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Get Your Rock On!!!

Your socks are about to be blown off in this chord shredding, drum bashing, deep bass sounds with the melodic keyboard sounds of an all female Rock Band, and all of its foulmouthed insults with the band members as they try to steer their creative juices in the direction they need. Based on the Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroshi Fukuda. For those who want to Rock.

Oshin Girls’ Academy is a very prestigious exclusive school where only the very rich can afford to go. There is a young pretender Lilisa Suzunomiya (Akira Sekine, Princess Principal: Crown Handler, From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!), that is because she has given up a lot for her mothers sake. She gave up her beloved guitar to become a young lady of standing, since her mother married into the prestigious Suzunomiya family, the electric guitar was a gift from her father. With giving up the guitar, she puts all her efforts into becoming the best-of-the-best, and become the fabled ‘Noble Maiden’.

I swear, I’m gonna be like that one day.

As the other students look up to her stature, she secretly yearns for the release of a good chord shredding guitar session. But she plays the young lady, that is until she is wandering the grounds, and finds the old school building with the sound of rock drums emanating from it.

Ladies of class don’t listen to rock.

This cannot be the sounds of a refined woman, what she finds is the girl all the other girls look up to, Otoha Kurogane (Miyuri Shimabukuro, Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense (TV Series), Detective Conan (TV Series)) bashing the heck out of her drum kit. Lilisa takes the high ground, chastising Otoha for playing a commoners instrument, unlike the violin she has to learn, but Otoha gives her the chance to rock out with her on an electric guitar, but Lilisa stays aloof, that is until Otoha calls her a “Chicken”.

Lets Rock!!!

Guitar is my everything!!!

They jam together, and release all their pent-up frustrations, and they have so much fun and adrenaline, Otoha bursts in to a tirade of insults at Lilisa. This becomes their dynamic collaboration, as Otoha does it all for fun and Lilisa just wants to get better and enjoy her raw talent. They conclude that their secret rendezvous should continue as they decide to form a band of instrumental rock.

That leads to them seeking other band members, and as an old friend of Otoha’s wants to rejoin her to make music again, the very critical Tamaki Shiraya (Natsumi Fujiwara, 86, The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom), and shy timid beauty model Tina Isemi (Ayaka Fukuhara, The King of Fighters XIV (Video Game), Street Fighter 6 (Video Game)) who is mesmerized by Lilisa’s sheer love for rock.