Show by Rock!!

Show by Rock!! (stylized as SHOW BY ROCK!!; also known as Show by Rock!! Gonna be a Music Millionaire!) was a mobile rhythm video game developed and published by Geechs (later Edia), in conjunction with Sanrio. It was Sanrio's first-ever franchise project aimed for the older demographic and the company's first music-based franchise. The game was released on July 30, 2013 for iOS and on June 27, 2014 for Android devices. In January 2018, development transferred from Geechs to Edia with its service discontinued on December 26, 2019. A successor to the original game was later developed by Now Production and published by Square Enix on March 12, 2020 on all mobile platforms with its service discontinued in November 30, 2022.

Four anime adaptations based on the series were made. The first three animated by Bones and is the first late night anime based on a Sanrio character or franchise. Season 1 aired in Japan between April and June 2015 on Tokyo MX, a short anime aired from July to September 2016 and a second season aired from October to December 2016. The third season of the series was animated by Kinema Citrus and aired from January to March 2020. A fourth season aired from January to March 2021. A manga adaptation of the first series began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine in July 2020.

Show by Rock!!
Cyan Hijirikawa is a first-year high school student who has a good passion for music. However, she is very shy and doesn't have the courage to join the school's music club. But on one fateful night, she gets sucked into the rhythm game she had been playing on her smartphone after receiving an item called "Strawberry Heart". Cyan ends up in a new world called Midi City, a place where those who command music control everything. There, she sees a concert performed by a kemono band called Trichronika and realizes she had taken on the form of a white kemono cat girl, dressed in a costume resembling Gothic Lolita fashion. However, when a "dark monster" starts to attack the concert and begins to corrupt the Melodisian stones of the Trichronika members, Strawberry Heart materializes in Cyan's hands and tells her to play something with it to defeat the monster. As she saves the band from turning into dark monsters themselves, she returns to her human form, but retaining her cat ears and tail. She is then approached by Maple Arisugawa, the CEO of Banded Rocking Records to join his recording agency. She meets ChuChu, Retoree, and Moa, the guitarist, bassist, and drummer of Plasmagica, one of Banded Rocking Record's bands. Retoree asks Cyan to join, and she accepts. Together, they all tackle and perform together in the music scene, aiming to be the best music band of all Midi City, discovering the secrets surrounding the Dark Monsters and importantly for Cyan, to find a way to get back to her own world.

Show by Rock!!#
Set after the events of the first season, the intergalactic fleet led by the malevolent Queen of Darkness, Victorious, unleashed a devastating attack on Sound Planet in the future, causing total destruction of Midi City. Upon its destruction, a mysterious band named Bud Virgin Logic appeared and performed a malevolent tune to the surviving denizens while Dagger Morse corrupts all the citizens, draining them of their sound energy and plunging the city into chaos and despair. From the attack, only Ninjinriot survived and feared the worst scenario that would lead to the fall of the Sound Universe. With no choice, the band traveled back in time to prevent it from happening. In present-day Midi City, Maple told the members of Plasmagica, Shingan Crimson, and Criticrista that their recording label is holding a beneficiary concert to the people with somewhat positive reactions. Though at the time of the concert, Plasmagica, despite not having Cyan is eager to perform, until Bud Virgin Logic appeared alongside Dagger Morse, who announced he will destroy the ones who defeated them. But they were thwarted by Ninjinriot, who rescued the trio. After Dagger and his band retreated, Arashi told them that bad things will happen if they don't stop Dagger and Bud Virgin Logic, resulting in the said bad future and got everyone worried that there will be a new battle. At the same time in the Human World, Cyan Hijirikawa was stuck in a writer's block regarding composing a song for her band in the upcoming school festival. Kamui arrived at the Human World and transported Cyan back to the Sound World in order to prevent the dark future from happening. With the entire world in a knife's edge, it's up to Cyan and her friends once again to stop Dagger and Victorious from destroying the Sound Universe.

Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!!
Taking place somewhere after the second season, the story focuses on Howan, a Fox Myummon who lives in the countryside on Sound Planet. Though she enjoys her peaceful life in the countryside, Howan dreams of music stardom and gets the chance to achieve her dream when she passes the audition for a music competition in Midi City. Meanwhile, the guitarist Mashima Himeko is equally passionate about music but feels uncomfortable having been placed in a band with two other young artists, the bassist Delmin and the drummer Ruhuyu. Howan loses her audition pass, making her unable to join the audition. Under the glittering lights of Midi City, when Howan is distraught at losing her audition pass, Howan, Himeko, Delmin and Ruhuyu meet each other for the first time and discover together with what they could never reach alone.

