YMMV / Rolling Girls

• Awesome Music:
  • The cover of Hito ni Yasashiku used as the OP, which is a pretty awesome song in itself.
  • Stones, the ending theme used for episode 8, complete with an epic electric guitar and shamisen duo. The awesome moment that happens while it's playing certainly helps. The English version is just as great, thanks to Brina Palencia belting out the lyrics like nobody's business.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Masami/Maccha Green and Shigyou are just as popular as the four main girls. It helps that their fights in the first two episodes are some of the best.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Shigyou is of course this.
  • Speaking of the four main girls, Chiaya has the biggest fandom of the group.
  • Momiyama gained a following after demonstrating the traits of a crazy-cool Reasonable Authority Figure and a surprising Hidden Depths that is sadly never explored.
• Growing the Beard: While the episodes preceeding them weren't exactly weak, a large portion of the fandom believe that the series really picked up at either episode 6 with the climax of the Aichi/Mie arc bringing back the same high energy sequences from the first two episodes, or episode 8, with the STONES performance doing much of the same thing, but this time with more emphasis on the musical part of the series.
• Les Yay: Masami and Nozomi. Masami is very protective of Nozomi, and the reasons she keeps her Locked Out of the Loop is the same reason most Superheroes do the same for their love interests. Nozomi, for her part, wants to do her best to help Masami, and is not very pleased when she finds out Masami's reasons for not telling her that she's Maccha Green. Hell, that entire scene played out like a lover's quarrel. There's also a moment in episode 7 where Nozomi imagines Misa as Masami and blushes.
  • Speaking of Misa, her and Mamechiyo have some Les Yay as well. The entire Kyoto mini arc revolves around mending their relationship.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The only time the English dub gets brought up now is to point out that Scott Freeman had appeared in it after he had been arrested for possession of child pornography.
• What Happened to the Mouse?/Aborted Arc: By the finale of the series, several questions raised in the series remain unanswered, as do several recurring elements that do not get much elaboration or explanation. Among them: Shigyou's Face–Heel Turn and partial amnesia regarding her past as well as her involvement in the conclusion of the Great Tokyo War, the exact nature and purpose of Takuumi Co. and Evil Takumi, and most important of all the true nature of the Cores and why they seemingly appear at random to bestow superpowers on people. All of these got enough focus to raise questions, but by the finale only Takumi Co. and the Cores get much focus, and even then, their natures and purpose and origins remain a complete mystery, one reason why the ending of the show is considered lackluster, as noted above.