Duodecimal Sunset

"**Duodecimal Sunset**" (十二進法の夕景, *Jūni Shinhō no Yūkei*) is the eleventh episode of the anime series, *Bocchi the Rock!*. It premiered on December 18, 2022.

## Synopsis

On the first day of the school festival, Nijika and Ryo visit Hitori's maid café class. Together with Kita, she searches for the absent Hitori, and after the four join up, they go around the school festival. And they were preparing for the concert on the second day.

## Plot

It's the first day of the culture festival of Shuka High School, Nijika and Ryo explore the school. A strange girl loves to try Class 2's haunted house. Ryo describes the school as an "entire", Nijika thinks that Bocchi's class is nearby. She asks Kita about what Bocchi is doing in her maid costume, but Bocchi is disappeared. Since Bocchi wearing a maid costume and was going to the bathroom, then they have not seen her. Nijika knew that she was even more embarrassed when she was running around the school as a maid. They will search for her, but they couldn't find her, but Nijika maybe should check all the women's bathrooms. Kita learns of them as a Darwin Kita! and allows herself to elucidate. They search the kinds of ecosystems and Kita might be found beneath a rock.

Bocchi is lying down, she is lying to them, and running off without thinking about it. But her band sees her, she will die from embarrassment and she had only her ripe mangos. She longs for the warmth of that cardboard box. She is using her phone to see the comment and retreats to the online world. She is thinking the comments have disrespectful things about her channel. She will be lost on the internet if she has not uploaded a video since then. She thinks when still looking for comments when she is so busy, and she will put something up the minute of the culture festival's over. She was surprised by them, and Nijika is worried about her. Kita just justified her in rummaging through those trash cans and cisterns and Nijika wants Bocchi to come back to the classroom.

Nijika looks at the schedule for the second day of the culture festival and pictures it. Kita does feel odd when her band has a name in our school. Ryo notices them when they get too much work up now, then they will get tired themselves. Kita will enjoy the day of the culture festival, but Bocchi never actually enjoyed a school event.

Nijika is curious about the haunted house, and Kita wants to try it. While inside the haunted house, Nijika and Kita got scared by a haunter, Ryo wasn't scared by her, but Bocchi got a little scared by her, but she got scared by other people. They go to the handmade crêpes, Ryo will buy both, but Nijika refused her and only one crêpe. Ryo shoots the two prizes at the shooting gallery, Nijika looks at the art seems like Bocchi at the art gallery and she pulls the big prizes at the string lottery. But for now, Bocchi is now fun at the culture festival. She asks them where to next, and Nijika keeps going until they do the full circuit.

Back at the maid café, Ryo looks for the menu, and Bocchi is standing up straight and looking customers in the eye. Nijika guess working with Kita helped her out, but Ryo may be that Bocchi passed out while standing. The two men went to the maid café class and he asks Bocchi to drop the sign. The Guitar Man let out of Bocchi's mouth and they forgive her for our arrogance and shrink themselves.

Nijika asks Bocchi for ready-to-order, and Nijika and Kita look for her maid outfit and Nijika wishes her not to wear the tracksuit. Ryo talks about Bocchi for the visual aspect and some know an uncut gem and have her in a swimsuit in the video. Bocchi was surprised that swimsuits were on other social media sites. Ryo wraps Bocchi in black tape and plays on the ocean.

Nijika wants to order the Sure-Pure Melt-in-Your-Mouth Magic Omurice, but it's just a normal omurice, Kita also wants to order the Unicorn Fantasy Dream Sparkle-Shine Omurice and Ryo wants to order the Lie-4-U Die-4-U Sickly Chic Omurice, but all the omurice are normal because they spent all our budget on the costumes. Bocchi ordered Kita for one Sure-Pure Melt-in-Your-Mouth Magic Omurice, Nijika would like her to spell the omurice. Bocchi spells our omurice but is eventually depressed, but Ryo reacts to her omurice as kind of grainy. Kita watches them spell our omurice lovely. Ryo eats up as well after Kita spells her omurice and Kita gives her peace. A classmate wants to help our class out, and Kita loves to wear the costume.

Kita wears a maid costume and asks them would like to wear one. She explains that Ryo is a "big sister" or a boy style. A classmate asks Nijika would help us out and she already works in customer service. Nijika and Kita say the customers together. A man asks Ryo to get some water, and Ryo gets sadistic about them getting it. Nijika brought a group herself, and Bocchi finally takes a break, but she feels like a preview of our concert tomorrow. She becomes an unfinished 3D model and breaks the cubes.

They sold out of omurice today, she they take first place in the class sales rankings. They will come to watch the concert tomorrow, Ryo guesses that they expected to work with them, and Nijika carries out Ryo to get practice. They go to the gymnasium stage, where Kessoku Band can perform the concert. Ryo guess the max occupancy must be around a thousand, Nijika got Kita's power on our side. Bocchi has dreams of she will be standing up there tomorrow.

At the live house, Nijika is thinking about Bocchi's guitar is pretty old, Ryo notices her guitar. Bocchi explains Nijika when borrows from her father when he was younger and then he couldn't make it to our concert because of the storm and he bought a camcorder. Kita's friends sent a LOINE message about it, Nijika asks them for a kind of MCing (master of ceremonies) for tomorrow's concert, but she thought it a little funny MCing like that. Ryo talks to Nijika about MCing and fighting against her, Kita will let us finish our practice.

