History VideoGame / BangDreamGirlsBandParty

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The game itself has a tie-in mini animation series in Anime/BangDreamGirlsBandPartyPico

** Getting all Perfects on a chart won't get you any unique rewards, but it will be recognized with a rainbow star.

* OffModel: Sometimes the characters' models during cutscenes will clip through one another, usually at the elbows.

* WeirdCrossover: The ''VideoGame/Persona5'' event surprised a number of players who had expected the games to be fictional in-universe and the event story to be about cosplay and cover songs. Instead, Himari is inspired by the Phantom Thieves of Hearts (at this point considered an urban legend) to get Afterglow to copy their website and use it to do good deeds. None of the ''Persona 5'' characters appear, save for a cat that may or may not secretly be Morgana, but establishing that ''Bandori'' takes place in the game's world got people talking.

** For April Fool's Day 2022, Bushiroad released a web-based DatingSim named "Girl's Blossom Project ~Unbelievable True Love~", in which you play as Himari Uehara who attends Garupa Private Academy. At this academy, there is a legend that a cherry tree blooms once every 10 years, and if you wish for happiness together with someone special to you underneath said tree, the wish would come true.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Usually 4* cards featured two characters that received the most focus in story events. For early Season 1 story events, there was only one 4* card for characters who had lesser roles, while characters with the most focus somehow only featured in 3* cards. One of the most glaring examples is the “Umbrella in the Autumn Rain” event story, where it is a Sayo-centric story that is critical to her CharacterDevelopment, yet Yukina who only appear briefly to give Sayo advice is the only 4* card in the event.

** There's a cover of Masayoshi Minoshima's Bad Apple (ft. Nomico), from Touhou Project, sang by Roselia.

** Special difficulty, above Expert; in other words, [[UpToEleven Harder Than Harder Than Hard]]. It was introduced in an update and is available for select songs. The fourth anniversary update added flicks and new slide hold note variations in select songs.

* RepeatingAd: Ads for the game are very common on Twitter, usually appearing every five ad spaces. The Music/MikuHatsune collab took it UpToEleven, with ads for that appearing every three ad spaces.

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* HitboxDissonance: The Note Boost skill will temporarily expand the Perfect timing window to overwrite those of lesser timing judgements. A Note Boost from a 2-star card will override Greats, 3-star Note Boosts will override Greats and Goods, and 4-star Note Boosts will override Greats, Goods, and ''Bads'' (i.e. hitting the note ''at all'' will get you a Perfect).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Usually 4* cards featured two characters that received the most focus in story events. For early Season 1 story events, there was only one 4* card for characters who had lesser roles, while characters with the most focus somehow only featured in 3* cards. One of the most glaring examples is the “Umbrella in the Autumn Rain” event story, where it is a Sayo-centric story that is critical to her CharacterDevelopment, yet Yukina who only appear
briefly to give Sayo advice is the only 4* card in the event.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Usually 4* cards featured two characters that received the most focus in event stories. For early Season 1 story events, there were only one 4* for characters who had lesser roles, while characters with the most focus somehow only featured in 3* cards. One of the most glaring examples is the “Umbrella in the Autumn Rain” event story.

* GenreBusting: The game goes this route with each band's band story 1. Roselia's begins with a shonen manga-like storyline, Afterglow's has a dramatic flair, Hello Happy World's starts off with a Widget Series vibe, Pasupare with a "traditional studio-created idol" storyline, and Popipa as a slice-of-life story. Three of these stories are origins (though Roselia's actually takes place both before and after the main storyline, with a TimeSkip to when they're more established), but Afterglow's OriginStory is saved for a Flashback Episode event and Poppin' Party has a "Band Story 0" as thier origin story.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally speaking, Pastel Pallettes is 1-3, Hello Happy World is 2-3, Poppin' Party and Morfonica are 2-4, Afterglow is 3-5, and Roselia and Raise A Suilen are 5-7, occasionally creeping up to 8.

