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Other Characters
This is a partial character sheet for BanG Dream!. Visit here for the main character index. Subjective trope and audience reactions should go on the YMMV page.
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Glitter*Green
A band featured in the anime. It is made up of third years (who later graduate and go on to university) and Rimi's older sister Yuri is a member. General
- Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Yuri is Phlegmatic.
- Rii is Choleric.
- Hinako is Sanguine.
- Nanana is Melancholic.
- Non-Player Character: They do have a few songs in Girls Band Party and appear in a few event cutscenes with voices and character models, but you can't recruit any of their members into your roster.
- Put on a Bus: They have not appeared in the second season of the anime until ep. 9 despite appearing in the first. Justified since season two takes place in the new school year and they have graduated and are presumably attending college. Yuri specifically is attending college overseas.
Yuri Ushigome
Yuri Ushigome
Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)
Rimi's older sister and the guitar vocalist of Glitter*Green.
- Cool Big Sis: Acts as this to Rimi, her younger sister, and the rest of Poppin' Party.
Hinako Nijikki
Hinako Nijikki
Voiced by: Sora Tokui (Japanese), Melissa Molano (English)
The drummer of Glitter*Green and an inventory worker at Edogawa Gakki.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Poppin' Party initially think she's shy until she starts tackle hugging them.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Curtains Match the Windows
- Cuteness Proximity: Hinako is particularly prone to this when she sees girls that she considers "cute."
- Glomp: Her reaction to seeing cute girls.
- The Quiet One: Rii gets her to act like this in order to keep the band's image.
Rii Uzawa
Rii Uzawa
Voiced by: Izumi Kitta (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)
The bassist of Glitter*Green and a salesperson at Edogawa Gakki.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: For Hinako.
- Companion Cube: She carries around a plush demon named Debeko. Tae loves it.
Nanana Wanibe
Nanana Wanibe
Voiced by: Mikoi Sasaki (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)
The keyboardist of Glitter*Green and the student council president of Hanasakigawa.
- Clark Kenting: Kasumi, Saya, and Arisa don't realize she's the keyboardist of Glitter*Green until she takes off her glasses.
- Motherly Side Plait: Wears her hair in this style while at school.
- Odd Friendship: With Arisa. They met at a ramen shop at some point and became food acquaintances. It takes the rest of Arisa's band by surprise.
- Passing the Torch: After she graduated, she appointed/forced Rinko to be the new president of the student council.
- Punny Name: Their nicknames are puns of their first names.
- Student Council President: In the anime, Nanana is this for Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy.
Other characters
Marina Tsukishima
Marina Tsukishima
Voiced by: Aya Suzaki
One of the staff at the live house CiRCLE. In Girls Band Party, she is trying to get five bands together for a multi-band event with your help.
- Ascended Extra: In GBP she seldom appears after the first few Main Story chapters and is entirely off-screen in event and band stories, but BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO gives her a good deal more screentime. However...
- Butt-Monkey: Poor Marina gets involved in a lot of scenarios where she comically gets hurt or injured in Garupa Pico thanks to the girls' antics.
- Chewing the Scenery: In PICO's first episode, she introduces the five main bands with some very dramatic flair.
- A Day in the Limelight: A much more downplayed example, however the CiRCLING event does give her some additonal focus alongside the event stars, Poppin Party. Namely, we find out that she used to be in a band herself when she was younger, and that she now works in a live house hoping to encourage other bands to follow their dreams and succeed where her band failed.
- Demoted to Extra: She only gets a very brief appearance in Season 2 thanks to the 2nd season being largely set in Galaxy's studio and not CiRCLE.
- Token Adult: Marina is the only major adult character in a cast of high school girls (and several middle schoolers), at least until the third season of the game where some of the girls now attend university.
Shifune Tsuzuki
Shifune Tsuzuki
Voiced by: Mami Koyama
The owner of the SPACE livehouse. A former musician from the band MiraculousScarlet with extremely high standards.
- Arc Villain: The Big Bad of the first season and it's adaptation "Band Story 0: Poppin'Party is Born!" in Girls Band Party. Her high standards of music often causes friction towards other bands, even leading to Kasumi going to a Heroic BSoD.
- Kick the Dog: She outright calls Kasumi the worst member of Poppin'Party, which results in her entering a Heroic BSoD throughout Episodes 10-11 of the anime.
Asuka Toyama
Asuka Toyama
Voiced by: Yuka Ozaki (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)
Kasumi's younger sister. Though usually annoyed by her older sister's antics due to her more serious personality she loves and supports her just the same. In Season 2 she starts attending Haneoka Girls School after graduating from Hanasakigawa's middle school branch. She's Ako and Rokka's classmate.- Annoying Younger Sibling: Inverted. It's her older sister Kasumi who ends up being the annoying one in their relationship.
