Did someone ask for an anime that combines AKB0048 with Hakuoki? No? Well, Bakumatsu Rock is here anyway, and it doesn't care about your opinion!
As far as I can tell so far, the show’s plotline is about a redheaded guy named Ryouma Sakamoto with big dreams for everyone to listen to his music someday. However, the government only sanctions performances of what’s called “Heaven’s Song,” which is apparently J-Pop. Ryouma decides that he doesn’t care and tries to get people to listen to his music anyway, which he finds out from two other color-coordinated bishounen character is called “rock.” Don’t worry about timelines here, because the show clearly operates in a universe where the space-time continuum doesn’t exist. Anyway, there’s some stuff towards the end about a Peace Soul, but the general thrust of the show seems to be about sticking it to the man with rock! Yeah!
If that synopsis didn’t make it clear, this show is completely and utterly ridiculous. It’s set in the Tokugawa Period, yet there’s modern idol culture (where did those microphones come from?), electric guitars, and even pizza! The Shinsengumi patrol the streets to keep the peace, yet they also function as an idol group! the main character spends most of the episode running around yelling “listen to my song!” It even goes in an UtaPri direction where the climatic moment of the show has the character’s shirts literally exploding off of them from the power of music! You can’t make this stuff up!
This is the exact definition of a popcorn show. Sheer turn-off-your-brain dumb entertainment. And I’m completely on board for that. This is a show with very little internal logic and even less sense, but it embraces that and runs with it. And truth be told, that’s its biggest selling point right now. The animation isn’t anything to write home about (Studio Deen is obviously having fun with this, but they’re still Deen), and the music is forgettable J-Rock (which is shame for a show about music). However, the entertainment factor alone is enough to make up for those things. I loved every minute of this, and couldn’t wait to see how it would top itself in the next scene. This is a show worth taking a look at just to see for yourself how ridiculous it is.
Images from Crunchyroll.com.
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