Bocchi the Rock’s Kessoku Band Returns on The First Take

Kessoku Band from Bocchi the Rock returned to perform on The First Take after the band was featured on the channel less than two weeks ago. This time, they sang the song titled “Shine as Usual,” which served as the opening theme for the first compilation movie of the series. The first movie premiered last June 7 in Japanese theaters.

Kessoku Band, which consists of the main characters: Hitori “Bocchi” Gotou, Nijika Ijichi, Ryo Yamada, and Kita Ikuyo, is the band from the Bocchi the Rock manga series by Aki Hamaji. The anime adaptation ran from October to December 2022 with 12 episodes in total. It was animated by studio CloverWorks and directed by Keichiro Saito. The cast consists of:

• Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori “Bocchi” Goto
• Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi
• Saku Mizuno as Ryo Yamada
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita

THE FIRST TAKE is a YouTube channel that shows various artists performing in one take. The channel has only one rule: artists need to perform their hearts out in a single take. Over a hundred musicians and singers have already performed on the channel. Kessoku Band previously performed “Guitar, Loneliness, and Blue Planet,” an insert song from episode 5 of the anime series.

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Bocchi the Rock anime is available to stream in Crunchyroll 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: THE FIRST TAKE YouTube Channel
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