[Essay] How It’s MyGO!!!! ep. 7 Keeps Us In The Box

Episode 7 of BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!! is one of the best-directed episodes of television I’ve ever seen, making the show’s portrait of the band’s first performance not just an emotionally-powerful turning point for the series, but a masterpiece of filmmaking as well. In this video I break the episode down virtually shot-by-shot and explain how good direction isn’t just about dynamic or interesting storyboards, but how it can, as it does here, elevate narrative and character development to almost limited heights. Stay to the end, there’s some extremely important statistical analysis happening after the credits. Essay, narration, and video all by MR Bowers https://bsky.app/profile/mrbowers.bsky.social This essay was written and recorded several months before BanG Dream! Ave Mujica was released, so the analysis is based solely on the 2022 series BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! I don’t think there’s anything in the sequel series which contradicts my analysis here, but just so you know. SPOILER WARNING: I kind of casually spoil a couple major plot points from the three seasons of BanG Dream! which came out prior to It’s MyGO!!!!!, so heads up for that. This essay also sites a number of older films, including elements which could be considered spoilers, so I’ll list them here just in case: Rope (1948) Batman (1989) Akira (1988) Steel Magnolias (1989) The Godfather (1972) Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) CHAPTERS: Intro 0:00 The First Box 02:53 Resetting 06:41 Using Space 10:12 Eye of the Storm 14:58 No Escape 17:25 Pressure Cooker 19:41 It’s Always the Quiet Ones 24:30 The Second Box 28:21 (Not) Pulling a Crowd 30:14 Sing, Girls! 31:02 Tough Crowd 35:01 False Start(s) 37:59 Togawa F. Sakiko 40:32 Screams From the Heart 44:24 WHY DID YOU PLAY SPRING SUNLIGHT?!!? 46:18 Out of the Box 51:46 Outro, credits, & coda 53:28 Behind-the-scenes It’s MyGO!!!! footage from here: https://youtu.be/JbcJjroa0Gg?si=VLoZupNSL1K6KpHV MUSIC Fearless First, Aerosol of My Love, Too Cool, Dreamer, How it Begins, Werq, and Slow Burn by Kevin MacLeod of Incompletech (https://incompetech.com/) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ From Pixabay: (https://pixabay.com/) Neon Gaming by dopestuff Abstract Technology by Denys Kyshchuk Lofi Orchestra by Patrick A. Synthwave (Background Music) by Nver Avetyan Timeless by deep_house_music Elegant by Oleksandr Stepanov One Step Ahead & Slow Drift Music by AlexGrohl Ethereal Horizons by Sergio Prosvirini Test Tube by Fae Spencer Classic Documentary Piano by Mikhail Smusev Neon Nexus, My Digital Harmony, & Lost In Dreams by Tony Vodnik In Slow Motion by soundbay Licensed under Pixabay Content License