The Kessoku Band from BOCCHI THE ROCK! will perform its next solo live event, titled the Kessoku Band TOUR “We will B”, in Tokyo on February 15 following the band’s previously ongoing tour. To celebrate the show, a new illustration of the group by artist Yusuke Nakamura was released. Nakamura is best known for his work illustrating the covers of numerous albums by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION. as well as books such as The Tatami Galaxy and more.
Based on the manga by Aki Hamazaki, Keiichiro Saito directed the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime at animation studio CloverWorks. Crunchyroll currently streams the series as well as the two compilation anime films, and describes the story as follows:
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
