Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite - Vol. 4 Ch. 26

[MangaDex]

 

[statsky]

Merry Christmas! Only a few more chapters until we get to some post-anime content! I've already started cleaning some of those chapters and it's looking pretty exciting!

 

[SuperOniichan]

Who would have thought that in a manga parodying MariMite, the relationship between the sisters would actually be one of the most wholesome?

Merry Christmas! Only a few more chapters until we get to some post-anime content! I've already started cleaning some of those chapters and it's looking pretty exciting!

Happy holidays to you too. I'll finally be able to see the rest of the story.

 

[Churkey]

Merry Christmas to all!
And I can hear the off-note KABWANG when she hit the guitar into hit

 

[KnightSpark]

Honestly, she could have hit him a little harder.

 

[Levankua]

EEEEEEL KABONG!

 

[meowmeowmoew]

i'm so curious about otoha's background and why she's so hyper focused on only playing for herself. Also, merry christmas! Thanks for the translation too

 

[jackjack9]

Merry Christmas!

Never mess with the sisters.

 

[lemuel]

I had no idea they'd resurrected "El kabong". I remember it from the old Hanna Barberra cartoons from waaaay back when.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Dude needs a little more than a single guitar swing to the ol' chrome dome.

But I'll settle for what's in store for them.

Feel bad for their manager, though. Poor idiot's blinded by the fool's gold-plated façade of popularity and doesn't see them for the two-bit chumps they are.

Now it's time for Rock Lady to take the stage by storm.



But Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and thank you for your continued work on this series.

 

[Sakuyadorf]

"How about Iron Claw!" how about Iron Maiden instead?

 

[Renu]

"How about Iron Claw!" how about Iron Maiden instead?

They're definitely not maidens with all the... rock they have together.

 

[Orangechrisy]

On page 6 Ryuuichi says the watch costed $6,000, and then Icchan exclaims "sixty", might want to fix whatever is wrong there. (Also are these said in USD or yen? Though even if the amount is translated and the exclamation isn't then it'd still be off cause that'd be like 600k-1m yen not 60k)

 

[Luna12]

Glad to see Alice getting more screen time. And getting closer with her sister ^^

 

[trapesiumz]

pp so cringe

 

[NARESH4444]

Who would have thought that in a manga parodying MariMite, the relationship between the sisters would actually be one of the most wholesome?

Why specifically "Maria Watches Over Us" and not the literal dozens of other Catholic school rich girl lesbian comics?

 

[SuperOniichan]

Why specifically "Maria Watches Over Us" and not the literal dozens of other Catholic school rich girl lesbian comics?

Because MariMite pioneered this aesthetic and setting in anime and manga, not to mention the franchise's cult status in modern Japanese pop culture. It's extremely difficult to parody Class S as a setting and do so outside of MariMite. It'd be like parodying '80s action movies without single nods to Rambo or Comando. Not to mention that this setting isn't limited to yuri, and Rock Lady parodies its archetypes as such, rather than just "yuri in a girls' school."

 

[NARESH4444]

Because MariMite pioneered this aesthetic and setting in anime and manga, not to mention the franchise's cult status in modern Japanese pop culture. It's extremely difficult to parody Class S as a setting and do so outside of MariMite. It'd be like parodying '80s action movies without single nods to Rambo or Comando. Not to mention that this setting isn't limited to yuri, and Rock Lady parodies its archetypes as such, rather than just "yuri in a girls' school."

You do realise that's like saying every car is a parody of the Ford Model T,right?

It's become so common that claiming a series is a paraoding the one who pioneered it can't fly unless you mentioned 1:1 things that are parodies specific to the prioneer that little else has.

 

[SuperOniichan]

You do realise that's like saying every car is a parody of the Ford Model T,right?

It's become so common that claiming a series is a paraoding the one who pioneered it can't fly unless you mentioned 1:1 things that are parodies specific to the prioneer that little else has.

You misunderstood me. I'm saying that MariMite is a genre-defining work. Therefore, any criticism or parody of the genre will be related to it in one way or another. That's why I'm broadly calling Rock Lady a parody of MariMite. There's no direct parody in the literal sense, because Rock Lady only touches superficially on Class S relationships and doesn't even attempt to replicate them like other MariMite clones.

And yes, the car analogy is rather flawed, as car models don't operate on the same principles as literary genres. A more accurate way to say my argument is along the lines of "every parody of battle shonen is a parody of Dragon Ball Z in one way or another," which nevertheless makes some sense, as Dragon Ball Z was the inspiration and creator of much of the genre's tropes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Battle Shone parody without jokes about golden-fire transformations or crazy super moves, just as you'd be hard-pressed to find a parody of all-girls elite schools without jokes about perfect oujo-sama with fan clubs or ridiculously passionate double entendres. This doesn't mean the entire parody is built exclusively on these works, but they did create the core tropes of these genres. Even if MariMite's original intentions are much deeper.

 

[NARESH4444]

You misunderstood me. I'm saying that MariMite is a genre-defining work. Therefore, any criticism or parody of the genre will be related to it in one way or another. That's why I'm broadly calling Rock Lady a parody of MariMite. There's no direct parody in the literal sense, because Rock Lady only touches superficially on Class S relationships and doesn't even attempt to replicate them like other MariMite clones.

And yes, the car analogy is rather flawed, as car models don't operate on the same principles as literary genres. A more accurate way to say my argument is along the lines of "every parody of battle shonen is a parody of Dragon Ball Z in one way or another," which nevertheless makes some sense, as Dragon Ball Z was the inspiration and creator of much of the genre's tropes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Battle Shone parody without jokes about golden-fire transformations or crazy super moves, just as you'd be hard-pressed to find a parody of all-girls elite schools without jokes about perfect oujo-sama with fan clubs or ridiculously passionate double entendres. This doesn't mean the entire parody is built exclusively on these works, but they did create the core tropes of these genres. Even if MariMite's original intentions are much deeper.

That's the problem,is does not make sense.

Every battle series being a parody of Dragon Ball Z(specially Z and not the prior iterations)makes no sense,as much as saying every car is a parody of the Ford Model T,for there's so many battle series that they literally aren't,and plenty can't,be parodies no matter how mental gymnastics one takes.

Also,to be a parody,it has be to a deliberate exaggeration of the key core aspects of the series it is supposedly parodying.

The exaggeration in this series is about how AWOL rock bands are,not the Catholic rich lesbian school itself,because they didn't change that aspect that literally dozens of other series have done.