24 minSeason 3 • Episode 13
LatestThe Girls Band Challenge finals arrive as Poppin'Party, RAS, and Roselia assemble at the Budokan, where they help set up the stage. Before Poppin'Party's performance, Rimi confides to her band that she is hesitant to play as the finals symbolize the end of their journey up to that point. However, she and the band are uplifted when they hear the crowd recite their pre-performance chant. Poppin'Party and Roselia perform new songs, while RAS play a rendition of Chiyu's birthday song. The audience votes for the winner, with Roselia claiming the Grand Prize; to the others' surprise, RAS receives the Best Performance title while Poppin'Party is named Best Band. The three bands close out the event by playing their collaboration song.
Since she was very young, Kasumi Toyama has always been searching for the "Star Beat", a sparkling and exciting sound she heard while looking up at the night sky. Just after getting into high school, Kasumi comes across a "star-shaped guitar" in the storage area of an old pawn shop. Feeling a rush and excitement she has never felt before, Kasumi teams up with four other girls and embarks on a journey to seek out the shiny place. We promise to perform a live here!
Score
Original songs that slap harder than they should.
Production
Live-action band performs the anime music.
Acting
Voice cast IS the real band—method acting extreme.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BanG Dream! pioneered the 'real band, animated show' model—the seiyuu actually perform live concerts as their characters, blurring fiction and reality.
The voice actresses learned their instruments from scratch; early live performances were genuinely rough, making the in-show struggles weirdly authentic.
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