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Rock Is A Lady's Modesty, S.1, Ep. 1 - Lady Version: "Good Day to You" / Rock Version: "Quit Playing the Guitar!" (Patreon)

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2025-06-20 15:00:11
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From the start of this episode, I felt like I was going to love this show. I am hoping I continue to enjoy it!

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Spadeas

I'm up to date with the anime, episode 12 was yesterday and the final is next week, so you can catch up pretty quick if you want ^^. I wouldn't say that the show is not entertaining, it is pretty fun to watch and the musical part are all like the one you saw here, always so good to see and full of imagery (not all dirty I promise), it's just that, it take time to have a real story behind. If I had to compare to Girl Band Cry, there is a lot more event in GBC than this one, but both are good on their own way for me (and both have a great saphic vibe and I'm all for it hehe). Also, just a side note, I remember you saying that you are a sweaty girl, I think the girls in this top you for that, you just have a teaser with this performance, but they sweat a lot lol.

Luis Arispe

This show it has not finnish it season run yet. Only one episode left next week. My opinion is that the first episode is the best. There are other good episodes also, the ones when play music, but the rest are too much yapping. Not good yapping like "Girls band cry", but... just yapping. Also they talk too much during the music parts. Typical shonen anime like talk..."I'm gonna beat you with this special attack"...."ooohh I can't withstand her attack, I'm gonna lose"... Hope you like it better than me.

Jonas

yes

Jonas

The anime is not bad, but I don't know if you're gonna like it, it's a bit too anime for non-anime fan to enjoy. It takes a lot of niche anime codes and tropes and builds on them so unless you are familiar with them I think you're either gonna find it weird or confusing or boring, but who knows maybe you'll enjoy it. For me personally it is not my favorite but I did not hate it so it's alright.

Glenner7

I have to admit - that was fun! The Band-Maid members must have just been beside themselves when they watched this.

Vlad the Maidiac

Hmmm... Interesting opinion. "Niche anime codes"? The only awkward thing I noticed in "Rock is Lady's Modesty" is over-exaggeration of emotions in certain cases, when the creators wanted to emphasize an interpersonal conflict, or highlight a certain plot twist. This is not anime-specific thing, it's more a Chinese culture feature. Which was inherited by Japanese Kabuki theater—and then, of course, by Japanese cinematography and anime. It's actually less prominent in anime due to its overall trend to move away from the traditional Japanese performance arts. Cartoons are a novel thing for humanity, they appeared only a century ago, after all. Maybe I don't see already the things in anime which the newcomers would consider odd. What usually irritates me in animes, and what I consider a specific approach of the Japanese culture, is that they love to accentuate how pitiful and ugly the main character is at the start, to emphasize his/her weaknesses—so that a bit later they may show his/her spiritual development more graphically. The character was weak and panicked easily from the most trivial things, bathing in tears 50% of the screen time—and in two or three episodes he/she is in control of the difficult situations, calm, powerful, and wise. That excessive emphasis on the character's weakness is not pleasant. Although I agree that it helps to drive home an idea of the importance of spiritual development.

Vlad the Maidiac

And guitar, Kanami. MISA on bass. Later Saiki appears as a keyboard player.

Vlad the Maidiac

I finally found where I can watch it, so, I'm sitting here right now rewatching the entire thing from the start. And I should say, a lot of things which seemed strange to me at first, suddenly become clear. That "talking while playing music" is a great thing, actually. They keep their mouths shut, which means that all that talking is done through the music they play. Which is an amazing concept. I always thought the same thing. For me, when I try to explain to myself why I believe one guitarist is great, while the other is not, I formulate it in terms "Her guitar talks to me." Akane's drums talk to me as well, even though many people start arguing that she is not that technical and therefore is not so great. But some guitarists which can shred a hell out of their guitar, are boring to me. For example, the greatest guitarist on Earth who is active now is HAL-CA from ASTERISM—in my opinion. Kanami... I don't want to call her "guitarist" for some reason, although of course she plays guitar at an amazing level. But Kanami for me is "part of BAND-MAID," not a guitarist. She is not boring not because she plays guitar, it is BAND-MAID which is fascinating—and Kanami's guitar is just there, singing her part, often in the background. While HAL-CA is a guitarist in a standard sense of this word: she plays guitar, and that is what makes her interesting. And there are many other guitarists who get a lot of praise from the people for their highly technical playing, but each time I hear them, I'm completely lost and ask myself, "What does she want to tell me? I don't understand." Now as I understood this feature of "Rock is Lady's Modesty," I rewatch it with much more interest. This anime is unique due to this approach. There were a few animes before which also focused on music and musicians, like K-ON, Angel Beats—or, in small part, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The ENOZ album they released following this anime, in my opinions, is one of the greatest rock albums of all times. To my taste, of course. But "Rock is Lady's Modesty" is on another level. I watched before six episodes, now I have 12, and I am really excited to watch the entire thing until the end. And probably I will watch it a few times, to understand it better. A real masterpiece, an anime designed specifically for me and other people for whom music is the main thing in life.

