Chiyu Tamade

Chiyu Tamade, also known for her stage name as CHU2 (pronounced as CHUCHU), is a major character and the former main antagonist of the BanG Dream! series.
She initially serves as the main antagonist of Seasons 2 to 3 of the anime adaptation, as well as the main antagonist of RAISE A SUILEN's Band Story, ~Raise the Curtain~, between Chapters 1 to 20, in BanG Dream! Girls' Band Party! She later redeems herself in Episode 11 of the anime's 3rd Season (Chapter 20 of BanG Dream! Girls' Band Party!).
Chiyu is a 14-year-old second-year (later third-year) high school student from Celosia Girls' Academy, and is the band leader, DJ, and producer of RAISE A SUILEN, which was originally served as a backup band. Later on, it was fully founded by her, composed of initial members including Rei Wakana/LAYER, Masuki Sato/MASKING, Reona Nyubara/PAREO, and later Rokka Asahi/LOCK.
Her initial goal for the band's foundation was to take on Roselia, as a revenge for her being humiliated by Yukina, who simply turned down her offer, and later Poppin' Party, as means to prove RAS's superiority over the two bands. However, after making amends with PAREO, she later allays her antagonism aside and make amends with the other bands.
Chiyu is voiced by in Japanese, who voiced Saki Izumo from D4DJ. She is voiced by in English of the anime's second season, who voiced other characters including Fuko Ibuki from Clannad, Kanna Tanigawa from Waiting in the Summer, and Lin Yin Fang from Infinite Stratos.
== Appearance ==
Chiyu is a short girl, who is slightly shorter than all of her band members. She is often seen wearing a Celosia Girls' Academy school uniform, comprising of a white buttoned shirt with a red and white striped tie, a dark-blue school blazer, a plaid miniskirt, black crew socks, and brown loafers. She also wears black cat-eared headphones.
== Personality ==
Chiyu is very professional, confident, and stubborn about her band and ideas, and likes calling herself a "kind, generous producer". This is, however, a front for her rather arrogant and short-tempered personalities towards the other bands, even going so far in yelling at her own bandmates.
Chiyu is sometimes known to be a control freak, as exemplified when she grew annoyed of her bandmates interacting with Poppin' Party and Roselia, going so far in forbidding them to interact with the bandmates of the respective bands.
Most of her current personality is rooted to her upbringing with her mother Miu Tamade, a highly decorated violinist, as she was burdened with her inferiority complex in the past.
While Chiyu sometimes has outbursts and yells at her band members, she has admitted to having trouble with controlling her emotions and finding the right words, and tends to get depressed after realising what she'd done.
Chiyu dreams of changing the world with the strongest music, and sees Yukina as her rival, due to Yukina turning down her offer of producing Roselia's music. However, Yukina doesn't share this sentiment of rivalry. As a result, she wants to crush Roselia and prove that her band is better than them; she later adds Poppin'Party to this list as well.
She is sometimes a known saboteur, as shown when she steals Tae Hanazono to join with RAS by using Tae's childhood friend to Rei, in order to humiliate Poppin' Party's one-year anniversary concert, which later ended in failure.
Chiyu is, however, not above redeeming herself, as she finally apologises to her actions, especially in Episode 11 of BanG Dream! 3rd Season, after rebuking one of her bandmates, Reona Nyubara, that caused her to leave the band and revert back to her original personality.
Due to spending years in an international school, Chiyu is known to speak fluent English.
== Trivia ==
*Her birthday is the same date as when RAISE A SUILEN's 3rd official live, Brave New World, was held.
*She is both the shortest member of RAISE A SUILEN and the shortest of all the 35 main girls.
*Chiyu's habit of speaking English is a reference to her voice actress, Risa Tsumugi, who can speak English considerably well.
*Chiyu is the only antagonist present in the BanG Dream series, before redeeming herself in Season 3, Episode 11 of the anime adaptation.
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