It felt a bit too rushed for me. The Hatsune/Uika stuff wrapped up a little too nicely. They just pretend like it never happened and hope things will be alright. What happened to the real Uika? Hatsune used her name to attend not just for Sumimi and Ave Mujica. Shouldn't she have a say in this? Sakiko's problem with her grandpa was solved just by giving the finger to him and pretending he had no power over her. And he just accepts it??? No interference from now on??? I'm just glad Sakiko finally can be happy, even only for this fleeting "happiness". She now will take responsibility as the leader and re-debuting Ave Mujica. The only one with somewhat a nice resolution was Nyamu, she decided to face her insecurity head on with Mutsumi. Umiri got sidelined so hard, now she is still seeking validation from her band (thank you Taki, your comment really scared her for life). I don't know what happened to Mutsu/Mortis situation. Did they merge? Is Mortis finally letting go and giving Mutsumi's control back? Did Mutsumi stop seeking CRYCHIC? honestly, there were more questions than answers. I know this was the penultimate episode, so we still have one more, from the preview it looked like they'll cover band performances of both Ave Mujica and MyGO!!!!!, so there is little screen time to address the rest. I was hoping they'd do a much grimmer conclusion for Ave Mujica, considering the moral of the ARG marketing they did was to abandon humanity and accept a doll persona. The psychological horror theme they are building throughout the season would fit nicely with a dark conclusion. But alas, this is Bang Dream, gotta end with a nice "hopeful" ending. @[email protected] [image: 04a93fc9-488d-4833-a009-60dde80513df.webp]

[End]??? The hell?

I’m crossing my fingers that this ends up being as fun as it appears. I’m a huge fan of BAND-MAID and they did mocap for certain scenes, so my interest is piqued!

The music is really over the top in a good way. I ROFL so hard when it paused to give way to Grace reading at the fan cheat sheet.

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 1st Love has this. Who's to say?

This episode focus more on Sakiko and Mutsumi/Mortis side, with Umiri and Nyamu only got some screen while Uika is nowhere to be seen (I truly fear what she'll bring, clearly she is not okay) Raana, the stray cat of MyGO, is able to befriend Mortis by just a single night. Compared to Soyo who had been with her 3 days and nights by her side in her house. We got character development for Soyo, from an egoistic manipulator to a blunt caring friend who clearly cares for Mutsumi/Mortis circumstances. [image: 1feee602-0312-4936-9b2d-d5015327c1cb.webp] Sakiko finally adopting her Oblivionis (Forget) persona by forgetting about CRYCHIC, Ave Mujica, and even Mutsumi, pretending like everything hadn't happened. Now I wonder how the other Nyamu with Amoris (love), Umiri with Timoris (fear), and Uika with Doloris (grief) [image: 479f741f-f5fb-49df-b496-27da7556a7ae.webp] We got a little glimpse of Umiri's side of the story. Umiri only started to care after Taki was upset that Umiri didn't care about her band, especially Mutsumi/Mortis. Unfortunately, this is the only UmiTaki moment we got, no lovely dovely couple 😔 [image: b558b39e-9eb0-4da2-a6f9-4573b492e9cc.webp] I love Sakiko, but I fully support Soyo to gobsmack Sakiko after saying that! Please save us Soyo! @[email protected] [image: 177018a0-d807-424f-ad71-c3a10f4d4200.webp]

Their target audience personified

MC probably turns out to be sexually attracted to rocks, but only if they're younger than 1bn years old. Joking aside, they made the currently running Flower and Asura and from the 2 or 3 episodes I've seen it didn't look like it would be something controversial.

It's understandable, especially with how slow the first few episodes are. If I'm remembering right the first few episodes are mainly variations on "Watch Renton be a cringe teenager".

This panel is also great: [image: 65f22fd4-76b2-488f-836c-00c30fbc796d.webp]

This is an example of how conservatism and creative arts don't mix. Everybody loves the arts, but conservatives don't respect the freedom that the artists and entertainers need to create. To them it's just "shut up and stay in your lane" even when it's the conservatives expanding their range of their repression. Sentai Filmworks needs to move out of Texas, and stay clear of any other red states for that matter.

Will the author commit, or pull a 180 and never mention this again?

Precisely!