History Music / BandMaid

* TakeOverTheWorld: Band Maid's ultimate ambition is world domination. Though this amounts to them just wanting to be household names around the world.

* TrashTheSet: During the music video for "After Life", the staff of a maid cafe (3 maids, the manager, and the janitor) slowly become more and more fed up with a hard day's work until they all take part in this. [[MoodWhiplash Then after more shots of the band, it ends with the cafe staff dancing in formation amidst the mess they created.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Misa often performs on stage with just her stockings, and no shoes. In some sets, she doesn't even have the stockings.

* {{Keigo}}: This is how Kanami usually speaks on camera. Granted, with her it's difficult to tell whether it's a part of her onstage persona or if she's given to this even out-of-uniform.

* GratuitousEnglish: As to be expected from a Japanese band, this crops up a lot, though to their credit [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish it works pretty well]].

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: "Don't Let Me Down" is written in English and Saiki & Miku sing it pretty well, albeit with an accent.
** Kanami, known for her perfectionism regarding basically everything, whenever she writes or speaks English. Unlike Miku, she is ''not'' content to let her English be broken and let it slide. During the February 2021 Online Okyu-Ji, near the end of the set – during an abnormally long MC period necessitated by a technical glitch (sadly cut from the Bluray) – she said this:
--->''"Hi, Masters and Princess! How are you? I hope you are well. Mm… I could not play at Nippon Budokan today. But, we can do it, one day!"''

* AnimeThemeSong: Their song "Different", composed by Kanami and intended partly as a challenge for Miku – "If you can play this, you can play anything I throw at you" were her words – was used as the opening for the Fall 2020 season of ''LightNovel/LogHorizon''. The Maids' single includes the anime's 89-second version.

* Akane Hirose (廣瀬 茜) [-[D.O.B: 1990/12/14]-] – Drums, percussion

* TheCutie: Miku took an aspect of her Kobato persona and deliberately cranks it UpToEleven for her Cluppo "Hippie-Popo" act. Her Tik-Toks also play up this angle, being full of silly games and poses done to idol pop background music.

* NiceHat: Until mid-2018, Akane had a tiny black bowler hat with white brim pinned into her hair at a jaunty angle as part of her uniform. At the early stage of the band, that hat was originally part of Misa's costume before going to Akane.

* ''BAND-MAIKO'' (EP - 2019)

* ''BAND-MAIKO'' (EP - 2019/04/03)

* OneSteveLimit: Invoked by Miku, who changed her name because it was too similar to Misa's.

On April Fool's Day 2021, Miku launched a solo project called [[https://www.cluppo.tokyo/ cluppo]] (an alternate romanization of her catchphrase). Despite its launch date, it's not just a one-off gag, and she has released two singles as of August 2021.

* AsianAirhead: Not initially, but this is what's Kanami's band persona has grown into. In real-life, she is [[CloudCuckoolander a bit scattered and dreamy]], so she really plays it up to this degree.

** More an aspect of the band being late millennials, but on ''Kannai Devil'' the interviewer asks them what book they've been reading recently. The band starts doing embarrassed laughing and Miku exclaims that's such a random question. Turns out it's been a quite while since any of them read a book.
* BreakoutCharacter: In an interview, the band was asked who's the most popular member overseas, they all pointed to MISA - saying the crowds there would spontaneously break into chants of "MISA, MISA, MISA".

* CharmPoint: Not every band has them, Band Maid does as a reflection of Miku's MaidCafe roots. So everyone has a noted minor flaw or beauty aspect (Kanami claims her big eyes are hers) to appeal with.
* TheCutie: Miku took an aspect of her Kobato persona and deliberately cranks it UpToEleven, for her Cluppo "Hippie-Popo" act. Her Tik-Toks also play up this angle, being full of silly games and poses done to idol pop background music.
* TheDeterminator: Miku notes that she's headstrong and not one to give up when she's after a goal (which was to become an entertainer)...and she's not kidding. When her father walked out on the family, Miku took three part-time jobs in Kumamoto (as mentioned in Part-Time Jobs magazine) to pay for singing lessons: she worked in a factory - cutting tags, worked as a server/food prep at a hot pot restaurant and worked in a maid cafe as well, while still managing good enough grades to get accepted for college. Dropping out of college, she went to Tokyo and worked in maid cafe, @Home Cafe, before winning the audition for L'il Cummin. When L'il Cummin failed, she went to Gump which led to Band-Maid. There's also how often she's done shows while injured, including some broken ribs.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: They're a band wearing maid costumes. Additionally the song "Black Hole" isn't a metaphor, it's about getting sucked into an inescapable gravity well.

