Subconscious AP

Happy Birthday, Himari!!

You've been my best girl for around 2 years now, I believe? I love you more and more every single day. You've become a huge comfort for me and you give me so much confidence. Thank you for being so kind on EN I love you SO SO much.

Ei, Ei, Oh! ♥

can you tell i like maho

I'm so close and afraid of the last combo goal ; ~ ;

Tsugumi: TOMOE STOP AND SIT ON!!! THE CHIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomoe: .....no

sorry i'm just gonna scream in the comments a little bit so pass if you don't wanna see me go nuts (mostly about 100 year quest so yea)

oh, shoot...between tiering in the event and the birthday posts i completely forget about introducing a new member of Rensa Melody last week...well...it's not like this one actually would really care...any ways, here he is, the "leader" and Dj of RenMero. Ichiban Hoshi.

Hoshi Ichiban (Stage name: Ichi-Go!) [Seiyuu: Tomokazu Seki]

Band Info:

• Position: DJ, “Leader”
• Image Color: Golden (#efb810)

Background Info:

• School: Hanadera Academy
• Year: Third Year
• Class: 3-D
• Birthday: June 14th
• Zodiac: Gemini (♊)
• Height: 175cm
• Likes: Luxury/Really expensive food
• Dislikes: “Junk” food
• Hobbies: Hire people to do things for him, Partying

Profile: The son and heir of the Hoshi family, a once humble family owners of a little second hand music store. Their wealth increased absurdly fast thanks to the musical talent of Ichiban's Grandfather, who made a name for himself in the industry based on his hard work and persistence. Talent that skipped one generation and went directly to Ichiban and her twin sister, Shizuru. But while she decided to decline her part of the heritage in order to follow her grandfather's steps and work a name for herself from the lowest level, Ichiban gladly embraced the life of luxury and extravagance that money offered him. A life that more sooner than later makes him meet the man in charge of the Kuroichi talent agency and join forces with him so the lifestyle that he knows never ends.

Trivia:

• He has a twin sister whom he treats as his servant taking advantage of her kinder and charitable character.
• His arrogance is second only to his hedonism and he is perfectly fine with that
• His position of "leader" is self-imposed even though he was the last member to join the band.
• He really enjoy bullying Riichi when he is bored and often refers to her as “That quiet doll”

Voice sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YR7Tqm6Ho0

Introduction

And with this only the main vocalist remains...

I got my favourite card of my best girl Tomoe!!

Why I love Hina Hikawa. An Essay.

No, I’ll actually try to keep this short and sweet. I could wax poetic about my best girls forever but honestly that takes forever and I just wanna show some love already. So~ my best girl! My list tends to shuffle around for a variety of reasons but my first and long-standing best girl is the lovely mint chocolate chip colored sweetie: Hina Hikawa!

Hina Hina Hina, my lovely autistic child.

And no. I don’t mean that as an insult. Bare with me! When I was little, I was…strange, to say the least. I didn’t really speak or react too much. I just wanted to be alone with a book that probably should have been for kids triple my age. I couldn’t handle a lot of stimuli, couldn’t read people properly. It was a mess. Autism was (and mostly still is) uncharted territory, so when I was smacked with the label, no one around knew what to do. Life for awhile was constant classes in social etiquette, devouring so many new things, trying this whole “fitting in” thing, failing and getting back up in time to pretend to do it all again the “right” way with the kids my age.

Hina to me is that side of me that I tried to leave behind all those years ago. The me that I tried to forget about for awhile, but still is a big part of me: a person who doesn’t quite understands social cues even after “training” but finds people fascinating, the person who picks up new hobbies, accidentally turns into a savant and then becoming bored by a lot of them. I could go on but I think you get the point. When I first started reading Hina’s interactions I immediately saw myself, and I really wanted to hate her like the other players I knew about…but I immediately fell in love. It gave me a little bubble of happiness to see someone like I was (although I doubt it’ll be explicitly said), one of the many MANY forms of Autism.

Especially her interactions with Aya (who is up there as the best girl too) in the main Pastel Palettes story! It took me back to some- looking back on it- cringey conversations with “normal” or “neurotypical” people. Especially when I finally got the hang of just talking to people, but not the hang of understanding what not to say to do things like: cheer people up. Usually, characters that seem to be autistic coded (think like Sheldon from Big Bang theory, Newt Scamander from the Fantastic beast, etc.) can come across as more abrasive than they really mean to, more oddballs who just refuse to conform as opposed to people who are just hardwired differently. But Hina hits this sweet spot of having “quirks” but still being shown to have a good heart. She loves her band, and doesn’t want to see it fall apart! Hina admires Aya for her combat-ness (is that a word? I can’t think of another word for her), Chisato for her attitude, Maya for her intelligence and Eve…well I still don’t get Eve but Hina and I love her too!

