Bocchi the Rock Season 2 was officially confirmed on Saturday with a teaser trailer and a new director. A teaser visual was also released, and studio CloverWorks will be returning to animate the series. A release date has not yet been revealed.
The first season’s assistant director Yusuke Yamamoto will be directing the sequel with Erika Yoshida returning to write the series composition. Kerorira is again credited for the character design, along with Keito Oda.
The first season of Bocchi the Rock premiered last October and had a total of 12 episodes. A 2-part compilation movie was also released in 2024, while it began streaming on Crunchyroll this week. The first season was directed by Keichiro Saito. Both the old and new directors shared comments on the new season:
Keiichiro Saito, the director of Season 1, commented on the handover:
“I have full confidence in Yusuke Yamamoto! I believe he will make Season 2 just as funny, cute, and exciting. I can’t wait!”
New director Yusuke Yamamoto also commented:
“I’m honored to continue working with Kessoku Band and to bring more Bocchi fun to fans!”
The main cast of the BOCCHI THE ROCK anime includes:
- Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori “Bocchi” Goto
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi
- Saku Mizuno as Ryo Yamada
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita
Together the four of them make up the Kessoku Band.
Crunchyroll is streaming the first season of Bocchi the Rock and they describe it as follows:
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 (formerly Twitter)
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