Tae Hanazono

Tae Hanazono, also known as O-Tae, Hana and Chasing Rabbits in the Garden, is one of the main characters from the BanG Dream! series.
== Charactah Account ==
A guitarist of Poppin'Party. A music lover who lives with her parents and her 20 rabbits, one of whom she refers to as her "boyfriend." She is somewhat of an airhead who has a tendency to say bizarre or shocking things with a straight face. Although initially skeptical of the band due to Kasumi's naivete, watching the passion with which they performed convinced her of their potential. During the events of Season 2, she is the initial lead guitarist of RAISE A SUILEN before she was eventually replaced by Rokka Asahi.
A relaxed individual who lives at her own pace, Tae sometimes surprises the people around her with her keen observations and understanding of music.  She carries a sense of knowing in her discussions with others, while always keeping an optimistic outlook on a situation.
She loves rabbits and is constantly thinking about them, sometimes to the point of daydreaming and losing focus during a conversation. She has compared both Rimi and Arisa to them (Rimi because of her overall nature, and Arisa because her twin tails remind Tae of a rabbit's ears). She affectionately refers to one of her rabbits, Odd-Eye (Occhan in Japanese and Oddie in the localized version), as her boyfriend. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* BanG Dream!
* BanG Dream! 2nd Season
* BanG Dream! 3rd Season
* BanG Dream! 5th Anniversary Animation: CiRCLE Thanks Party!
* BanG Dream! Film Live 2nd Stage
* BanG Dream! Garupa Pico
* BanG Dream! Garupa Pico Fever!
* BanG Dream! Garupa Pico: Oomori
* BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
* BanG Dream! Movie: Episode of Roselia - I: Yakusoku
* BanG Dream! Movie: Episode of Roselia - II: Song I Am
* BanG Dream! Movie: Poppin' Dream!
* BanG Dream!: We Had Some Fun!
* Happy Happy Party!
* Hashiri Hajimeta Bakari no Kimi ni
* Star Beat!: Hoshi no Kodou
* Yes! BanG_Dream!
=== Light Novels ===
* BanG Dream!
=== Manga ===
* BanG Dream!
=== Video Games ===
* BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
== Trivia ==
* In the original storyline, her personality was more similar to Arisa's, and she was also a lot shyer. She also had reading manga and watching anime listed as her hobbies.
* ESP Guitars has released a real-life version of Tae's guitar, Snapper, alongside Kasumi's guitar, Rimi's bass, and other Bandori merchandise.
* The rabbits shown at Tae's house are based on her voice actress' own pet rabbits.
** Aside from Odd-Eye, some of their names are Shiroppi, Purple-chan, Danjuro, and Doro-chan.
* She has the same height as Touko, and is also the tallest member of Poppin'Party.
* Outside of her listed hobbies she also loves visiting both pet shops and music stores, as well as looking for and taking pictures of rabbit-shaped things.
* She is childhood friends with Rei. Tae also attended the same music school with Rei and Arisa, and was part of the Guitarist Course.
** This was initially seen as a retcon as Tae mentioned in BanG Dream! 1st Season (and its in-game adaptation, Poppin'Party Band Story 0) that Poppin'Party were her first friends. Later in the ending chapter of the Before the Start of a New Season event, she even goes as far as saying that "You all said that I was your friend. That... really shocked me. In a good way. Nobody had ever considered me a friend before that."
** However, she later specified that while Rei is her childhood friend, she doesn't consider Rei her friend in the same way as she does with the four other members of Poppin'Party (whom she sees as her first real friends) because the two were apart for such a long time.
* She sometimes mixes words like 'Rosepa' as a combination of Roselia and Poppin'Party.
* She really likes a famous guitarist named Mortin as she was mentioned in the 2nd and 4th episodes of BanG Dream! 2nd Season.
* Tae has the ability to convince people with "puppy eyes".
* Since her second year in high school, she's worked part-time at multiple live houses and musical instrument stores.
* After the event Do It Ourselves!!, Tae became interested in knitting and making handicrafts. In My Design, My Texture's event story, she reveals that she has started knitting outfits for her rabbits.
* In the A Certain Scientific Railgun T collaboration, her character design was based on Saten Ruiko.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Hanazono Tae at BanG Dream! Wikia
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