Volume 2

This is the second volume of the manga series, *Bocchi the Rock!* was released in the Japanese version on February 27, 2020. This volume contains 12 chapters.

## Description

Hitori Gotoh, also known as "Bocchi-chan," used to be a lonely guitarist, but since was already joined "Kessoku Band" led by Nijika Ijichi, she has become a singer at live concerts, part-time jobs, and visiting musical instrument stores, she was living a fulfilling band life as a gloomy character. Meanwhile, the biggest challenge of her life, the appearance on the school festival stage is coming! The hottest music manga right now, the turbulence of volume 2!!

## Plot

### One-shot

During the summer holidays of Nijika, at 10 o'clock, she wakes up to her big sister and gets ready for breakfast. At 12 o'clock, she wants CDs, parfait dessert, and pasta. At 18 o'clock, she saw the two audiences to join the customers. At 24 o'clock, she was fun after the summer holidays.

During the summer holidays of Yamada, at 10 o'clock, she is watching a horror movie. At 12 o'clock, she went to the shopping mall to buy her clothes. At 18 o'clock, she's listening to music. At 24 o'clock, she was fun after the summer holidays.

During the summer holidays of Kita, at 10 o'clock, she is doing a makeup face. At 12 o'clock, she and her friend, Kana-chan went to the pancake house and takes a selfie with two pancakes. At 18 o'clock, both trips to another station. At 24 o'clock, she was fun after the summer holidays.

During the summer holidays of Bocchi, from 10 o'clock to 24 o'clock, she always plays the guitar at home. After 24 o'clock she was fun after the summer holidays, but it wasn't fulfilling. She has a plan to invite them to Kessoku Band. She tries to contact Nijika, but it's already midnight.

### Chapter 14

Bocchi is lazy around at home. Her mother tells her daughter should go to school. At the live house, she looks very weird of her life. Seika happened to Bocchi after the summer holiday ended today. Nijika did not practice in the band and was working instead. Kita invites Bocchi and others from Kessoku Band to trip to Enoshima island. Kita allows to swim, but there is a shack one.

Bocchi collapsed it before arriving on the train. Kita revealed about Bocchi is shy. She is annoying to Nijika of Bocchi's dream. She need to wake up Bocchi after Enoshima arrived. Bocchi collapsed again and was carried by Nijika. Kita orders two tako senbei, Kita and Bocchi are eating. As a result, Bocchi is back to normal.

At the shrine, Kita will be going upstairs. Ryo, Bocchi, and Nijika are afraid to go up. Ryo is a limit, she can't climb upstairs. Bocchi must pay to use the Enoshima escalator if recommended.

After using the escalator, Bocchi and Ryo are tired. The trio (Bocchi, Nijika, and Ryo) are taking a picture, Bocchi looks gloomy and deletes it. Kita saw a nice drone video. The trio is going down. Kessoku Band is already paid for ice cream. A crow preying Bocchi. Bocchi collapsed again into death pose.

Back to the shrine, Bocchi praying herself to go back to the first day of the summer holidays. Nijika and Ryo are napping on the train. Bocchi doesn't want to go out for the winter holidays. She is the fun of the day. Two days later, Bocchi is painful in muscles. She cannot move it.

### Chapter 15

Bocchi can't play her guitar because of her dream. She wakes up in the classroom. Class 2 has the plan to wear a maid café. Bocchi has an imagination for wearing a maid café and plans to perform at the live house. She tries to accept the application in the student council room for not confusing as a cool guitarist and collapsed it.

A moment later, Kita misunderstands Bocchi to perform at the cultural festival. She invites Nijika and Ryo to go to Shuka High School. Kita just practices for writing, and Bocchi feels so nervous for want to perform. Bocchi takes an example of the cultural festival in high school to be like. When Kessoku Band performs at Shuka High School Cultural Festival which takes that place during Fall.

