Bocchi the Rock has revealed the preview for episode 6. After passing the audition in the last episode, the Kessoku band can now perform in front of the crowd in the Starry live house. However, each member needs to sell at least 5 tickets. With Bocchi not having any friends and her family alone not meeting the quota, the reserved guitarist tries to conquer her fears and hands out fliers. While promoting the show, she meets a drunk Kikuri Hiroi in an alley. Will Bocchi be able to invite the newly introduced character and meet the quota in the end? Bocchi the Rock Episode 6 premieres on Saturday, November 12.
Yoshiyuki Fujiwara (Attack on Titan episode 9 director) will be in charge of directing and storyboarding for the upcoming episode. Mari Tomita also joins Kerorira as the chief animation director in the sixth episode of the series. Studio CloverWorks is animating the whole anime with Keichiro Saito as director. Erika Yoshida is writing the scripts and Kikuya Tomoki is composing the music.
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The anime Bocchi the Rock (stylized as Bocchi the Rock!) is adapted from a 4-Koma manga by Aki Hamaji and Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Max is serializing the manga since 2017. The series can be streamed on Crunchyroll 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…
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