BanG Dream! Collab Performance Initial

* WW (1)
* JP (1)
* WW (2)
* JP (2)

**BanG Dream! Collab Performance Initial** is a special collaboration event with BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! in Re LIVE. It was the 33rd event to take place in the Japanese server, and the 31st in the global one. It was accompanied by the limited **Revue Starlight Re LIVE × BanG Dream! Premium Gacha**.

The event and gacha ran from July 18, 2020 to August 1, 2020 in the Japanese server and from September 17, 2020 to October 1, 2020 in the global server.

For the collaboration, Initial, a cover of Initial by Poppin'Party from the BanG Dream! franchise, was released. The song is a cover by Karen, Hikari, Akira, Aruru, and Tamao. It was added to the game as a permanent Revue Song along with the event.

Being a limited event, the stage girls and memoirs from the event and gacha were not added to the reward pool for subsequent gachas.

### Characters

* Karen Aijo, Hikari Kagura
* Akira Yukishiro
* Aruru Otsuki
* Tamao Tomoe
* Poppin'Party

### Synopsis

Karen Aijo asks Poppin'Party to train herself, Hikari Kagura, Akira Yukishiro, Aruru Otsuki, and Tamao Tomoe so that they may be able to perform Initial live in their latest play.

## Gameplay

There were 2 parts of the event: The first was a shop type event, and the second was a ranking event, similar to the Starry Diamond live events.

### Part 1

Playing stages allowed the user to obtain Live Tickets, which could then be used to fight event bosses **Reckless Visitor Red** and **Reckless Visitor Black**. Event stages had an increased drop rate for Live Tickets.
Defeating event bosses allowed the user to obtain event points to unlock event stories, obtain rewards such as the 4✰ Initial Guitar Vocals Karen Aijo Stage Girl and 4✰ Pro Skills memoir, as well as **Red Glowstick** and **White Glowstick**. These could be used to purchase items in the event limited shop.

Stage Girls released for the event allowed the user to inflict greater damage on the event bosses, and increased drop rates for **Red Glowstick/White Glowstick**. Damage dealt to each boss was not carried over in subsequent fights if the boss was not defeated in that fight, so each boss had to be defeated in a single turn.

### Part 2

The user progresses through the event by using event-exclusive stage points rather than stamina, and has to clear four event stages before challenging a boss stage.

Defeating the event boss **Noisy Visitor** allows the user to gain points to unlock event stories, as well as rewards depending on the number of victories. Additionally, regardless of clearance status, challenging event and boss stages gives the user the possibility to encounter event chests with a 20% of opening, or 100% by using a key or Star Gems. Rewards include stage point tickets, boss damage boosts that go from 5 to 25%, coins, creation jewels, flower bouquets, and Star Gems.

Stage Girls released for the event allow the user to inflict greater damage to the event boss. With each boss defeat, the user receives a cumulative 5% damage boost, whereas each subsequent boss challenged will have increased HP. Damage dealt to each boss does not carry over in subsequent fights if the boss is not defeated in a single fight. If the user fails to defeat the boss, they will have to clear four more event stages before challenging the boss at the same difficulty they had not cleared previously.
## Stage Girls and Memoirs

### Event

* 4✰ Stage Girl
* 4✰ Memoir (1)
* 4✰ Memoir (2)
* 4✰ Memoir (3)

**4✰ Initial Guitar Vocals Karen Aijo**

**4✰ Pro Skills**

**4✰ Peculiar Fate**

**4✰ Bandsman's Greeting**

### Gacha

* 4✰ Stage Girl (1)
* 4✰ Stage Girl (2)
* 4✰ Stage Girl (3)
* 4✰ Stage Girl (4)
* 4✰ Memoir

**4✰ Initial Guitar Hikari Kagura**

**4✰ Initial Bass Akira Yukishiro**

**4✰ Initial Keyboard Tamao Tomoe**

**4✰ Initial Drums Aruru Otsuki**

**4✰ Guitar Tale**

## Trivia

* Re LIVE and BanG Dream! have quite a few characters with the same voice actresses. Notably, Ayasa Itō voices Kaoruko Hanayagi from Re LIVE and Arisa Ichigaya from BanG Dream!, and they meet in this collaboration.
	+ When they meet in the event story, they both comment that it feels like they have met before. Karen comments that perhaps they had met in their previous lives, to which they respond simultaneously, "That's absurd!" and "That is absurd!". The memoir with the CG for their meeting is also aptly named "Peculiar Fate".
	+ In the event story, Tamao reveals that Arisa tried out acting, and in the final part when Arisa is nervous to go on stage, Tamao encourages her by saying, "You did great when you did the Kyoto accent acting last time during practice". It is revealed in Initial Keyboard Tamao Tomoe/Bond Story that Arisa tried acting as many different roles given by Tamao, and one of them was a Kyoto girl who dances, reminiscent of Kaoruko Hanayagi.
* The other voice actress overlaps between the two series are:
	+ Aina Aiba – Claudine Saijo (Seisho Music Academy) / Yukina Minato (Roselia)
	+ Haruka Kudō – Yachiyo Tsuruhime (Siegfeld Institute of Music) / Sayo Hikawa (Roselia)
	+ Risa Tsumugi – Rui Akikaze (Rinmeikan Girls School) / CHU² (Chiyu Tamade) (RAISE A SUILEN)
	+ Reo Kurachi – Fumi Yumeoji (Rinmeikan Girls School) / PAREO (Reona Nyubara) (RAISE A SUILEN)
	+ Emiri Katō – Tsukasa Ebisu (Frontier School of Arts) / Himari Uehara (Afterglow)
	+ Suzuko Mimori – Hikari Kagura (Seisho Music Academy) / Yuri Ushigome (Glitter\*Green)
	+ Yuka Ozaki – Michiru Otori (Siegfeld Institute of Music) / Asuka Toyama