The very relatable Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh from the beloved Bocchi the Rock series is getting an official Nendoroid by Good Smile Company. Preorders will be available from February 9 until 23 and costs ¥5800 (~$44). The Nendoroid is approximately 100mm in height and comes with three face plates: anxious, crying, and breaking down. A guitar, blanket, and other optional parts for different poses are also included.
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Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh is one of the main characters in the Bocchi the Rock manga and anime. She is one of the guitarists of the Kessoku Band. The anime consists of 12 episodes and aired from Oct 9, 2022, to Dec 25, 2022. Studio CloverWorks animated the adaptation based on the 4-koma manga by Aki Hamaji. Keichiro Saito directed the anime with Erika Yoshida on the scripts. Kerorira acted as the chief animation director and character designer. The cast includes:
- Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori Gotoh
- Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi
- Saku Mizuno as Ryo Yamada
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita
- Maaya Uchida as Seika Ijichi
- Sayaka Senbongi as Kikuri Hiroi
Crunchyroll is streaming the anime 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: Good Smile Company Website
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