Show by Rock!! (stylized as ショウ・バイ・ロック!!; 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.
Synopsis[]
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.
List of Published Books[]
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.
LN Vol. 1
- SHOW BY ROCK!! Kizametsu! Guren no konpaku kudō mokushiroku!
- Original work, writing, supervision, writing cooperation: Sanrio Co., Ltd. / Author: Mio Akabane / Illustration: Hazuki Futaba
- Light Novel label 『Beads Log Bunko Alice』 (KADOKAWA/ Enterbrain), Released on December 14, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-04-730708-7
- Shingan Crimsonz (app version) is the main character.
LN Vol. 1
- SHOW BY ROCK!! The Revolution
- Original work, supervision, illustration: Sanrio Co., Ltd. / Author: Nana Mizusawa
- Light Novel label 『Beads Log Bunko Alice』 (KADOKAWA/ Enterbrain), released on October 27, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-04-734850-9
- A complete novelization of the main episodes of Shingan Crimson's, Trichronica, and ARCAREAFACT apps.
LN Vol. 1
- 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.
Web Manga Visual
- SHOW BY ROCK!! Kuritikurisuta ♪ kurikuri densetsu
- Original work, writing, supervision: Sanrio / Illustrate: Hitsujibako
- 『Monthly Comic Alive』 (KADOKAWA / Media Factory) May 2016 issue (released March 26, 2016) - February 2017 issue (released December 27, 2016), 2 volumes
- Criticrista (TV anime version) is the main character.
- Published on September 23, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-04-068551-9
- Published on January 23, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-04-068817-6
Manga Vol. 1
Manga Vol. 2
- SHOW BY ROCK!! Plasmagica ♪ Purupuru Diary
- Original work, writing, supervision: Sanrio / Illustrate: Meia Mizuki
- 『Dengeki G's Comic』 (KADOKAWA / ASCII Media Works) August 2016 issue (released June 30, 2016) - November 2017 issue (released September 30, 2017), 2 volumes
- Plasmagica na Gogo (TV anime version) is the main character.
- Published on January 27, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-04-892694-2
- Published on October 27, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-04-893353-7
Manga Vol. 1
Manga Vol. 2
- SHOW BY ROCK!! BUD VIRGIN LOGIC Himitsu no ingaritsu-ryō hōsoku! Airēn-chan-sama
- Original work, writing, supervision: Sanrio / Illustrate: Chuuta
- Free web comic distribution site 『Jellyfish Bunch』 (Shinchosha) October 2016, 10 - November 24, 2017, 2 volumes
- BUD VIRGIN LOGIC is the main character.
- Published on March 9, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-10-771959-1
- Published on February 9, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-10-772046-7
Manga Vol. 1
Manga Vol. 2
- SHOW BY ROCK!! Tsuredzure naru ayatsuri mugen an 〜 tsuredzure man'yū-ki 〜
- Original work, writing, supervision: Sanrio / Illustrate: Kashiko Kurobuchi
- 『Monthly ComicREX』 (Ichijinsha) February 2017 issue (released December 2016, 12) - March 2018 issue (released January 27, 2018), 1 volume
- The main character is the idle puppeteer Mugenan.
- Published on March 27, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-7580-6722-5
Manga Vol. 1
- SHOW BY ROCK!!
- Original work and supervision: Sanrio / Illustrate: Jabumaru
- 『Young Ace』 (KADOKAWA) August 2020 issue (released July 4, 2020) - June 2022 issue (released May 2, 2022), all 3 volumes
- Plasmagica is the main character. Comicalization of the first phase of TV animation.
- Released on December 28, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-04-110926-7
- Released on July 4, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-04-111819-1
- Released on July 4, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-04-112710-0
Manga Vol. 1
Manga Vol. 2
Manga Vol. 3
Character[]
The main character of the series and the main character. A vocalist and guitarist member of Plasmagica and first-year high school student who has a good passion for music. Her first appearance was on the cover of BocaroPlus vol.5, pages 6-7. I auditioned, but there were only pretty contestants, and the evaluator said you shouldn't only like music, and it seemed like you were ridiculed for being short . The last 4 cuts end with a scene where they aim to become a big star. However, she is very shy and doesn't have the courage to join the school's music club.
Hair curled in ringlets, Lolita fashion , and striped socks are the points. According to the person himself, the clothes are expensive, so he makes them himself. The hair is strangely different in length between the original and Hijirikawa. In the original, the back of her head comes up to her wing bones, but (TV anime season 4 episode 6) Hijirikawa barely touches the collar of her school uniform. She wears her hair in a ponytail at workouts, work and festivals, but she also keeps her ringlets.
The setting of the original and the animation is different. The original work came from an antique store, but in the animation, it appeared with a separate setting that it was a human being in the real world, not in midi city, and then sucked into the game. Cyan ends up in a new world called Midi City, a place where those who command music control everything. 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.
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"I, Cyan of Plasmagica! Everyone, please support me with all your might! Plasmagica will become a great band someday! How great...? So... somehow!"
― Cyan Hijirikawa - Introducing the official X character.
Cyan Hijirikawa is a first-year high school student who has a good passion for music. 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.
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A sentient instrument that Cyan obtains in her game, it is one of the Legendary Instruments [Strawberry Heart (ストロベリーハート)] resembling a guitar with a heart-shaped design. Serving as Cyan's instructor in Midi City, it gives her advice on how to defeat dark monsters.
