Following the first part in June, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re:, the second of the two-part recap films based on the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime series, opened in Japan on August 9, 2024. Soon after its release, the film’s official website announced that its opening theme song is “Doppelganger” and that its ending theme song is “Re:Re:.””Doppelganger” was the third song performed at the first live concert of Kessoku Band, following “Guitar to Kodoku to Aoi Hoshi” and “Ano Band,” but their performance scene of the song was not depicted in the anime. The film’s official website is now streaming a lyric video for the song.
Kessoku Band “Doppelganger” Lyric Video
The ending theme song “Re:Re:” is a cover of Japanese rock band ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION’s 22nd single song of the same title released in March 2016. Hitori Goto (CV: Yoshino Aoyama) serves as the lead vocalist.Both of “Doppelganger” and “Re:Re:” are now available on digital services for streaming and download. Additionally, Kessoku Band’s new mini-album including all of the four theme songs for the recap films, titled “Re: Kessoku Band,” is set to release in Japan on August 14.
“Re: Kessoku Band” CD 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. 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: “BOCCHI THE ROCK!” anime official website 1, 2, 3©Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha, Aniplex
