Belt Out Your Best BOCCHI THE ROCK! Karaoke Starting March 20 In Japan
Japanese karaoke service and equipment distributor DAM announced a new tie-up with hit anime BOCCHI THE ROCK! which will see the series songs rolled out to all DAM, LIVE DAM Ai and LIVE DAM STADIUM karaoke machine models, as well as the CLUB DAM streaming service.
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The songs and videos are taken from the Kessoku Band album released on December 28, 2022 in Japan and include the opening and ending themes for the series in “Seishun Complex,” “Nani ga Warui,” “Distortion!!” and “Karakara,” being released on March 20, with “Guitar to Kodoku to Aoi Wakusei,” and “Ano Band” releasing on March 28th, and both “Wasurete Yaranai” along with “Seiza ni Naretara” releasing on April 4 in Japan.
The TV anime adaptation of Aki Hamaji’s four-panel manga BOCCHI THE ROCK! was aired for 12 episodes from October to December 2022. All episodes are available on Crunchyroll, who describes the series:
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…
Sources: Comic Natalie, Club DAM
Watch BOCCHI THE ROCK! on Crunchyroll!
