BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! is a Japanese anime television series created by Bushiroad and produced by Sanzigen. It is a spin-off of the main BanG Dream! anime series, serving as its chronological sequel. The series aired from June to September 2023. Two compilation films recapping the events of the series with some additional scenes were released in September and November 2024. A manga adaptation written and illustrated by Yuama with story by Yotsuji Haibuchi, titled BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! Swaying in the Rain, Looking for the Sunshine, began serialization in Bushiroad's magazine Comic Growl in December 2024.
The series received generally positive reviews. Critics and fans have praised It's MyGO!!!!! for its plot, role design, visuals, and depiction of interpersonal relations and mood disorder as well as its unconventional approach to the realm of music anime. A sequel focusing on the characters of the band Ave Mujica, BanG Dream! Ave Mujica, was broadcast in 2025, and a sequel to both It's MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica is set to premiere in January 2027.
Premise The series follows the formation of the titular band MyGO!!!!!, one of two bands, along with Ave Mujica, that were founded following the breakup of the band Crychic. Haneoka Girls' Academy student Tomori Takamatsu is approached by recent transferee Anon Chihaya, who aims to recruit her in building a band upon seeing most of the school being in bands. Tomori hesitates to accept her invite as Anon learns and becomes involved in the drama of Tomori's former band alongside Tomori's bandmates Soyo Nagasaki and Taki Shiina and outsider Rāna Kaname that threatens the growth of their fledgling band.
Characters MyGO!!!!!
A first-year at Haneoka Girls' Academy, she often sees things differently from others and has trouble making friends. Despite her introverted nature, she deeply cares for her friends and bandmates and accepts them for who they are despite their flaws. She was part of the all-girls band Crychic with four others, where she was the vocalist. Following the band's hostile breakup during middle school, she once again became reclusive and hesitant to join bands. She later joins the band, later named MyGO!!!!!, led by Anon, and sees it as a second chance to overcome her trauma from Crychic's breakup. Tomori also has many quirky habits, including collecting objects she finds aesthetically pleasing, such as rocks, notebooks, and bandages featuring animal designs, and arranging objects neatly. Director Kōdai Kakimoto said he wanted to depict Tomori as a "punk band vocalist" and embody punk itself through her character's inability to get along with people in daily life, making her a manifestation of miscommunication.
A first-year at Haneoka Girls' Academy who recently transferred in after studying abroad in England. She can be proactive, trendy, does well academically, and while she was popular in her middle school, she distances herself from how she acted back then. She leads the effort to create a band, later named MyGO!!!!!, to become popular after seeing much of Haneoka's student body being part of bands despite overstating her own skills at guitar and eventually convinces Soyo, Taki, Tomori, and Rāna to join, and becoming the rhythm guitarist of the band. According to writer Yuniko Ayana, Anon was chosen as the point-of-view character for the beginning of the series so as to more easily introduce the audience to Tomori and the inciting incident of Crychic's breakup without overwhelming the audience with such a complex and emotionally heavy plot point at the beginning of the story.
A student at Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy, in her third year of middle school, she is eccentric, appears frequently at the live music venue RiNG, has impressive skills at playing the guitar, and is clear about what she dislikes and likes. She later joins the band MyGO!!!!! as its lead guitarist, though she acts on her own accord and appears at the band's practice sessions infrequently. It is later revealed that she is Shifune Tsuzuki's granddaughter, and she aspired to join a band to find somewhere she can belong after the closing of Space. Ayana stated that Rāna's character and her connection to Space was conceptualized early in the development of It's MyGO!!!!!, as the story was initially planned to be set between the events of the first and second seasons of the anime series.
A first-year at Tsukinomori Girls' Academy who plays the double bass in the school's brass band club. She has a reputation for being kind to others, and was previously the bassist for Crychic. She is friends with Mutsumi, and she regularly updates her on the wellbeing of their former bandmates following the band's breakup. Underneath her calm facade, she attempts to reform Crychic through convincing Sakiko and Mutsumi to rejoin. She later joins the band MyGO!!!!! in order to achieve her goal. Kakimoto said that the production team set her character's keyword as the "mother of the group". This not only stems from her gentle personality but is also related to her complicated family background.
A first-year at Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy, she works part-time at RiNG and likes being alone, causing her to be antisocial and abrasive towards others, especially Anon. Despite this, she is caring and is good friends with Tomori, whom she is highly protective of following Crychic's breakup and looks up to with admiration, and she has an older sister. She was formerly the drummer for Crychic, and later joins the band MyGO!!!!!. Ayana said that the motive of designing Taki was to emphasize Tomori's amazing talent as a genius lyricist. Kakimoto stated that the relationship between Taki, Anon, and Tomori is one of the key focuses in the anime's creation.
