LIVE STAGE Bocchi the Rock!

The main key visual.

***LIVE STAGE "Bocchi the Rock!"*** (LIVE STAGE「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」, *LIVE STAGE "Bocchi za Rokku!"*) is a stage play based on the manga and anime series *Bocchi the Rock!*. It is performed in THEATER MILANO-Za, Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo on August 11 until August 20, 2023.

## Promotion and release

The stage play is announced on the anime official Twitter account on 19 June 2023 and on the same day, the separate account for LIVE STAGE has been made online in Twitter.

Full list of casts is revealed on June 26. Ticket pre-sale also has been launched in ANIPLEX+ site as well, with e-plus pre-sale follows 2 weeks later.

The main key visual has been released on July 4, while the promotional video premiered on July 12 in both stage and anime series Twitter and Aniplex official YouTube channel.

The character visual for the main casts is revealed on 22 July and the rest of the characters on July 29.

Ticket pre-sale also has been launched in ANIPLEX+ site as well on June 26, with e-plus pre-sale follows 2 weeks later. The general sale follows on 29 July where it will be available to purchase from e-plus and Ticketpia site.

Cast comment videos has been released starting July 30 where each cast will talk about the play in the videos.

A paid live stream is announced for the first and last day of performance on August 9. Tickets are available to purchase in e-plus and Zaiko, and the price were set as low as 690 yen.

## Cast

* **Hitori Gotoh**: Mamo Mamono
* **Nijika Ijichi**: Miki Otake
* **Ryo Yamada**: Karin Osanai
* **Ikuyo Kita**: Mirai Ohmori

## Staff

* **Original Story**: Aki Hamazi (Serialized in *Manga Time Kirara MAX* by Houbunsha)
* **Director & Script**: Akira Yamazaki
* **Art**: Natsuko Takebe
* **Lighting**: Katsumoto Eiji
* **Assistant Director**: Megumi Fujishima
* **Music Director**: Takuya Kusunose
* **Music Coordinator**: Kuboty
* **Props**: Kenichi Hatori
* **Costumes**: Haruko Kimura
* **Photography**: Sumire Mori & Hiroki Arakawa
* **Stage Manager**: Teruhiko Nakanishi & Ryo Nakazato
* **Hairdresser**: Mio Motegi
* **Sound**: Satoshi Nakajima
* **Promotional Art**: Satoru Hashimoto (threelight)

## Media releases

The play will be released in a special Blu-Ray and DVD release as follows

### LIVE STAGE "Bocchi the Rock!"

 Price
 Product no.
 Specification
 Main contents
 Bonus DVD contents
* Kessoku Band Bonding Document - follow up of the main cast from audition to the performance day (70 minutes)
 Aniplex Online Special Edition bonus DVD contents
* Audition Visual Commentary - comments from the main casts from their rewatch of audition footage (15 minutes)
 Other benefits
* Digijacket specification
* 56-pages booklet - including photos of characters, song lyrics and stage photos.

## Gallery

### Promotional video

LIVE STAGE "Bocchi the Rock" 30 seconds PV
### Key visuals

Hitori Gotoh key visualNijika Ijichi key visualRyo Yamada key visualIkuyo Kita key visualSeika Ijichi key visualKikuri Hiroi key visualPA-san key visualNaoki Gotoh key visualMichiyo Gotoh key visualFutari Gotoh key visual (Nanami Oka)Futari Gotoh key visual (Arisa Tsukui)Fan 1 key visualFan 2 key visual

## Trivia

* The play covers the story up to end of Episode 8 of the anime series (or equivalent to the entirety of Volume 1 of the manga). The presentation is mostly based on the anime adaption including all internal depiction of Bocchi's mind.
	+ The play however skips some scenes like the Episode 1 prelude part (flashback to when Bocchi starts playing guitar) and the after-party izakaya scene in Episode 8
	+ As such, characters appeared later in the series like Shima Iwashita or Ginjiro Yoshida does not appear in this play nor have any associated cast.
* The play is performed for 9 days, with a break on 14 August. Performances on weekend days (August 12, 13, 19 and 20) are doubled into afternoon and evening session (matinee and soiree), while performances on weekdays is only once per day with schedules happening either between evening or afternoon.
	+ Coincidentally, 14 August was the date for the in-series Kessoku Band first live performance in STARRY, and weather forecast for that day predicted a typhoon will hit Tokyo that day. The director Akira has this reminded in his post in X.
* All insert songs played is in full-length duration, in comparison of short version played in the anime series.
	+ The play includes Seishun Complex as the third song played during the Kessoku Band live performance scene (Episode 8 scene), which was never revealed in the anime.
	+ During the last day of performance, two songs were performed as an encore after the play ends, Guitar to Kodoku to Aoihoshi for the matinee and Seishun Complex for the soiree.
* All cast in the play are women, including cast for Naoki Gotoh which is played by Miki Sawada.
	+ All main actresses is capable to play their designed instruments and some of the actresses is involved in music industry. For example, Miki Otake has been participating in bands and involved in drumming competitions and Rei Tsukikawa (actress for Kikuri Hiroi) is a bassist in a band
	+ Futari Gotoh is double-casted by Nanami Oka and Arisa Tsukui, which would be related to their capacity as child actresses. Nanami and Arisa will play the character Futari for alternating days, with Nanami starting on 11 August and Arisa starting on 12 August. However on the last day, Arisa only performed in the matinee before Nanami takes over for the soiree.

## References

1. ↑ LIVE STAGE「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」公式 [@BTR\_stage] (2023, June 19). "[https://twitter.com/BTR\_stage/status/1670733333926645760 ━━━━━━━━━━━
TVアニメ「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」 舞台化決定！！ ━━━━━━━━━━━ 舞台×生歌唱×生演奏！ ＼没入”ろっく”ステージ!!／ LIVE STAGE「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」 ◎2023年8月11日(金)～8月20日(日) ◎THEATER MILANO-Za]" [Tweet]. Twitter.
2. ↑ LIVE STAGE「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」公式 [@BTR\_stage] (2023, June 26). "[https://twitter.com/BTR\_stage/status/1673270047920517120 ━━━━━━━━━━━
キャスト・スタッフ公開！ ━━━━━━━━━━━ LIVE STAGE「#ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」 脚本・演出：#山崎彬 ▷CAST 後藤ひとり：#守乃まも 伊地知虹夏：#大竹美希 山田リョウ：#小山内花凜
喜多郁代：#大森未来衣]" [Tweet]. Twitter.
3. ↑ LIVE STAGE「Bocchi the Rock！」 Official 30-seconds PV - YouTube