Jonas

I think what you mean by "pitiful/ugly main character" depend on the anime genre and targeted demographic, but generally if the anime is about someone overcoming their weakness and becoming a better/powerful person (most likely in a Shounen anime) the anime will start by showing that, and in animation or drawings in general the most effective way to show emotions is through exaggerated facial expressions and reactions and in positioning the characters in situations where you see their weaknesses to give you a reason to look forward to their evolution and development, since these are drawings it is hard to portray emotions through subtle facial expressions or movements like real humans do, we as humans are great at reading faces in other real humans but in drawings it's different, emotions and facial expressions need to be exaggerated to be understood, being too subtle in this aspect can risk you alienating a lot of your audience and that's why this aspect changes depending on what the target demographic of the anime is. The emphasis on the character's weakness to later contrast with them being more powerful later tend to be prominent in this type of stories in general, I wouldn't say it is a specific approach of the Japanese culture, anime is just more creative at how they portray it, sometime in a dramatic way, or in a comedic way, or in a serious subtle way depending on the tone of the anime. And often times it isn't even there if the anime's story doesn't require it. What I personally meant by anime codes/tropes is for example the whole "Ojousama" trope (rich high-class lady thing) which is a anime character archetype among many that some anime fans are familiar with, another is the whole school setting, the internal monologues during action sequences (or in this case music sequences), the many archetypical character trope in anime that you see in this show and it's all done in purpose, the author wanted all of this and for many of the fans of the show seeing all of these stuff they are familiar with makes it very easy for them to digest the show and enjoy many of the situations the characters encounter, for example they won't get weirded out seeing a sudden dominatrix scene out of nowhere during the middle of them performing a song lol, a non anime fan will see that and think "Oh this is very weird", an anime fan who is used to shows like this will see it and probably think "oh it's funny" since it all kinda plays on a sort of inside jokes that plays on the tropes that the author herself intentionally added. A more concrete and different example of what I mean is for example Band-Maid, you see Miku say "Moe Moe, Kyu Kyu" and if you are unfamiliar with the whole maid cafe subculture this will just sound like some weird stuff and some will just see and think it's cringe, but when you know that Miku is playing on the whole maid cafe spell thing and using it as a way to engage with the audience and make them participate then it is suddenly not weird and actually very smart and funny way of engaging with the audience and giving the band time to rest, some anime plays on a lot subcultures and niches in both japan and anime as a subculture itself and being unfamiliar with them can turn people off of it or think it's weird, and from what I saw of this anime I think it may be weird or not suitable for people who aren't much familiar with some anime tropes.

