Release of Volume 1 on BD/DVD by Bocchi the Rock Anime, unveiling of Volume 2 Cover

On Wednesday, Kessoku Band's self-titled album and the first Blu-ray (BD) and DVD volume of Bocchi the Rock were also released. The second volume of the upcoming Blu-ray release's jacket art was also made public by the anime. On Saturday, the final episode aired in Japan.

There will be a total of six BD and DVD volumes for the anime. Each Blu-ray volume costs $7,700 (about $57), compared to $6,600 (about $49) for each DVD volume. The combined episodes and their respective premiere dates are as follows:

• Volume 2 (Episode 3-4): January 25, 2023
• Volume 3 (Episode 5-6): February 22, 2023
• Volume 4 (Episode 7-8): March 22, 2023
• Volume 5 (Episode 9-10): April 26, 2023
• Volume 6 (Episode 11-12): May 24, 2023

The main character Hitori Goto, also known as Bocchi, is depicted on the jacket cover of the first BD and DVD volume. Nijika Ijichi will be featured on the cover of the second volume. In the Bocchi the Rock! anime adaption, Yoshino Aoyama provided the voice of Hitori Goto and Sayumi Suzushiro that of Nijika Ijichi.

▍Visual For BD/DVD Volume 1

▍Visual For BD/DVD Volume 2

The original Bocchi the Rock 4-koma manga by Aki Hamaji has been published every month in Manga Time Kirara Max by Hobunsha. On November 26, 2022, the fifth collected volume of the series was published. The 12 episodes of the adaptation, which Studio CloverWorks animated, debuted on October 8, 2022.

▍About Bocchi The Rock

The anime was streamed on Crunchyroll, and this is how it is described:

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…

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