Show by Rock!! Stars!!
Taking place after the third season, bands from previous seasons like Plasmagica, Criticrista, Mashumairesh!!, Dokonjofinger and more are back to Midi City for an epic encore. The all-star battle of the bands is set to feature their toughest competition yet.

Novel

 * SHOW BY ROCK!! Hijiri MIDI on'na gakuen kōtō-bu 〜 purupuru ♪ su toro beri ̄ 〜
 * Original: Sanrio / Author: Douko Machida / Illustration: Gumichoco
 * Light Novel label 『Ponikyan BOOKS』 (Pony Canyon), Released on December 3, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-86529-192-6
 * Plasmagica is the main character. Although it is a spin-off of the TV anime version, some settings are different from the TV anime version. BUD VIRGIN LOGIC first appeared in this novel.


 * Episode of Amatelast
 * Serialized on pixiv FANBOX 『Monthly SHOW BY ROCK!!』 from March 9, 2022.
 * Amatelast is the main character. The past of Amatelast is drawn.

Manga
A manga adaptation of the first anime was written and illustrated by Takemaru Yokoshima and began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine on July 4, 2020. The manga's first tankōbon volume was released on December 28, 2020.


 * SHOW BY ROCK!! 〜 O kiraku ♪ mi de ~ishiti 〜
 * Original: Sanrio / Illustrate: ica
 * Free web comic distribution site 『Poni Maga』 (Pony Canyon) July 2015, 7, serialization suspended
 * Plasmagica (TV anime version) is the main character.


 * SHOW BY ROCK!! Shinkōshoku no chinkonka IV jū sōsei mokushiroku ~tsu! (Kurimuzon rekuiemu karutetto jeneshisu apokaripusu~tsu!)
 * Original work, writing, supervision: Sanrio / Illustrate: Yurino Tsukigase
 * Free webcomic distribution site 『LINE Manga』 (LINE) November 2015, 11 - January 26, 2016, serialization suspended
 * Shingan Crimsonz (TV anime version) is the main character.

Character
Cyan Hijirikawa is a first-year high school student who has a good passion for music. However, she is very shy and doesn't have the courage to join the school's music club. But on one fateful night, she gets sucked into the rhythm game she had been playing on her smartphone after receiving an item called "Strawberry Heart". Cyan ends up in a new world called Midi City, a place where those who command music control everything.

There, she sees a concert performed by a kemono band called Trichronika and realizes she had taken on the form of a white kemono cat girl, dressed in a costume resembling Gothic Lolita fashion. However, when a "dark monster" starts to attack the concert and begins to corrupt the Melodisian stones of the Trichronika members, Strawberry Heart materializes in Cyan's hands and tells her to play something with it to defeat the monster. As she saves the band from turning into dark monsters themselves, she returns to her human form, but retaining her cat ears and tail. She is then approached by Maple Arisugawa, the CEO of Banded Rocking Records to join his recording agency.

She meets ChuChu, Retoree, and Moa, the guitarist, bassist, and drummer of Plasmagica, one of Banded Rocking Record's bands. Retoree asks Cyan to join, and she accepts. Together, they all tackle and perform together in the music scene, aiming to be the best music band of all Midi City, discovering the secrets surrounding the Dark Monsters and importantly for Cyan, to find a way to get back to her own world.

Abilities
She dreamed of becoming the best music star in the world until she became involved in the fight against the Dark Monsters, then was scouted by Maple to be part of the band. When performing, she uses the guitar named Strawberry Heart (ストロベリーハート Sutoroberii Haato), which is used as a way to communicate with musician Grateful King.

TV Anime
A 12-episode anime adaptation of the game animated by Bones aired on Tokyo MX between April 5 and June 21, 2015. The series is directed by Takahiro Ikezoe and written by Touko Machida, with music composed by Yasuharu Takanashi, Funta7 and Rega Sound. The opening theme is "Seishun wa Non-Stop!" (青春はNon-Stop!, lit. "Youth is Non-Stop!") and the ending theme is "Have a Nice Music!!", both performed by Plasmagica (Eri Inagawa, Sumire Uesaka, Manami Numakura and Ayane Sakura in Japanese and Bryn Apprill, Alexis Tipton, Caitlin Glass and Monica Rial in English). Shimomura of Sanrio commented that "Sanrio is targeting males who like anime and games, a demographic we haven't targeted up until now, in order to develop cross-media marketing through games, anime, and SNS." Eri Inagawa, Cyan's voice actress, commented that "This has been a long-awaited anime adaptation. I'm so happy I could cry."

