BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! — Character Information Database and Tableau Analysis
By: Thian Jiawen
Tags: Data Visualization, Tableau, Bandori, Bang Dream, Data

1. The Basics

Treemaps were my weapon of choice here as they allowed me to group everyone nicely while being able to display details as labels. The colors helped too.

Characters sorted by band

Characters by band: A simple introduction to everyone and their roles in their bands. And yes, there really is someone who does double duty as trombonist and keyboardist.

Characters sorted by instrument

Instruments: The previous chart, but sorted differently. Most bands follow the standard format of vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard and drums, but some mix it up with double guitars, a violin, DJ or even vocals and a saxophone at the same time!

Characters sorted by school/workplace

School/Work/Organization: A stalker’s guide to everyone. Almost everyone in Bandori is in high school (majority are either in Hanasakigawa High or Haneoka High), while ARGONAVIS has a wide range of ages from middle schoolers to working adults! I’m not very sure why the ARGONAVIS college kids are in the same school even though they are supposed to hail from different regions of Japan… probably part of the game plot which I’m not too familiar with…

2. Sizing everyone up

Please note that the axes don’t start at zero because I wanted a better view of the graph, and because it’s a bit useless to find a 0-year old who’s 0 cm tall and weighs 0 kg.

Height against Age

Height against Age: Not a very high R-squared value of 0.23 (makes sense since we stop growing at a certain age). Using the power of filters, We can see that the average height for Bandori is 157.78 cm while the average height for ARGONAVIS is 174.84 cm. In real life:

The average height of 17-year old Japanese men is 170.7cm (5’6”) and 157.8cm (5’1”) for women. When it comes to weight, men weigh in with 62.5kg (137.7lbs) and women with 52.9kg (116.6lbs). (Source)

We can see that despite the unrealistic look of the anime cast, their relative sizes are actually pretty close to reality! If the character’s data point is above/below the trendline, it means that they’re taller/shorter than what their age would suggest! Of course, the lack of data points for many of the ages messes with the trendline’s accuracy.

Height against Weight (weight data only available for ARGONAVIS characters)

Height against Weight: R-squared value of 0.75, so a reasonably decent positive correlation which fits with what we know in real life… Looks like the tallest and heaviest person is also one of the oldest (he’s 32)! Interestingly enough, the other person who’s also 32 years old is shorter and lighter than almost half the ARGONAVIS cast. Average weight is 63.84 kg, which is also pretty close to real life! Characters which have data points above/below their trendline would be taller/shorter than expected given their weight, and this shows in the character’s build (skinny/buff).

Characters sorted by age (range from 12 to 32 years old)

Age: From what’ve seen in the Basic Information sheet, the vast majority of the cast are teenagers, and the average is thrown off by the 5 working adults (they’re in one band). The oldest person (32 years old) is almost thrice the age of the youngest person (12 years old)! It can also be seen that ARGONAVIS’ age range is much larger than Bandori’s, but the average of its characters are college-age instead of Bandori’s high school age.

Characters sorted by height (range from 140cm to 187cm)

Height: Whoa, not a lot of overlap between the genders… The tallest girl is the height as Argonavis’ vocalist, and he’s one of the shorter ones in his band. The shortest boy is 12-years-old, and it isn’t too surprising that he’s shorter than the girl who’s his age because that girl is abnormally tall. She also wears 6 cm (I think it’s that high) platforms regularly which gives an even larger height boost. The shortest character overall is a 14-year-old who’s 140cm tall. Funnily, she’s always placed next to her band’s vocalist who’s the tallest Bandori character at 172 cm tall, and that height difference is pretty amazing to look at…

3. Hair/Eye Colors

Do note that the colors are approximate and based on what I saw, which might not be completely 100% accurate even though I’m quite sure that my eyesight isn’t that bad. Different shades are lumped into the same color for simpler grouping.

Characters sorted by hair color, with chart color indicating eye color

From the Color Combinations chart, we can see that blond hair and brown eyes is the most common combination with 5 characters. The next most common combination is green hair and green eyes with 3 characters, but note that 2 of them (they happen to be twins) have hair that’s more teal than green. Pink hair and pink eyes also have 3 characters possessing the combination.

Characters grouped by hair color (above) and eye color (below)

Even though black hair and blue eyes are separately the most commonly occurring colors, when put together they only appear in 2 characters. Couldn’t find too many trends here since anime colors tend to defy nature… hence orange hair and eyes…

4. Best character’s birthday!

Chart showing days where a character celebrates their birthday

Remember, the two franchises are separate so you’ll only be able to reap the joys of June 16’s triple birthdays if you play both games… June 15 and March 20 happen to be the birthdays for each franchise’s set of twins.

Characters sorted by zodiac sign

It’s interesting to see how their zodiac signs hint to them being twins: Pisces has two fish in its symbol while Gemini is the twin symbol. Please note that I don’t know anything about zodiacs and found everything from Google, so I don’t know enough to go in-depth. What I do know is that Hagumi, Kokoro, Misaki Goto and Yuto are very impulsive and seem like good fits for Leo. Misaki Okusawa, Kenta and Rinko tend to be rather level-headed and organised, which I suppose fits the Libra stereotype… now I’m wondering if this was deliberate on Bandori’s part.

As for gameplay and birthdays, October is the best month overall and the best month for Bandori, with the end of the month feeling like Christmas came early. March is also not too bad thanks to the Hikawa twins’ birthday. ARGONAVIS has a remarkably even birthday distribution with 2 birthdays a month except for June which gets a bonus birthday thanks to the Nijo twins…

5. Signature Colors

Fanart artists, I hope this is helpful…

HTML Color Codes: This is a color palette for every single Bandori/ARGONAVIS character and band. It’s not used for any direct analysis, but I made this with the hopes that other Bandori fans would find this helpful or at the very least nice to look at. I found it pretty interesting how both franchises had quite an even spread of colors across the spectrum of colors, even though the franchises themselves follow many gender tropes.

With that, this concludes my analysis of both franchises’ character information. I hope you’ve enjoyed it, and if you haven’t checked it out, here’s part one of my spreadsheet guide! If you have any feedback for this visualization and article, do let me know here!