During a special livestream program, the staff for the Bocchi the Rock! anime series confirmed that two new compilation movies will premiere in spring and summer 2024 respectively. Originally, only one movie was expected to release for the compilation project.
Aki Hamaji’s Bocchi the Rock! manga began in the Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in December 2017. The manga is still ongoing, and the Bocchi the Rock! anime series premiered in October 2022. Crunchyroll streamed all 12 episodes as the series aired in Japan. The upcoming compilation movies will cover the anime’s entire run up to this point.
Bocchi the Rock! Compilation Movies Coming Next Year
The first Bocchi the Rock! compilation movie will premiere in spring 2024. The second of the two compilation movies will premiere later into the summer. A new key visual was revealed during the Bocchi the Rock! -Live- program.
Keiichirō Saitō directed the Bocchi the Rock! anime at studio CloverWorks. Erika Yoshida supervised and wrote the series scripts for all 12 episodes. Moreover, Kerorira designed the characters.
The voice cast of Bocchi the Rock! includes:
- Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori “Bocchi-chan” (“Loner”) Gotō
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi
- Saku Mizuno as Ryо̄ Yamada
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita
Lastly, here’s an overview of the series, via Crunchyroll:
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…
