{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c3cc5231cc69942dec624885","clusterId":"c_05edb71800158cdcd3b07241","slug":"pre-registration-opens-for-girls-band-cry-first-riff","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Pre-Registration Opens for Girls Band Cry First Riff","summary":"DONUTS opened pre-registration for the smartphone game Girls Band Cry First Riff on November 3, 2026. The announcement came at the Girls Band Cry Special LIVE \"Akairo no Hibiki Matsuri\" at Pia Arena MM the same day. DONUTS develops the game jointly with Toei Animation. It is billed as a girls rock RPG in which players follow bands rising from the streets to the arena, with a story written by different writers for each band and full-3D live gameplay. The five members of Togenashi Togeari appear alongside game-original bands and characters. The official website was renewed with detailed character profiles, and a newly drawn key visual by illustrator Nari Teshima was released. The first promotional video uses in-development game footage and 3D live concert footage, set to the theme song \"Mukidashi no Kyomei\" sung by Togenashi Togeari. Pre-registration runs through following the game's official X account and subscribing to the anime's official YouTube channel. A release date is not yet set.","whyItMatters":"Pre-registration is being run through social follows and a YouTube subscription rather than a store listing, and the game's own bands are booked for live houses in Kawasaki and Tokyo from December, so the rollout treats the fictional bands as working acts.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eDONUTS and Toei Animation booked live shows for the game\u0026#39;s original bands, with the first on December 11 at Kawasaki Serbian Night. That show is Kuzumimizuku\u0026#39;s \u0026#34;Kawasaki Live House Training LIVE vol.1,\u0026#34; subtitled \u0026#34;We Still Don\u0026#39;t Have Many Original Songs, But.\u0026#34; Doors open at 18:30 and the set starts at 19:00. Tickets for it went on sale at 22:00 on November 3, first come, first served.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKuzumimizuku: three more training lives at the same Kawasaki venue on January 17, February 11 and March 5, 2027.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eF-272: \u0026#34;1.5th ONE-MAN LIVE The Dissonant \u0026#39;I DOLL\u0026#39; Re:LOAD\u0026#34; at CLUB CITTA\u0026#39; KAWASAKI on January 29, 2027, doors 18:00, start 19:00.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanna Lily: \u0026#34;3rd ONE-MAN LIVE \u0026#39;Detouring Melody\u0026#39;\u0026#34; at EX THEATER ROPPONGI on February 7, 2027.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreaming details for the shows sit with each band\u0026#39;s own X account. \u0026#34;Garurifu Official Live Broadcast #4\u0026#34; follows on November 7 at 19:00 on the anime\u0026#39;s YouTube channel, with Ai Furihata as MC, all four bands present, and producers Satoru Sato and Yusuke Haraoka on hand to show game footage. The release format is listed as smartphone, iOS and Android, with the date still open. Toei Animation\u0026#39;s Katsuhiro Takagi is credited as president and representative director, and DONUTS is led by representative director Keisei Nishimura.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Girls Band Cry First Riff gates pre-registration behind following the game's X account and subscribing to the anime's YouTube channel, so DONUTS is counting followers and subscribers as launch demand before a release date exists.","twitterPost":"Girls Band Cry First Riff has no release date, yet pre-registration already asks for an X follow and a YouTube subscription. DONUTS is banking sign-ups as demand data.","threadsPost":"Girls Band Cry First Riff has no release date, but pre-registration already requires following the game's X account and subscribing to the anime's YouTube channel. DONUTS is treating follower and subscriber counts as its demand signal, which makes the anime's audience the launch metric.","newsletterBlurb":"DONUTS and Toei Animation opened pre-registration for the Girls Band Cry smartphone game on November 3, 2026, with a Nari Teshima key visual and a first PV set to a Togenashi Togeari theme song. 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