Shimokitazawa and BOCCHI THE ROCK! are synonymous with each other and to celebrate the close connection the series has with the subculture neighborhood, the girls of Kessoku Band have teamed with Odakyu Electric Railway. The collaboration will see life-sized standees of the four girls at Shimo-kitazawa Station in station staff uniforms along with Hitori becoming the station master.
To commemorate the start of the collaboration between BOCCHI THE ROCK! and Odakyu Electric Railway, an event was held at Shimo-kitazawa Station. The voice actors of Kessoku Band also dressed up as station staff members with Yoshino Aoyama (Hitori) as the station master, Sayumi Suzushiro (Nijika) as an attendant, Saku Mizuno (Yamada) as a mechanic and Ikumi Hasegawa (Ikuyo) as a conductor.
From June 7, the same day as the release of the first compilation film, photo spots with the band will be available across nine Odakyu Electric Railway stations with announcements from the voice actors in character. Goods based on the visual and collaboration as a whole will be available from Shimokita Railway Street Vacant Lot Cafe from June 22. The collaboration hits the final station on August 31.
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re: and BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: compile the TV anime season into two films with Re: opening on June 7 and Re:Re: opening on August 9.The BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime, based on 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…
Source: Mantan Web