- Big Sister Worship: Played With in PICO~OHMORI~ episode 8. Asuka starts the episode talking about how annoying and slobbish Kasumi can be at home but as soon as Ako begins gushing about how amazing of a sister Tomoe is, Asuka starts talking about Kasumi in a more positive light before engaging in a Yu-Gi-Oh-styled duel of who has the cooler older sister. She doesn't backpedal on her negative remarks about Kasumi but
Asuka does believe she has the coolest older sister. - Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Her more serious and responsible personality provides a contrast to Kasumi's more carefree and energetic nature. She's also a hardworker at school and transferred to Haneoka once she graduated from middle school because she aims to enter a good college.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: While Kasumi is happy go lucky, Asuka is more subdued and mature compared to her older sister.
- The Stoic: She has a more quiet personality compared to Kasumi and a lot of her reactions tend to be subdued.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She shares Kasumi's hair and eye colors.
Natsuki Umino
Natsuki Umino
Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)
A student at Hanagasaki Girls' High School. She is the vocalist and lead guitarist of the band CHiSPA and friends with Saaya, who is CHiSPA's ex-drummer. Yukina's father
Yukina's father
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese, Bang Dream! Episode of Roselia movie duology)
A vocalist for a band back in his youth, he is the primary inspiration for Yukina as a vocalist. Yukina is trying to launch her own successful career in order to convince him to play one last time.- Like Parent, Like Child: Like Yukina, he was very serious about his music back in his prime.
- No Name Given: His given name is never told.
- Pretty Boy: He is surprisingly handsome for a dad, as shown in the "A Song Unfinished" event in Girls Band Party.
- So Proud of You: At the end of the "A Song Unfinished" event story, he leaves a congratulatory letter backstage for Yukina that confirms that he was there to see Roselia cover the song he sent to Yukina.
Ran's father
Ran's father
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Ran is frequently embarrassed by her Dad. When her band's first single went on sale, he showed up to buy ten copies
◊. And once, he bought deluxe snack waffles for the band, causing Ran to wonder if he really stood in line with the throngs of teen girls◊ who would ordinarily buy them. - Doting Parent: After Ran convinces him that she's dedicated to Afterglow, he becomes one of these to Ran's embarrassment.
- Foil: To Yukina's father. While Yukina's father is supportive of his daughter's musical ambitions, Ran's father sees his daughter's band as a hindrance to his plans for her to inherit the school.
- No Name Given: His given name is never told.
- Passing the Torch: What he's trying to get Ran to do, much to her dismay.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's not trying to be cruel to his daughter, but instead believes that Ran's just going through a phase. When Ran convinces him to watch Afterglow perform at an event, he decides that Ran really is serious about her band and allows her to continue with it.
Akari
Akari
- Troubled Child: Ever since her accident, Akari has been depressed and hasn't opened up to anyone. She also rejects every attempt that Hello, Happy World! make to get her to smile and tells them to leave her alone.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: To a certain extent regarding Akari's injuries. Akari's injuries are not that serious and have already begun to heal, but she's so afraid that she won't be able to walk that she refuses to do her physical therapy... which may actually cause her to lose the use of her legs.
The Suits
The Suits
- Crazy-Prepared: They're extremely loyal to Kokoro to the point that they will do anything for her to grant all of her whims and wishes.
Miu Tamade
Miu Tamade
Voiced by: Ayumi Tsunematsu
Chiyu's mother. She is a world-famous violinist whose treatment of her daughter throughout childhood would ultimately become the crux of her current Bratty Half-Pint nature.- Abusive Parents: She deprived Chiyu of a normal childhood by forcing her to play various musical instruments against her will and burdening her with high expectations by placing her on a pedestal, even to the point where Chiyu's hands were injured from constantly practicing. Chiyu herself also mentioned that Miu never praised her actual performances and always told her to "keep doing her best" after every competition, which Chiyu interpreted as Miu thinking she had no actual musical talent. Flashbacks make it abundantly clear that the whole process made Chiyu miserable.
- Parental Abandonment: She lives and works overseas and has left Chiyu to live alone in Japan.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Her poor treatment of Chiyu would ultimately lead to the development of her daughter's Bratty Half-Pint nature in the present day, in addition to Chiyu establishing RAISE A SUILEN in order to get people to recognize her talent on her own terms.
- Stage Mom: She forced Chiyu into entering the world of music, even though Chiyu herself thought she had inadequate skills.
