泛式 你太厉害了 You are amazing!! spending 45 hours to create this masterpiece music video!! I really love your tribute video for Togawa Sakiko (豊川 祥子) Sakiko is my favourite character from MyGo!! What touch me the most, is that She is a strong character despite having her own family problems, she still try to work part time and go to school. she continues to play piano even after she quit Crychic , she kept everything to herself and not ask for her friends for help. Could it be to keep her image as elegant girl? I don't think so, she is probably acting strong so she don't have to rely on anyone, and keeping her dignity as well as pride as another human, she have to "kill her weaker self". When she say she kill her weaker self is what really got me emotionally. And her wishing Tomori Happiness breaks my heart... 😢 I can't wait to see more of Saki in sequel Bang dream Ave Mujica anime~!! The last ten seconds are incredibly densely packed with information, but it paints us a clear picture: Sakiko's family has fallen onto hard times, and she now lives with her drunken father in a tiny apartment (just two rooms and a bathroom/toilet). Whether her father is physically abusive is unknown, but it's definitely at least some level of emotionally abusive from Sakiko's final words: "I'm home, you shitty father". The first time I heard that line I was absolutely blown away with how much emotion her seiyuu packed into them. Equal parts fear, despair and anger, about to burst into tears at any moment. It's not clear whether her mother still lives with them, but there are no signs that she is, so it's a safer assumption that she isn't given the situation. Despite how space is at a premium in a living space as tight as this, her childhood doll can be noticeably seen given a place of honor at the entrance, even while everything else is piled up and stacked away. This environmental storytelling illustrates what Sakiko holds most dear to her: her memories of her peaceful childhood days. These two facts together tell us what her driving motivations are, to reclaim what has been ripped away from her. With this information certain scenes can potentially be seen in a different light: Episode 2, Sakiko and Mutsumi's conversation in Hazawa Coffee. Sakiko takes the initiative to depart and picks up their bill, which might be the source of Mutsumi's surprise rather than her abrupt departure. Mutsumi knows Sakiko's family circumstances, so it's surprising to her that Sakiko is picking up the bill. But to Sakiko, it would hurt her pride way too much to be shown pity by her closest friend. Episode 3, after CRYCHIC's first live: It's animated in a way to mislead the audience that Sakiko saw something unpleasant on SNS, but she's likely reacting to news from her family instead. Perhaps this was the moment when her father lost his job/company. Sakiko quits the band after their first live, because she no longer has time to play around. As seen at the start of Ep 13, she now has to work part-time jobs to keep the family afloat. Her dad clearly isn't contributing to the finances and instead is part of the problem with his compulsive drinking. She transfers out from Tsukinomori, likely because the family can no longer afford it. Even her band, the best friends that she has found, she can't confide her troubles in them because of the shame. She lashes out at them because she has nowhere else to direct her anger, at the unfairness of the world. Episode 6, Sakiko and Mutsumi's conversation in Hazawa Coffee: Sakiko absolutely flips at the idea of going to Tsukinomori. Having lost everything and transferred out, she can't stand the shame of going back and meeting past classmates. Some of them might even have heard about what happened with her family's fall from grace. Episode 7, her visceral reaction to Haruhikage is a little overblown. But in context, this is the second time she's faced betrayal from figures she should have been able to trust. First from her own father, and now her old band-mates seemingly stepping on the memory of CRYCHIC, which she still held dear in her heart at that point even if she had no choice but to cut it off. Episode 8, Sakiko's conversation with Uika on the roof garden: Sakiko's alarm goes off soon into the conversation, which is an abrupt change and not really explained why she had such an alarm for 6PM. My best guess is that she had to head off for a part-time shift. Alternatively she could already have been talking to executives on the Ave Mujica initiative, so both are plausible scenarios. In the same episode, when she's seen "leaving her mansion", that's just sleight-of-hand by Sanzigen, given we never actually saw her leaving the mansion. By the time she's in view she's simply walking past it. As we saw in Episode 13, she has a habit of staring at it from the outside, perhaps to remind herself what she's lost and what she's fighting to regain. And of course, her speech where she tears into Soyo, asking if she's truly ready to bear the burden of someone else's life. Out of everyone in this season, Sakiko is the one suffering the most from external circumstances out of her control. Ironically Soyo might be the closest to her circumstances, but at least Soyo still has one loving (albeit somewhat absent) parent and living in luxury. Episode 12 at the end, Nyamu throws shade at Sakiko's clothes when they first meet. What might have seemed like a casual swipe between high culture ladies suddenly takes a much darker and hurtful tone in context. There's a whole lot more scenes in Ep13 that show in a different light on a rewatch, with more weight on her words given her circumstances. Her end goal of this whole band is not really shown, so there's many possibilities. It could be as something as simple as needing to make as much money as possible to get back her lifestyle, or maybe she believes that with money she could help her father return to who he used to be. Or it could be getting famous enough that her mother would come back, or her dad would acknowledge her. But with her bitter anger towards her father, it's likely something to do with a sense of becoming independent and standing on her own two feet. As the episode title goes, the only one she can trust anymore after all this, is her own self. All we know is that she's dead set on her path right now, so the drama will continue unresolved. Sakiko can't patch things up with the members of MyGO!!!!!, because there's too much anger in her, and she's stuck with a shitty family situation beyond anything we've seen so far. She has her own goals to achieve, and she will stop at nothing until she gets there. Until she rebuilds what she's lost, or finds something more important to her, she can't begin to heal. She needs a new family, friends that she can confide in, and I'm looking forward to how they will develop her story in the future. Anyway Sakiko is best girl thank you for coming to my TED talk. Footnote: There is the question of how she managed to pull this whole show and debut together if she was broke, but that's something we'll have to wait to find out (Right now my best guess is just Mutsumi's bankrolling her operations). There's also a question of just how abusive is her father anyway, but quite scarily, this show has shown us the staff are not afraid of taking BanG Dream! in a far darker and grittier direction than ever before. That's worth a whole analysis in itself.