A new promotional video was revealed Wednesday for the upcoming anime series of the BanG Dream! franchise’s all-male band Argonavis. The video, which was shown during a live-stream event this Wednesday, reveals the anime’s April 10 premiere. Watch the PV here!
It was also announced that besides Argonavis, the anime series will also be featuring GYROAXIA. The latter was first introduced as one of the male bands featured in the Argonavis from BanG Dream! AASide game. GYROAXIA will also be performing “SCATTER”, one of the opening theme songs for the series. The other opening theme song, “Hoshi ga Hajimaru” (The Stars Begin), will be performed by Argonavis.
Hiroshi Nishikiori (Azumanga Daioh, A Certain Magical Index) is directing the series. Hikaru Miyoshi (Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane) is the character designer for both the game and anime. Writing the scripts for both the game and the anime will be Nobuhiro Mori.
Argonavis is composed of voice actors Shūta Morishima (keyboard), Seiji Maeda (bass), Daisuke Hyuga (guitar), Shōhei Hashimoto (drums), and Masahiro Ito (vocals). Their first single “Goal Line” was released on February 20. The band held their first live last May 17 at the Maihama Ampitheater in Maihama, Chiba.
BanG Dream! is a multimedia franchise formed by Bushiroad in January 2015. The franchise is composed of releases in the form of manga, music CDs, live concerts, card games, a smartphone game named BanG Dream! Girls’ Band Party! developed by Craft Egg, and a TV anime series. The anime series currently has three seasons: the first aired from January to April 2017, while the second ran from January to March 2019. A third season has just started airing this January.
Despite coming from the same franchise, Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani has stated that the male side of BanG Dream! has a different setting from the franchise’s female bands (Poppin’ Party, Roselia, Afterglow, Hello Happy World!, Pastel* Palettes, Glitter*Green, RAISE A SUILEN) and is an altogether separate project.
Source: Anime News Network
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