Staff (Season 1)

 * Original - Sanrio
 * Director - Takahiro Ikezoe
 * Series Composition/Screenplay - Douko Machida
 * Character Design - Masaru Oshiro
 * Sub Character Prop Design - Ryo Hirata
 * Concept and mechanical design - Bunyo Katakai
 * Key Animator - Tomokatsu Nagasaku
 * Color design - Souko Nakao
 * Art Setting - Naomi Ogura
 * Art Director - Hatsumi Kumano
 * Director of Photography - Tsuyoshi Kanbayashi
 * CG Director - Ryo Sasaki
 * Editing - Kumiko Sakamoto
 * Acoustic Director - Masafumi Mima
 * Sound Effects - Shizuo Kurahashi
 * Music - Koji Takanashi, Funta7, Rega Sound
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Music Producer - Yuichiro Takahata
 * Producers - Moriharu Ando, ​​Naofumi Shiotani, Takanori Matsuoka, Takuya Takahashi, Yuji Machida, Hisao Iizuka, Naruki Hosoda, Michio Kaiba, Kana Enomoto, Ken Moriguchi
 * Animation Producer - Makoto Watanabe
 * Animation Production - Bonds
 * Production- SHOWBYROCK!! (SB69) Production Committee

The series is licensed in North America by Funimation, who simulcast the series as it aired and began streaming a dubbed version from June 7, 2015. Funimation released the first season on Blu-ray and DVD on December 6, 2016 in North America and on February 20, 2017 in the United Kingdom.

A short anime series titled ''Show By Rock!! Short!!'' aired from July 4 to September 19, 2016 and is also licensed by Funimation. The main theme is "Do-Re-Mi-Fa Party" (ドレミファPARTY) by Plasmagica.

Staff (Short)

 * Original - Sanrio
 * Director - Takahiro Ikezoe
 * Series Composition/Screenplay - Douko Machida
 * Character Design - Masaru Oshiro
 * Sub Character Prop Design - Ryo Hirata
 * Concept and mechanical design - Bunyo Katakai
 * Key Animator - Tomokatsu Nagasaku
 * Color design - Souko Nakao
 * Art Setting - Naomi Ogura
 * Art Director - Hatsumi Kumano
 * Director of Photography - Tsuyoshi Kanbayashi
 * CG Director - Ryo Sasaki
 * Editing - Kumiko Sakamoto
 * Acoustic Director - Akihiko Nakajima
 * Sound Effects - Shizuo Kurahashi
 * Music - Koji Takanashi, Funta7, Rega Sound
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Music Producer - Yuichiro Takahata
 * Producers - Moriharu Ando, ​​Naofumi Shiotani, Takanori Matsuoka, Takuya Takahashi, Yuji Machida, Hisao Iizuka, Naruki Hosoda, Michio Kaiba, Kana Enomoto, Ken Moriguchi
 * Animation Producer - Makoto Watanabe
 * Animation Production - Bonds
 * Production- SHOWBYROCK!! (SB69) Production Committee

A second season, Show By Rock!!#, aired from October 2 to December 18, 2016. The opening theme is "Heart o Rock!!" (ハートをRock!!, lit. "We'll Rock Your Heart!!") while the ending theme is "My Song is YOU!!", both performed by Plasmagica.

Staff (Season 2)

 * Original - Sanrio
 * Director - Takahiro Ikezoe
 * Series Composition/Screenplay - Douko Machida
 * Character Design - Masaru Oshiro
 * Sub Character Prop Design - Ryo Hirata
 * Concept and mechanical design - Bunyo Katakai
 * Key Animator - Tomokatsu Nagasaku
 * Color design - Souko Nakao
 * Art Setting - Naomi Ogura
 * Art Director - Hatsumi Kumano
 * Director of Photography - Tsuyoshi Kanbayashi
 * CG Director - Ryo Sasaki
 * Editing - Kumiko Sakamoto
 * Acoustic Director - Masafumi Mima
 * Sound Effects - Shizuo Kurahashi
 * Music - Koji Takanashi, Funta7, Rega Sound
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Music Producer - Yuichiro Takahata
 * Producers - Shinobu Yoshinuma, Shinya Ota, Takayuki Tsuchiya, Eriko Aoki
 * Animation Producer - Makoto Watanabe
 * Animation Production - Bonds
 * Production- SHOWBYROCK!! # Production Committee

