The official website and Twitter account of the Bocchi the Rock anime revealed the preview of episode 11 on Tuesday. On the first day of the school festival, Nijika and Ryo went to Hitori and Kita’s school festival, wherein they visited one of the maid cafes. Then the rest of the band prepares for the live performance on the second day. The school festival episode will premiere on Saturday, December 17.
Yusuke Yamamoto (Wonder Egg Priority episode 6 director) will be directing and handling the storyboard of episode 11 while Hirohiko Sukegawa (Asteroid in Love episode 2) will act as the animation director. Studio CloverWorks is animating the series with Keichiro Saito as director. Erika Yoshida is writing the scripts while Kikuya Tomoki is composing the music. Kerorira is the chief animation director and character designer.
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The anime is adapting Aki Hamaji’s 4-koma manga, which is serialized in Houbunsha’s seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Max. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, and they describe it as:
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: Official Twitter
© Aki Hamaji / Hobunsha, Aniplex