Spoilers for BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!!
When the Summer 2023 anime season started, I didn’t have high expectations for BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!!. While I had grown to love the BanG Dream! franchise, It’s MyGo!!!!! was centered on a new band that I had no attachment to, especially as a member of the western fandom where our mobile game is two years behind the Japanese version, and there was limited access to the hard launch of MyGo!!!!! via their concerts where the characters’ voice actors perform as pseudo-idols. To my shock and awe, this show ended up being a standout, not just in the BanG Dream! universe but in the realm of idol/music anime more broadly. What really stuck with me was the way all of the characters, with one in particular, were allowed to showcase the full breadth of human emotions in a way that this genre doesn’t always allow.
BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! is the latest installment in the BanG Dream multimedia franchise, which chronicles the lives of groups of Girls Bands as they navigate school life and the ups and downs of being in the music industry both from an indie and professional lens. What sets MyGo!!!!! apart is that it focuses on an entirely new cast of girls and relegates the girls in the mainline series to cameos, making this the perfect introduction to newcomers.