Bocchi the Rock!’s Kessoku Band to Play at Rock in Japan

by Matt Schley
May 15, 2024

Fans of Bocchi the Rock! will soon have a fresh chance to see the series’ Kessoku Band in real life. The band will appear at the festival ROCK IN JAPAN on August 4.

The lineup will include Bocchi the Rock! voice actors Yoshino Aoyama (Hitori Goto), Sayumi Suzushiro (Nijika Ijichi), Saku Mizuno (Ryo Yamada), and Ikumi Hasegawa (Ikuyo Kita) on vocals.

The band will also feature Ritsuo Mitsui and akkin on guitars, Yuichi Takama on bass, and Yuya Ishii on drums.

Meanwhile, the band is going on tour at several Zepp venues throughout Japan between September and December. The dates and locations are as follows:

Sept 8: Zepp Osaka Bayside

Oct 19: Zepp Sapporo

Nov 3: Zepp Haneda (Tokyo)

Nov 24: Zepp Nagoya

Dec 12: Zepp Fukuoka

The band has performed several times since the series debuted, and released a live Blue-ray and DVD recorded at a concert at Zepp Haneda in May 2023 last year.

Here’s how Crunchyroll describes Bocchi the Rock!:

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: Natalie (1, 2)