Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) announced the winners of the 39th Golden Disc Award today. The award was established in 1987 and is based on the sales of CDs, video products, and paid music distribution during the year.
The winner of The Animation Album of the Year category was “Re: Kessoku Band,” the first mini-album by Kessoku Band from the BOCCHI THE ROCK! anime franchise. The six-song album released in Japan on August 14, 2024, ranking #1 in Oricon’s weekly digital album charts.
The album includes the four theme songs for the two recap films of the TV anime series, BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re: released in June 2024 and BOCCHI THE ROCK! Re:Re in August 2024. The two films together earned 1.23 billion yen (8.3 million USD) on 817, 000 admissions at the Japanese box office.
“Re: Kessoku Band” jacket
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“Tsukinami ni Kagayake” (1st Film Opening Theme) Lyric Video
“Doppelganger” (2nd Film Opening Theme) Lyric Video
The TV anime adaptation of Aki Hamaji’s four-panel manga series BOCCHI THE ROCK! aired for 12 episodes from October to December 2022.
Crunchyroll describes the series as such:
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: Japan Gold Disc Award official website
©Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha, Aniplex