Bocchi went to the living house and get in the trash can. Seika will not go to high school before Kessoku Band performances. Nijika raring her sister and Bocchi. Ryo smug her face for about an obscure song. Nijika reveals to Bocchi that she didn't perform it with Ryo when she was in middle school. She only formed her band and Ryo could perform at the live house. Ryo tells Bocchi should feel right now. She has a dream of performance. After work, Bocchi leaves at the live house.

The next day, Bocchi tries to do in her life. Kita accidentally applied the form.

### Chapter 16

Bocchi is still sleeping over three hours with the coffin because Kita already submitted the form. Student Council tries to cancel the performance, but it is impossible when already been submitted. Kita will role as a murderer. She apologizes to Bocchi for the circumstances and Bocchi wakes up with Kita's sign text. Because Bocchi didn't study for several months as a result, her test score is three.

Kita won't practice Kessoku Band for the test. Nijika can study for the test. Ryo makes an idiot and déjà vu, her score is also three, the same as Bocchi. Kita also apologizes to Nijika and Ryo becomes weird. Kita would stop thinking about her image of Ryo. Ryo worked on the test and becomes an idiot again. Kita gets jealous of Ryo's test. Ryo will how to slap herself.

Nijika would help her sister to study. PA-san was dropped in high school and not good at studying. Seika is annoying to other people. Meanwhile, Hiroi is drinking outside if the case is reported and gets a cheating rock.

Ryo studied for eight hours every day and the score was still low and will just repeat the year. She can speak English and write all names of foreign bands. Bocchi did a study before the test and Nijika always support Bocchi. Kita can cheer up Bocchi and she gets happy for dropping the school. Hiroi and PA-san are talking to a conversation. Kita is writing a morse code, she tells Bocchi will answer through the morse code and keeps writing. Bocchi didn't know about morse code. Ryo will go home today to study.

Several days later, Ryo got the highest score ever and she plans to quit the band. Bocchi got an average score, and both Bocchi and Ryo passed on the test. Bocchi forgets about the performance at Cultural Festival and studies again to retake a test.

### Chapter 17

Hiroi enjoys drinking alcohol for the best. Seika leaves Hiroi and calls her "NEET", Nijika scares like her sister. Bocchi seems like a hermit crab, and Hiroi makes a sound like a cat. Hiroi gives a ticket to Bocchi, Nijika, and Kita for a concert today, Nijika and Kita don't have money, but it's mistaken as a gift. She gets shochu for helping, Seika pays the rent for Hiroi, and Bocchi notices Hiroi is still not paying her for the train fare. Hiroi had plans all ready to go to Shinjuku, featuring Kessoku Band.

Shinjuku has arrived, and Bocchi reacts to the performance. Hiroi follows her band, and Bocchi apologizes again. Ginjiro glares at a kid with blonde hair, Nijika pleading with her eyes to miss her big sister. Ginjiro introduced himself to Kessoku Band and Nijika is confused as a boy and speaking a feminine language. Shima told Hiroi to come to rehearsal, but it's already over. She accepts Nijika as a small gift, Eliza wants to be a friend, she live in England until she was 18. Eliza wants to attend Comiket, she holds a *Kirara MAX* magazine and plays anime song covers.

Hiroi prepared her band's performances and had over 500 people in the audience. Ryo is alone to stand up and will listen to the music. The performance has started, and Bocchi, Nijika, and Kita are reacting to criticism of the music. Ryo is taken as an encyclopedia. Kita heard that the sound is interesting, Ryo will bring her albums tomorrow, and Nijika was annoyed with the otaku. Shima thinks of her band, the audiences toss Hiroi into the air. Bocchi saying that the band is the coolest.

After the performance, Hiroi is shined as Bocchi says. Bocchi has a history that she makes gloomy. Hiroi understands that gloomy person is drawn to each other. In the past, Hiroi paid for a guitar to get rid of her nervousness. Bocchi is underage and cannot drink sake. She promises Hiroi that her band will perform at the cultural festival. Hiroi stomped her foot to break a wall, Ginjiro asks Hiroi if that will be repaired for 100,000 yen.

