Joseph Luster
July 7, 2023 
The cast of the BOCCHI THE ROCK! stage play are ready to jam out as Kessoku Band, as evidenced in a new visual that shows the cast in costume with their instruments and everything. The play adapting Aki Hamaji’s four-panel manga will have performances at Tokyo’s Theater Milano-Za from August 11-20, and you can get a feel for how the cast will look in action below.
That cast includes Mamo Mamono as Hitori Goto (Bocchi), Miki Ohtake as Nijika Ijichi, Karin Osanai as Ryo Yamada and Mirai Ohmori as Ikuyo Kita. The play is being written and directed by Akira Yamazaki.
In addition to the play, the BOCCHI THE ROCK! series has a compilation anime film on the way to Japan in spring 2024.
Crunchyroll streamed the BOCCHI THE ROCK! anime as it aired and describes it like so:
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…
