Show By Rock!!

The great music adventure in Show by Rock!! begins after Cyan decides to play her favorite rhythm game and suddenly gets sucked in, finding herself in a world called Midi City where music reigns supreme. She learns that anyone who delivers amazing and powerful music also has the ability to control the city. However, not all music is pure. An evil plan is set in motion to engulf the whole Midi City in darkness. Is it too late for Cyan to do something?

Cyan Hijirikawa always regards herself as nothing but an ordinary girl living in a mediocre world. She has great talent and extreme guitar skills, but she also lacks the confidence to take the first step in realizing her dream to play in a band and be a music millionaire! Little did she know that an eminent power resides deep within herself—the power to defeat evil with her magical music!

Join Cyan, Chuchu, Retoree and Moa in a world where music is everything.

Hijirikawa, Cyan Main

Inagawa, Eri Japanese

Retoree Main

Numakura, Manami Japanese

Moa Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Chuchu Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Strawberry Heart Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Crow Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Shu☆Zo Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Rom Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Aion Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Darudayuu Supporting

Han, Megumi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Hosoda, Shigeki Producer

Kaiba, Michio Producer

Suzuki, Mari Assistant Producer

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Jun 28, 2022

glttrgutz

Recommended

(Please note that I haven't watched this in a while, so take this with a grain of salt!)

Not counting things like Pokemon, which I admittedly didn't know was an anime at the time, this was my first anime, and what a great first anime it was! I was only around 10 when i watched this for the first time and I fell in love with it almost immediately. While it doesn't bring a whole lot to the table in terms of story (I do remember being bored at some points), it makes up for it with incredible music (the opening still remains one of my ... all time favorites!) and its fun, vibrant art and designs. It's hard to look away with how colorful the show can be and its cutesy character designs are still a big inspiration for me. Another big part of the show is its cgi segments during performances--that might seem like a bad thing if you've seen other shows that brought idol anime to the mainstream, but this show's cgi is unique, high quality, and just really cute! It definitely caught me off guard when I first watched, but it soon became one of my favorite parts of the anime.

I mentioned earlier that it was a great first anime, and I definitely do think its a good introduction to not just music anime, but anime in general (it certainly was for me lolol). While there definitely are tropes present, to me they were a good introduction to these tropes and didn't exactly hinder my enjoyment (but like I said at the beginning, take that with a grain of salt, I was 10). I feel like this would be a nice thing to show an older kid if you know they wouldn't really care about some cursing or fanservice (I think there's some fanservice? Once again I haven't watched in a while, but if anything it's not major). I've only seen this season, so I can't really say the same for later installments, but overall I think Show By Rock is a great show if you just need something cute to relax with, and you'll get some fun music too~☆

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 13, 2017

KiraroYuuki

Mixed Feelings

Characters have too many details.
Plot is broken.
Bad mix of characters.

It's not the best thing ever but it could be better. Also for a music genre anime it lacks a lot of music. The characters are still cute and enjoyable with their development and relationship between each other. It also has a good moral to the story, looking forward to season 2 which better have some improvements.

The is very good it just needs to tone down a bit on the details, I know they are main characters but still, too much detail is never good. The bands in the series need a bit more time to ... develop and get them to know so Show By Rock! was definitely a bit rushed which led to a lot of drama. Not a very good combination of action, drama and feels. At least the music in it was enjoyable, they just had to be a bit longer.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 4, 2020

Nightwatcher98

Not Recommended

The concept for show by rock is not really something new. It's a school girl being summoned from another world to fight of darkness, in other words an isekai. That's it in a nutshell, the only differences is, this time it's in a world of music, and friendship is the key to victory. I love music, so this was a good concept...at first.

GOOD:
Let's get the good out of the way first: Visuals are good, the transition from 2d to the 3D music scenes are great, the music is well written, and the easter eggs for musicians such as when Cyan writes her song is awesome. ... The sound is really good, and the music other than being well written is done in many different styles which is refreshing showing each bands personality in their own way.

The character of the main president is quite funny and I really like his design being an egg, the shingancrimsonz characters are funny for most of the time, the other bands are okay rivals, the main bad guy and his henchman are a funny bunch too, and balance out the two sides well.

So, that's everything that's good. Unfortunately, most of the story does not focus on this, but instead the band of plasmagica, which has at the start interesting takes on characters but unfortunately puts Cyan in the spotlight for most of it, and unfortunately does not develop other characters unless it's through her, and she by all intents and purposes is not a good written character.


BAD AND SPOILERS AHEAD:
Cyan is a highschool girl who wants to be in a band, she can play the guitar and is summoned into a different world from her own. She is then told through her guitar which is possessed by the spirit of grateful king (Another guitarist) that she must vanquish the evil dark monsters of their world.

The first time Cyan beats a dark monster is in the first episode. This is not done through her alone but also through grateful king who helps her. He even says it's through his power, not hers.

Yet without any training (that we at least see) she can somehow turn dark monsters back into people later when she can't even communicate with him, and in the last episode beats the main bad guy in one hit with a bow which is summoned out of nowhere, which again is not explained.
The writer takes any convenience possible not to develop characters but to show he/she kind of tried and gave up halfway..Everytime.

Each time there is tension it will be resolved either that episode or the next, and this happens with every character and situation, it's just more noticeable with Plasmagica because they are the centre characters, but it happens to every character who has a small (if we can even call it) arc.

Cyan: a person who can literally do anything out of convenience, and can finally be in a band which has always been her dream.

Retoree: A person who is afraid of losing her friend, until she again accepts out of convenience out of the plot that she's okay with Cyan leaving. She has no further development.

Chuu Chuu: a person who wants to be the top musician in the world, she wants all the spotlight on her, until that is that she no longer wants to because Cyan and the rest of the band ask her if it's true. Then she says she's sorry, that those were her thoughts and again, the band just accepts it and it's okay that she was using them.

Moa: an alien from another world who has to study this music world, and misses her mom and family, but at the same time doesn't', and this goes nowhere.


It's important to note, I am not saying their characters are bad by default, they have interesting aspects to them, I enjoy the band members by themselves when you take into account their flaws and what could come from them to develop the characters. But that's the thing, they don't develop, they just win all the time, every time there is a sad moment between them, you can bet it will be their friendship that will win the battle, not their skills, and that their inhibitions, and bad sides will be put to the side and will be resolved almost instantly because the writer just wants to continue the story.

Cyan from this band and Natsu from fairy tail are actually very similar they both win by ass pulls constantly. But here's the main difference: It's actually believable sometimes with Natsu because he has had about 20 years of experience by the first season and keeps getting more training to get stronger. When he beats someone by the skin of his teeth, you will accept it sometimes because you have seen how much he has struggled and trained, and how many opponents he has won previously, before almost losing and pulling an ass pull. This stops working it it happens all the time.

This happens constantly in show by rock, and it ruins the entire viewing experience. There is no development, and the main character will always win in the first season, so what's the point of even watching it?

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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