Kizuna Music♪ (BanG Dream S2 OP)-Poppin'Party

This is another "special" type arrangement and its the first "Ballad" type arrangement since my Nagi no Asukara Piano Medley in 2014. Initially, I wanted to upload a piano cover from the current Anime Season, but... for some reason, I didn't felt any inspiration at all and couldn't finish any of my started projects.

So instead, I made an arrangement of something I've always wanted to cover and that's of course a song from BanG Dream!

I have started playing BanG Dream! since July 2019 and I have went very deep into the rabbit hole of Gacha Hell Mobile Games. But I have no regrets: the Characters are really well written and their original Songs are simply addicting.

I have many favorite Bandori Songs, but Kizuna Music is probably the only one, which I will never grow tired of.

Since the original song is a powerful Rock song from start to finish, I was initially planning to do a similar fast-paced piano arrangement. But I thought.... why not try something different for once? How would Kizuna Music sound if it has been composed as a piano song from the very beginning? And from this point on, more and more ideas flew in and I transformed the original song into a slow Ballad type arrangement.

While arranging this song, I also remembered my humble beginnings as an piano arranger: Just the melody and very basic accompaniment, nothing else. It is the very essence of piano music, and I almost forgot how good simplicity can sound on the piano. In terms of my personal arrangement progress, this is probably the spiritual successor of my Snow Halation (Love Live!) arrangement from 2016 . While the first one is focused on utilizing all aspects of piano technique, this one is focused to draw out the "music" from the piano.

Piano arrangement by Animenz

Original Song: KIZUNA MUSIC (キズナミュージック)

Anime: BanG Dream! Season 2 (バンドリ S2)

Published by: Bushiroad Music

Composed by: Ryutaro Fujinaga, Ryota Tomaru

Performed by: Poppin' Party (Kasumi Toyama, Tae Hanazono, Rimi Ushigome, Saya Yamabuki, Arisa Ichigaya)