Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite

Episode 5 just released a few mins ago, holllly peak man, straight up just watch it. No joke. Manga is at the same pace as the anime, so its unfortunate if you want to read ahead. Normally i dislike that 3d animation, but this season with this anime and To be Hero X has straight up been the best anime this year so far despite using that 3d animation. Its cuz they use it so well, switching between the animations.

No joke, def best anime this season. BETTER than TBATE straightup not ragebait. This season has been straight up drag with all that ech shii like ... that isekai dark elf or that weird ass robot. But this is just magnificient. Watch.

It's quite likely that this will become a "Recommended" when it finishes, but so far I have to go with "Mixed Feelings", but my 7/10 is a recognition of it's potential.
This anime has a pretty nice first episode, some nice energy to it, the music jam scenes really feel like something that would come from an experimental short trying to convey a single emotion. Not the top spot for best CGI of the season since that spot was taken by "Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru", but it's likely right after it.

My complaints are from the somewhat unwise use of it's time: At list 2/3's ... of it's second episode could've been cut, it mostly being repetition or reiteration of points already conveyed to us in the first episode (There are also some repetitions in episode three, but to a much lesser degree). For instance, the fact that Lilisa's adoptive sister despises her is already conveyed in a short pouting scene in episode one... but if you didn't get that, there's another scene in episode two conveying the same thing... and if you STILL didn't get that, she explicitly tells the audience this at the end of episode 3.
An anime doesn't HAVE TO advance it's plot every episode, but it has to show us something NEW, something INTERESTING every episode. It's first three episode being reformulated into two episodes would've made the anime feel more tidy, more concise.

This review might seem overly harsh, but the reason for that is that the anime has all the tools to be great, so failures call even more attention than they naturally would. While it's true that the "three-episode rule" is more of a "heuristic" than a proper rule, the reality is that the anime's story only feels it will start from episode 4 onward, it's first three, while setting our long-term objective of playing in a rock festival and looking for more band , don't really tell us what the structure of the anime will be, something you usually do have by episode three.
As from the rest... well, a review (Words, essentially) is a bad way to convey art (Something created because words weren't enough): The musical part of it is good, it has fine character designs, and it has nice scenes, but those are things that are supposed to be EXPERIENCED rather than explained (So go watch it).

TL;DR: It's a box full of potential. After three episodes it was shown that was a lot more potential than initially imagine, but so far it's still only potential, we'll have to see.

I’ll keep this brief, since I only made it through the first three episodes.

Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite isn’t a bad show per se, but it gave off some strange, almost unsettling vibes. It feels like someone took Blue Lock’s intense energy and competitiveness, mixed it with the aesthetics of a girls’ band anime, and added a dash of yuri and light masochistic undertones—resulting in something that just feels oddly off-putting to watch.

The premise itself is actually quite interesting: an elite girls’ school where music, status, and personal expression collide. There’s definitely potential there. But while the setup caught my attention, it wasn’t strong ... enough to make me truly invested in seeing where the story would go.

The animation is fairly average, serviceable but not especially striking. Character designs are distinct enough, but the characters themselves felt a bit flat to me. I didn’t feel much emotional connection to them.

There are definitely some unique ideas and stylistic choices here, and I can see how it might appeal to people who are into more offbeat or artsy anime. But for me, it just didn’t really click. I didn’t feel much for the characters, and the whole tone was kind of all over the place. If you’re into musical anime, there are definitely other shows out there that feel more focused and emotionally engaging.