Thread by @watarussailboat, bandori gbp garupa //ー a thread of my journey with bandori (both [...]

bandori gbp garupa //

ー a thread of my journey with bandori (both sides) and how it has been one of the biggest influence in my life! ー

first of all, a small backstory of this thread: I was on youtube when a vid of one of popipa's first MVs was reccomended to me... I wasn't in the fandom until 2018 but it still feels... nostalgic? and for some reason I started crying... and a few weeks ago I made a short (cont)

thread of my love for AAside, so I thought why not make one for both?

I will write mostly about the positive side, dw～

also if most of these looks more like ramblings and there's a number of typos I'm sorryー

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It was in 2016, the first year I got into anime stuff. There's this channel on my TV that broadcasted bandori S1, I wasn't that interested with it at all at that time but I do watch it when it came on TV. I still had a good time even then ^ ^

Time skip to 12 July 2018, a few days before I start a new school year (in which it was supposed to be the year I study more lmao), someone (who is now my longest and best internet friend) started posting screenshots of the game. The visuals caught me, so I asked them-

-what it is. They answered with Garupa, and when I checked, I noticed there's a lotta famous cover songs (even tho I don't even watch the animes but I recognize it) and I downloaded endori. At the time I don't know the difference of original and cover songs, so I think I thought-

-it was sung by the original artist at first... anywayー At the time, the Nurse Udagawa sis event has just ended, so it gave me quite a time to get used to the game. I don't remember much, but I do play the cover songs a lot ^ ^; the summer event was my first event too, but-

-I didn't do anything with it lol I didn't even know what's an event but I got prizes so I was happy anyway

Then the Romeo event, which was also the first event I tiered in. For some reason my young self thinks it was a good choice to use a band with only 3*...

well I got top 10000 anyway so I guess that's pretty good ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Time goes by, I start liking the original songs more. Sure, it was a long progress but now I prefer the original songs over covers... though I still love the covers too :]

oh yeah I also tiered with-

all I had during Eve's first event for top 5000 even until the point I bribed my mom to give me my phone before school but I failed and got top 10000... I think I also feel down for the whole day after the event...

Anywaysー in Nov 2018, I finally downloaded jpdori.

After seeing the song list, my first impression was "woah how am I going to play/unlock all of these songs" but it has a collection of really boppin' songs, so I enjoyed that journey too :D

for some reason every time I download bandori it was during event break, like-

this time it was also after the roselia + ag vs event and before the home street event...

The first event I participated in jpdori was the home street event, despite just started from scratch I somehow already able to get the event sticker... but the event after it,

christmas afterglow, again, I somehow got christmas moca and top 30000... which was pretty surprising to meー

And because of it, I've been even more active in the fandom! Though at the time more people know me from the TeamTDM (DanTDM) fandom, I was also starting to-

-know some of my first internet friends from the fandom! sadly not all of them stayed... and my innocent self was... probably too easygoing...

anYWAYS, I FORGOT TO WRITE ABOUT THIS EARLIERー

RAISE A SUILEN was actually the band that made me download jpdori! once-

again, yt reccomended a video from their first live as RAS, I think it was... Brave New World? their band logo interested me and again, made me download jpdori, but I think I forgot about them immediatelyー even so, a month later R • I • O • T was released in game, so-

- I once again fall in love with them :]

I can't really remember any interesting events in 2019, other than S2, FILM LIVE, S3 announcement, and how I became more active in the fandom tbh... but that time was also when the gbp fandom also... yeah.

I'll be lying if I-

-say I was this interested in AAside since that year too, I do follow the news occassionally but it was only when @/bandori.updates posted them... I wished I was there way longer than I am, I really regret it

wait, I think there was something during 2019ー the Roselia atan in me awakened aswell, Popipa was also in the bottom of my list but it also rose throughout the year! I believe I was a Roselia stan for the longest time but now I'm a RAS stan... though I like the seiyuus-

-more than the characters ^ ^; RAS's S2 and S3 development really hit me sjshdg

again, 2019 was also the year when I got a number of internet friends! a group of them was friends that I met through a kg fangame, and for some reason we named ourselves "warteg saaya"...

we went through a few though times, but they're still one of my best internet friends! some of us even met irl last february ^ ^

yet another thing I forgot to add earlierー I was always a huge Re: Zero fan, so when the Redo cover came to endori it was probably one of-

-the happiest moments in my life... and then a year later R:Z collab is a thing, unfortunately luck wasn't in my side at the time and after getting both event cards I was in a pretty bad mood for the whole event :')

another time skipー 3rd anniv! iirc I saw a post in early 2019 where someone said RAS could be coming in game in the 3rd anniv because their initial name was THE THIRD, at the time I believed it because of my innocence, but... who knew? It actually came true.

The announcement made me internally scream, trying not to disturb my beighbors and family because of how late it was... I was just really happy my favorite band id going to be added... this moment overwrote my happiness during the R:Z event too...

Garupa is my first fandom where I actually follow every announcement, and I actually still enjoy after a long time. I was also in the Marvel fandom, but that only lasted for about a year, because of Endgame hype. Garupa has managed to catch my eye, a someone who-

-loses interests really quickly... though I've detached myself from the endori fandom, I still enjoy the franchise and content itself ^ ^

Now... I probably took too long to do this, but it's time to talk about AAside :]

(doing it in comments since I reached the thread limit

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