The BOCCHI THE ROCK! anime series account announced today that the combined cumulative total gross of the two BOCCHI THE ROCK! recap movies in Japan have surpassed 1 billion yen (6.89 million USD).BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:, the first of the two-part recap films based on the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime series, opened in 132 theaters across Japan on June 7, making a first-place debut in the weekend box office ranking. The first part made 640 million yen (4.41 million USD) from 420,000 admissions according to Animate Times.The second part, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: followed on August 9 and ranked sixth in its opening weekend. Re:Re: now has an accumulative box office of 390 million yen (2.69 million USD) from 250,000 ticket sales since its debut. As a result, the combined cumulative box revenue of the two films has reached 1.03 billion yen (7.09 million USD). The anime franchise’s official X account reported that the total ticket sales has surpassed 680,000.
For its third week of release from August 24-30, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re: theatergoers will receive a character cable holder of two types, Ryo Yamada or Ikuyo Kita, randomly as a bonus.
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 previously reported, Crunchyroll plans to bring the two recap films to theaters in North America.Crunchyroll describes the series:
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…
Sources: “BOCCHI THE ROCK!” anime official X (formerly Twitter), Animate Times©Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha, Aniplex
