Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite

Rock Is a Lady's Modesty is simple, it's about a girl named Lilisa who's mom remarries a rich guy and now their part of a rich family and they have to do rich people things. Namely being prim and proper all the time, which for Lilisa is challenging since she's into rock music and played guitar. So when she goes to her new fancy all girls school for rich kids, she's forced to abandon her hobby so she isn't seen as a stain on her family's name. Because everyone knows real estate tycoons are the most respected individuals and they don't need a rowdy teenager ... giving them a bad name.

Her passion for guitar rekindles slightly after finding out that the most popular girl in school and the daughter of a politician named Otoha, likes to play drums in the old school building. They don't get off on the best foot, and they will probably always fight with each other after their sessions are done. But hey, if it works it works. I love the Jekyll-Hyde dynamic the girls both have going on, more so Otoha since she actually might be bipolar. It's really fun to watch them devolve into screaming matches calling each others playing shit.

I'm writing this before any of the other members join the group so I may come back and update this review then, but I imagine they'll be more of the same, maybe just more toned down.

Another thing I forgot to mention is this show will either end up being a yuri or just has a lot of yuri bait in it, which I personally don't mind, rock and roll lesbians are awesome. But I'm aware there's a decent chunk of the anime community who aren't too fond of that kind of stuff, so if you're one of those people, this show probably won't be for you.

Now let's talk about the elephant in the room...the CGI is not that bad. I won't call it great, but come on, some people act as if it's an immersion breaker that completely ruins the anime. Hate to break it to you, but a majority of band anime use CGI, I think the only reason this one looks off is because of the scenery. It blended in much better when the visuals were all colorful and psychedelic instead of the band room. The animation as a whole looks great, everything's so lively and colorful.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this winds up being the best band/music anime of 2025. Maybe it's too soon to call since we still have Summer and Fall left, but I don't care, I liked this anime way more than I thought I would and I don't even watch this type of genre that much.

After 3 episode...

Story is a 7/10. The top level story line is uncomplicated - girls in a prestigious, girls-only finishing high school form a rock band. There is more depth to it than just that, but its by no means a deep story. Nevertheless the story is reasonably entertaining so far.

Artwork is 11/10. The color palette is wide ranging with lots of strong colors. The color depth intense but not overdone. Character drawings have detail and look good. Eye candy to the max.

Music is 10/10. The drum playing is addictingly good. Great drum sound. Great ... drum pieces. The guitar is fine but doesn't stand out as much as the drum playing.

Overall, I've looked forward to every episode.

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 members, 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.