In celebration of the upcoming BOCCHI THE ROCK! compilation films, Joysound Karaoke is letting fans take center stage. Starting this week, participating venues across Japan will get a Kessoku Band makeover with special menus, goods, and (in some cases) specially decorated rooms.
Joysound is an online karaoke company that also manages multiple venues in Japan, offering private rooms and food and drink menus for singers. Starting May 10, groups can order from a special menu of seven drinks—including Hitori’s “Guitar Hero” mango and strawberry cola and PA-san’s coffee with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. The collab menu will also include a dish of nankotsu karaage and fries:
Each menu item comes with one random coaster, and for every 1,000 yen spent on collab menu items, patrons will also receive a random postcard:
Four Joysound locations—two in Tokyo, one in Aichi, and one in Osaka—will offer the full Kessoku Band experience. Select special rooms will be redecorated with art from the collab. These rooms will be available for parties of two or more for a maximum of two hours.
Additionally, 25 Joysound locations and the Joysound website will offer special collab goods, including acrylic stands, pins, clear cards, and clear files:
The collab event will run from May 10 to July 21.
The BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime, based off the manga of the same name by Aki Hamaji, aired between October and December 2022 with Crunchyroll streaming the series. The series’s two compilation films will premiere in Japan this summer: BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re: opens in Japan on June 7, 2024, followed by BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: on August 9.
Crunchyroll describes the series thus:
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: Comic Natalie