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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. Cyan ends up in a new world called Midi City, a place where those who command music control everything.
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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.
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| 1 | "Have a nice MUSIC!!" | April 5, 2015 |
| Cyan Hijirikawa is a shy high school girl who loves music and wants to become part of band but is too shy to ask to join one. One night, she is suddenly sucked inside a rhythm game on her phone into a musical world known as Tokyo Midi City, being intercepted a talking pink guitar midflight. When she regains her senses, Cyan finds herself in a cat-like form, witnessing a performance by the band Trichronika. Just then, a mysterious monster appears, attempting to drain the power from the Melodisian Stones in Trichronika's hearts in order to turn them dark. Spurred on by her guitar, named Strawberry Heart, Cyan manages to defeat the monster with a guitar jam. Shortly afterwards, as Cyan now finds herself in a catgirl form, she is scouted by Maple Arisugawa, the CEO of the Branded Rocking Records record label, to become a member of his band Plasmagica, and is introduced to fellow members Chuchu, Retoree, and Moa. | ||
| 2 | "With our Crimson Gaze.. (etc)" Transcription: "Ore-tachi wa Shinkōshoku no Shingan de (Ikaryaku)" (Japanese: 俺たちは深紅色の心眼で（以下略）) |
April 12, 2015 |
| Cyan, after accepting the contract with BRR, she meets the other band, Shingan Crimsonz. Maple is contacted by a representative of Trichronika and is asked to have Shingan Crimonz doing the opening act because the band that they originally had came down with food poisoning. The band was initially against the idea but were quickly convinced by Angelica's scary face. The concert went without a hitch. Cyan is invited to stay at the BRR dormitories when they found out that Cyan had nowhere to stay at. Cyan takes a bath and sings which made her guitar blush. Her other band mates heard her singing and love it. When Cyan is alone again, she learns from Strawberry Heart that she cannot return home until she saves the world that she is in. Cyan agrees on the condition that she will be able to return before Golden Week starts. | ||
| 3 | "Yes! Idol ♡ Declaration" Transcription: "Iesu! Aidoru ♡ Sengen" (Japanese: Yes!アイドル♡宣言) |
April 19, 2015 |
| Plasmagica is offered a chance to participate in a Battle of the Bands against Unicorn Virtual Music Inc.'s Cristicrista, with Chuchu becoming curious as to why Cyan isn't familiar with them. As everyone focuses on how best to win the battle, Retoree recalls how she joined the band in the hopes of making some friends. Plasmagica become nervous after hearing Criticrista's rehearsal, convinced they can't win. However, Cyan uses her music to ease everyone's nerves, proposing a new arrangement for their song. Despite still losing to Criticrista, the girls are satisfied with their first concert and end up feeling closer than before. | ||
| 4 | "Enchanting Dream Fireworks of a Night Journey" Transcription: "Tabiji Yoiyoi Yume Hanabi" (Japanese: 旅路宵酔ゐ夢花火) |
April 26, 2015 |
| Retoree invites the girls to a performance by the popular enka band Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan, with the crowd becoming impressed by their unique culture and originality. Following the performance, after meeting the band members themselves, the girls feel they need to change their style in order to become more popular. However, Shingan Crimsonz's Rom reminds Plasmagica that the music is what's most important, so they instead decide to write a new song, which is their first song since Cyan joined. Meanwhile, Moa, who is secretly an alien sent to investigate other worlds, grows concerned about her secret. | ||
| 5 | "Maze of DESTINY" Transcription: "Meikyū DESTINY" (Japanese: 迷宮DESTINY) |
May 3, 2015 |
| After Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan come into contact with another Dark Monster, barely making it out unscathed, Plasmagica get a gig at an upcoming Indies Band concert. Later that night, Chuchu eavesdrop on Cyan as Strawberry Heart reminds her of her mission to fight against the Dark Monsters. On the day of the concert, as another Dark Monster appears elsewhere, Strawberry Heart forces Cyan to leave her concert in order to search for it, despite Chuchu's attempt to stop her. Upon returning after missing the monster, Cyan reveals to the other members that she came from another world, leading Retoree to become upset by the thought that she'll have to go home someday. | ||
| 6 | "Ba-dump!? It's a Beach Training Camp ♡ Full of Swimsuits ♪" Transcription: "DOKI!? Mizugi Darake no Umi Gasshuku ♡ Desuzo♪" (Japanese: DOKIィッ!?水着だらけの海合宿♡ですぞ♪) |
May 10, 2015 |
