't need to know and watch any previous installments of the BanG Dream! Franchise to watch It's MYGO!!! And I'm a big fan of CGDCT anime along with idol/ music anime overall, so what I think is good might be a little bit bias.

The series kicks off with a more gloomy and somber tone than most idol shows! CRYCHIC, a girls band ... broke up without knowing the reasons, it left all its member pain, trauma and broken hearts. This took a surprising turn cause' BanG Dream! is mostly known as an anime with a really fun, bright story blending with some melodrama.

The story starts when transfer student Chihaya Anon wants to start a high school band and her journey to unknowingly gather all the members of CRYCHIC. She just doesn't know how much of a bumpy road she's gonna walk on.

As with all great slice of life, It's MyGO!!!! is a heavily character driven anime. And this anime has a really strong, colorful and grounded cast. All the characters, while still showing some signs of common tropes are all fleshed out, acting with realistic motives. I love the way they agonize through their mistakes and the way they deal with their trauma, it's really relatable and interesting. For characters, i give 10/10.

The music is top-notch!!! BanG Dream! always has great music but I personally enjoy the music of this installment the most!! A lot of real passionate, melancholic and raw soundtracks in this show. I'm sure any of you who's tired of the usual anime songs will love the music of this show.

Overall, It's MyGO!!! is not just a great idol anime! It's also a wonderful coming-of-age, a dramatic showing of pains, fears, losses, acceptance and love!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 5, 2024

CaptainKenshiro

Mixed Feelings

It seems that Japan has been taking the girls band/idol-ish subgenre a bit more seriously lately, so I wanted to check out some of those titles, starting with this entry of the vast BanG Dream multimedia franchise and all of their bands.

Word online says that it’s different from other entries by being far more dramatic, but also falling into the exaggerated and overdramatic. Well, my opinion about it is fairly neutral, as it wasn’t what I was expecting in both a good and a bad sense.

From the negative side, the tone wasn’t as serious as I expected it to be and the drama wasn’t as ... good nor as well established as I was expecting, as there is no clear reasoning behind the disbanding of the former band until just a brief hint at the very end of the series. Thus the main conflict isn’t looked into enough in my opinion.

From the positive side, reading about this show online, I expected it to be a lot more of a tearjerker that wants to manipulate your emotions with overdramatic reactions. Although it’s true that the characters tend to manipulate others and be somewhat toxic towards each other, the tone is not overdramatic nor melodramatic.

Not that the plot is that good though, as the story is still fairly simple, the pacing rather slow and the band does progress fairly fast at the end especially considering all the issues it had, thus it is not that believable either. Another issue is that although the characters end up sticking together, it does not seem like they resolved the big issues between them, ending in a kind of a toxic working relationship if anything else. I wonder if that’s how the band was presented in the videogames, and what does it say about the real band that launched from this one lol.

There are also references to other bands from the franchise and cameos of the ones that already had appearances in their own anime series, though I missed them at first because, well, this is the only series I watched from the franchise. I gotta say that every major band and character being nearby or having a direct connection with each other feels like a stretch though.

The resolution is so-so, it is what it is, what you would expect from it, as the band stayed together, nothing special. It also confirmed a sequel series focused on another band from the franchise, and in turn focusing on the girl that broke the previous existing band I guess. They seem to have a gothic theatrical vibe in them, and although a bit pretentious, I did preferred them musically over MyGO!!!!!, and if the tone is like the one in here, I want to check it out when it comes out.

The characters are also ok, they fit into a stereotype but are explored enough to explain their personalities with a half-decent result. I still think that they are very toxic towards each other to stay together, and their backdrop stories are way too simple to excuse any of their reactions, but having flawed characters with more than one dimension to their personalities does make them better than the competition. Other than that, despite their different stories, at the end of the day it all comes down to everyone wanting a place to belong, so the resolution of their character arcs do feel a bit samey and repetitive after a while.

Just for the sake of writing some more both about them and in the review, I appreciate Komori being the shy, quiet and emotionally suppressed character moving from being the token girl to becoming a proactive character that learns to voice her thoughts and standing up to others and getting everyone together. Best girl not only for being the best written character, but also the most mentally sane.

Anon was interesting to follow for how selfish and self-centered she was, yet still tries to be a good person and find her own path alongside the others. She is the second most looked into character, being the co-protagonist and main perspective we follow in the first half of the series and all. Her drama, backdrop and character arc of realizing she is not as amazing and special as she used to think was somewhat interesting to see.

The others are not as good, Taki isn’t as interesting as she seemed to be, her initial rude behaviour changing to a kind of overprotective and maternal attitude around Tomori didn’t feel organic to make her a character that well written.

As for Sayo…well, seeing the typical nice and relaxed girl that wants for everyone to be on good terms and stick together snapping and ending up being the worst and most manipulative and toxic character was kind of awesome at first, but it all resulted in the slowest and most overdramatic episodes in the whole series. Plus down to it, doesn’t Anon already fill her role in the story with being a fake nice girl and all? And her past of feeling lonely and wanting somewhere to belong and stuff does not excuse her being a bitch, the others had that as well and didn’t do any of all that toxic shit. Seems kinda redundant to have this girl around, writing wise I mean, I know she HAS to be in there because she is the bassist.