They looks for the tree and got that autumn feeling, Nijika figured that were working on our first mini-album by now. At her home, Bocchi flips her T-shirt of Kessoku Band ready to perform at the culture festival. While Nijika looks at our schedule for the second day of the culture festival and Seika is watching TV, Kita is doing makeup, and Ryo listens to our music. The next day, Bocchi goes to school alone, Nijika said her sister should be here. Bocchi thinks that a record company producer is in the audience, but the reality is the Guitar Man. All the posters for the new single of Kessoku Band have been added to the advertisement poster, including the truck by Guitar Man.

They looking for the current performance, and Kita guesses that playing a big hit song from the year. She is much nervous because of the culture festival and Nijika tells Kita to deep breaths. She imagines Bocchi six months ago she had to wear the mango box, but Bocchi pounds her heart hardly and Kita tells her to deep breaths. Nijika wants to huddle them, they put our left hands together, play hard in the concert, and say "Yeah!"

They tested the drum and guitars, and Kita tested our microphone. Our staff represents to Kessoku Band and the audience cheers for Kita. Bocchi was just what she expected it. Futari, her parents, fans, and classmates raises her. Hiroi kicks off Bocchi and is going to drink all of them. The two people smell of sake, Bocchi ignores Hiroi and Seika gets Hiroi in trouble. Kita introduces the audience to our band and makes today more memorable for everyone. If everyone is interested, Kita hopes to come to see them at the live house. And begins our first song.

## Characters

List of characters in order of appearance:

* Nijika Ijichi
* Ryo Yamada
* Ikuyo Kita
* Hitori Gotoh
* Futari Gotoh
* Jimihen
* Naoki Gotoh
* Michiyo Gotoh
* Seika Ijichi
* Kikuri Hiroi

## Cast

* **Hitori Gotoh**: Yoshino Aoyama
* **Nijika Ijichi**: Sayumi Suzushiro
* **Ryo Yamada**: Saku Mizuno
* **Ikuyo Kita**: Ikumi Hasegawa

* **Seika Ijichi**: Maaya Uchida
* **Kikuri Hiroi**: Sayaka Senbongi
* **Naoki Gotoh**: Junji Majima
* **Futari Gotoh**: Misaki Watada
* **Jimihen**: Kotori Koiwai

## Gallery

### Videos

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## Trivia

* Title card color: White
	+ The title card sticker is black in the preview for the previous episode.
* Ending quote was said by Kessoku Band members.
* Title of the episode shares the same song title of the same name.
* Shuka High School's gym shares the same design as the one that can be clearly seen in the second episode of the *Wonder Egg Priority* anime series, also produced by CloverWorks.
* Bocchi playing the guitar only with black tape on her is a reference to T.M.Revolution's "HOT LIMIT" music video.
* "Darwin Kita" (ダーウィンが喜多!, *Dāwin ga Kita!*, lit. "Darwin Is Kita!") is a parody of a TV program called "Darwin's Amazing Animals" (ダーウィンが来た!, *Dāwin ga Kita!*, lit. "Darwin Has Come!") that has been aired on NHK since 2006. Kita's mustache may be a reference to Charles Darwin, but it might also be a parody of Higejii (ヒゲじい, *Higejii, lit. Bearded Old Man*), a character from the program.
* Guitar Man's sudden appearance from Hitori's mouse is a parody of a scene from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable, in which Killer Queen (Deadly Queen), the Stand Yoshikage Kira uses, appears to kill Rohan Kishibe.

### Adaptation notes

* The anime adds the following:
	+ Bocchi cube hair ties melt.
	+ Bocchi runs into the school in a maid outfit.
	+ Kessoku Band members watch their names on the performance schedule.
	+ Bocchi is caught by Kita while thinking of wasting time not to go back to the maid café.
	+ Guitar Man exits from Bocchi's mouth.
	+ Kita makes Ryo try on different maid outfits.
	+ Nijika takes other customers to the maid café.
	+ Before leaving, Kessoku Band members stop to take a look at the stage they will be performing on.
	+ Kessoku Band members comment on Bocchi's guitar aging through time.
	+ Naoki trying his new video camera.
	+ All four Kessoku Band members observe the performance schedule on the brochure in their respective homes.
	+ Kita is nervous about the performance.
	+ Kessoku Band does the "put hands together and go *Yeah*" thing before going on stage.
	+ Kessoku band tests instruments and equipment before performing.
	+ Bocchi's family, fans, and classmates are shown in the audience.
* The anime expands the following:
	+ The view of the culture festival.
	+ Nijika, Ryo and Kita searching Bocchi.
	+ Darwin Kita's explanation about Bocchi's ecosystem.
	+ Kessoku Band members enjoying the culture festival.
	+ The scene of the "deliciousness spell".
	+ The two dudes asking Ryo for a drink.
	+ The scene in which Bocchi is given a break.
	+ Bocchi's thoughts on their possible debut thanks to a record company producer.
* In the manga, Nijika eats a candy apple, while in the anime she holds a brochure of the festival.
* In the manga, Nijika and Ryo meet Kita outside, while in the anime they meet her at the maid café. In fact, in the anime, Kita is the first to say that Bocchi has disappeared.
* In the manga, Bocchi takes refuge inside the school, while outside in the anime.
* In the manga, Nijika and Ryo pick up a lot more stuff during the festival, while in the anime Ryo only has a mask and a balloon.
* In the anime, Bocchi's heart literally beats out of her chest due to agitation.
* In the anime, the words "die" or "dead" are censored to avoid any circumstances.

## References

1. ↑ Translated from the official website.
2. ↑ Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: BITES THE DUST ACTIVATES (YouTube video) The scene parodied in this episode starts at 0:45.