Show By Rock!! # Episode 2: Plasmaism

Pyuru!

I’m so mad I got this episode out so late because it was all about my fave. What kind of fan am I?!

Of course everyone is overjoyed now that Cyan is back in Midi City. Robo ninja gave Cyan all the deets so she’s already caught up to the current situation. They all gather in her room to talk about what had happened. This…show is not hiding Retoree’s crazy love for Cyan. It starts off so innocent and sweet with her telling Cyan how much she missed her, then the next thing we see is Retoree stuffing her face into Cyan’s pillow and taking a huge whiff from it, like…Retoree, my goodness. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Anyway, we never went into too much detail about Moa and her returning to her home planet in the first season but it’s finally being addressed this time. Better in the beginning of the series than later on just so we can get it all over with. So Moa gets a message saying that she needs to return to her home planet that instant and someone from her home planet pays her a visit to take her there. The reason why she has to leave immdiately is because she completely stopped sending in her reports, so she needs to get back home to explain herself. The rest of the girls of Plasmagica are worried how that’s all going to go but Chuchu decides that they should all go with Moa to convince the committee that Moa should come back to Sound Planet, by hearing their music. So the girls, and even Maple and Angelica, all head there.

Moa’s planet is so cute! Everything is pink and fluffy, every citizen on that planet is pink and fluffy, everyone’s hair is pink and fluffy, even the guys! And it turns out Moa is a princess! Her parents are king and queen, her mother looks like her and her father is an egg with a terrible voice. Unbelievable. It was just so interesting to see her planet. Literally their language is just saying “pyuru” but in different speeds, so when Cyan, Chuchu, and Retoree listened to the meeting, they couldn’t understand a single word. Her planet also has their own food and music and we saw Moa in a princess dress and OH BOY.

Moa and many other Pyururians(?) have been sent around the galaxy to investigate other planets. Planet Pyuru has always had some energy problems as their Melodisians aren’t too powerful. But even so, they were able to build a wonderful kingdom on their planet. Moa and these other researchers go to other planets to investigate how other planets get their energy sources so they could possibly help Planet Pyuru in this predicament. These people have to constantly send reports on their findings, to report whether they’ve found anything of use, and just to tell the committee that they’re safe. Problem is, Moa completely stopped sending reports so for one thing, she wasn’t doing her job, and two, the committee thought something bad happened to her. The committee people were about to announce that Moa would have to stay in her planet but Moa spoke back, wanting to show them just how much she cared about her band. The Queen comes in and convinces the committee to hear them out. This is also very important to Moa because she learned that she specifically asked to be sent out as a researcher. Like any other princess in fiction, she grew up in the palace her entire life and so she wanted to leave and experience a different world in freedom. Luckily, her wish was granted.

They perform in the venue where they had their banquet, and at first things seemed like they weren’t going to work, but the Pyururians fell in love with their music and gave them their energy from their Melodisians, and that was enough to convince the committee and even Moa’s parents that Plasmagica is special. In the end, Moa’s parents agree to let Moa continue her stay in Midi City. Yay!

The king also asked Maple to have a broadcast of the future amusement park grand opening concert to be shown in Planet Pyuru, and in return, he’ll fund the entire construction, so double yay! Moa says her farewell to her parents once again and they all head home, while also dealing with a scary monster food thing in the rocket.

This episode made me so happy. First of all, it was nice having all four members of Plasmagica back again. They’re all just so cute! And any episode about Moa was going to make me happy by default so yeah. Her planet is as cute and fluffy and pink as her, and it was fun seeing how things are different from Sound Planet. Also, Moa being a princess didn’t surprise me too much for some reason. We heard a new some from Plasmagica and it was awesome, also appreciate regular 2D animation for the short performance, which I thought looked fine. I guess I could say that things were solved a little easily, but…she’s the princess. Also, the power of friendship. Compared to the season’s explosive first episode, this one was a little slower, but at least we got Moa’s subplot thing over with so that won’t interfere with the main plot later.

Next week’s episode looks just as innocent, so I wonder when we’ll see BUDVIRGINLOGIC again. Also, the other bands too. Pyuru!