One day, as she’s still adjusting to her new high school, Kasumi Toyama discovers a trail of stars that leads her to an old thrift store. Inside, she makes a discovery.

Episode 1

Kasumi's heart is set on forming a band, but Arisa wants nothing do with it. In fact, Arisa is so determined to avoid her that she puts the star-shaped guitar up for auction.

Episode 2

Kasumi asks Rimi to join her band, but Rimi is reluctant. Meanwhile, Glitter*Green runs into an issue on the way to their show.

Episode 3

Kasumi starts staying after school to take guitar lessons from Tae. Meanwhile, Arisa seems to have a problem with all the time they are spending together.

Episode 4

Kasumi, Tae, and friends are preparing for their first performance. Are they going to be ready in time?

Episode 5

Kasumi begins to struggle in school and enlists Saya's help. Meanwhile, Arisa has been searching for the perfect band name.

Episode 6

Kasumi has a tall order in convincing Saya to join Poppin Party, is she able to do it? Meanwhile, they continue to get ready for the Culture Festival!

Episode 7

The Cultural Festival preparations are done, and it is time for it to begin. Meanwhile, Poppin' Party play their first show! How does it go?

Episode 8

Saya gets a new drum set and the girls all get jobs at Space! They learn what goes into putting on a live show.

Episode 9

Poppin' Party auditions at Space but to play there you must impress the owner. Do they achieve their dream?

Episode 10

Kasumi is still struggling to find her voice but the rest of Poppin' Party is there to help pick her up.

Episode 11

Poppin' Party gets another chance to play at Space. Will they finally impress the owner?

Episode 12

Kasumi finally achieves her dream as Poppin' Party plays at Space's last show. How will they perform?

Episode 13

愛美

大塚紗英

西本りみ

大橋彩香

伊藤彩沙

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!

Japan

BanG Dream!

Tokyo MX

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BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, or simply GARUPA☆PICO, is a mini-anime series featuring the characters from the smartphone game Girls Band Party!

BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO

"I've returned to this town for revenge!" Eight years ago, Makabe Masamune, a weak and chubby boy, was harshly rejected by the beautiful Adagaki Aki. Now, he's lost a ton of weight, changed his name, and returned as a handsome teenage boy... all to make the "Brutal Princess" Aki fall in love with him so that he can reject her just as harshly as she did.

Masamune-kun's Revenge

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Hana Ichinose is a normal 16-year-old high school student. However, there is something different about her: She enrolled in high school one year late! Her classmates are unaware of this, and Hana will have to work hard to catch up with everyone else.

Slow Start

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Yōto Yokodera is a schoolboy who is unable to express his true feelings freely. After hearing about the wish-granting Stony Cat, he decides to try and make an offering to lose his facade, only to meet Tsukiko who wishes instead to be more discreet with her feelings to become more adultlike. Who'd have thought the rumors of the wish-granting Stony Cat turns out to be true; transferring the facade that Yōto wishes to lose into a classmate who needs it more and making it difficult for Tsukiko to show even the slightest of emotions on her face. Being on the same boat, they both search for ways to remedy the situation.

The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat

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Bertia is reincarnated into her favorite otome game—not as the heroine, but as the villainess engaged to the perfect Crown Prince Cecil! Fully aware that her role is to sabotage his future romance, she’s determined to bloom as a wicked flower and wither away according to the story. But no matter how hard she tries to scheme, her “evil” plans only make her more endearing!

An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess

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Zagan might be the most feared evil sorcerer, but when it comes to social interactions, he's the most inept. All those days studying the dark arts won't help him when he falls in love at first sight with Nephelia, the beautiful elven slave, and spends his entire fortune to purchase her. With no clue how to talk to each other, the awkward arrangement for a bumbling sorcerer and timid elf begins.

An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride

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There are many idols with long-established talent agency 346 Production. And now the company is starting a new program, the Cinderella Project! Girls leading normal lives are chosen to be aspiring idols and see another world for the first time in this Cinderella story. Can they all climb the stairs that lead to the palace?

The magic begins now...

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

Naoe, a massage therapist, is about to head home for the day when he’s saddled with a rather strange patient. This lovely lady has emerald eyes, pointy ears, and grew up in the forest–everything about her screams “elf,” except for one thing: her bodacious body. It turns out she left her world but loves junk food in this one, and now her obsession has caught up with her. Can Naoe help this lovable elf girl lose the weight–and keep it off?

Plus-Sized Elf

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Miko Kurono, also known as Necronomico, graduates from middle school and decides to pursue her dreams of becoming a streamer. One day, as she’s with her childhood friend, Mayu Mayusaka, and her rival, Kanna Kagurasaka, she accepts an offer to play a new VR game. The game gives Miko the opportunity to take on mysterious challenges with other unique streamers she meets within the VR world.

Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show

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"I know! I'll become a monk!" Akagami Akemitsu has spent his days and nights absorbed in studying and part-time work in an effort to distance himself from his family, which is notorious as a household of philanderers. One day, he falls in love at first sight with a girl named Aoba Yuzuki, and suddenly he's constantly drowning in worldly desires. Hoping to fight back against his genes and live a more stoic life, he enters a temple... only to find out that it's a convent filled with gorgeous girls! So begins a new rom-com about the temple life of three adorable triplets and two beautiful freeloaders!

