Bocchi the Rock!

Bocchi the Rock!:

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SPOILER ALERT:The following are major spoilers

Bocchi the Rock! is a unique, hilarious, and very dramatic exploration of a young girl with severe social anxiety! Bocchi calls herself a sub-water flea in this thing we call life, and she basically wants to hide from everything and everybody, except she doesn’t actually want to hide! Bocchi wants to break out and she choses rock music to do so. Her father used to be in a band, and has a Gibson guitar which he gives to the sub-water flea Bocchi. Bocchi then practices 6 hours a day for 3 years, and builds a following on the internet as “guitarhero”. This allows her to hide, but it does not satisfy her because she wants to break out of her prison. So she begins to carry her guitar to school, hoping that someone will notice, and approach her. But this hope is dashed, as she is ignored. And it’s not that the kids are mean and unkind, but they find it difficult to interact with Bocchi. Not knowing what to do, they leave her alone.

So she is sulking in the playground, when Nijika Ijichi from another school, sees her and desperately asks her to play with her band, Kessoku Band because they have suddenly lost their guitar player. Nijika basically drags Bocchi out of her shell, and into the Starry nightclub where Kessoku is playing. From this point on, it is all character development for Bocchi, and then the band members discover how “off” Bocchi can be. While the animation and production values are off the charts (just see the Phenom Sage’s review above, there are increasing levels of feels as the band memembers begin to adapt to the weird behavior, And yet they never reject her. This acceptance is the change agent that Bocchi had been looking for all these years.

For as wild as the animation is, and it is indeed wild, this story has an immense amount of heart.

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This is the scene where the Kessoku Band’s first performance is somewhat off, and as a result, Bocchi decides to take over and drive the band into a memorable second song performance.

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The power of friendship!!! Highly recommended!