### Chapter 18

At a restaurant, Kessoku Band decides to three new songs, but Ryo is not allowed to share our food, because she did not pay for Bocchi. Kita irritates by her first name Ryo. Nijika sharing Ryo for a one-piece of french fries and ketchup, but she shares her food with Ryo instead. Ryo writes to add Bocchi's guitar solo for our cultural festival, Nijika being jealous. Nijika getting hyped to play cover songs for all audiences, Ryo is not afraid of bombing and the pain splits the four of us. Bocchi has a guitar solo and Kessoku Band will be a rehearsal.

After rehearsal, Kita can talk to Bocchi for threw her application form, but only one was submitted anyway. Bocchi might be nervous to do so, but Kita makes an idea for great a performance. Kita has changed her life little by little. Kita comes back to Ryo for more practice, and Nijika forgets the band name. Kessoku Band starts practicing with Bocchi smiles.

On the first day of the Shuka High School Cultural Festival, Bocchi disappeared during work. But it says Bocchi wears her maid outfit and she makes to go to the bathroom. Kita felt more like embarrassing. Kita admires Ryo again, she becomes a professional where Bocchi is located it.

Meanwhile, Bocchi hides in another place inside the school. She ran away without thinking, she seems her outfit is embarrassing. She looks at her comments on a video, she has a chance to upload her video on the internet. Kita found Bocchi in another place, she was worried about her.

Kessoku Band enjoys our cultural festival at school.

### Chapter 19

During work at the maid café, Nijika, Ryo, and Kita enter class 1-2, but Bocchi doesn't help her. Two subordinates save a normal girl and ran away.

Nijika, Ryo, and Kita needed to order our food, and Nichika reacted to Bocchi's maid outfit. Nijika and Kita won't be afraid to Bocchi, Ryo sparkling a diamond of Bocchi. If Bocchi wears a swimsuit or bare-legged outfit.

Nijika forgets her order, and Ryo would lend her money. Bocchi named it after the food, but omurice is just omurice. Bocchi tries to spell it the food. As a result, the food becomes dry and frozen. Kita teaches Bocchi how to spell properly. Kita spells the food perfectly instead.

Nijika, Ryo, and Kita wear maid outfits for work for class 1-2, so Bocchi can break if she wants. Nijika can work on customers as well, two customers came. Two customers could get some water, Ryo has an expression into sadist tells two customers to get some water itself.

After work, class 1-2 goes number one in sales, Nijika, Ryo, and Kita would have fun, but Ryo did not pay again and got work for free instead.

Before begins the final rehearsal, Nijika asks what MC is doing. Ryo's option to be an MC doesn't exist to fans, if Kessoku Band becomes popular, the audience will laugh. Kessoku Band begins the final rehearsal, and Kita hyped Bocchi for the final rehearsal. She asks Ryo if she is okay and says to wait for an hour. Bocchi talks to herself and awaits to get off of the world. Kessoku Band will be going to dinner be go home, Bocchi takes one step forward to tomorrow is the day of our performance.

### Chapter 20

Bocchi is so nervous when she saw the audience. Ryo can't get rid of the drummer being so loud.

Kessoku Band is coming up next, and the audience cheering for us. Hiroi tells Bocchi that can break a leg, but it is ignored. Seika annoyed her kōhai. Kita notices that will be performed outside of school, and make sure that people will be interested to watch the live house.

Kessoku Band performs our first song, but that person of the band is better than the light music club. After getting more than expected, the band performs our second song, Nijika has a notice before its last song and before the announcement. Hiroi just fainted before the second song performs. Bocchi broke her string guitar to fix the peg. Hiroi thinks Bocchi for a guitar solo is impossible. Kita didn't notice Bocchi and why she stopped playing the guitar during the performance. Kita will not hesitate when she is playing and Bocchi saw that. She is just cool for Bocchi. Bocchi heard that canned product is her left foot. She plays the guitar with the canned product. Hiroi is drunk already. Two people who become a fan of Kessoku Band. After the performance, the audience cheers. Nijika planned to make it to the Budokan. Bocchi tried to say her last name and said a few words. She dives into falling, our students call a teacher for help.

