Ok so I want to participate in this because Bandori became a huge part of my life. Also very long, as I like to write about this. abbreviations: GC = group chat IG = Instagram IRL = in real life friend Pic + Event

My first exposure of Bandori and my experience as a beginner.

So in 8th grade, I was very addicted to LLSIF. That meant that I watched a lot of videos on YouTube about Love Live as well. Because of that, YouTube would recommend me videos based on a similar idea of Love Live (which would be, animes that involve singing). That was when I saw a video about a new game coming out as an English version. That video, was about Bandori's release. So, after watching that, I downloaded Bandori. At first I did not understand because the mechanisms was very different about LLSIF. I also went through the stage of just sticking to LLSIF and abandoning Bandori. Now this was when I feel a big change. I was in a program at my new school during the last weeks of summer break that helps 9th graders get prepared for high school. It was lunch time and I was bored, and I didn't have any stamina on LLSIF, so I played Bandori. That was all in 2018.

How Bandori has changed my life

Now that Bandori has been a big part of my life, a lot of good things happened. Here is a list:

1. Playing events is so much fun if you got nothing to do. That means also getting a lot of stars if you just stay in the desire ranking range and gather from the event rewards, which will help you get those amount of stars needed to do a big gacha coming up. I've been playing Bandori for a few times a day after my live boosts get fully recovered, and then play 3 lives w/ 3x LB. This has helped me get prepared for doing the Re:Zero gacha and the event, and now it will help me towards wedding Roselia in May!
2. I made a lot of friends! At the start of 10th grade, my irl told me that they finally downloaded Bandori after only listening to the songs (this was influenced by me (●'◡'●)) and because of that, our bond got stronger. Additionally, a month before the pandemic started in 2020, I joined a lot of GCs on IG which help me gather new friends that also liked Bandori. Now I actively look for new GCs in confession accounts that focuses on Bandori fans who are looking for ones who share other interests with me.
3. This is the first franchise that I got a collection of merch from. I've gotten a Sayo figurine as a gift from same IRL mentioned, lots of keychains, pins, etc.
4. If I haven't gotten into Bandori, I would have never met the 7 amazing bands, or even going to the Rausch and/und Craziness DV in 2020.

So, what has Bandori taught me?

A lot of things, such as the different types of music genre, but this is the most significant lesson I learned. My fav girl of all time is Sayo, and she taught me to stand up for myself and to basically speak up. I had an inferiority complex as well, but after watching Sayo's character analysis on YT, I stopped having this complex and learned that no one will learn what's happening w/you if you don't tell them anything. This moment was also the main topic of a project I did for English class last year.

Anyways, I'm going to stop here before I start writing a novel instead. I love Bandori and its impact, and I am looking forward to see what happens in the next 10 years or so of Bandori's era 💖. (3505 characters, 665 words)