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Yes, Rock Is a Lady's Modesty has some poor-looking 3D animation elements, BUT!

Rock band anime isn't as popular as it should be, but we get a series at least once a year. And in 2025, Rock Is a Lady's Modesty takes us to a school for upper-class girls, where the students are taught how to behave "in society," stripping them of their agency in the process. In these seemingly sterile conditions, a metal-rock band is formed. While it lacks a vocalist, it captivates the audience with its members' exceptional playing and charisma.

Although the band consists of four members, the 13-episode series devotes most of its ... attention to Lilisa and Otoha, the guitarist and drummer, who reveal their true natures while playing. And OMG, they play so well!

Using Band Maid and their songs as the soundtrack for the series was a brilliant decision, and each performance is simply brilliant to listen to. Especially since, unlike most musical anime, Rock Is a Lady's Modesty features full versions of the songs. It's a true feast for the ears, but for most of you, it won't be a feast for the eyes either. The scenes of playing instruments were done in 3D, making the character models look like puppets, but even though I saw that, it didn't bother me.

The story about overcoming weaknesses, self-improvement, and self-discovery made up for it – standard fare, but well-executed. The icing on the cake were the humorous BDSM, yuri moments, and the overall gayness that spilled out of the screen – I genuinely laughed at many of the gags.

If you've seen Bocchi The Rock, Girls Band Cry, or BanG Dream in recent years, you have no choice but to watch Rock Is a Lady's Modesty.

It's that time when the non-chronological narrative of the Monogatari series, and the ambiguities and plot holes that come with it, reach a critical level.

Even though I watch the series in order, it's incredibly hard to keep track of what's going on or what the status of the characters is. And normally I wouldn't have a problem with that (I'm a huge NGE fan!), but here there's so much of it that I had to watch the last episodes of Koyomimonogatari and Owarimonogatari twice. I've watched it because I want to finish the whole series and see, where it will go, but I really don't ... know what to think of it.

The story of Sodachi and her relationship with Araragi was one of the best parts of the entire Monogatari series.

It's a shame that the whole thing wasn't kept in this tone - no fanservice, but well-handled, non-obvious puzzles. The best (or worst) thing is that I just realized how much this series has a problem with exposition - the characters just monologue for 5-10 minutes, explaining everything to the viewer, but the non-chronological narrative and the rather convoluted way of telling the story, straight from NGE or Serial Experiment Lain, make it take a lot of attention to figure out what's going on.

Non-chronological narration, oppressive editing that screams "watch me!" and subsequent puzzles of this puzzle – this is how you can sum up Monogatari Series: Second Season.

Each of the five arcs turned out to be a rollercoaster of emotions, although I will remember the one dedicated to Mayoi the most (and I'm not saying that, because the opening and music for this part were absolutely wonderfully charming!). Tsubasa's storyline was very interesting to me at first – more sisterhood! – but its ending was very disappointing. Here comes Araragi and as usual, he solves everything on his own, oh how wonderful he is. I understand that ... this is a pattern beloved by creators of Japanese pop culture, but in such a postmodern series I expected more reversals of popular tropes.

Unfortunately, once again there was a lot of unnecessary ecchi and fanservice, but I guess that's something you have to get used to when watching Monogatari. The creators have their fetishes and like to brag about them with the grace of Hideo Kojima.

Overall, this was probably the best part of Monogatari – it touched on the most interesting topics and had the most hipster episodes.