| Strawberry Heart and Maple fill in the other members about how the creator of the dark monsters, Unicorn Virtual Music Inc.'s CEO Dagger Morse, had originally pulled Cyan into the Sound World for his own plans, but she was intercepted by Strawberry Heart. Wanting his bands to grow stronger for the upcoming Grateful Rock Festival, Maple arranges a training camp, sending Plasmagica to the beach and Shingan Crimsonz to the mountains. During the trip, Cyan tries to convey her feelings to Retoree, but she still can't bring herself to forgive her. Later however, Cyan manages to sing a song that properly gets her feelings across to both Chuchu and Retoree. Afterwards, Moa reveals her identity as an alien, with her bandmates no longer caring about such trivial matters and instead focusing on treasuring their time together, deciding to use Cyan's song for their next performance. | ||
| 7 | "Yokai Street" Transcription: "Yōkai Sutorīto" (Japanese: 妖怪ストリート) |
May 17, 2015 |
| While Dagger's henchman spreads rumors about amazing performances being held in Yokai Street, with the intention of luring out bands, Marimari, a youkai from the band Shinimonogurui, asks Plasmagica for their help in finding her bandmate, Tsugihagi, who went missing amidst monster attacks there. As Shingan Crimsonz go to Yokai Street to perform themselves, they are attacked by a Dark Monster, who drags them into another world and prevents Cyan from following in after them. Despite the odds being against them, Shingan Crimsonz manage to hold their own and defeat the monster, who turns back into Tsugihagi and is reunited with Marimari. Everyone soon makes their way home, unaware that a mysterious dark blob has attached itself to Shingan Crimsonz' Aion. | ||
| 8 | "Crimson Quartet" Transcription: "Crimson Quartet -Shinkuki Shijūsō-" (Japanese: Crimson quartet -深紅き四重奏-) |
May 24, 2015 |
| Plasmagica learn that they can't enter the Grateful Rock Festival as they haven't had a proper live concert yet, so Maple suggests they participate in another battle of the bands against Criticrista. Meanwhile, Aion suddenly decides to quit Shingan Crimsonz to the shock of the other bandmates, leading Cyan to suspect he may be under the influence of a Dark Monster. As Plasmagica and the other Shingan Crimsonz members search for Aion, Trichronika's Shu-Zo informs Rom and Yaiba about Aion's whereabouts, hinting towards some history between him and Rom. Finding Aion at the top of a skyscraper, Crow joins the others in order to apologise to him, restoring the order in his Melodisian Stone. With the crisis averted, Plasmagica turn their attention towards their battle against Criticrista. | ||
| 9 | "Falling Star Dreamline" Transcription: "Ryūsei Dorīmurain" (Japanese: 流星ドリームライン) |
May 31, 2015 |
| As Criticrista prepare for the battle of the bands, Dagger converses with his songwriter. Meanwhile, Chuchu suggests that the girls learn how to improve their performance to enhance their appeal to the fans. When Rom passes this off as superficial, Retoree shows Chuchu a photo of their training camp, showing her the most important thing is to have fun. On the day of the battle, Cyan grows concerned by the attention she gets from Criticrista's lead, Rosia, which also stirs up some dark feelings in Chuchu, but Plasmagica manage to bring out their smiles in their performance and win the battle. However, Dagger punishes Criticrista for their loss by darkening their Melodisian Stones. | ||
| 10 | "Reverse Rhapsody" Transcription: "Urahara na Rhapsody" (Japanese: ウラハラなRhapsody) |
June 7, 2015 |
| Chuchu starts to become overcome with feelings of jealousy towards Cyan's growing popularity, which catches the attention of Dagger. Meanwhile, Berry warns the girls about Dagger's intentions for the Grateful Rock Festival, in which he hopes to obtain Cyan, Shu-zo, and Tsurezurenaru's Darudayu for his own band, suggesting that Plasmagica can defeat Dagger with their music. Later, Chuchu is called out by Dagger, who preys on her selfish desires and sways her over to his side in the hopes of making Cyan despair. Just as Chuchu announces her plans to quit Plasmagica, Strawberry Heart, who is revealed to be possessed by songwriter Grateful King, urges the bandmates to stop her, prompting Cyan and the others to use the song she wrote to help her regain her senses. Chuchu then apologises for her selfish motives, deciding she has no intention of quitting Plasmagica. | ||
| 11 | "Grateful Rock Festival" Transcription: "Gureitofuru Rokku Fesu" (Japanese: グレイトフル・ロック・フェス) |
June 14, 2015 |
| As everyone assembles at Boodookan for the Grateful Rock Festival, Cyan grows concerned that she hasn't heard from Strawberry Heart since rescuing Chuchu, while Dagger prepares to use a song written by Grateful King to take over Midi City. Midway through the festival, Plasmagica, Shingancrimsonz, Tsurezurenaru, and Trichronika are attacked by a Dark Monster, capturing everyone except for Cyan, Shu-zo, and Darudayu. As Darudayu fights against the monster, Cyan discovers that the Dark Monster is actually Criticrista's Rosia. | ||
| 12 | "Our Youth is Non-Stop!" Transcription: "Seishun wa Non-Sutoppu!" (Japanese: 青春はNon-Stop!) |
June 21, 2015 |
