The Rolling Girls | |
![]() Promotional poster of the series featuring Chiaya, Yukina, Nozomi, and Ai (left to right). | |
ローリング☆ガールズ (Rōringu Gāruzu) | |
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Genre | Action, Adventure, Science fiction |
Manga | |
Written by | Yōsuke Miyagi |
Illustrated by | Bonkara |
Published by | Mag Garden |
Magazine |
Monthly Comic Garden, ONLINE MAGAZINE comic BLADE [1] |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | October 4, 2014 – October 30, 2014 |
Manga | |
Ro~lling Gi~rls Inspiration x Traveler | |
Written by | Yōsuke Miyagi |
Illustrated by | Sheepbox |
Published by | Mag Garden |
Magazine | ONLINE MAGAZINE comic BLADE [2] |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | October 27, 2014 – February 25, 2015 |
Volumes | 1 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Kotomi Deai |
Written by | Yasuyuki Muto |
Music by | Masaru Yokoyama |
Studio | Wit Studio |
Licensed by |
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Original network | MBS, Tokyo MX, TVA, BS11, TVQ, MBC |
English network | |
Original run | January 10, 2015 – March 28, 2015 |
Episodes | 12 |
The Rolling Girls (ローリング☆ガールズ, Rōringu Gāruzu) is a 2015 Japanese original anime television series produced by Wit Studio. The logo of this title contains the text, "Rolling, Falling, Scrambling Girls. For others. For themselves. Even if they're destined to be a 'mob'".
Ten years after the end of the "Great Tokyo War" that rocked Japan, most of the country's political and economic elites mysteriously vanished. As a result, the country split up into the original 10 prefectures that soon became independent city-states that competed with each other. Many vigilantes who fought in the aforementioned war became hired as the "Best" (mosa), representing their prefectures in territorial disputes. Their supporters, the "Rest" (mob), work to support them while maintaining the peace within their respective prefectures.
After a prolonged battle with Kuniko leads her friend, Masami to become seriously injured, a rookie Rest named Nozomi decides to travel around Japan on her motorcycle with her new friends, fulfilling requests for Maccha Green while they seek to grow stronger and search for special heart-shaped jewels, the moonlight stones. It is said that the moonlight stone can make a person possesses unlimited power when it is worn, especially by Bests of different regions when combat or fight happens in order to protect themselves, but may lead to serious consequences such as injury of people and damage of properties because of the force emitted by the battle or the people who used it. In reality, it is used as a fuel by aliens in outer space to operate their spaceship.
The manga series is the backstory of the anime series, [1] written by Yōsuke Miyagi and with art by Bonkara began serialization in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Garden from October 4, 2014. It also began online serialization in Mag Garden's seinen manga magazine ONLINE MAGAZINE comic BLADE from October 30, 2014. [1] [5]
A 4-panel manga adaptation titled Ro~lling Gi~rls Inspiration x Traveler, with art by Sheepbox, also began serialization in Mag Garden's ONLINE MAGAZINE comic BLADE from October 27, 2014. [2] [6]
An anime television series produced by Wit Studio was announced by Pony Canyon that aired in 2015. [7] The series premiered in Japan on MBS and other stations. [8]
The opening and closing songs are both covers of tracks from seminal Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts, " Hito ni Yasashiku" and "Tsuki no Bakugekiki" respectively. [9] Several of the episodes share titles with tracks by The Blue Hearts including "Kitai Hazure no Hito", "Hoshi o Kudasai" and "Yoru no Tōzokudan".
