The first part of the two-part BOCCHI THE ROCK! compilation films opens in Japan on June 7, and just ahead of that we’ve learned what the ending song will be. The first film, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, will close out to the tune of the new song from Kessoku Band, “Ima, Boku, Underground Kara.” The new ending song will be released for download on June 9 along with the opening theme. Yuho Kitazawa—vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the peggies, who previously wrote the anime’s third ending song, “Nani ga Warui”—wrote and composed the new track. Ikuyo Kita, lead singer of Kessoku Band as voiced by Ikumi Hasegawa, sings. A new key visual was also revealed for the second part, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re:, which opens in Japan on August 9, 2024. Character designer and chief animation director Kerorira illustrated the visual.
BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: Key Visual
Crunchyroll plans to bring both movies to theaters in North America, with more details to come. 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…
Source: Comic Natalie