| Thanks to the efforts of Darudayu and Shu-zo, Cyan manages to use her music to purify the Dark Monster, freeing Rosia and the other Criticrista members. Just then, Dagger makes his appearance, using his power to take everyone captive in order to sway Cyan into joining him. Before Dagger can contaminate Cyan's Melodisian Stone, he is stopped by Grateful King, who managed to escape thanks to the efforts of Maple and his assistant Angelica. As Dagger prepares to use his full power against Cyan, Grateful King blocks Dagger's attack and sends Cyan back towards her own world. Not wanting her friends to fight Dagger alone, Cyan unleashes her own potential and uses her power to defeat Dagger, returning him to his original form. With the battle over, Plasmagica gives one final performance before Cyan returns to her own world, where she works up the courage to join her school's music club. | ||
| TRAILER (SEASON 1) | |
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
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Tokiko's R-R-R-Room (Plasmagica)" Transcription: "Tokiko no Ru-Ru-Ru-Rūmu (Purazumagika)" (Japanese: 時子のルルルルーム(プラズマジカ)) |
July 4, 2016 |
| Plasmagica appear on a talk show, where the host seems interested in something besides their music. | ||
| 2 | "Fire Away! Putting Our Crimson Flame Into a White Ball... (etc.)" Transcription: "Uchikome! Ore-tachi no Guren no Honō o Hakkyū ni Lome (ikaryaku)" (Japanese: 打ち込め!俺達の紅蓮の炎を白球に込め(以下略)) |
July 11, 2016 |
| The Shingan Crimsonz participate in an intense table tennis match while staying at a hot spring inn. | ||
| 3 | "Tokiko's R-R-R-Room (Criticrista)" Transcription: "Tokiko no Ru-Ru-Ru-Rūmu (Kuritikurisuta)" (Japanese: 時子のルルルルーム (クリティクリスタ)) |
July 18, 2016 |
| Tokiko interviews Criticrista, becoming increasingly annoyed by Rosia's attention seeking cuteness. | ||
| 4 | "The Friends of Bamboo Island" Transcription: "Takeshima no Tomo" (Japanese: 竹島の友) |
July 25, 2016 |
| A kendo practitioner named A seeking to become stronger meets a girl from an instrument shop named Un. | ||
| 5 | "Tokiko's R-R-R-Room (Trichronika)" Transcription: "Tokiko no Ru-Ru-Ru-Rūmu (Toraikuronika)" (Japanese: 時子のルルルルーム (トライクロニカ)) |
August 1, 2016 |
| Trichronika appear on Tokiko's show, promoting their upcoming tour. | ||
| 6 | "A Fateful Encounter" Transcription: "Unmei no Deai" (Japanese: 運命の出会い) |
August 8, 2016 |
| As A and Un strike up a friendship, they encounter Darudayu and form Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan. | ||
| 7 | "Tokiko's R-R-R-Room (Shingan Crimsonz)" Transcription: "Tokiko no Ru-Ru-Ru-Rūmu (Shingan Kurimuzonzu)" (Japanese: 時子のルルルルーム (シンガンクリムゾンズ)) |
August 15, 2016 |
| The Shingan Crimsonz appear on Tokiko's show, only to get upstaged by Trichronika's commercial. | ||
| 8 | "Spa Resort Midicians Commercial Making-Of♥" Transcription: "Supa Rizōto Midishianzu Shiemu Meikingu Obu♥" (Japanese: スパリゾートMIDIシアンズ・CMメイキングオブ♥) |
August 22, 2016 |
| A behind-the-scenes look at Criticrista shooting a commercial for a spa resort. | ||
| 9 | "Shu☆zo's Dream Galaxy ☆ Absoluteley ☆ Dance Studio" Transcription: "Shūzo no Yume Ginga Tottemo Dansu Sutajio" (Japanese: シュー☆ゾの夢銀河☆とっても☆ダンススタジオ) |
August 29, 2016 |
| Trichronika host an instructional dance TV show. | ||
| 10 | "Tokiko's R-R-R-Room (Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan)" Transcription: "Tokiko no Ru-Ru-Ru-Rūmu (Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan)" (Japanese: 時子のルルルルーム (徒然なる操り霧幻庵)) |
September 5, 2016 |
| Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan show up on Tokiko's show, where Tokiko seems amused by Darudayu's daruma form. | ||
| 11 | "St. Midi Girls' Academy Middle School's Special Lecture on Coyness" Transcription: "Hijiri Midi Jogakuen Chū-tō-bu Azato-gaku Tokubetsu Kōgi" (Japanese: 聖MIDI女学園中等部 あざと学特別講義) |
September 12, 2016 |
| Criticrista study up on how to act coy, with Rosia at the top of the class. | ||
| 12 | "MIDI-BOP Graffiti High School" Transcription: "Midi-Boppu Rakugaki Haisukūru" (Japanese: MIDI-BOP 落書きハイスクール) |
September 19, 2016 |
| In a high school setting, new transfer student Rom fights against Shuzo to determine who will be top of the school. | ||
| TRAILER (SHORT ANIME) |
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
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Melody -Schlehit Melodie-" Transcription: "Senritsu -Schlehit Melodie-" (Japanese: 旋律-Schlehit Melodie-) |
October 2, 2016 |
| As Banded Record Records, which now has Criticrista under its label, holds a concert for its bands, Plasmagica are suddenly attacked by Dagger, who has been resurrected by a group of girls known as Bud Virgin Logic. The girls are rescued by a group known as Ninjinriot, who state they have come from the future to prevent the destruction of Midi City by someone known as the Queen of Darkness. As this new threat weighing on everyone's minds, Cyan, who is back on Earth, is suddenly approached by a large robot who decides to bring her to Midi City once more. | ||
| 2 | "Plasmaism" Transcription: "Purazumaizumu" (Japanese: プラズマism) |
October 9, 2016 |
| After reuniting Cyan with the rest of Plasmagica, the robot, who introduces himself as Ninjinriot's Kamui, reveals that he had brought Cyan with him to help stop the Queen of Darkness. Just as the girls are about to celebrate their reunion, Moa is suddenly ordered to return home after failing to submit her reports, so the girls decide to accompany her to Planet Pyuru to try and convince her superiors to let her stay in Midi City. Upon arriving on Planet Pyuru, they discover that Moa is actually the crown princess of the royal family who became an investigator in order to see the outside world. As Moa pleads her case to the Royal Investigation Committee, she requests that Plasmagica performs for everyone, managing to bring out large amounts of energy from everyone's Melodian Stones. Wowed by her performance, Moa's parents allow Moa to continue her investigation on Sound Planet while also establishing negotiations to have their music broadcast to Planet Pyuru. | ||
