BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita Anime Reveals Opening Song, 3-Episode Premiere
The three-episode premiere and new opening song mark the final promotional push for the anime ahead of its July debut, giving the Mugendai Mewtype virtual band its first standalone TV series.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Anime Corner.
The staff for BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita, a television anime based on the BanG Dream! project's Mugendai Mewtype virtual girl band, released a second promotional video and main visual on Sunday. The video previews the opening theme song "Kore wa Boku-tachi no Seizon no Arasuji" (Our Survival), performed by Mugendai Mewtype and written by Unison Square Garden member Tomoya Tabuchi. The anime will premiere with its first three episodes on July 2 on Tokyo MX at 11:00 p.m. JST, with additional broadcasts on BS NTV and Sun TV. Tomomi Umetsu is directing the anime at NICHICALINE, with Hiroshi Morita as assistant director. Midori Goto is overseeing and co-writing the series scripts. The Mugendai Mewtype band consists of five members: Arale Nakamachi on vocals, Nonoka Miyanaga and Ritsu Minetsuki on guitar, Miyako Fuji on keyboard, and Yuno Sengoku as DJ and manipulator. The band will also appear in the BanG Dream! Our Notes game, set for a worldwide release this year.
Tomoya Tabuchi, a member of the rock band Unison Square Garden, wrote the opening theme "Kore wa Boku-tachi no Seizon no Arasuji." The second promotional video shows the clean version of the opening animation sequence without onscreen credits.
Midori Goto, who worked on BanG Dream! It's MyGo!!!!! series and films, is overseeing the series scripts. She is writing alongside Akiko Waba, Yotsuji Haibuchi, and Hitomi Ogawa. Osamu Nobusawa and Mochipuyo, both character designers for Ave Mujica - The Die is Cast -, are designing the characters for this anime. PHYZ is producing the music.
Additional staff include animation character designers Takuya Chanohara and Yuka Yamori, art directors Ken Tokushige and Shinpei Tokushige, color key artist Mana Watanabe, compositing director of photography Keisuke Watabe, editor Hatsumi Hidaka and Tomomi Umetsu, sound director Satoshi Motoyama, and recording director Makoto Tanimura. Bushiroad Music is handling music production. Shota Hozumi is the animation producer.
The anime will premiere on July 2 at 11:00 p.m. JST on Tokyo MX, with additional broadcasts on BS NTV at 11:30 p.m. JST and Sun TV at 24:30 JST (effectively July 3 at 12:30 a.m. JST).
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.