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BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! – Episode 4

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’d say it’s past time to return to the tortured drama of BanG Dream! It’s MyGO, after a third episode that ripped my heart out and tore it to pieces. After two episodes of watching Anon stumble around the periphery of CRYCHIC’s messy fallout, MyGO’s third episode offered an intimate detailing of not just that particular catastrophe, but also Tomori’s entire life story leading up to it. Literally trapped in her headspace via the episode’s relentless perspective, we got to experience a lonely lifetime of knowing you can’t quite interact on the wavelength of your peers, but still desperately wishing to form meaningful connections. And then came Sakiko, with her promise of understanding and praise for your unmediated confessions, with her offer of a place where you truly belong.

Episode three was a tiny masterpiece of perspective and characterization, and also a welcome explanation for the former CRYCHIC members’ current circumstances. The light Sakiko brought into Tomori’s life, and the subsequent crashing fall when she suddenly decided to leave the band, have more than clarified Tomori’s hesitance to form a similar bond with Anon, as well as Taki’s violent reaction to any such suggestion. Whatever prompted Sakiko to kill the band, it feels difficult to forgive her for exploiting Tomori’s isolation and then thoughtlessly casting her aside; Sakiko is clearly socially savvy enough to understand just how much Tomori invested in her promises, pushing her unilateral separation beyond the realm of selfishness and into outright cruelty. In contrast, Anon’s interest is genuine, but idle; she may want to be in a band, but I’m not sure she’s prepared to take on the weight of the hopes that Sakiko left behind her. Let’s see how this messy crew fumbles forward as we return to MyGO!

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BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! – Episode 3

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to dive back into the increasingly thorny drama of BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!!, wherein our heroine Anon’s carefree pursuit of a high school band has accidentally stirred up a maelstrom of drama for the former members of CRYCHIC. Through her blunt pursuit of Tomori’s support, she has conjured a hope of community that Tomori seemed to have abandoned. And though drummer Taki is wary of Anon’s unabashedly narcissistic schemes, CRYCHIC’s former bassist Soyo sees in Anon the perfect instrument of her own ambitions.

Though Anon is socially savvy enough to make friends with ease, she’s also self-absorbed and predictable and kinda stupid. This has made her a delightfully terrible perspective character, and also means she’s no more than putty in master manipulator Soyo’s hands. Soyo plans to exploit Tomori’s clear desire for a bond with Anon in order to secure both of them as bandmates, while using the threat of her own proximity to Tomori to drag in Taki as Tomori’s guardian. Having proven herself a very different but equally compelling brand of terrible relative to Anon, I’m eager to see how Soyo keeps her alleged friends dancing to her tune. Let’s get to it!

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BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! – Episode 2

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to dive back into the thorny drama of BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!!, after a premiere that seemed to promise far more tears and resentment than starry-eyed musical performances. MyGO opened on a band breakup and continued more or less in that vein, as the scattered members of CRYCHIC all went about their separate ways, some eager to pick up the pieces, others hesitant to invite such pain again.

Into this tangled web of relationships stomped Anon Chihaya, who has no idea what’s going on, but goddamnit if she’s not gonna make it about herself. Anon is a delightfully self-absorbed heroine who exhibits none of the optimistic or inspiring qualities you’d expect from a music drama lead; she’s pursuing a band purely to fit in at her apparently band-obsessed high school, and has so far responded to the emotional troubles of her compatriots with a mixture of gossip-hungry curiosity and loud indifference. Basically none of the characters introduced so far seem to exhibit healthy relationships with their peers, which seems like a terrific recipe for some Rumors-style musical alchemy. Let’s see what they get up to next!

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BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! – Episode 1

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re embarking on a new adventure, as we explore the first episode of the currently concluding BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! I’ll confess, I have virtually no experience with the overall BanG Dream! franchise; I found the first season’s first episode perfectly watchable back when it premiered, but have since then skipped out on the continuing struggles of its various bandmates. However, I’m told that MyGO is more or less self-contained, and beyond that, everything I’ve been learning about this show via twitter osmosis seems to indicate MyGO is a unique and apparently kinda devastating experience.

I’ve seen musicians choking out performances through tears, memes wagering the relative toxicity of all the show’s principle relationships, and all manner of other inexplicable reactions to MyGO’s clearly tempestuous drama. Alongside their wealth of experience composing for various idol shows, series composer Yuniko Ayana also tackled the brilliant and devastating given, so I’ve no doubt they can articulate convincing human tragedy. What form that tragedy will take remains a tantalizing mystery, so let’s not waste another moment – onward to MyGO!

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