| 3 | "Hanate! DoDoDōn!" Transcription: "Shoot! Ba-Ba-Bang!" (Japanese: 放て!どどどーん!) |
October 16, 2016 |
| Both Plasmagica and Criticrista are chosen to participate in a Sweet Sweets Girls Fes, in which they must bake their own sweets to put on sale. After Rosia gives Cyan her thanks for saving her from Dagger, the Plasmagica girls decide to make cookies. On the day of the festival, the impressive displays by the other attendees leave Chuchu worried that their cookies won't sell. Just as Chuchu is feeling downhearted, Cyan reminds her how good the cookies everyone baked together taste, and they soon manage to sell out. Meanwhile, as Shingancrimsonz take part in a sentai show, a mysterious group takes an interest in them. | ||
| 4 | "Ba-dump!? It's a Floaty Water Sports Meet Full of Girls! Po-- (etc.)" Transcription: "Doki!? Gāruzu Darake no Fuwaffuwa Suiei Taikai! Desu zo ♡ Po (ikaryaku)" (Japanese: ドキィッ!?が～るずだらけのふわっふわ水泳大会!ですぞ♡ポ(以下略)) |
October 23, 2016 |
| A water sports tournament is held in Midi City, with Plasmagica placed on the white team with Criticrista and Shizuku Secret Mind. As Retoree worries about being put on a chicken fight team with Rosia, they both end up trapped in a storage room together after the door gets blocked. While trapped, Rosia explains how her interest in Cyan is simply because she wants to win against her, changing Retoree's opinion of her. They are eventually found by their teammates and go ahead with the chicken fight, managing to work together to win the tournament for the white team. | ||
| 5 | "Just Awake" Transcription: "Jasutaweiku" (Japanese: ジャスタウェイク) |
October 30, 2016 |
| The members of Shingan Crimsonz are challenged in a battle of bands by Arcareafact, a new band from Judas that just surpassed Trichronika and reached the top spot of the weekly ranking. Meanwhile, the girls of Plasmagica discuss new ways to improve themselves and Cyan decides to write a song with a different style than what they are used to. Thanks to Arcareafact's secretary being possessed by darkness and rigging the vote system, the battle with Shingan Crimsonz ends with Arcareafact winning by a landslide. Some time later, Retoree hacks into the system and discovers the fraud, but when the girls decide to reveal the truth to Shingan Crimsonz, they prefer not to, upon seeing that they already had overcome their defeat and are more determined than ever. Soon after, Dagger appears on a monitor, declaring war against Plasmagica. | ||
| 6 | "Cadenza" | November 6, 2016 |
| Dagger challenges Plasmagica to face Bud Virgin Logic in a battle of the bands, worrying Rosia. As the girls prepare for this battle, Cyan struggles with writing her new song, becoming worried about not living up to everyone's expectations. Meanwhile, Yaiba, Crow, and Aion all learn that Rom and Shuzo were once part of a band called Amatelast together. Having still not written anything, Cyan, guilty over holding everyone back, runs away from home and goes to see Grateful King. | ||
| 7 | "Song of the Lanterns on the 16th Night" Transcription: "Izayoi wi Bonbori-Uta" (Japanese: 十六夜ゐ雪洞唄) |
November 13, 2016 |
| While Cyan begins training under Grateful King, Shingan Crimsonz go on their own training camp. After hearing from Rom about how Amatelast came to break up, the band decide to write a new song together. Meanwhile, Tsurezure manage to use their talent to make it past a group of guardians to reach the "hope" on the other side. As Cyan finds most of her "training" to be manual labor that seems impossible for one person, she eventually comes to the realization that she needs her friends by her side. Reuniting with her bandmates and apologising for everything, Cyan and the others decide to write their new song together. | ||
| 8 | "Re: Climb" | November 20, 2016 |
| Having returned from their training camp, Shingan Crimsonz challenge Arcareafact for a rematch. Despite unwilling to accept at first, the members of Arcareafact are convinced to by their secretary, who corrupts their Melodisian stones, save for their vocalist Titan, who was taking care of his younger siblings. On the day of the battle between Shingan Crimsonz and Arcareafact, Plasmagica exposes the scheme used to rig the voting system in their last confrontation, and when Rom is about to attack them in anger, Shuzo appears to calm him down. During their performance, the members of Arcareafact realize their errors and their Melodisian stones are purified, but Shingan Crimsonz ends up declared the victors. After the battle, the members of Arcareafact discover that their secretary ran away with all their possession and assets, and Titan reveals to the others that his family went broke long ago and he now lives in poverty with his siblings, a fact that they claim to not care at all, specially now that all members of the band are broke as well. | ||
