THE FIRST TAKE is a YouTube channel that tasks musicians and singers with performing songs in a single take. It launched in November 2019, releasing over 440 performance videos to date.As reported, voice actor Ikumi Hasegawa performed “Guitar to Kodoku to Aoi Hoshi” (Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet), an insert song for the TV anime BOCCHI THE ROCK! in the 442nd episode posted on YouTube on June 7. Hasegawa voices Ikuyo Kita, one of the main characters, who is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Kessoku Band in the show.Hasegawa has retuned in the channel’s latest 445th episode to perform “Tsuki nami ni Kagayake” (Shine as Usual), the opening theme for the first of the two-part recap film of the TV series, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:. It is unusual for the channel to have the same singer perform a second time in such a short period of time.
Kessoku Band “Tsuki nami ni Kagayake” lyric video
The TV anime adaptation of Aki Hamaji’s four-panel manga series BOCCHI THE ROCK! aired for 12 episodes from October to December 2022. The first of the TV anime’s two-part recap films, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, opened in Japan on June 7, 2024, with BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: to follow on August 9, 2024.As reported, Crunchyroll plans to bring the two recap films to theaters in North America.
Crunchyroll describes the series as:
Hitori Gotoh, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah…” During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself. After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend! She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little…
Source: THE FIRST TAKE official YouTube channel©Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha, Aniplex