A third season, titled ''Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!! (SHOW BY ROCK!!ましゅまいれっしゅ!!, Shō Bai Rokku!! Mashiyumairesshu!!''), is produced by Kinema Citrus and aired on Tokyo MX, BS Fuji, UNB, SUN, and TV Tokyo on January 9, 2020. Seung Hui Son directs the series, with Daisuke Tazawa as the series's scriptwriter and Nobuyuki Itō as character designer. Polygon Pictures handles the series' 3D animation scenes while both Yasuharu Takanashi and Funta7 returned to compose the series' music in Pony Canyon. Funimation has licensed the third season. The season aired for 12 episodes.

Staff (Mashumairesh!!)

 * Original - Sanrio
 * Director - Son Seunghee
 * Series Composition - Dainori Tazawa
 * Character Design and General Drawing Director - Shinyuki Ito
 * Advisor - Masayuki Kojima
 * Main Animator - Rie Ishige
 * Design leader - Takeshi Takakura
 * Prop Design - Ayako Sugimura, Akiko Matsuo, Kaito Shimizu
 * Art Setting - Yoshinori Hishinuma
 * Color design - Hiromi Miyawaki
 * Cinematographer - Atsushi Iwasaki
 * CG Director - Masayuki Uemoto
 * CG Producer - Kanako Hosoe
 * CG Produce - POLYGON PICTURES
 * Editing - Ayumi Takahashi
 * Acoustic Director- Yuki Gobun
 * Music - Koji Takanashi, Funta7
 * Music Producer - Takanori Matsuoka
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Producers - Moriharu Ando, ​​Takanori Matsuoka, Takuya Takahashi, Yuji Machida, Hirotaka Tanaka, Fumitaka Kitazawa, Hirotaka Kaneko, Soji Miyagi, Hideo Momota, Yusuke Kumamoto, Shinji Omori, Takanori Shiina, Hiroyuki Homma
 * Animation Producer - Munenori Ogasawara
 * Line Producer - Masayuki Naoe
 * Animation Production - Kinema Citrus
 * Production - SHOWBYROCK!! Production Committee M (Fruw, Pony Canyon, Sanrio, Sammy, Tokyo Metropolitan Television, Clockworks, 81 Produce, Sony Music Solutions, BS Fuji, Square Enix, Sotsu, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting)

A fourth season titled ''Show By Rock!! Stars!!'' aired on Tokyo MX, BS Fuji, SUN, and UHB from January 7 to March 25, 2021. Takahiro Ikezoe and Touko Machida both return to direct and write the series alongside new director Daigo Yamagishi. Yasuharu Takanashi, Funta7, and Akiya Suzuki are returning to compose the series' music. ENGI will handle the series' 3D animation scenes with Hiroki Yoshioka as CG producer. Both Plasmagica and Mashumairesh performed the series's opening theme "Do Re Mi Fa STARS!!" (ドレミファSTARS!!) with Mashumairesh performing the series' ending theme "Hoshisora Light Story" (星空ライトストーリー, Hoshizora Raito Sutōrī, "Starry Sky Light Story"). Funimation licensed the series and will stream it on its website in North America and the British Isles, in Europe through Wakanim, and in Australia and New Zealand through AnimeLab.

Staff (STARS!!)

 * Original - Sanrio
 * General Director - Takahiro Ikezoe
 * Directed by Daigo Yamagishi
 * Series Composition/Screenplay - Douko Machida
 * Character Design - Tomokatsu Nagasaku
 * Character Design - Shinyuki Ito, Masaru Oshiro
 * Main animators - Akiko Matsuo, Kaito Shimizu, Hiroki Takiguchi, Kaori Higuchi, PARK Ga young, Rie Ishige
 * Design leader - Takeshi Takakura
 * Concept/Mechanical Design - Bunyo Katakai
 * Prop Design - Ryo Hirata, Mikio, Ayako Sugimura
 * Art Setting - Naomi Ogura
 * Art Director - Yoshinori Hishinuma, Satoru Hirayanagi
 * Color design - Anna Okamatsu
 * Director of Photography - Kojiro Hayashi
 * CG Director - Hiroki Kawamoto
 * CG Producer - Hiroki Yoshioka
 * CG production - ENGI
 * Editing - Ayumi Takahashi
 * Acoustic Director - Yuki Gofumi
 * Music - Koji Takanashi, Funta7, Akiya Suzuki
 * Music Producer - Takanori Matsuoka
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Producer - Moriharu Ando, ​​Takanori Matsuoka, Takuya Takahashi, Yuji Machida, Hirotaka Tanaka, Fumitaka Kitazawa, Hirotaka Kaneko, Soji Miyagi, Hideo Momota, Jo Matsuda, Shinji Omori, Suunori Shiina, Moemi Terasawa, Daichi Shida
 * Animation Producer - Munenori Ogasawara
 * Animation production - Kinema Citrus
 * Production - SHOWBYROCK!! Production Committee M (Fruw, Pony Canyon, Sanrio, Sammy, Tokyo Metropolitan Television, Clockworks, 81 Produce, Sony Music Solutions, BS Fuji, Square Enix, Sotsu, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting)

