Announced at a special live event in Tokyo, the TV anime adaptation for BOCCHI THE ROCK! has revealed that a second season for the series is in-production. The announcement comes with a teaser illustration (below) by key animator Keimon Oda featuring Hitori Gotoh, aka “Bocchi-chan”, caught in an awkward moment by an enthusiastic group of reporters. Yuusuke Yamamoto, who served as assistant director for the first season, takes over as director for season two at animation studio CloverWorks. Erika Yoshida provides the scripts and Keimon Oda and Kerorira provide the character designs. At the time of this writing, no further details about the new season have yet been revealed.
Based on the manga by Aki Hamazaki, Keiichiro Saito directed the first season of 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: BOCCHI THE ROCK! on X (formerly Twitter)
