To commemorate the first arena one-man live concert of Kessoku Band, the in-anime band from Bocchi the Rock, illustrator Yusuke Nakamura—known for his work on ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION’s album covers—created a special illustration featuring the band members.
The artwork was unveiled on February 15 to celebrate the Kessoku Band TOUR ‘We will B’ tour, which took place at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza Main Arena in Tokyo. The illustration, in Nakamura’s signature style, features Hitori Gotoh, Nijika Ijichi, Ryo Yamada, and Ikuyo Kita in profile, along with visual motifs inspired by Bocchi the Rock!, including a house hoisting a banner and a Godzilla-like creature.
Kessoku Band TOUR ‘We will B’ featured live performances by the anime’s main voice cast, followed by a band performing the music:
- Yoshino Aoyama (Hitori Gotoh)
- Sayumi Suzushiro (Nijika Ijichi)
- Saku Mizuno (Ryo Yamada)
- Ikumi Hasegawa (Ikuyo Kita)
The band lineup included:
- Ritsuro Mitsui (Guitar)
- Osamu Hidai (Drums)
- Yuichi Takama (Bass)
- Akkin (Guitar)
At the end of the event, Bocchi the Rock Season 2 TV anime was announced. The first season’s assistant director Yusuke Yamamoto will be directing the sequel, taking over the first season’s Keichiro Saito.
Aki Hamaji writes and draws the original Bocchi the Rock 4-panel manga, which began in 2018. Crunchyroll is also streaming the first season of Bocchi the Rock, describing the story:
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 Official X
© Aki Hamaji / Hobunsha, Aniplex
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