The previously announced Bocchi the Rock! compilation film will premiere as two parts, with the first part airing in Spring 2024 and the second in Summer 2024. A new teaser trailer of the film and key visual of Bocchi have been released as well.
The highly acclaimed TV anime series aired from October 9, 2022 to December 25, 2022 and ended with 12 episodes. It won several awards at the 2023 Anime Trending Awards, including “ Anime of the Year.” Crunchyroll streamed the anime series outside of Japan.
The show’s production staff includes Keiichirou Saitou (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. – Regards co-director, Sonny Boy episode director et al.) as director, Erika Yoshida (Artiswitch, Tower of God) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, and Kerorira (Wonder Egg Priority animation weapon design, animation director et al.; CHARMS!! 1st ANIMATION PV director and character designer) as character designer. CloverWorks was in charge of the animation production.
Other staff members include Yuusuke Yamamoto (OSHI NO KO opening director. My Senpai is Annoying ending director) as assistant director, Yuusuke Kawakami (Wonder Egg Priority action director) as live performance director, and Tomoki Kikuya (Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World) as music composer.
Meanwhile, the main cast includes Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori, Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika, Saku Mizuno as Ryo Yamada, and Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita.
The anime adapts the 4-koma manga series by Aki Hamaji, which was first serialized in Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Max magazine under the Manga Time KR Comics label on December 19, 2017. Six tankoubon volumes have been released as of August 2023.
Yen Press releases the manga in English and describes the synopsis as:
Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her fall to pieces. Her solution-become a rock legend so cool that people approach her instead! However, while spending all of middle school in her closet shredding on the guitar may have earned her anonymous internet fame, it did nothing for her social skills. Now a high schooler, Hitori’s feeling ready to shrivel up and die-when she gets a sudden request to fill in for a band! It’s like her wish came true-but does this most anxious of introverts have what it takes to perform in front of a live audience?!