TenPuru

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Yuki Tanaka is a VTuber at Live-On, one of Japan’s largest VTuber companies, as the polite and ladylike Awayuki Kokorone. One day, she forgets to end the stream, and viewers see her real personality—irreverent, improper, and prone to imbibing after a long day. Yuki is surprised to find that her accident caused her rankings to multiply, so she doubles down and gets to work. She’ll be a star yet!

VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream

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Invading alien Liza Luna wants nothing more than to destroy planet Earth... after she gets in a little sightseeing, first. But her travels soon take her into a cat café, where the furry felines inside invade her heart just as surely as Liza invaded Earth! Destroying the world won't be so easy now that she's discovered the joys of kitty cats...

Too Cute Crisis

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Season 1

A new school year begins for Kasumi and the rest of Poppin’Party. But the music scene never rests, and neither do the other bands in town!

Rokka learns that Asuka’s sister is in the band she idolizes. Poppin’Party seizes the opportunity when the vocalist of Roselia offers them the chance to perform with them.

Poppin’Party reflects on Yukina’s blunt words and decide that improvements are in order. Later, Kasumi and Rokka get to know each other better.

Kasumi wants to fly during a performance and Kokoro is determined to help her accomplish this! Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan, right?

Pastel*Palettes are performing at the World Idol Festival! They absolutely, positively cannot afford to mess this one up. No pressure...

Rain or shine, the show must go on — even if it’s raining when Poppin'Party and Afterglow are performing on an outdoor stage!

Hina’s proposing a double culture festival between two schools? And it just so happens that PoPiPa’s first anniversary is coming up, too? What a great idea!

Tae wishes to join another band to help an old friend. She has Kasumi’s full support, but what will this ultimately mean for Poppin’Party?

Things appear to be going well… but when was the last time everything went exactly according to plan?

Tae wishes to make amends after the fallout from the culture festival. She has a decision to make, but what will RAISE A SUILEN think?

The fate of the band hangs in the balance — but no matter how far apart they may be, Poppin’Party are still Poppin’Party.

Poppin’Party has emerged from their crucible stronger than ever. What does the future have in store for the band?

Everyone's in high spirits cause It's not over yet! It’s time for Poppin'Party’s first self-sponsored show at Galaxy alongside the other bands.

Season 2

Three months after Poppin’Party's self-sponsored live show, the local live house owners, including CiRCLE's Marina Tsukishima, organize the BanG Dream! Girls Band Challenge, a tournament with the final taking place at the Nippon Budokan. Poppin'Party and Afterglow express their interest in participating, and although Kasumi invites Rokka to join them, she declines as she is still searching for a band. Meanwhile, CHU2 struggles to find a new guitarist for RAISE A SUILEN until she watches Rokka's performance at the cultural festival. CHU2 invites Poppin'Party, Roselia, and Rokka to RAS' latest concert, where she proclaims the band's entry into the Girls Band Challenge and openly offers Rokka an audition, much to her dismay.

After not performing in RAS' encore, Rokka is chased by CHU2 and PAREO in school and around town the next day, wanting to scout her for RAS. In the meantime, CHU2 meets with Yukina, reiterating her challenge to Roselia. Seeing similarities in the bands' philosophies, Yukina decides to have Roselia enter in the BanG Dream! Girls Band Challenge competition. Later in the night, after seeing Rokka practice her guitar in the Galaxy live house, Masking takes Rokka to CHU2's studio, where she performs alongside RAS. Unimpressed with Rokka's lackluster performance, CHU2 decides not to include her in RAS, explaining she cannot accept those withholding their skills to satisfy her.

The preliminaries for the BanG Dream! Girls Band Challenge begin with the top two teams in vote count going to the finals at the Budokan. Roselia and RAS begin performing their live shows while a zoned-out Rokka comes to terms with her failed RAS audition. Meanwhile, Poppin'Party write a new song for their first live show in the preliminaries which they perform in front of a live audience and Rokka. Motivated by Poppin'Party's new song, Rokka quickly rushes to RAS' studio where she is given one last chance to audition. Impressed by Rokka's passionate performance, CHU2 adds her as a (temporary) guitarist, ordering Rokka to become a guitarist worthy of RAS.

With Rokka joining as the (temporary) guitarist of RAISE A SUILEN, the band heads to a film studio to shoot a music video (MV) of their new song. Afterwards, they return to the studio to play their new song, but Rokka struggles to play together with the other band members. After a chat with Masking in a ramen shop, Rokka keeps playing until the song is perfect. The next day, the band is impressed by the PV they put together. During lunchtime, CHU2 inducts Rokka as a permanent member of RAS with the moniker LOCK.