I love that we share a serious sweet tooth, and hate flavorless foods! And tofu! Like I said, I know it’s not Canon, but I like that that part of autism is shown: the texture/flavor thing. Usually, people with autism are extremely sensitive to such things and I just don’t see that used in character that much. I might be reading way too much into these things but autistic girls are usually left to the wayside, and seeing even little traits like having texture issues or even the Boppity thing and such just makes my little heart sing! I know it’s a weirdly translated onomatopoeia, but I know so many autistic friends that do things like that~ I remember when I was younger I would talk just like Hina! I might do it now, but if I do, I have no flipping idea. Hehe~ I don’t even know if this is coherent anymore~ but long story short: I love this babe so much! My first 4-star, speaker of some of my favorite lines, wearer of some of my fav outfits…I think Hina will always hold a special space in my heart, even if I become a traitor and switch around my list.

EDIT: Also freaking~look at her cute face and tell me to MY face that this little blueberry isn't cute af? I want more cards of her!

-Also: She supports her sister no matter what?!?? Like, she watches all of Roselia's proformances~ in disguise! Which we all know is Hina in sunglasses and a sick hat.

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF KANAE'S BAND EXPERIMENT + CHANGE MY MIND!

See Original Post

Sorry for the delay everyone, we've been super busy working on some cool, new features for the site. However, we have decided all the winners from our past contests.

First up, Change My Mind Winners!

We previously announced the winners on Twitter and promised a write-up, and now that's here for you all! Each winner got a custom piece of art/design of their best girls! We also have an honorable memetion, which unfortunately did not meet the criteria from the original post. However, you can check this out here!

Popular Vote

• asamiruria (Misaki) -- View Activity

Staff Pick

• glasses_senpai (Hina) -- View Activity

Random Pick

• Trashi (Ako) -- View Activity

Next, the Kanae's Band Experiment Winner!

Judging for this contest was quite hard, as exemplified by our judges and our thoughtful staff members. They seriously loved ALL the designs! If you want to share your design on the site, please feel free to do that under "Fan Made" and "Community" tags! We posted all the entries in the last contest, but this time we feel it best for everyone to decide if they'd like to show it or not, and so that you can get the proper views/comments you deserve!

Without further ado, here's your winner of the Kanae Band Experiment Contest!!

Submitted by Canada

This design will be drawn by Brella just like before!

Our guest judges for the design/artist section of the contest were Misha, co-creator of Vocaloid Ruby -- Atychi, a fan-artist who knows who to hit you in the feels -- and, Andy, another fan of BanG Dream! whose fan art is cute and their love for HHW knows no bounds.

Misha's comment for the winning design was as follows, "This design has a very precious feeling to it, and fits right into the bang dream universe! I love the star motif, and all the colors work perfectly together. Overall, it's a very well coordinated design!"

Atychi's comment towards the winning design was, "This design was both cohesive and eye-catching, managing to be stylish and interesting while still being recognizably #BandoriParty. The balance of details throughout the character make for a truly wonderful design fitting of #BandoriParty and our Dear Mascot, Kanae."

And finally, Andy's feelings for the design were, "A very charismatic design. It has a lot of positive energy around it, a clever combination of elegance and fun."

The staff overall had thought the design fit the theme of Bandori.Party, as well as incorporated great details like the music staff into her sash, as well as kept the BanG Dream! thematic in together as a whole and gave us a really good package!

Again, thank you everyone who applied for the contests and participated. We loved every design, every single written piece of devotion to Best Girl! Thank you all for making BanPa such a great site to visit and work on~ <3

ANNOUNCING ARGONAVIS

An Exciting New Chapter for BanG Dream!

Announced shortly before the beginning of the 5th Live at Makuhari Messe Hall, the project for a "Male-Centric" universe of BanG Dream! had been revealed by announcing their very first live!

The announcement tweet gained much traction after the initial retweet from us at Bandori.Party! At this time, the only information that had been given was the announcement of 3 Cast Members: Maeda Seiji, Morishima Shuuta, and Hyuuga Daisuke, and that their first live will take place in the month of July, with more cast members to be announced. See the 3 Seiyuu introduce the project in this video!

After about an hour or so of comments of fans of the franchise worried about the interaction of the male characters with the girls from a series called "Girls Band Party", Kidani, who manages the franchise and is it's creator, sent a series of tweets to calm fans:

"The Male Bandori Project is a different world than the existing Bang Dream story. The characters will not mix and it is 100% different." Original Tweet

"I also don't want to see males appear in the world of Bandori. The limit is the characters' fathers. (Though this is just a personal view)"Original Tweet

That's all for the news round up on ARGONAVIS. How do you feel about this new addition to our beloved franchise? Remember to be courteous with your discussion, whether you're for the project or not, it is happening!

Official ARGONAVIS Site | Official ARGONAVIS Twitter