The “Kessoku Band Tour ‘We will B'” tour announced with a brand-new teaser trailer that the TV anime, Bocchi the Rock! The second Season has been green-lit and is currently in production. Along with confirming new staff joining this upcoming season.
Replacing Keiichiro Saito as the director of the new season at Cloverworks is Yūsuke Yamamoto, who was the series’s episode director. Erika Yoshida returns to write the scripts, and Keimon Oda (Bocchi the Rock! key animator) joins Kerorira in designing the characters. Oda and the Bocchi the Rock manga creator, Aki Hamazi both drew illustrations to celebrate the big news. Anime Corner has exclusive comments from the staff on the new change-up.
The TV anime is adapted from the four-panel seinen manga created by Aki Hamazi. The Bocchi the Rock manga was first published in Manga Time Kirara Max in December 2017 and is currently an ongoing title consisting of seven tankobon volumes as of October 2024. A spin-off manga series, titled Bocchi the Rock! Side Story: Kikuri Hiroi’s Heavy-Drinking Diary, began publication in July 2023. During their Sakura-Con 2023 panel, Yen Press announced that they had licensed the manga for English publication. The first volume was released on October 17, 2023. On February 7, 2025, they also announced that they had licensed the anthology manga for English publication beginning in July 2025. The TV anime also had two compilation films, the first film titled Bocchi the Rock! Re: sold 140,000 tickets and earned 218,470,888 yen (about US$1.38 million) in its first three days, it would be followed up with Bocchi the Rock! Re: Re: on August 9, 2024. You can watch the first season of Bocchi The Rock and the recap films now on Crunchyroll and Blu-ray.
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: Anime News Network
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