English Dub Review: Rumble Garanndoll No Matter What, I’ll Be an Idol (The Last in Japan)!

Overview

Arahabaki brings in Yuki Aoba, the only survivor of an idol group named Rabbits Foot. She quickly accepts the chance to become a battery girl and gets Hosomichi to act as her manager. Kudo realizes there may be more to being a manager than he thought…

Our Take

As the result of the previous episode’s battle, Rin is out of commission for a fair bit given her situation, but that’s to be expected to recharge her passion through anime. So, now there’s Yuki to take over for the time being. Yuki is now the 2nd battery girl, and the last remaining member of an idol group known as “Rabbit’s Foot” due to the rest of her band members consequently being arrested because of the True Army’s ridiculous laws against any sort of Japanese pop culture.

Of course, like most pop stars, she wears a proverbial mask which in some ways makes her a similar character to Kudo and it contrasts him in a lot of ways as anytime Kudo takes off his glasses he’s a different person, and the same can be said about Yuki when she’s not on the job. Yuki clearly knows showbusiness and gets to boss Kudo as her newly-appointed manager around under the pressure once again by his so-called Debt collector Munakata who I still think is a greasy bastard.

This show feels criminally slept on. It is fighting for a world where Otaku can exist but it does discuss multiple viewpoints like Yuki having to deal with social media. In a way, it also worked as world-building since we learn through Yuki’s perspective that Idol culture is just as outlawed as Otaku culture which further adds more to Yuki’s motivation against the “True Army”. However, the only disappointing thing is that the plot structure for this Yuki storyline is that it feels similar to what they did with Rin. Maybe they’ll change it up in the next episode…