Get ready to rock along with Kessoku Band on the big screen because Crunchyroll has announced plans to bring the BOCCHI THE ROCK! recap films to theaters in North America. Dates and ticket info are still to come, so stay tuned for more on the plans for this two-part theatrical project’s English debut.In the meantime, fans can look forward to a special BOCCHI THE ROCK! panel at Anime Expo 2024. Director Keiichiro Saito and Hitori “Bocchi-chan” Goto voice actor Yoshino Aoyama plan to deliver some behind-the-scenes fun in the process.
The first of the two films, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, opens in Japan on June 7, 2024, followed by BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: on August 9, 2024.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, 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…
