The first three episodes of the series will premiere together.
It has been announced that the musical mixed-media project BanG Dream!’s next anime BanG Dream! YUME ∞ MITA will begin airing on 2 July, 2026. The first three episodes of the series will debut together on Tokyo MX in Japan.
BanG Dream! YUME ∞ MITA
Premiere date: 2 July, 2026
Animation studio: NICHIKALINE
Who are working on the BanG Dream! YUME ∞ MITA anime?
Tomomi Umetsu directs the series at NICHIKALINE, while Hiroshi Morita serves as the assistant director. Midori Gotō oversees the series scripts and writes them alongside Akiko Waba, Yotsuji Haibuchi, and Hitomi Ogawa. Osamu Nobusawa and Mochhipuyo are designing the characters while PHYZ produces the music for the series.
Other staff members include:
- Animation Character Design: Takuya Chanohara, Yuka Yamori
- Art Directors: Ken Tokushige, Shinpei Tokushige
- Art Setting: Ken Tokushige, Keiji Ueda, Shinpei Tokushige
- Colour Key Artist: Mana Watanabe
- Compositing Director of Photography: Keisuke Watabe
- Editing: Hatsumi Hidaka, Tomomi Umetsu
- Sound Director: Satoshi Motoyama
- Recording Director: Makoto Tanimura
- Music Production: Bushiroad Music
- Animation Producer: Shōta Hozumi
The anime will follow the journey of the virtual girl band Mugendai Mewtype. The cast and members of the band are:
- Arale Nakamichi (vocals)
- Nonoka Miyanaga (lead guitar)
- Ritsu Minetsuki (rhythm guitar)
- Miyako Fuji (keyboard)
- Yuno Sengoku (DJ)
The band has also released a music video for their new song ‘Mutant Mutant’.
What is BanG Dream! about?
Created by Bushiroad, BanG Dream! is a mixed-media franchise that started with a manga, but has since released several anime series, movies, live concerts, albums, VTubers, and even a mobile rhythm game. The franchise is mainly music-themed and features young girls at the center of its stories. Crunchyroll streams the BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica - The Die is Cast - anime series, as well as the BanG Dream! movies. Crunchyroll describes the story of the main series as:
The best way to fit in at a new school? Start a band! Anon has just transferred to Haneoka Girls’ Academy where girl bands are all the rage. But she started school late, so there aren’t many girls left to recruit. Then she meets her first friend and Haneoka’s misfit, Tomori, who’s hesitant to join. Still, Anon is determined to persuade Tomori and experience the true power of friendship and music.