A moment later, Bocchi is now resting, Kita apologizes to her and keeps more practice. Kita can call Hitori-chan instead and needs to support her. Two students sawed Bocchi and dived it after the performance.

### Chapter 21

Bocchi apologized to her father, who broke her guitar during the performance. Her father can repair and sell guitars nowadays. Futari playing with her father, which covers his eyes. Her father gives his legal cash to her. He learns his older daughter to learn ad revenue for earning money from the video site. Bocchi seems happy for her father is improving from his practice, but she vomits instead. Bocchi counts her money to 300,000 yen to buy an expensive guitar, and she quits her work instead.

The next day at the live house, Bocchi feels sparkling, but it's creepy. She becomes a superhero to quit her work, but instead of telling a manager. Bocchi has nothing to say during the conversation. Bocchi keeps talking and glooming. Nijika asks Bocchi for needs to go to an instrument store. Seika is so kind to Bocchi, but she prefers surprises.

At Shibuya, Kessoku Band is going to an instrument store, and Ryo is running away and talking like an encyclopedia. Kessoku Band arrives at Ishibashi Music, Bocchi is still afraid to go to the instrument store.

Bocchi is useless to talk to society. Kita looking for other guitar picks, and Nijika thinks that will become an earring. Ryo can try the bass without getting paid inside the store. She becomes tired after playing the bass. Nijika thinks that needs to buy a guitar or bass. Kita imagined that Nijika is playing the drums with a guitar, and Nijika is playing normally for drums. And then, Nijika asks Ryo if she will go to a drum store later, but Ryo refuses to go. After going upstairs, they react to the prices being all bugged. After going downstairs, Ryo looked that the bass is beautiful. Bocchi shocked that bass and Kita is talking when Bocchi is shocked. Ryo gets mad cause of it.

Bocchi would choose to get a new guitar, and the employee asks her for wants to try it, but Bocchi cannot say "no". She will get hung up after the practice and will buy the cable and a mini amp. The employee confused Bocchi as a beginner and Bocchi looks for a replacement for her guitar. Kita talks to Bocchi when she takes a liking to the guitar. The employee gives it to Bocchi when she is already purchased it, and Bocchi runs away without getting the guitar.

The employee recognizes Nijika as Seika's little sister and began to talk about Seika who used to work there, especially about how Seika used to act like she doing maintenance but only just wanted to play any guitar in the shop, calling her the Satan of Ochanomizu. Later she was charmed by Nijika's smile and decided to call her Archangel of Shimokitazawa.

At night, Bocchi sees herself in the mirror with her new guitar feeling happy, only to be spooked by the thoughts of her old guitar being angry about her neglect.

### Chapter 22

Nijika came to Bocchi's house to see her guitarhero routine, playing cover songs and uploading them to OH!TUBE. They also agreed to keep Bocchi's guitarhero persona because Bocchi's just not ready to tell others yet. While seeing Bocchi playing guitar solo, Nijika felt that the rest of the band would feel baggage to her if she performed as well as how much she performed as guitarhero. After that, they started to chat about people showing their instruments on the internet including a certain trend: buying a guitar, posting it on social media, and selling it off before buying another expensive one. This is also where they found Ryo's Twitta, which to their surprise has 3,000 followers. Listening to this, Bocchi's "Attention-Hungry Monster" awakens and tells Bocchi to post something on social media, which led her to open a Twitta account.

Bocchi, unsatisfied with how her first post in Twitta ended up, thought of more ways to gain followers and likes. Meanwhile, her first post reached 60 likes. The Attention-Hungry Monster keeps persuading her to use her money to buy more instruments using her OH!TUBE money and she needs to calm down, leaving Nijika in her room. Nijika is later curious about her closet, and where the cables go, only to find out of Bocchi still does not put out the "tiled" group picture inside. Nijika felt crept and left the house abruptly.

The next day, Nijika came to STARRY only to see other members trying to cheer Bocchi back up. Later only she knows Bocchi ended up spending the rest of her guitarhero OH!TUBE money by purchasing lots of effect pedals. What is worst is that her stage dive moment in the school festival went viral on the Internet, adding much to Bocchi's despair.