Additionally, five bands are introduced alongside Poppin'Party, each with their own stories to unlock and read, with additional 2 bands will be added during the game's 3rd anniversary:
* Afterglow -- An alternative hard rock band formed by ChildhoodFriends.
* Pastel*Palettes -- A LighterAndSofter idol-inspired band formed by a talent agency, initially marred by a [[ThatSyncingFeeling lip-sync concert disaster]] before reforming and becoming a legitimate and successful band while maintaining their IdolSinger ideals.
* Roselia -- A highly-acclaimed and exceptionally-talented gothic VisualKei rock band with a serious approach to music, aiming to be the best band in the world.
* Hello, Happy World! -- A [[DenserAndWackier cheery, poppy band]] with some very eccentric personalities.
* Morfonica -- An all-girls violin rock band formed by first-year students from the prestigious and rich school Tsukinomori Girls' Academy.
* RAISE A SUILEN -- A DarkerAndEdgier electronic rock band formed by four high school students and a middle school student.

** The game has an "Auto Set" feature for area items and each of your five teams; it will set items and members for you based on your attribute and band preferences. This is very useful in events, which heavily encourage using the correct characters and attributes in order to earn Event Point multipliers.

* AntiPoopSocking: Downplayed. Live Boost, this game's rough equivalent of stamina in other mobile "free-to-play" games, only influences rewards. You can continue to play songs even after you've run out of Live Boosts.

** During a "VS Live" Event, stamina is spent once you get to the song selection menu, meaning you already lost your stamina ''before'' getting to pick your song. You also don't get to see the songs others picked until you pick your song. This discourages people from rage quitting because they have to play a song they hate. Also, should anyone disconnect in spite of that, or because of a bad internet connection, it won't force the other players to go back to the first VS Live menu, meaning they won't get punished because someone else decided to rage quit.

** VS Live, which is similar to Multi-Live except players gain additional rewards based on their score ranking at the end of the song. Furthermore, to [[AntiRageQuitting discourage ragequitting]] and to [[AntiFrustrationFeatures avoid creating an inconvenience for other players]], players who quit before the song begins will not only not get their [[AntiPoopSocking stamina]] refunded (as opposed to Multi-Live, where stamina is only used when the song begins), but will not cause the room to be disbanded. The song plays and scores like in Free Live, meaning that there's no Fever and your own party member's skills activate instead of you and the other players' leaders, but like in Challenge Live (see bellow), using the correct members gives you an additional Band Power boost.

** Various VOCALOID covers from Poppin' Party and Pastel Palettes appear in the game, like Romeo and Cinderella & Karakuri Pierrot.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally speaking, Pastel Pallettes is 1-3, Hello Happy World is 2-3, Poppin' Party and Morfinica are 2-4, Afterglow is 3-5, and Roselia and Raise A Suilen are 5-7, occasionally creeping up to 8.

** The level goes on a scale originally from level 5 to 28; however, a Roselia cover song, Roku Chounen to Ichiya Monogatari, also known as Six Trillion Years and Overnight Story, introduces a level 29 Expert chart. The recent update in JP added Setsuna Trip as a Level 29 song in special difficulty.

* LastNoteNightmare: Some note charts on Expert/Special difficult seem to have a section who's only job is to be this either to break up a combo or whittle down what health you have left. An example is in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8vQGDVVfls Alien Alien]]'', where the last verse has flick notes sprinkled throughout when the other verses don't do this.

* Roselia -- A highly-acclaimed and exceptionally-talented gothic rock band with a serious approach to music, aiming to be the best band in the world.

* Morfonica -- A girls band formed by first-year students from the prestigious and rich school Tsukinomori Girls' Academy.

* Afterglow -- An alternative punk rock band formed by ChildhoodFriends.

* Hello, Happy World! -- A cheery, poppy band with some very eccentric personalities.

** "Girl's Anthology", a silly Afterglow-oriented event focusing on the girls attempting to come up with some ideas for a manga (many of which are quite ridiculous), is sandwiched between "Double Rainbow" and "Neo-Aspect", both of which contain some [[TearJerker pretty heavy moments]].