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This documentary takes us back to a time when this Dream was nothing more than a small fragment. Aimi was the first person who found it. One by one, she was joined by other members, each bringing along her own fragment. Music and friendship helped to bond their fragments together. Here we follow the footsteps that they had taken, on this kirakira dokidoki journey towards their Dream: Nippon Budokan.

Highlights

– Heartfelt interviews from PoPiPa

– Live footage, especially the rare ones from the Beta era

– Behind-the-scenes snippets (They’re so precious!!)

Timeline

– [2015-02-28] Aimi 2nd LIVE ~LOVE GENERATION~ (Project announced by Aimin)

– [2015-04-18] BanG_Dream! 1st Live 「In Spring, I Started a Band!」 (Aimin, Rimirin, Ayasa)

– [2015-06-14] BanG_Dream! 2nd Live 「Instruments × Girls = Justice!」 (Saechi joined)

– [2015-08-15] BanG_Dream! 3rd Live 「It’s Summer! Ban-Odori!」

– [2015-10-11] BanG_Dream! 4th Live 「Welcome! Poppin☆PARTY!!!!!」 (Hasshi joined)

– [2016-04-24] BanG Dream! First☆LIVE Sprin’ PARTY 2016!

– [2016-11-13] BanG Dream! Second☆LIVE Starrin’ PARTY 2016!

– [2017-02-05] BanG Dream! 3rd☆LIVE Sparklin’ PARTY 2017!

– [2017-08-21] BanG Dream! 4th☆LIVE Miracle PARTY 2017! at Nippon Budokan

This documentary is included in the Poppin’Party 2015-2017 LIVE BEST blu-ray collection which contains PoPiPa’s first 4 Lives (after the rework), as well as several documentaries and other good stuff. Please do check it out!

You might have watched another documentary that I’d subbed, 武道館への軌跡, which I translated as ‘Road to Budokan’. Days after I finished subbing it, I came across this longer documentary with the title ‘Road to 武道館’, which unfortunately translates to the same thing. To avoid confusion I had to translate this one as ‘Road to Nippon Budokan’, based on the title cards in the video. Is it even more confusing now? Well…just watch both of them! 😛

If you’ve finished watching it and want to appreciate the beautiful lyrics a bit more, I’ve made a version with romaji/kanji/english lyrics! I’ll admit that translating these lyrics was the first time I’ve really paid attention to some to them, but they’re so marvelously written. So I want to share them with you here! (Mirror 1 / Mirror 2) I didn’t put this as the main version because I don’t want the onscreen lyrics to take attention away from the video itself.

I hope you enjoyed watching it! ^_^

Special thanks to iviachupichu and Soran for QC’ing!

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If you haven’t noticed, today (2019-04-18) marks the 4th anniversary of the BanG_Dream! 1st Live!! It was at this Live that Rimirin and Ayasa were first announced to be taking part in the project. The name “Poppin’Party” hasn’t even been decided at this stage.

Another important moment during this Live was the debut of the project’s first original song “Yes! BanG_Dream!”. The three founding members did a studio recording of it and distributed signed copies of the CD to audience members after the Live.

Today’s date is also specifically mentioned in the Star Beat manga that the original characters were based on. You can easily see the original shy Kasumi in the lyrics of “Yes! BanG_Dream!” (and also “STAR BEAT!”)