Meanwhile, in a certain place, a child-like girl is browsing the Internet for a scoop for her blog and noticed guitarhero uploaded another video. She wished to meet a band like guitarhero someday.

### Chapter 23

The girl went to Shuka High to find more info about "the girls who dived badly" and interviewed some students, but her plan is foiled when she got caught by the teachers, even after introducing herself as Poison♡Yami and claiming she is 17. She was identified by her real name Aiko Sato, age 23, and was kicked out of the school with a warning for not trespassing again. However, an informant managed to text her further details which finally made her closer to the person - Bocchi.

Meanwhile, Kessoku Band is having a meeting before their concert that day where Nijika introduced a brand new hoodie to the members. All members tried them out and give a good response, but Bocchi went too comfortable that she ended up crawling like a snail. Nijika also expressed how happy she is with the response after the festival live, where people started to know them more and they always ended up filling their quotas. Ryo tried to give ideas like making Bocchi a gravure model but ended up being smacked by Nijika due to how creepy it is.

The moment was interrupted when Aiko made a surprise entry into the live house and introduced herself. While her arrival was greeted by a cold response from the band and PA-san, she continued her agenda anyway and the band goes along with it. But as she tried to ask Bocchi various questions about the stage dive, Nijika felt suspicious of her real intention to cover the dive and not the band. While Bocchi just froze at the questions, PA-san alerted about Aiko Seika and warned her of her behavior.

The band proceeded with their concert as planned. Aiko was watching as an audience when she realizes something about them. After the concert, the band are greeting the fans when Aiko suddenly spoke up and made a bold statement in front of everyone there - Bocchi is the guitarhero person.

### Chapter 24

Aiko, trying to expose Bocchi's online persona was met with doubt by the band members, in disbelief at what's happening. Nijika also tried to put up a defense, but Bocchi just gave away all the chances to disclose it. Even after that, the band members just reacted weakly to it, cringing Aiko. The fans however are pretty surprised.

Aiko told them about her wishes to see Bocchi as a major debut and how she will perform well in the future but undermined Kessoku Band as she felt the amateurishness of the band will just hold her back. While trying to make a scoop on the matter, Seika confronts Aiko with PA-san, threatening to expose her real identity thus chasing her away from the live house, but Aiko reminded Bocchi how her skill will just rot if she stays. Seika later calmed the whole band down from all the tension.

Before going home, Nijika ask if everyone is alright, but they still had a deep thoughts about the matter. Bocchi also made some reminiscence on how she had grown after being in Kessoku Band, although the highlights are more about her mistakes, which still cringed her more.

The next day, Nijika proposed about the band join the Mikakunin Riot competition and explained how it will benefit the band. Kita is on the same note as Nijika, and Ryo decided she will follow the flow as it is. They waited for Bocchi for her decision. Bocchi later came and when Nijika just briefly mentioned that, Bocchi already stated her decision - Kessoku Band will join the Mikakunin Riot together.

### Chapter 25

This chapter is set before the Cultural Festival.

Futari is very eager to see Kessoku Band live together with her father especially to see how Bocchi performed in a band as compared to when she is solo, and this frightened Bocchi as Futari knows what she meant, feeling that she is looking down on her. She even wanted to make a video about her performing, while she is doing the introduction part. Bocchi goes into flashback mode, talking about how Futari already looked down on her and their father even during her baby years, and each of them thought they are the lowest on Futari's family hierarchy and sought to surpass each other on that.

Back to the present time, Futari comes to STARRY where she is happily welcomed by Nijika and Kita. They later introduced her to Ryo (as she was not present when they came to Bocchi's house before this), mentioning that she is a bassist. When Futari was asked about bass, she explains that it is like a guitar but plain, which made Ryo annoyed and try to brainwash her. They also introduced Futari to Seika. Futari offered herself to dress up Seika's hair, worrying others, only for them to be surprised Seika feel great with that and even wanted to keep the hairstyle because it looks cuter.

