Joseph Luster
July 11, 2023 
Back in April a BOCCHI THE ROCK! spinoff manga was teased in a fairly vague way, leaving fans guessing as to which character it would follow. Now the spinoff of Aki Hamaji’s manga has officially launched on Houbunsha’s Comic Fuz website, and it has Kumicho writing about constantly boozing SICK HACK bassist Kikuri Hiroi in BOCCHI THE ROCK! Gaiden: Hiroi Kikuri no Fukazake Nikki (BOCCHI THE ROCK! Spinoff: Kikuri Hiroi’s Heavy Drinking Diary).
New chapters will be published on Sundays on a biweekly basis.
The original BOCCHI THE ROCK! manga launched back in 2017, and got an anime adaptation last year. Here’s how Crunchyroll describes that adaptation:
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…
