E-girls
On July 26, 2011, during an E-Girls Show event in Shibuya-Ex, Bando passed the dance performance department of the Exile Presents Vocal Battle Audition 3 for Girls and was added to Flower as a performer alongside Harumi Sato.[1] On that same day, she was also added as a member to E-girls, having a concurrent position in the group and Flower. On August 30, she became an exclusive model for the fashion magazine Seventeen after winning the Miss Seventeen 2011 audition along with Yua Shinkawa, Ayami Nakajo and Ai Hashizume.[2][3] In April 2015, Bando ended her work as an exclusive model for Seventeen.[4]
Film career
On January 12, 2018, Bando was announced as one of the cast members for the live-action adaptation of the manga Rainbow Days.[5][6][7] The movie stars her label mate Reo Sano, a member of Generations from Exile Tribe, and was released on July 6.[8][9] The same year on May 30, she played one of the leading roles in the short film Kuu alongside her E-girls bandmates, Anna Ishii and Nonoka Yamaguchi.[10] The short film was part of Utamonogatari: Cinema Fighters Project by LDH.[11]
On April 15, 2019, Bando was announced to be part of the cast for the film Three Nobunaga (3人の信長, San'nin no Nobunaga), with Exile Takahiro playing the main character; it was released the same year on September 20.[12][13] The same year on April 23, she was chosen as one of the representative of E-girls alongside Harumi Sato, Kaede Dobashi, and Nonoka Yamaguchi, for the advertisement of Mister Donut's Tapoica Drink – Tap! Tap! Tapioca! – a product released on the same day.[14][15]
On September 10, 2019, Bando was featured on the cover for the 12th issue of the Japanese fashion magazine Please, making it her first solo cover in her career.[16]
