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Girls Band Cry, S.1, Ep. 1 - Tokyo Heave-Ho (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-24 15:00:29
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2026-05-20 06:13:50
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2026-06
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The animation in this anime is GORGEOUS! It's like I am watching a live action video game with that anime style of drawing that I love!

...this anime is so cute. A girl just wanting to break out on her own to find her own way and meets her favorite guitarist?

The humor is gold as well. I lost it with the resturant scene. Good stuff!

AND THE MUSIC! YES! The background music is beautiful and that credit scene. OMG!

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Luis Arispe

Yes, an all CGI show...but...the best CGI anime ever made. The attention of details is insane. Fun fact, Nina's voice actress was 15 years old when was cast for this role.

Spadeas

Yep that is 3D CGI (because 2D CGI exist too), but I have to say, as a big anime watcher, when I heard about 3D CGI anime series, there is 4 studio that I could follow without thinking, Sanzigen (who work on the Guilty Gear adaptation this season), Orange (they worked on Beaster and Trigun Stampede), Tatsunoko (there Infini-T Force have a great animation) and Toei, they use 3D CGI for a while now, like in the precure anime (magical girls like Sailor Moon) but also for Knight of the Zodiac and Miraculous Ladybug, the last Dragon Ball Super movie too, that was this studio. Enough about that, I just want to add that Nina said she was from Kumamoto, you know who is from it too ? Our pigeon goddess, guitarist, vocalist, ball of energy and founder of Band-Maid.

Andrew Hellebrand

The artstyle was a bit uncanny valley at first for myself, but I got used to it really quickly and love the exaggerated facial animations that helps to sell the characters' emotions. With the musical performances they use a mixture of motion capture & rotoscoping (similar to Bocchi) and the facial animations use rigging similar to that of higher end vTubers. Toei has been working with CGI in their productions since 2009, so have a lot of experience in the medium. There's actually a 2min behind the scenes video showing how they create some of the performances, there's so many layers of compositing involved, I'm not gonna share that yet though because it contains minor spoilers. I like the fact that you noticed the background music so quickly, there's a 2CD soundtrack album that includes the vast majority of the incidental music from the show and it's great to groove along to in the car on your commute. There are two albums by the main band with full length songs that you can also purchase, including a longer version of the outro performance arrangement. All the music for the show is written by Kenji Tamai of Agehasprings (a production company that do a lot of music for anime). The main band also perform actual live shows playing the instruments, but again I won't say too much more about that yet for spoiler reasons. As Luis mentioned, the VA/singer playing Nina (called Rina, last name unknown for privacy reasons) was only 15 when she successfully auditioned for the part (her first ever VA role, as is the case with all the other cast members from the main band) and 16 when she recorded her parts for season 1, so she's infact actually slightly younger than her character.

Andrew Hellebrand

Also Jukki Hanada who was involved in brainstorming the initial ideas for the story of Girls Band Cry wrote the scripts for the Sound! Euphonium anime that you've been enjoying so much.

VegetaRabbit

They auditioned girls who were musicians or could sing and then had them do the voice acting. So this is their first voice acting roles for the band members and they did a great job, especially Rina (Nina). Also, I love the connections between Nina and Miku. Both have twin-tails, both from Kumamoto, both can sing the classics because of their grandmother, neither could play the guitar but were willing to learn. There are more connections but they are spoilers. There has been a lot of bad CGI in anime, so it has a negative connotation for many people, but this is the good stuff.

William Hallisey

Several of these animes with girls in bands almost all have a similar relationship with the members of Band-Maid. Miku Kobato is "a country girl" from Kumamoto. In August, Miku and Band-Maid are returning to Kumamoto to perform. I have tickets to the show. I'll travel to Japan for two weeks to catch four of their shows.

Andrew Hellebrand

Whilst there are certainly parallels with Band-Maid, 'rural' musicians moving to the big city/cosmopolitan areas to improve pursuing their careers is hardly an unusual trope, in the US moving to LA, Nashville or New York used to be a frequent occurrence if you were trying to get signed, much like moving to London or Manchester in the UK. One of the biggest contemporary singers in Japan, LiSA, is originally from Seki in Gifu before moving to Tokyo in '08. Scandal started in Osaka and moved to Tokyo after getting signed to a major label and once Tomomi & Mami had graduated high school (youngest member Rina ended up having Haruna act as her temporary guardian for a year or so when they first moved due to being under 18).

David Cook

Unlike you I am NOT a fan of the Animation style. I watch Anime cos it is not realistic and I would normally not have watched but the story had me hooked and I ended up loving this Anime. So I am glad I gave it a chance.