| 9 | "Dynaimism Turnal" Transcription: "Kizuna Eternal" (Japanese: 絆エターナル) |
November 27, 2016 |
| Plasamagica have already finished the new song that is to be used to challenge Bud Virgin Logic. But it turns out, one of Bud Virgin's band members Hundreko doesn't want Ailane to be evil and darken the bands Melodisian Stones because she wants Ailane to be her inner self and not become selfish for hating music and not to obey Dagger. In the battle of the bands contest, BVL are up first and play themselves as their stones begin turning dark. Second up is Plasmagica and with their performance, whiten the Melodisian stones of the audience and BVL. After the battle, the results are about to be announced but Dagger disrupts the results by punishing Bud Virgin Logic and turning them into a Dragon Lion hybrid Dark Monster to which Dagger teleports Plasmigica into the 3D battle world to face off against them. | ||
| 10 | "Solitude of Judgment" Transcription: "Danzai no Sorityūdo" (Japanese: 断罪のソリテュード) |
December 4, 2016 |
| In the 3D world, Dagger and BVL are ready to attack Plasmagica but Victorious arrives and subdue the two bands resulting in Plasmagica, Dagger and BVL thrown back into their 2D selves while Victorious shows up on top of the stage and reveals her intent to conquer Sound World and retreats. It turns out that Arcarafect's new secretary was Victorious, the Queen of Darkness (the lady with the Starship from the beginning of the season) and was the one responsible for making Arcarafect cheat for money, rigging the voting in the battle of the bands contest, robbed Arcarefect to use the funds to build her starship fleet with her black hole canon to darken other bands' stones in order to conquer the world. Reluctantly, Dagger temporarily allies himself with Maple. Later at BRR, Aion reveals that Ailane was Aion's sister. They both came from a noble family after but they separated when Aion ran away for his love of music while Aileen had to take responsibility for being the next heir. After searching for Aileen, Aion talks to his sister apologizing for leaving her. Aileen then regains her love for music then resolves that she will sing for everybody as she is departing to another city and forgives her brother and tells him that she loves him. Back at the BRR, Plasmagica, ShinganCrimsonZ, Criticrista and Trichronika team up to stop Victorious from conquering Sound Planet as well as Grateful King who arrives soon after to help the bands by writing their new song in order to stop the catastrophe. Meanwhile, Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan finds the giant Melodisan Stone to help them in the upcoming battle... | ||
| 11 | "My Resolution" | December 11, 2016 |
| At Victorious' base, Victorious has a sad flashback about the time she lost her friend Asteral in Ordinis. Her flashback begins in her younger days with the two singing together and climbing on the mountain to become the new ruler. But Asteral betrays her by leaving her to fall which in turn darkens her Melodisian stone causing her to become cruel. She reclimbs the mountain and screams furiously at Astreal causing Asteral to fall to her doom. With her newfound dark power, Victorious became the new ruler and ruled with an iron fist. Back at BRR, the bands and the Grateful King practice with a plan to perform at the Pyuru Land Amusement Park opening. At the Amusement Park opening night, the bands are about to perform but Victorious arrives and captures them. Victorious is ready to darken their stones but Maple arrives in his mech and prepares to save the other bands for the final battle. | ||
| 12 | "My Song is YOU!" | December 18, 2016 |
| It's Maple and bands vs Victorious for the final showdown! It begins when Maple launches a missile fist but failed causing Victorious to knock Maple unconscious. Victorious is about to finish Maple off when Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan arrives with a giant Melodisian Stone to drop on Victorious while the bands escape and along with Grateful King are going to sing their own song to cure Victorious' stone. The bands are still struggling with Victorious but Maple sacrifices himself to push the stone on Victorious and saves everyone. Victorious then has a flashback of her younger self and has a change of heart, regaining her love of music in the process. While Shinigan CrimsonZ and Plasmagica sung pretty well, they become saddened by Maple's sacrifice only for a burnt Maple to appear revealing he survived. While he tries to get the bands to admit they missed him, Victorious decides to be good and sing for everybody so she won't be evil again. In the final performance, Plasmagica, Criticrista, ShiniganCrimsonZ, Trichronika and Tsurezurenaru Ayatsuri Mugenan sing together until Ninjinriot arrives to pickup Cyan and take her back to her own world. After a tearful goodbye, Cyan successfully finishes the new song for the band and performs for everybody in the credits scene. | ||
| TRAILER (SEASON 2) | |
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.
- 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)
Funimation has licensed the third season. The season aired for 12 episodes.
