Show By Rock!! Episode 4: Enchanting Dream Fireworks of a Night Journey

I feel like not a lot happened in this episode, but a lot happened in this episode. If that makes sense. Nothing in the terms of action, but we learned a lot of things. But first let’s get sexy Chuchu out of the way.

So like I said, a lot happened. I’ll start by listing them off in order:

1. The girls go to a concert of the popular Eastern band, Tsurezure Ayatsuri Megunan, or Tsurezure for short.
2. The bad guys have their eye out for Cyan, which Maple probably knows something about, and so does his rival in charge for Cristacristi. Bad guys want Cyan to improve and join their band to be the best in the world.
3. We shortly meet the members of Tsurezure, the girls meet them afterwards.
4. The girls note the band’s originality, and try their own part of originality.
5. Rom and Syuzo indeed have a personal thing with each other.
6. Moa is extremely homesick.
7. SHINGANCRIMSONZ are even bigger dorks than I thought.

I guess the most important thing here, even though there isn’t much to say, is what the bad guys want with Cyan. Because, remember, she’s the “chosen one” and has a lot of talent, though she hasn’t completely awakened it yet. We just know right now they want her to join their band and take over Sound World, and that the manager of Cristicrista works for him, and Maple knows something. I don’t know if Maple is working for the bad guys as well and recruited Cyan on purpose, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Last week we looked into Retoree’s character, but now we had a little look at Moa. We don’t really know what kind of mission she’s on right now. All we know is that she’s supposed to observe Midi City and then return home with a report of everything. She’s really homesick, happily reading the message her mother sent her. She misses her mother and her home, but she loves Midi City. But she mostly loves music and her friends. She wants to go home, but she also doesn’t want to. Moa has a huge fascination with Tsurezure because of the kinds of songs they sing. They sing of songs of their homeland, because of how far away they are. Moa really connects to that message, and she’s absolutely in awe when she actually gets to meet the main singer of the band. I don’t know when Moa’s inner conflict is going to be resolved, but sooner or later she’s going to have to tell her bandmates the truth, even if it’s going to hurt.

SHINGANCRIMSONZ comes back, which made me super happy. Them staring at the girls when they were in their outfits, and then in the end putting gross stuff into their ramen and singing about it was hilarious. But I was right, Rom and Syuzo have a personal history with each other. It was touched on a little, but Rom and Syuzo were both in a band together in the past. And Syuzo rocking black hair instead of the present blonde! We don’t know how long ago this was, but somewhere along the way there must have been problems with their band and they had to separate, and this created some hostility between them. Well, mostly from Rom. And the separation seems to be by Rom, since Syuzo still awaits him to return. So there’s more characters I’m interested in. We haven’t seen much of Syuzo yet, so I’m curious to see whether he’ll become more important or not later on.

And I guess the most fun part of the episode was when the girls contemplated how to make their band more popular. They took notes when watching Tsurezure’s performance, and noted they needed more originality. Retoree’s version of originality meant their outfits, so the girls tried on many outfits, from bunny suits, to lolita, to skimpy gym clothes, to whatever the hell Moa was wearing followed by villainous laughter. She’s honestly becoming my favorite now.

But then they decide later on that they should just work on writing a new song, and work from there. And last but not least, I suppose I should mention Tsurezure for a moment. They’re a radically different bands from the ones we’ve seen so far. They come from far away, and mix oriental Eastern music with rock, and adorn themselves with kimonos. They are very popular, and I don’t know if we’ll see more of them, but they seem much more mature than the other bands we’ve seen so far.

This was a more slow episode, but I still enjoyed it. Even though it was a little slow, we got a lot of stuff thrown at us. And it was a major plus that our crimson boys came back because they’re just hilarious.