The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has confirmed that “BOCCHI THE ROCK! Song Album Kessoku Band,” the first album by the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime’s in-show band Kessoku Band, is certified “platinum” by shipping more than 250,000 copies since its release, along with NMB48’s 29th single “Kore ga Ai nanoka?” and King & Prince’s 15th single “halfmoon/moooove!!”
The 14-song album released in Japan on December 28, 2022, then peaked at #1 on Oricon, Billboard JAPAN and iTunes’ weekly album charts in Japan. As reported, the album received the “gold” certification in February 2023 by shipping more than 100,000 copies. It means the album had shipped another 150,000 copies in 15 months, even after the broadcast of the TV anime ended.
Album jacket
The TV anime adaptation of Aki Hamaji’s four-panel manga series BOCCHI THE ROCK! aired for 12 episodes from October to December 2022. The first of the TV anime’s two-part recap films, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, opened in Japan on June 7, 2024, making its No.1 debut in the weekend box office. The second part BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: is set to follow on August 9, 2024. As reported, Crunchyroll plans to bring the two recap films to theaters in North America.Crunchyroll describes the series as:
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: The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) official website©Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha, Aniplex