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "White Startline" Transcription: "Masshiro Sutātorain" (Japanese: まっしろスタートライン) |
January 9, 2020 |
| Upon coming home from harvesting daikon radishes from the snow ridden fields. Howan receives a letter of notification that she’s passed the first round of the auditions for the next generation of singers contest. Howan announces the news to her family who are elated by the fact. Her mother especially, who gossips to someone about it on the phone. The following day, Howan takes a train to Midi City. Arriving from the Under North Zawa Station, Howan is bedazzled by the city’s iridescent lights and atmosphere. Elsewhere, Himiko, Delmin, and Ruhuyu practice at Himiko's uncle's studio. Once they're done, they leave the studio and Himiko finds a paper about an audition. Ruhuyu decides the group should put on a street performance in order to attract a crowd that will catch the attention of the paper's missing owner. Meanwhile, Howan is distressed about her lost paper, until she hears Himeko and her band playing a street performance. Captivated by the performance, she joins them, while singing and playing her guitar. | ||
| 2 | "YELL AND RESPONSE" Transcription: "Ēru Ando Resuponsu" (Japanese: エールアンドレスポンス) |
January 16, 2020 |
| After the street performance, Himeko and the band with their new friend Howan eat at a restaurant and return Howan's lost paper. Afterwards, the Ruhuyu and Delmin give Howan a tour of the city. Their stop is at the music studio they practice at where they find Himeko's uncle "corpse". An exuberant Ruhuyu treats the situation like a murder investigation and believes that Himeko is the culprit based on the evidence left behind. Contrary to that, the group set off to prove Himeko's innocence. However, in there search for the truth, the testimony they hear seems to only reinforce that Himeko murdered her uncle. With the evidence and testimony affirming that Himeko was the culprit, they return to the studio to find Himeko's uncle alive and well. Himeko's uncle explains that after trying out some new super spicy sauce, he faints due to its overwhelming spiciness. Afterwards, since Howan has no place to stay at, Himeko allows, Howan to stay at her home. The following day while the group eats the same restaurant the day prior, they get involved in a fight with a couple of boy bands. | ||
| 3 | "On The Bike" Transcription: "Idōshudan wa Baiku desu" (Japanese: 移動手段はバイクです) |
January 23, 2020 |
| Howan, Himeko, Delmin and Ruhuyu went to watch a concert conducted by a bunch of high school delinquents who were forced to form a band called DOKONJOFINGER to do community service by performing on stage as a band. Since these boys are being forced and have problems with each other from the beginning, they fought each other after the concert. After the concert, Howan looks for a part-time job with Himeko's help while got into a fight with a certain street delinquent and beating them up. The relationship between the band members of DOKONJOFINGER had a slight improvement after managing to make their live performance a success after winning another fight the same street delinquent. | ||
| 4 | "No Problem!!" | January 30, 2020 |
| The girls have a hot pot party in Himeko's house to celebrate Howan's job interview, but something's up with Ruhuyu and Delmin. That something is that Delmin picked up Ruhuyu's chuuni notebook and have read it, which had Ruhuyu went hiding inside Himeko's storeroom. After a few chat with Ruhuyu, Delmin got angry and run out of the house because Ruhuyu wants to be special like her but doesn't understand her enough. The girls went to find Delmin. Ruhuyu found her and chat with her regarding the matter. They agreed to be friends and proceed onto playing a game that requires the girls to tell their secrets to each other. After that, they proceed onto continuing their hotpot party. | ||
| 5 | "Parallelism Crown" | February 6, 2020 |
| At the concert of the popular band, REIJINGSIGNAL, Howan is chosen from the audience to go to the backstage party. Howan got to have a peek into the lives of REIJINGSIGNAL. At the same time, Himeko starts to feel uneasy about Howan as she didn't return home until she picked Howan up together with Delmin and Ruhuyu. Rararin expressed her interest in Howan but she allows Howan to leave them until she feels it is appropriate to bring her into REIJINGSIGNAL. | ||
| 6 | "Heromeans" Transcription: "Heromenesu" (Japanese: ヒロメネス) |
February 13, 2020 |
| Himeko's been acting strange ever since Howan came back from REIJINGSIGNAL's backstage party, so Howan discusses other band members and tries different things to get her to open up and to talk about the formation of a band. She tried to open her up by making her good food and bring Himeko to a karaoke session with Delmin and Ruhuyu, but to no avail. Himeko snapped and left home to go to the studio after Howan tried to get her to go on a vacation to the beach together with her, Delmin and Ruhuyu. With Himeko left her guitar at home, Howan decided to find Himeko together with Delmin and Ruhuyu. When they asked about it, the owner of the studio said that he didn't saw her in the studio. After the girls went elsewhere to search for Himeko and fails, they return to ask the owner of the studio for the possible places that Himeko may go to. He revealed that Himeko goes to the beach whenever she has a hard time writing a new song. Howan then runs out from the studio to the beach and found Himeko. After an emotional conversation with each other, Himeko reveals that she is afraid to lose her when she went to REIJINGSIGNAL's backstage party and is not back home for a while. They stay with each other until the morning comes. Himeko, Ruhuyu, Delmin and Howan forms a band called Mashumairesh!! | ||