No. | Title [10] | Original air date | |
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1 | "King of Rookies" "Kingu Obu Rūkī" (キング・オブ・ルーキー) | January 10, 2015 | |
The Bests of Higashi Murayama and Tokorozawa face off in a public park. A "trainee" Rest named Nozomi arrives late with some
dango from her family's restaurant, until the Rest on both sides are all blown away by the force of Maccha Green's attack. The next day, an absent-minded girl crashes her bike into the headquarters of the Hiroshi Town Propellers, and reveals that she had traveled for three days straight despite living in the same town. Masami accidentally meets Kuniko while eating at a nearby ramen shop, and ends up challenging her to an unofficial ramen-eating contest. The Propellers then find a bus waiting to take them to a local amusement park, only to trapped on the roller coaster as hostages for Higashi Murayama. | |||
2 | "Center of the World" "Sekai no Man'naka" (世界のまん中) | January 17, 2015 | |
Masami races to the scene as the Hiroshi Town Propellers face certain doom, trapped on a roller coaster after Takumi blew up part of the track. Masami refuses to fight Kuniko without Maccha Green, but discovers that everyone except Nozomi has seen through her ruse. As the roller coaster hurtles down the tracks, Masami runs off to change into her Maccha Green outfit while a Rest from Higashi Murayama tries (and fails) to stop the coaster. At the last moment, the Propellers fly away to safety while Maccha Green arrives just in time to save Nozomi and Yukina. Kuniko has a brief flashback to her past but then decides to fight Masami anyway. The force of their battle becomes so dangerous that they end up in the same hospital for two months, while President Misono decides to keep both of their heart-shaped jewels. The next day, Nozomi and Yukina decide to travel across the country and grow stronger so they won't have to rely on Masami all the time. Before they leave, they are quickly joined by former Higashi Murayama Rest, Ai, and a girl in a gas mask named Chihaya. | |||
3 | "I Wanna Be A Hero" "Eiyū ni Akogarete" (英雄にあこがれて) | January 24, 2015 | |
The land of Always Comima, formed under the shadow of the Twin Towers in Tokyo, is protected by a cosplay security squad and led by a Best named Thunderoad. As Thunderoad accidentally loses her heart-shaped power stone in the wig of a life-sized "Rick" model, she receives another threatening message from a terrorist group called Dynamite Bomber. Later, Nozomi and her group travel into Always Comima, but after revealing their own power stone to a couple of Knights, are quickly arrested by Thunderoad. Thunderoad believes the missing stone was stolen by Dynamite Bomber and demands they return it or they will face capital punishment. Nozomi and her group try searching the area but fail to find the stone. Meanwhile, Thunderoad laments over not having the cash to buy the life-sized Rick model, but after her pet crow discovers the missing stone, she decides to sell both her stone and the one Chiaya carried to Kuranoske for the cash to buy it. | |||
4 | "Dream" "Yume" (夢) | January 31, 2015 | |
Thunderoad's assistant Noriko decides to help Nozomi's group hide out for the night, summarizing the history of Always Comima. Elsewhere, Thunderoad looks at her new purchase of the life-sized Rick model, but soon regrets her action and takes one of the stones back from Kuranoske. However, she immediately trips and drops the stone off the bridge, whereupon a
roomba sucks it up. Thunderoad decides to head to Noriko's house and begs her and Nozomi's group to help find the stone, but soon another crisis emerges when some Rest from Higashi Murayama realized their prank roomba was packed with live explosives by Takumi. As security recalls all the roombas in the town, Nozomi manages to find the one with the stone, and the bomb-filled roomba latches on to the life-sized Rick model, forcing Thunderoad to tearfully take them both out before it explodes. Afterwards, Noriko admits that Dynamite Bomber was a group she invented so that Aki would stay with the Knights of the Twin Towers, and Thunderoad decides to hand off the Best duties to her. Though she gives Chihaya the stone, Chihaya decides to give it right back to Noriko, saying she needs it more. | |||
5 | "Disappointing Person" "Kitai Hazure no Hito" (期待はずれの人) | February 7, 2015 | |
A girl named Himeko arrives home just as her father's project and similar-looking statues around Mie and Aichi explode at the same time. After nearly being crushed by a flying piece of debris, Nozomi and her group arrive in a land linked in an uneasy peace between the Mie Motors and the Aichi Tenmusus. Soon after arriving, the group is caught and dragged into a nearby restaurant where they meet with Himeko, seeking her reason for asking Maccha Green's help. However, the vice-chief of Mie Motors crashes through a window on his motorcycle and picks a fight with Dandy, the owner of the restaurant, which he refuses to take. After the biker leaves, Dandy suggests that Nozomi look for the leader of Mie. Later that night, Himeko's neighbors reminisce about the conflict between Mie and Aichi, while Himeko considers helping her ailing father until she discovers her father was exaggerating his illness to guilt her into running the family business. Elsewhere, the vice-chief and his allies challenge Tomoki for his Best position, but he refuses, speeding off past them and the Aichi servers who seek revenge for their damaged restaurant. Tomoki later runs into Himeko outside as the two of them are dragged into a nearby restaurant. | |||
6 | "Lightning Speed" "Denkō Sekka" (電光石火) | February 14, 2015 | |
7 | "Please Give Me a Star" "Hoshi o Kudasai" (星をください) | February 21, 2015 | |
8 | "After the Rain" "Ame Agari" (雨上がり) | February 28, 2015 | |
9 | "Night Thieves" "Yoru no Tōzokudan" (夜の盗賊団) | March 7, 2015 | |
10 | "NO NO NO" | March 14, 2015 | |
11 | "Rose of Passion" "Jōnetsu no Bara" (情熱の薔薇) | March 21, 2015 | |
12 | "The Future is in Our Hands" "Mirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka" (未来は僕等の手の中) | March 28, 2015 |
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