BOCCHI THE ROCK! has done more than win over fans—it’s inspired many amateur musicians to follow in the footsteps of its stars! Currently, a collaboration between Yamaha Music Japan and the anime’s upcoming recap movies is encouraging that drive with lesson books, instructional videos and more. And now, a beloved piece of equipment is getting a Bocchi makeover, too.As part of the ongoing collab, Yamaha Music Japan is releasing the UR22C “Bocchi Edition”: a specially decorated version of the Steinberg UR22C USB 3 audio interface. This piece of equipment, considered a staple for many musicians, allows for studio-quality composing and recording from computers, iPads and other devices.
Pre-orders for the interface open July 1 on the Yamaha Music Japan website.The collab will continue through the summer in honor of the recap films, with some Yamaha Music stores in Japan offering three-month guitar courses using music from the series. The first of the two films, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, opened in Japan on June 7, 2024, with BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: following on August 9, 2024. Crunchyroll will screen both films in North American cinemas, with dates to be announced later.The BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime, based off Aki Hamaji’s manga of the same name, aired between October and December 2022 with Crunchyroll streaming the series, describing the girl band anime as such:
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: Yamaha Japan website