| 7 | "Endless Waltz of Crimson Flashing Wings with Guts" Transcription: "Dokonjō to Shinkōshoku no Tsubasa Hirameku Endoresu na Warutsu" (Japanese: ど根性と深紅色の翼閃くEndlessなWaltz) |
February 20, 2020 |
| Mashumairesh! and DOKONJOFINGER has each decided to conduct a training camp to improve themselves and as for DOKONJOFINGER, making a new song. While DOKONJOFINGER ends up in a curling competition against Shingan Crimsonz and lost, Mashumairesh went to the water park with some discussions on the direction of the band. | ||
| 8 | "The Sky of Neon Tetras" Transcription: "Neontetora no sora" (Japanese: ネオンテトラの空) |
February 27, 2020 |
| The newly-formed Mashumairesh! gets a challenge to play in a battle of the bands against the popular band, REIJINGSIGNAL. They will soon found that they might lose Howan if they lost to REIJINGSIGNAL after Uiui reveal the contract that Howan had put her fingerprint on. They lost the challenge but Howan stayed in the band because REIJINGSIGNAL's leader, Rararin was furious at her response to their defeat. Rararin tears up the contract and left the place with the members of REIJINGSIGNAL, giving up her right to take Howan with her. | ||
| 9 | "Iron Plate In The Bag" Transcription: "Kaban ni wa Teppan Desu" (Japanese: カバンには鉄板です) |
March 5, 2020 |
| As the principal of their school raises eyebrows about their sincerity in doing their band activities, DOKONJOFINGER needs to decide what they want out of being in a band together. As the band is lacklustre in their decision to do their band activities seriously, Yasu went on a journey to stardom himself. After his secret activity to stardom has been exposed, he faced them to express his wish to do their band activities seriously. The band decided to do their band activities seriously and join the Midi City music festival. With that resolved, he quit his "secret" stardom activities and focus on DOKONJOFINGER band activities. | ||
| 10 | "Platform" Transcription: "Purattohōmu" (Japanese: プラットホーム) |
March 12, 2020 |
| Himeko is having trouble coming up with ideas for a new song, so the other three try all sort of different and sometimes, weird things to help. With that, they finally figured to take the whole band to Howan's hometown for a training camp to help Himeko to make a new song. After the training camp in Howan's hometown, Himeko finally made a new song and sleep soundly on the way back to Midi City as she took the whole night make the song. | ||
| 11 | "Your Rhapsody" Transcription: "Kimi no Rapusodī" (Japanese: キミのラプソディー) |
March 19, 2020 |
| It's the day before Mashumairesh!! is scheduled to play at Midi Rock, and the girls are excited and nervous about their performance. The girls decided to sleep for a moment before their performance time at the festival. As for DOKONJOFINGER, they are helping Yasu's mother to make bento for the customers at the festival before their performance time at the festival. | ||
| 12 | "Mashumairesh!!" | March 26, 2020 |
| The members of Mashumairesh!! overslept and rushes to the concert. They have to rush to the backstage to register before the start of REIJINGSIGNAL's performance. Howan realises that she left her guitar in the studio so she went to the studio and tries to get to the backstage before their performance starts. After the festival, the girls decided to conduct a street performance and hang out with each other after the performance. | ||
| TRAILER (Mashumairesh!!) | |
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.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Speed Up" Transcription: "Supīdo Appu" (Japanese: スピードアップ) |
Daigo Yamagishi | Tōko Machida | January 7, 2021 |
| 2 | "Final Opinion" |KANG Won yeong, KIM Young bum |
KANG Won yeong, KIM Young bum | Daisuke Watanabe | January 14, 2021 |
| 3 | "Do! It! Happy Adventure!" Transcription: "Dū! Itto! Happī Dai Bōken!" (Japanese: Do！It！Happy大冒険！) |
Tomonori Mine | Daisuke Tazawa | January 21, 2021 |
| 4 | "We're Crimson I'm Joker (etc.) and Obento Magnum" Transcription: "Oretachi wa Shinkōshoku no Aimu Jōkā de (Chūryaku) Obento Magunamu" (Japanese: オレ達は深紅色のI'm JOKERで（中略）OBENTO MAGNUM) |
Hitomi Ezoe | Tōko Machida | January 28, 2021 |
| 5 | "Sq-Sq-Squeeze♡Heart Shaker and Ain't Nobody Stop" Transcription: "Kyukyukyun♡Hāto Sheikā na Einto Nōbadī Sutoppu" (Japanese: きゅきゅきゅん♡ハートシェイカーなain't nobody STOP) |
KANG Won yeong, CHOI Ju lee, LEE Gab min | Daisuke Watanabe | February 4, 2021 |
| 6 | "Maiden Mirage" Transcription: "Otome Kagerō" (Japanese: 乙女陽炎) |
Hitoshi Haga | Daisuke Tazawa | February 11, 2021 |
| 7 | "Pass Stage" Transcription: "Pasutēji" (Japanese: パステージ) |
Tomonori Mine | Tōko Machida | February 18, 2021 |
| 8 | "Runners High!!" Transcription: "Ran'nāzu Hai!!" (Japanese: ランナーズハイ!!) |
Motoki Nakanishi | Daisuke Tazawa | February 25, 2021 |
| 9 | "Empire Dominator" | Hitomi Ezoe | Daisuke Watanabe | March 4, 2021 |
| 10 | "You Are My Princess☆" Transcription: "Kimi wa Boku no Purinsesu☆" (Japanese: キミはボクのプリンセス☆) |
Tomonori Mine | Daisuke Watanabe | March 11, 2021 |
| 11 | "Starry Sky Light Story" Transcription: "Hoshizora Raito Sutōrī" (Japanese: 星空ライトストーリー) |
LEE Gab min | Daisuke Tazawa | March 18, 2021 |
| 12 | "Anokanatarium" Transcription: "Anokanatariumu" (Japanese: アノカナタリウム) |
Daigo Yamagishi | Tōko Machida | March 25, 2021 |
| TRAILER (STARS!!) | |
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!! Official Channel ─ Youtube Website
- SHOW BY ROCK!! ─ Wikipedia JP
- SHOW BY ROCK!! ─ Wikipedia EN
Trivia[]
to be added.