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BanG Dream! TV Anime Reveals 2 Trailers, Staff
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The official website for the series began streaming the anime's second trailer on Thursday. The trailer features English text, and introduces the show's five main characters and their respective voice actresses.
The website previously streamed the first trailer on July 7.
Bushiroad describes the project as follows:
A next generation Girls Band Project which links characters with real live performances!
BanG Dream! is a media mix project featuring animation music videos, comics, song releases, and many more. What's more, the voice cast for the characters of BanG Dream! will also hold real live performances as the Girls Band, “Poppin' Party”.
Bushiroad launched the BanG Dream! multimedia project in January 2015, and the company formed the Poppin' Party band for the project in February 2015. The band's consist of voice actresses who portray the characters in the story, and play the same instruments as their characters. The cast includes:
- Aimi as Kasumi Toyama on guitar and vocals
- Ayasa Itō as Arisa Ichigaya on keyboard
- Rimi Nishimoto as Rimi Ushigome on bass
- Sae Ootsuka as Tae Hanazono on lead guitar
- Ayaka Ōhashi as Saaya Yamabuki on drums
The anime is slated to premiere in 2017.
Bushiroad and Elements Garden are producing the music.
Novelist Kō Nakamura launched a manga titled BanG_Dream! Star Beat in Bushiroad's Dengeki G's Comic this year.