Bocchi seeing her sister is doing felt she had been left out and thought that her band would replace her with her sister and tried to convince them she still valuable enough for the band. Seika later ordered them to proceed with their bartending work. During the job, Bocchi felt more disappointed that Futari ignored her when seeing Futari ask Nijika for a Cola drink.

Futari observed Bocchi, thinking if she really doing fine in school and if everyone sees Bocchi as a weirdo, but felt happy that she has normal friends when the two fans greeted her. Later Hiroi came to the live house in her usual drunken state and talked with Bocchi, and seeing her behavior made Futari think that she is not a normal person. Hiroi, seeing Futari commented that she was seeing another Bocchi and gave her a guitar so she do look like mini-Bocchi in her eyes. She also commented on Seika's hairstyle which looks funny for a 29-year-old, which angers Seika and led her to restrain Hiroi. Futari seeing all this thought that this was a rock.

The live begins and Futari and her father watched as the audience. They were surprised when Bocchi became the MC for this time, but because of her doing inside the Ripe Mango box, the touching speech felt off. They also thought that Bocchi isn't as good as how she is in her solo, but felt that she has more fun playing guitar in the band. Meanwhile, Hiroi, still restrained, complained she cannot see them performing.

On their way back, Futari comments on how Bocchi did not do well back then but felt that she is cool in a band, making Bocchi happy. She also wanted Bocchi to play guitar for her at home. The next day however she said she was tired of it and wanted to draw instead, much to Bocchi's disappointment.

## Allusions of cover page

* Chapter 14 - "Yakousei no Ikimono Sanbiki" by Yura Yura Teikoku
* Chapter 16 - "NUM-AMI-DABUTZ" by NUMBER GIRL
* Chapter 17 - "Butsumetsu Trishna" by 88Kasyo Junrei
* Chapter 18 - "Kongaragatta!" by NECRY TALKIE
* Chapter 19 - "DOMINATION" by BAND-MAID
* Chapter 21 - "Saiminjutsu (Hypnotize)" by Queen Bee
* Chapter 22 - "DADA" by RADWIMPS
* Chapter 23 - "Waitress, Waitress!" by [Alexandros]
* Chapter 24 - "Transistor Radio" by Regal Lily
* Chapter 25 - "Tentai Kansoku" by BUMP OF CHICKEN

## Characters

List of characters in order of appearance:

* Nijika Ijichi
* Seika Ijichi (one-shot, chapters 14-17, 20-21)
* PA-san (one-shot, chapters 15, 16)
* Ryo Yamada
* Ikuyo Kita
* Kana-chan (one-shot)
* Hitori Gotoh
* Michiyo Gotoh (chapter , 21)
* Shuka High School Student Council No. 1 (chapter 15)
* Shuka High School Student Council No. 2 (chapter 16)
* Kikuri Hiroi (chapter 16, 17, 20)
* Yoyoko Ohtsuki (chapter )
* Ginjiro Yoshida (chapter 17)
* Shima Iwashita (chapter 17)
* Eliza Shimizu (chapter 17)
* Hitori and Futari's father (chapter 21)
* Futari Gotoh (chapter 21)
* Ishibashi Instrument employee (chapter 21)
* Aiko Sato (chapter 22)

## Gallery

### Chapter covers

Chapter 14 coverChapter 15 coverChapter 16 coverChapter 17 coverChapter 18 coverChapter 19 coverChapter 20 coverChapter 21 coverChapter 22 coverChapter 23 coverChapter 24 coverChapter 25 cover
### Miscellaneous

Clean coverCharacter illustration feat. Nijika Ijichi
## Trivia

* This volume is a same date of the release for the previous volume.
* In chapter 14, page 15, when Bocchi collapsed on the floor is a reference to a death pose meme.
* This is the only volume that contains 12 chapters instead of 13 chapters.
* This is the twenty-fifth and only chapter released in *Manga Time Kirara Carat* November 2019 issue on September 28, 2019, as a guest or extra chapter.