BanG Dream is a long-running Bandori series. Where the beef of its stories is through their mobile game. Though there have been countless anime series with BanG Dream as well. BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita serves as the series 3rd entry point in terms of purely the anime. In that it does it well, as fans don’t have to worry about watching the early series to watch this one.
This series follows the girls of Mugendai Mewtype, which is a new band for anime-only watchers. The story does an interesting showcase of how powerful social media can be on the audience. Also, rather how it can be manipulated. Arale Nakamachi in particular suffers through trauma because of misinformation, and the story starts with following her. Though the 3-episode debut does a solid job of giving focus to each of the girls to provide them with characterization. The contrast for each girl makes their dynamics and personalities a lot of fun.
This is Nichicaline’s first project, and despite it being created to do 2D anime BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita follows SANZIGEN as a 3D project. Overall, the biggest improvement here is how expressive the animation is. Which is a notable boost from the recent entries. Outside of a certain character, this story feels the closest to BanG Dream S3.
As the show has wrapped up it feels closer to S3 than the past two entries in MyGO and Ave Mujica. As it is lighter on story then those two, but there is a clear path from our main girls. Viola herself is interesting because of how different she is from Arale. There is a clear theme being used here of being genuine vs. being a fake. Both are different approaches. As being too genuine can leave you potentially being hurt like Arale was at the start. Still being with the right support and your talents can blossom. While if you always act fake and just take advantage of others for your own game you can end up alone like Viola. The show highlights the mistakes that Viola makes and are constantly repeated.
Now even with a big franchise like BanG Dream this show is self-containable. This can be your first entry in this long anime franchise. If you enjoyed S3 or MyGO this might be worth a shot. Due note that compared to MyGO the story is lighter. If you weren’t a fan of Ave Mujica well the drama here is much lighter even if there are moments where the drama is elevated. So it might be worth a shot.