Show By Rock!! Episode 1 Discussion

BeatlesPkmnFan42 said:
As someone who plays the game, I'm amused at all the surprised reactions toward the battling premise. This is why you should probably research what an anime is based on before setting expectations lol.

In any case, I really loved this. There are a few things I noticed that contradict what occurs in the game, however. The first and most obvious to fans of the game being that there are no items in SB69, yet Cyan got a guitar in the game? Makes me wonder if this will be added in a later update or if the game in-universe is simply different from the game in reality. Another difference is that the monster in this battle is only fought when playing Shingan CrimsonZ's songs, yet when Cyan was playing the game she was playing a Plasmagica song (speaking of, how was a song sung by her in the game before she was sucked into it?), and it was later fought by Trichronika in the episode. A little weird, but I guess inaccuracies are inevitable when basing an anime off of a game, so I can't complain too much.

The animation looked really nice, the CG was very fluid. I found Maple to be hilarious, and was laughing nearly every time he was on screen. I'm curious to find out more about that Angelica character. She's not in the game at all, I wonder if a later update with add her anywhere in the game or if she'll just be an anime-exclusive character.

I also wasn't expecting Cyan's guitar to talk. That caught me a bit off-guard. In any case, I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to seeing the other bands. And I really hope we see more besides the ones already revealed. There are 20 bands in the game, currently only 5 are confirmed to be appearing. I doubt we'll be seeing any of the bands based on real bands and artists though, which is a shame because some of them are my favorites (Chammy Chaplets and Rapezziauto especially), but we may end up seeing the other bands made exclusively for the game. I really hope Shizuku Secretmind and StuddoBan Gyasshu in particular make an appearance, as they're some of my favorite from the game. It'd also be pretty cool is Baiganba V were to appear in the anime.

Despite me already being fully aware that this is aimed at an older audience despite being made by Sanrio (hell, Rapezziauto's song NAKED from the game is blatantly about sex), I was still amused by Maple bleeding and being whipped by Angelica.

Sorry about this being so long, I went on longer than I intended to. It's just that I'm a Sanrio fan so I was looking forward to this a lot. That and I've been playing the game for hours a day ever since I got it two months ago.

Also I swore I had an account already on this site but I attempted to log in with every username I would have had but to no avail, so I had to make another account.

Wiizel1337 said:
Thank you, these people hating have obviously never played the game before. This anime isn't so much for selling the game as it is for the current players of the game. This show will make no sense unless you play it. And even then, still kinda confusing.