BOCCHI THE ROCK! Anime’s Kessoku Band Releases New Lyric Video
Along with the announcement for the forthcoming compilation film, the BOCCHI THE ROCK! TV anime’s in-show band Kessoku Band posted a lyric video for their new CD single song “Hikari no Naka he” (Into the Light), which will be released on May 24.
In addition to the anime, the band has also been very highly successful in Japan, and their first album “BOCCHI THE ROCK! Song Album Kessoku Band” has already been certified gold with over 100,000 copies shipped.
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“Hikari no Naka he” was written/composed by Genki Fujimori, the vocalist/guitarist of three-member Japanese rock band SAKANAMON. The anime’s official website has posted a message from him describing his thoughts on this song as below:
I too was not good at relationships, and there was a time in my school days when I quit the band and decided never to form one again, but I had a friend like Ijichi-senpai who invited me to join a band. I was a shy and passive person, but he actively encouraged me. He reminded me of the joy of being in a band, and that’s how I got to where I am today.
I believe that being able to play in a band and to perform live is not something to be taken for granted, but is an art form that is born from the combination of several miracles. I want the audience and the band to enjoy the moment of playing together. I made this song with such feelings in mind!
I will continue to support the activities of Kessoku Band. Please bind together wherever you go!
“Hikari no Naka he” lyric video:
CD jacket:
As reported, the compilation anime film is scheduled to be released in Japan in the spring of 2024. The announcement trailer and visual have been released.
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BOCCHI THE ROCK! is directed by Keiichiro Saito (Sonny Boy key animator) and assistant-directed by Yusuke Yamamoto (WONDER EGG PRIORITY key animator) at studio CloverWorks. The series aired from October to December 2022 on Japanese TV and streamed on Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll 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…
Source: “BOCCHI THE ROCK!” anime official website
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