Anime Like Brand New Pastel Road!
This is three and a half minutes that exist purely to make you grin, and it knows it. Handing a Pastel*Palettes single to ZAQ, who writes, composes, and arranges the whole thing, is the kind of casting choice that makes anisong nerds sit up: her stacked, sugar-detonating hooks against the softest unit in the BanG Dream! lineup should not work, and instead it becomes the loudest pastel song in the catalog. Sawako Yuno and Yuichi Hinata run it as a fantasy piece, so Aya, Hina, Chisato, Maya, and Eve get pulled out of the idol-industry grind and into pure storybook mode, no drama, no heavy themes, just the five of them let loose. Nothing here is trying to be deep. The OST is the point, the visuals are the victory lap. You will replay it before you close the tab.
SYNOPSIS
Pastel＊Palettes spins up a vibrant one-shot music video that channels pure color and movement. Set within a fantastical world painted in soft, dreamy hues, the piece follows characters traversing a landscape where reality bends around melody and rhythm. The song pulses with upbeat energy, driving the narrative forward through visual spectacle rather than traditional storytelling. What unfolds is less about plot and more about atmosphere. Directors Sawako Yuno and Yuichi Hinata craft something that feels like stepping into a living watercolor, where each frame bursts with detail and charm. The collaboration between the band and composer ZAQ creates a soundtrack that's immediately infectious, matching the whimsical adventure on screen beat for beat.
