Seika Ijichi

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## Seika Ijichi

### Alias

Big sister (お姉ちゃん, *Onē-chan*) by Nijika
Satan of Ochanomizu (御茶ノ水の魔王, *Ochanomizu no Satan*) by Ishibashi Music staff

## Characteristics

### Age

29 (Ch 1-28)
30 (Ch 29-)

### Affiliation

Unnamed band (former member, guitarist)
STARRY

### Relatives

Unnamed father
Unnamed mother (deceased)
Nijika Ijichi (little sister)

## First appearance

### Manga

Volume 1, chapter 1 (mentioned)
Volume 1, chapter 4 (full appearance)

## Seiyū

### Japanese VA

Maaya Uchida

**Seika Ijichi** (伊(い)地(じ)知(ち) 星(せい)歌(か), *Ijichi Seika*) is the manager of the live house, STARRY. She is the older sister of Nijika Ijichi.

## Appearance

Seika has long blonde hair with floating triangle-like ahoge and orange eyes.

She is commonly wearing a black wide-neck shirt revealing red shoulder straps, as well as a tight black choker around her neck.

## Personality

Seika used to be a bandsman - a guitarist herself, and her ability was such that the label talked about scouts. She sometimes hits Nijika and the members of Kessoku Band in her mouth, but in reality, she thinks of Kessoku Band more than anyone else. Although she didn't know that Bocchi was "guitarhero", she was quick to realize her talent as a guitarist. She can be quite of a tsundere at times, especially when it comes to her little sister Nijika. For example, Nijika claimed that Seika opened Starry for her, even though Seika will never admit that. Also, it was known that she always saved a spot, wanting Kessoku Band to play even though she pretended she did not want them to. She also sleeps with her soft toys despite her age.

Seika is very proud, frank and serious, and can be strict and somewhat harsh on the band members, especially her sister, who calls her a jerk when annoyed by her tsundere mannerisms. Despite this, she is ultimately a kind person who has good intentions, and in the end her strict and aloof nature is, in her opinion, the way to make the band do the best they can.

## Relationship

### Nijika Ijichi

The pair of sisters does not always has good relationship, as Seika don't really like her during her teenage age as Nijika always meddled with her music activities, but after their mother died, Seika started to take her elder sister role seriously. From then until now, Seika has always acted as Nijika's guardian.

Being an older sister, Seika would be expected to care for Nijika wellbeing, but due to Seika being bad in housework and cooking (on top of her busy job as STARRY manager), Nijika is the one usually doing the chores. When it comes to music, Seika has always a lot to teach to Nijika due to her experience, but her way of conveying the advice sometimes just quite bad that Nijika think of it the wrong way, despite she usually being proven right after.

### Hitori Gotoh

Bocchi relation with Seika is mainly just an employer-employee relationship as Bocchi is in STARRY as a part-time worker, but Seika do care about her wellbeing at times.

Seika also recognizes Bocchi's talent and potential since she saw the band's audition and tried to encourage her to expand her potential, but due to Seika always being bad in communicating her intention nicely (in addition of her initial lukewarm impression by Bocchi), Bocchi always thought about it the wrong way

### Kikuri Hiroi

Seika was a senior of Kikuri in college, and her band is also an inspiration of Kikuri trying out music. However once Kikuri started getting involved in bands, Seika's band broke up, shocked her. Kikuri also described Seika as even more scummy from what she have been now.

They remained close until now, with Kikuri even crashed her house some times to borrow her shower. Seika always reprimanded her of her bad lifestyle and even barred her from performing in STARRY, but still care about her wellbeing otherwise.

## Etymology

* The name **Seika** means "star" (星, *sei*) and "song" (歌, *ka*).
* Seika's surname **Ijichi** means "that" (伊, *i*), "earth, ground" (地, *ji*) and "know, wisdom" (知, *chi*).

## Trivia

* Her birthday falls on Christmas Eve.
* She resembles to Kou Yagami from the *NEW GAME!* manga and anime.
* Her ahoge is usually called as "Doritos" by the fandom due to the shape.
* She played a Fender Telecaster.
* She repeated her college grade twice.

## References

1. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 1, chapter 4, page 36
2. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 2, chapter 21, page 77
3. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume TBD, chapter 60
4. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 1, chapter 9, page 79
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *"Bocchi the Rock!" TV Animation Official Guidebook -COMPLEX-*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://twitter.com/hamazi\_\_/status/1138120978976821249
7. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 1, chapter 13, page 113
8. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 1, chapter 13, page 113
9. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 1, chapter 4, page 35
10. ↑ Seika used to order guitars she want to play without asking at Ishibashi Music shop (*Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 2, chapter 21, page 77), so she was a guitarist in the past
11. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 1, chapter 4, page 37
12. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 5, chapter 61
13. ↑ *Bocchi the Rock!* manga - Volume 6, chapter 65