* {{Geek}}: Not quite the otaku that Saiki, Kanami and Akane are, but the remaining maids have their geeky qualities. In fact, one Band-Maid song, Hibana, is based on the experience of playing first-person shooters.

** Miku is really big on poker, especially Texas Hold'em and in this VANITYMIX interview http://www.vanitymix.jp/music/band-maid-3/, Miku admits playing [[VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds PUBG]] all the time.

* GirlGroup: Discussed and Defied. They are often called one but in reality they share nothing in common with them except being made up entirely of women and wearing attractive costumes. Akane used to be really distrustful of them having been a member of an all-female band CHAMY'S, that quickly fell apart. The lack of punctuality of MISA, Miku and Saiki in early Band-Maid only made Akane even more leery about girl groups - she's since mellowed regarding girl groups.

* IdolSinger: Miku used to be in a three-girl idol group called Lil Cumin (リル・クミン) under the name Mika Noguchi (野口みか). She still exhibits Idol mannerisms when interacting with fans. Her "Omajinai Time" (a.k.a "Miku's Magic Time") that she does during every show so the rest of the band can take a breather, or a swig o' liquor, is a good example.

* TheKlutz: Miku. Extremely headstrong, she's not one for looking where she's going and fell off stage in Hong Kong. She's also gashed her thigh by putting a glass on her sink at home and having it fall and shatter - with her getting a shard to the thigh. She's busted her ribs, once from getting banged too hard against her guitar and another time falling while snowboarding for the first time. Those are just some of the injuries she's picked up, with half being her fault and the others being really bad luck.

* SpecialGuest: The band lucked into an appearance on Netflix movie ''Film/{{Kate}}'', director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan thought doing a bar scene for Miku Martineau would be too adult for her character. So he chose a scene with a band peforming as the perfect way to introduce her. Seeing some images of Band Maid, he thought they were stage performers rather than a real band and believed their visuals would be someting a teen girl would like. Upon learning the maids are an actual band, he got them to perfom as themselves in the film and got two of their songs for the soundtrack.

* UnpluggedVersion: Their online acoustic concert, released on 25 December 2021.

* TheDeterminator: Miku notes that she's headstrong and not one to give up when she's after a goal (which was to become an entertainer)...and she's not kidding. When her father walked out on the family, Miku took 3 part-time jobs in Kumamoto (as mentioned in Part-Time Jobs magazine) to pay for singing lessons: she worked in a factory - cutting tags, worked as a server/food prep at a hot pot restaurant and worked in a maid cafe as well, while still managing good enough grades to get accepted for college. Dropping out of college, she went to Tokyo and worked in maid cafe, @Home Cafe, before winning the audition for L'il Cummin. When L'il Cummin failed, she went to Gump which led to Band-Maid. There's also how often she's done shows while injured, including some broken ribs.

* TheDeterminator: Miku notes that she's headstrong and not one to give up when she's after a goal (which was to become an entertainer)...and she's not kidding. When her father walked out on the family, Miku took 3 part-time jobs in Kumamoto to pay for singing lessons: she worked in a factory - cutting tags, worked as a server/food prep at a hot pot restaurant and worked in a maid cafe as well, while still managing good enough grades to get accepted for college. Dropping out of college, she went to Tokyo and worked in maid cafe, @Home Cafe, before winning the audition for L'il Cummin. When L'il Cummin failed, she went to Gump which led to Band-Maid. There's also how often she's done shows while injured, including some broken ribs.

Band-Maid is a Japanese HardRock band based out of UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}[[labelnote:*]] (though none of the members are natives – Miku is from Kumamoto on Kyushu, Kanami is from Kanagawa [just south of Tokyo], Akane is from Hyogo, Misa is from Okayama, and Saiki is from Yamanashi)[[/labelnote]] managed by Platinum Production and currently signed to major Japanese record label Pony Canyon.[[labelnote:†]] From 2016-2019 they were signed to various sublabels of Nippon Crown.[[/labelnote]] JPU Records distributes their material internationally. Formed in July 2013 and made up entirely of women, their {{gimmick}} is that they dress like the famous MaidCafe waitresses Japanese cities are known for. This idea comes from founder Miku's experience working in one in Akihabara before forming the band, and is [[SubvertedTrope an intentional juxtaposition]] of the submissive {{Meido}} trope, with extremely aggressive music played expertly by ladies who, for the most part, don't really act like maids – they're more likely to trash a place than clean it for you.[[note]] Sure enough, that happened by proxy in their "After Life" music video.[[/note]]

* {{Geek}}: Not quite the otaku that Saiki, Kanami and Akane are, but the remaining maids have their geeky qualities. In fact, one Band-Maid song is based on the experience playing first-person shooters.