Inspired by RAISE A SUILEN's music video (MV), Poppin'Party decide to make a MV of their own (dubbed PoPi-V). Taking cues from Pastel＊Palettes' MV and Rokka's ideas, Poppin'Party take random photos and videos with Rimi and Arisa putting the video together. After many sleepless days and nights, Poppin'Party are amazed by the MV they produced. They nervously upload the MV on the competition website but are excited by the likes they receive straight away. Later in the night, CHU2 confronts Roselia and proposes a band battle with RAS, which Yukina accepts.

RAS and Roselia prepare for the band battle that is held at Dub Live House. Despite Roselia preparing for the "Over the Future" concert, a precursor event to FUTURE WORLD FES, Yukina still wants to perform with RAS as soon as possible. Sayo leaves, believing that Roselia are overloading themselves practicing for two events at once. However, after talking to CHU2 and finding out why she wanted to set up RAS, Sayo comes back, intent on beating them. On the night of the band battle, RAS and Roselia perform. Announcing the verdict after the performances, RAS wins the band battle with CHU2 exclaiming that RAS is better than Roselia.

Reeling after their defeat to RAS in the band battle, Roselia reflect upon their performance and prepare for the "Over the Future" concert. Sayo practices intensely for the concert but collapses during a break from practice due to overwork and fever. Sayo recuperates in her bedroom with Hina and the other Roselia members visiting and preparing a meal for her. Yukina chats with Sayo about why she accepted CHU2's band battle challenge: to learn something from other bands such as RAS in order to grow as a band. After Sayo recovers and doing one last practice session, Roselia performs in the "Over the Future" concert. Yukina thanks the fans for their ongoing support before starting their performance.

All the old shopkeepers from the Jizo-dori shopping district break their backs just before their trip to the hot springs, so everyone (except PAREO and CHU2) go in their place. After settling into their rooms, the characters from different bands interact and socialize with each other. In particular, Rei and Kasumi meet, where they praise each other's performances as RAS and Poppin'Party respectively. Some of the characters also rest in the hot springs with some staying on for too long, resulting in them overheating. In the end, Afterglow inform Kasumi and the others that Poppin'Party's music video gained over 10,000 views which they celebrate before tending to the overheated characters.

Hoping to gain more votes, Poppin'Party plan a three-week schedule of live performances. In addition to Galaxy, they play at CiRCLE and Dub alongside Roselia and RAS respectively. Despite having fewer votes than both bands, they enjoy their newly-gained momentum as they reach sixth in the polls. Although RAS offer their support to Poppin'Party, including baking a cake for Tae's birthday, they fall behind Roselia in the voting. In response, CHU2 calls an impromptu meeting in which she announces that RAS will play in other venues to force other bands to withdraw. She also takes control of everyone's calendars and instructs the band members to follow her orders and to not socialize with other bands. After an argument where CHU2 questions everyone's commitment to RAS, an incensed Masking walks away. PAREO attempts to console CHU2 but is harshly criticized as being useless.

After Masking leaves the impromptu RAS meeting, Rokka looks for her but to no avail. The next day, after receiving advice from Kasumi, Rokka searches for Masking again, finally finding her in her school. Meeting in front of the Budokan, Rokka praises Masking for helping her and tells her to meet with CHU2 to make up which Masking initially becomes hesitant before agreeing. Meanwhile, Rei meets Tae where she talks to her whether she still cares about RAS; Tae tells her that as the vocalist of RAS, she has the power to change what RAS will do in the future. RAS (sans PAREO) reunite as a band to perform, but feel anxious and distracted due to PAREO's absence and do not perform well. While Rokka and Masking head to Chiba to find PAREO, Rei talks to CHU2 about needing to work together in the best interests of the band. After finding out that CHU2 wrote off PAREO for being useless, Rei and CHU2 also head out together to find her.

In Chiba, Masking and Rokka search for PAREO by visiting her school. When they show her classmates a photo of her, they learn of PAREO's true identity as Reona Nyūbara. The two spot Reona as she is walking home, prompting her to run away and them to give chase. Upon catching up to her, they learn of her background as an academically successful but meek girl who regularly posts keyboard covers of Pastel＊Palettes songs online. Despite Rokka and Masking's efforts, a disillusioned Reona proclaims PAREO no longer exists until she spots CHU2 and Rei running up to them. After CHU2 asks for forgiveness and is accepted, the band performs a song for her birthday back in the studio. Eventually, the Girls Band Challenge voting closes with Roselia leading, while Poppin'Party and RAS are tied for second.

Bringing Poppin'Party and RAS together at Galaxy, Marina announces that both bands will proceed to the finals at the Budokan, to everyone's relief and excitement. Each band then prepares to perform in the Budokan which includes a dress rehearsal at CiRCLE. Along the way, Poppin'Party prepares a new song that they want to play with Roselia and RAS, both of whom accept. Meanwhile, Asuka volunteers to help in the Girls Band Challenge, including creating a poster for the finals and interviewing the bands for her blog. The night before the finals, Kasumi sees Asuka proofreading her blog post. Asked to explain how she finds sparkling, heart-pounding moments in her life, Kasumi recounts how she found these moments by forming Poppin'Party and meeting and making new friends over the past year.

The 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.