The livestreamed "BanG Dream! 10th Anniversary Special!" announced on Friday, Feb 28th, 2025 that the BanG Dream! franchise will have a new mini-anime series that will air and stream this year. Directors Kenshirou Morii and Seiya Miyajima are returning from the BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico anime and its sequels for the new 52-episode series.

In the novel The Lovely Princess, the secondary character Athanasia de Alger Obelia is the most pitiful of all. Her mother died in childbirth and her father, Emperor Claude, never gave his daughter even an inch of love. Forever yearning for even the slightest bit of parental love, she was ultimately framed for a crime and executed by the orders of her beloved father. When a woman from modern-day Korea falls asleep with some sleeping pills, she later awakens in the infant body of Athanasia. Knowing the unenviable fate that awaits her, she resolves to remain out of her tyrannical father's sight so that she may never incur his wrath. However, fate isn't so kind, and she meets him at only five years of age. With her original plan tossed out of the window, she now aims to endear herself so much to her father that he would never dream to hurt her. However, as many work toward their own ends, her plan is thrown into chaos—Athanasia's biological "sister" Jennette Margarita longs for a family, high-ranking nobility vie for power, and a shadow from Claude's past threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.

The critically-acclaimed series of animated shorts returns to Japan for a third installment in collaboration with nine anime studios. 1) The Duel: Payback (Mizuno Takanobu, Kamikaze Douga x Anima) 2) The Lost Ones (Hitoshi Haga, Kinema Citrus) 3) The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope (Naoyoshi Shiotani, Production I.G.) 4) Yuko's Treasure (Masaki Tachibana, Kinema Citrus) 5) The Smuggler (Masahiko Ootsuka, Trigger) 6) The Bounty Hunters (Junichi Yamamoto, Wit Studio) 7) The Song of Four Wings (Hiroyasu Kobayashi, Project Studio Q) 8) Bird of Paradise (Tadahiro Yoshihira, Polygon Pictures) 9) Black (Shinya Oohira, David Production)

Yuuken "Yuu" Enma is an average Japanese high school student preparing for an upcoming kendo tournament. On the night before the competition, however, a black carriage crashes into him. When he regains consciousness, Yuu finds himself at Night Raven College—a premier academic institution in the magical world of Twisted Wonderland. Only a chosen few with exceptional magical talent are admitted into the school, so it is a mystery how a human with no magic ability ended up here. Although Yuu desires to return home, it is easier said than done. While the school's headmaster searches for a way to send him back, Yuu is assigned manual labor around the campus. But due to the chaos at the school's entrance ceremony following his arrival, Yuu has a target painted on his back as far as Heartslabyul dorm leader Riddle Rosehearts is concerned. Yuu meets and befriends Heartslabyul freshmen Ace Trappola and Deuce Spade; yet soon after, Ace and Deuce land in a situation that results in their expulsion. As the pair seek to redeem themselves, Yuu accompanies them on their perilous mission to fix school property. However, forgiveness does not come easily from the "Crimson Tyrant" in charge of Heartslabyul, who may have an ulterior motive behind his strictness.