And Raana…what were they doing with this character man? She is just the token funny kinda random character that’s there just to make the tone a bit more lighthearted when things are becoming too serious or sad. She has no personality nor character arc whatsoever, and she even enters the band just because she wants, and also because she is the best musician of the bunch.

The girls of the other band are just kinda there, coming off as bitches with first world problems than anything else, but some other friends and members they come to find at the end seem nice. There’s nothing else to say about them because they will get their own series next year.

Visually, anime has come a long way to make CGI that doesn’t look like complete trash and make characters with enough facial expressions to not come off as robots, but is still not that good and the motions are a bit stiff. Luckily the backgrounds were very good, so it gets a bit of an extra point for that.

The sound effects and music do their job just fine. I don’t find the themes impressive in the least, especially after listening to them outside of the anime, because I don’t fancy much talking in the middle of a song, and the lyrics come off as first world teen girl problems. But as background music for the anime and used narratively as forms of expression for the characters, they are fine, and that includes the opening and ending. As for the voice acting…I’m not entirely sure but I think the standard for this subgenre is making the bands themselves act, instead of hiring seiyuus that can sing, or better yet hiring seiyuus and replacing them in the musical parts. As a result, whenever the girls aren’t singing, they are very mediocre at best as far as acting goes.

So yeah, there kind of is a story, conflict, dramatic pasts, hardships while forming an indie band from scratch and making it big. That alone, and not becoming a mess all things considered, are enough to consider it a bit more realistic and place it on top of other shows of its kind, which presents the same thing in a very unrealistic and idealized manner. But it is also nowhere near great for any particular reason.

I’d like to add that after this series I went on to watch the other kind of dramatic entry in the franchise, the Roselia movies, so I will cover them shortly. Visuals and sound left the same impressions in me as this title, although I preferred the themes of that other band because MyGO!!!!! has a bit more typical jpop style, while Roselia leans more towards rock with a bit of gothic vibes in them, which I prefer by a lot. I still don’t like that there are many voices singing at the same time, as they feel like pop idol groups to me, and I don’t like them one bit, and the themes themselves aren’t as good on their own as they are for background music (I’m listening to their singles as I write this), but they’re overall fine. With that said, Komori is a far better singer than the one of Roselia, very noticeable on a a capella scene near the end of the first movie, if I remember correctly.

The main issue about these movies is that they’re like two and a half hours long combined. They should either be longer or a proper series, as they are, the first one is very rushed, making events, character interactions and changes, drama, conflicts and the band progressing, to come and go very fast and not being believable and convincing, thus it deserves a below average score. By the second one, all of that was over, and it was shorter and just about the characters introspecting a bit and defining their goals and motivations before they make some new songs and get what they wanted at the end, so it was ok and better. The characters weren’t as interesting as the ones from MyGO!!!!! but they’re fine. So yeah, the first movie was bad, the second one wasn’t and improved the characters, making an overall watchable whole.

I considered the two more serious and dramatic BanG Dream to be watchable and a step up from other similar titles that I could barely stand, if at all, and will try to watch Ave Mujica next year.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 4, 2024

Afrian_Patria

Not Recommended

Beyond my expectations, I hoped it would be a fun anime according to the anime title and the previous series, but in reality there were many dark sides and betrayals in the storyline, to be honest, I couldn't enjoy this anime and several times I wanted to stop watching it, but I tried to keep looking for the positive side and maybe A good resolution at the end of the episode, which in fact remains a mess with a loose ending where the root of the conflict from the beginning of the episode is never clearly revealed, instead showing an antagonist scene with a ... broken home background, maybe if there is a season 2, the antagonist character Saki will be the main MC with the background of a broken home and to make the story darker, scenes of domestic violence are added which usually lead to scenes of immoral acts committed by his parents which change the character of the good-hearted patient into a traitor and aloof. This is in line with the last episode where a mysterious band was created with elements of gothic appearance imitating Rosalia's band. This is just my assumption, yes that's the bad impression I can imagine from this BangDream anime series, maybe this is the dark version of BangDream. I'm disappointed with this series, there isn't a single good soundtrack, there isn't a story that creates motivation related to the band and the goals they achieve, all the characters have bad social problems that end in prolonged conflict without complete resolution, so don't expect There are cheerful and positive characters in this series but there are characters with social ills who provide negative energy in the story cycle and for those who watch this anime it is really bad. I liked the previous BangDream series but not this series. So the story line rating: 4

for the soundtrack song, score: 5 (the songs don't touch my heart.Nothing can be saved for my playlist of songs from this anime soundtrack )

the graphic animation is: 7.5 (the graphic background is good but yes I don't like 2.5D characters because they don't have details, they look like inflated balloons and don't blend in with the background graphics, big-eyed anime characters are not suitable for 2.5D animation)

I don't recommend this anime because it's not a fun anime with positive motivation girlband, 80% of the story is just full of conflict without creativity that reflects the band. There is not a single element in this anime that reflects the anime title BangDream!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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