Other characters
A first-year at Haneoka Girls' Academy, who often plays piano at the school's music room. She was formerly the keyboardist for the band Crychic, which consisted of herself, Mutsumi, Tomori, Soyo, and Taki. However, she quit the band for unknown reasons, which led to her friendships with Tomori, Soyo, and Taki becoming strained. She later forms and becomes band leader for Ave Mujica, which is introduced at the end of the series, and takes on the alter-ego "Oblivionis".
A student at Tsukinomori Girls' Academy and formerly part of Crychic, where she played guitar, who is bad at expressing how she feels. She is friends with Soyo and Sakiko, and she tends to act as their intermediary regarding their individual motives. She later joins the band Ave Mujica and takes on the alter-ego "Mortis."
A first-year at Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy who is skilled at playing bass and participates in a large number of bands. She is a friend of Taki and they engage in friendly banter regarding their respective bands. She later joins the band Ave Mujica, using the alter-ego "Timoris." Yuniko Ayana stated in an interview that Umiri's character was inspired by a social media post she had seen from a real life teenage bass player, who claimed that they were at one point been a member of ten bands simultaneously.
A first-year at Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy and classmate of Taki and Umiri, who is the vocalist and guitarist in an idol unit called sumimi. She is childhood friends with Sakiko and later joins her band Ave Mujica, using the alter-ego "Doloris."
An online influencer who Anon frequently watches. Nicknamed "Nyamuchi," she mainly posts videos about beauty and make-up, and is later shown to be skilled at playing drums. She later joins the band Ave Mujica and takes on the alter-ego "Amoris."
The vocalist and bandmate of Uika in the idol unit sumimi.
Production Planning After producing the 3rd season of the main BanG Dream! series, the production team developed the idea to "portray characters more realistically" and "depict irreversible major events in the storyline". Subsequently, Bushiroad producer Yuki Nemoto conceived a "serious-themed band project" originating from the idea of "debut a melodic hardcore band and a metal band". When the script reached approximately episode 4 during development, Bushiroad decided to integrate this project into the existing BanG Dream! universe. This decision led the production team to pause scriptwriting and overhaul character designs and story settings. The original plan of telling a 26-episode story about two bands with a total of 10 members was restructured into two seasons separately focuses on different bands. Ultimately, the production team decided to allocate the core narrative to two anime series, It's MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica, clearly delineating the narrative trajectories of the two bands.
Writing According to lead writer Yuniko Ayana, the choice to make It's MyGO!!!!! a more tonally serious drama came at the request of Yuki Nemoto. Nemoto said he hopes It's MyGO!!!!! will be a work resonating with the younger generation, portraying the genuine, laughter-and-tears-filled interpersonal relationships among high school students. Given the lighter tone of previous BanG Dream! installments, Ayana initially struggled with balancing this heavy-toned direction with the desire to not alienate fans of earlier installments, but series director Kōdai Kakimoto encouraged her to give it her all. Ayana drew on her past personal experiences with "betrayal and distrust", which provided the impetus for Tomori's emotional conflict within the series narrative. To prepare for writing the series, Ayana did research into real-life bands of high school girls, which informed some of the story and characters. Ayana stated that she felt It's MyGO!!!!! was the most realistic work she had written thus far, even including her works outside of the BanG Dream! franchise.
According to Kakimoto, the script for It's MyGO!!!!! underwent multiple drastic overhauls. Initially, the story direction was based on character settings, but the actual writing process revealed the characters' multifaceted personalities, triggering chain reactions, such as altered motivations, reconstructed relationships, and interwoven plotlines. Each adjustment required rebuilding subsequent developments and retconning scripts already in progress, resulting in some episodes being rewritten up to five or six times. For example, the initial concept portrayed Anon Chihaya as a "bold-acting returnee student beneath a model-student facade", but to differentiate her from other BanG Dream! characters like Rokka Asahi, her flaws such as "trend-chasing vanity" and "calculating nature" were amplified to "deepen human authenticity". He further stated that before merging into the series, all characters had more sharp-edged personalities than the current versions, and they had considered ending the story with the band's dissolution. After being incorporated into the project, the overseers granted them "complete creative freedom" to develop original storylines. After revising "overly realistic elements", they established the framework that first season focusing on MyGO!!!!! and second season centering on Ave Mujica. In order to better integrate this series into the BanG Dream! project, the writing staff made the decision to assign the characters to existing schools in the BanG Dream! universe, and created their interaction with the previous BanG Dream! characters.
To design Tomori's notebook and style of writing, the production team referenced numerous lyricists' poetry collections, along with the doodles and handwritten notes found within them. Writer Midori Gotō created Tomori's monologues and poems in Episode 10.
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