Show By Rock!! #

Set in the glamorous metropolis Tokyo Midi City, where music - and the dream of musical superstardom - is everything.

Here, "battle of the bands" is more than just a teen rivalry: Dozens of ensembles compete for the honor of playing atop the city's highest tower.

When a Gothic Lolita-clad catgirl cutie named Cyan stumbles into the music world, she too is swept up by the dream of fame.

After joining forces with three other colorful characters - bunnygirl honor student Chuchu, shy doggirl Retoree, and adorable sheepgirl Moa - the quartet becomes Plasmagica, the freshest band on the scene.

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Oct 2, 2016

EP1 - Melody -Schlehit Melodie-

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.
Oct 9, 2016

EP2 - Plasmaism

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.
Oct 16, 2016

EP3 - Shoot! Ba-Ba-Bang!

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.
Oct 23, 2016

EP4 - Ba-dump!? It's a Floaty Water Sports Meet Full of Girls! ♡ Po-- (etc.)

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.
Oct 30, 2016

EP5 - Just Awake

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.
Nov 6, 2016

EP6 - Cadenza

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.
Nov 13, 2016

EP7 - Song of the Lanterns on the 16th Night

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.
Nov 20, 2016

EP8 - Re:Climb

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.
Nov 27, 2016

EP9 - Eternal Bonds

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.
Dec 4, 2016

EP10 - Solitude of Judgment

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...
Dec 11, 2016

EP11 - My Resolution

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.
Dec 18, 2016

EP12 - My Song is YOU!

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.