Vlad the Maidiac

Ah, now I see what you meant by "anime code." Yes, these things may indeed seem weird at first. For example, Japanese people love to joke about those lesbian themes—or a boy looking at girl's boobs and collapsing while blood gushes out of his nose 😂 . These things they always shove into almost any anime. Regarding an exaggerated portrayal of the main character's weakness at the start. In the Western stories, they never draw a plot in such a way. Take, for example, Star Wars. Luke Skywalker is not really ugly initially. He's still a pretty lovable and nice character, even though Master Yoda demonstrates to him very clearly how weak he is. But Luke never screams in horror when under death threat, and he never shits his pants from the fear of darkness or anything. Darth Vader undergoes a mighty spiritual transformation in the end—but initially he was also full of charisma, albeit it was dark and violent charisma. In anime, he would be an imbecile obsessed with power struggle, and something would happen which would cause him to wake up, reconsider his priorities in life, and then sacrifice his life for the sake of his loved ones. Japanese writers would attach an ample amount of unattractive features to his initial image, I am sure. Take almost any other Western story, be it a movie or a cartoon—the journey of the main character never starts from the depths of ugliness. The storytellers always try to evoke positive feelings towards their main character from the start. Even if it's fear, like in case of Darth Vader, still this figure is beautiful in its own way. I am watching now Tokyo Ghoul (because ASTERISM covered "unravel" and I planned to watch this anime for more than a year already, being curious why HAL-CA loves this anime so much). Initially, the main character there is crying all the time, constantly in denial of reality, vomiting each time he thinks of his own nature... probably shitting his pants even. I'm sure in three-four-five episodes he will go through a deep spiritual transformation and will strengthen himself enough not to look so shitty. But to watch through these initial five episodes is always a torture for me...

Wayne B

I have that same Rolling Quartz Tour shirt, BTW!

Vlad the Maidiac

I think this anime will be another important step in the development of Japanese culture towards girls' empowerment. K-ON was probably the first step in this direction, and afterwards a lot of girls started playing in bands. After watching "Rock is Lady's Modesty," I think they should also be empowered to become leaders of society—in politics and in business.

VegetaRabbit

I have one more episode next week. I have been enjoying the anime, although being a BAND-MAID fan makes it extra fun. I also like classical music. I spent the 1990s engrossed in classical music. I collected over 250 CDs, went to numerous concerts, and even stopped by the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. I would drag my army buddies to Mozart's Requiem, and they would take me to see Metallica.

Sawzar

I liked rewatching this. Interesting enough, the bird flying out the cage....didn't notice when i watched first time I think this show is evolving in an promising way.

David Cook

I'm REALLY enjoying this Anime and will be sad next week when it is finished, SO SO SO glad you have picked it up, as I can now rewatch with friends

Sawzar

Totally agree. Even if i think japanese girls are already kicking asses; in that sense, it seems to me, they are ahed of us western people...

Sawzar

Also..am i the only one giggling when Lilisa enters Mincho mode????

Vlad the Maidiac

The moment in the 9th episode, at 16:30, when they understand they the performance was a failure, and then just start to play for themselves... That is when Gorilla meets Mincho. This is a piece which probably no band would be able to reproduce. Only MISA needs her five string and the pick, fingerpicking does not really work here.

Vlad the Maidiac

It's an interesting thing in the Japanese culture. They have never considered women inferior human beings, like it was in Christianity and Islam, where the divines were writing treatises on women being soulless creatures. So, women are highly respected in Japan. But it's still a patriarchic society, where the social roles are clearly divided. As far as we can see, women normally don't become CEOs of big corporations, or Prime Ministers, or any other high-ranking rulers. This, of course, must change, and the animes like this is a Japanese way to make it happen.

Richard Knowles

I have one more episode to go on HIdive which comes out next week. "Ready to Rock" will be in the opening in the 2nd episode and a song from Little Glee Monster will be the ending theme. It is a good song too. "Modesty" is the official translation but the kanji can also mean hobby or avocation or taste (as in fashion). Things you may not have heard about: The drummer from LITE has praised both Kanami's and Akane's videos of performing parts of Ghost Dance on X. The guitar in the anime is a PRS without the birds. PRS Japan is bringing out a special Rock is Lady's Modesty edition of a PRS. PRS himself was happy to see that it was in the anime. The artist who drew the original manga has done signed original pictures of each character and given them to their respective Band-Maid members. Kanami told him it will be a family heirloom. He thanked Kanami for her performance of Lilisa, bringing her to life. And there is a bit of yuri subtext with the girls swooning over other girls. Wait until the "Prince" shows up. And I previously missed Lilisa describing Otoha as "lifelong partner" but maybe she means fellow band-mate. And finally, the members of Band-Maid say they are never that rude to each other.

performernumber6

The street musician was playing "Linda Linda" by Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts. The song was inspiration for the name of Asian-American/Latina all-girl band The Linda Linda's.

Roy C. Russell

First time watching it. Watching it with you. I was entertained

seizetheday

First time watching this. Thank You!!!