Animation production is handled by Kinema Citrus, continuing from "Mashumairesh!!". and "SHOW BY ROCK!!#" have been appointed.

Tie-up
For about two months from September 2015, three months after the end of the first season of the TV anime, the collaboration food menu of Plasmagica & Shingan Crimsons will be offered at Dohtonbori, an okonomiyaki chain, and collaboration food menu 1 For each item, you can receive a clear file or poster drawn by Bonds, who worked on the anime version, and you can receive a card with a code that can be used in the app game with two items.

In January 2017, immediately after the end of the second season of the TV anime, a hands-on puzzle-solving event hosted by SCRAP was held for about a month in collaboration with Real Escape Game, SHOW BY ROCK!! It has been decided that Escape from Crisis will be held only on Sanrio Puroland's night opening days The participants become spectators of the Pure Land Festival, and immediately after Plasmagica's turn ends, within an hour after launching the Black Hole Cannon, the weapon of the "Queen of Darkness," the "Queen of Darkness" is played by making full use of various mysteries. The clear condition is to prevent (escape) the interference from. In addition to the regular version, advance tickets can also be selected with the event theme song maxi single CD. It has been decided that all participants will receive a silicon rubber bracelet as a gift.

In addition, limited original goods are sold at Village Vanguard.

Pachinko

 * P SHOW BY ROCK!!
 * Released in May 2019, manufactured by Ginza, sold by Sammy.
 * It conforms to the setting of the anime version. New original songs are also available.

Reception
Nick Creamer of Anime News Network gave the first episode a positive rating, stating that the "debut was a wild merry-go-round of delirious nonsense, but most of it was the enjoyable kind of nonsense" and "this was a wild and largely entertaining debut, but it also leaves me with plenty of reservations. Shows that rely on novelty to stay interesting often fizzle out quickly, and ''Show By Rock!! premise doesn't necessarily seem unique or engaging enough to have much staying power once the sparkles fade." However, Amy McNulty gave the first two episodes a B+, saying that "Show By Rock!! is hard to pin down. It's like a pinch of Di Gi Charat, a dash of The Idolmaster and a quart of Sanrio-style magical girls mixed together and thrown into a frenetic cyberpunk setting. It attempts to do too much at once, yet it manages to juggle plot points fairly well so far."''

The popularity of the anime is also shown at the 30th Sanrio Character Ranking with Plasmagica ranking at sixth place and Shingan Crimsonz at second place.

External Link

 * SHOW BY ROCK!! ─ Sanrio (in Japanese)
 * SHOW BY ROCK!! ─ Special Website (in Japanese)
 * SHOW BY ROCK!! Fes A Live ─ Official Website (Broken Link)
 * TV Anime SHOW BY ROCK!! Official Website (in Japanese)
 * TV Anime SHOW BY ROCK!!: Short Official Website (in Japanese)
 * TV Anime SHOW BY ROCK!! Mashumairesh!! Official Website (in Japanese)
 * TV Anime SHOW BY ROCK!! Stars!! Official Website (in Japanese)
 * Live Musical: SHOW BY ROCK!! ~Crimson Fallen Revolutionary Apocalypse!!~ ─ Official Website (in Japanese)
 * SHOW BY ROCK!! Series Official (@SHOWBYROCK) - Twitter
 * TV Anime "SHOW BY ROCK!!" Official (@SB69A) - Twitter
 * SHOW BY ROCK!! ─ Wikipedia  JP 
 * SHOW BY ROCK!! ─ Wikipedia  EN 

Trivia
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