BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re: Re:, the second of the two-part recap films based on the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime series, has reached accumulative of 500 million yen (3.45 million USD) earned from 330,000 ticket sales in the Japanese box office, according to Mantan Web. As previously reported in July, the first recap film BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re: — released June 7 in Japan — surpassed the 500 million yen mark in four weeks after its release. The second part, which released on August 9, also reached that mark in about the same four weeks. The first part has earned 640 million yen (4.47 million USD) on 420,000 tickets from its theatrical run, bringing the cumulative total gross for the two films to over 1.14 billion yen (7.96 million USD).Meanwhile, Kessoku Band’s new EP “We will” is available digitally starting today, ahead of the CD release on November 6.The concept of the four-song album is “Each member of Kessoku Band from the near future brought their own demos they created.” The songs in the album were provided by Chiaki Sato (Kinoko Teikoku voicalist), rock band 04 Limited Sazabys, Nobuo Ohki (ACIDMAN vocalist) and Shinya Ishihara (Saucy Dog vocalist).
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Crunchyroll plans to bring the two recap films to theaters in North America in the future. The TV anime is also currently streaming on Crunchyroll, who 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: Mantan Web, “BOCCHI THE ROCK!” recap film official website©Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha, Aniplex
