After Dark

"**After Dark**" (アフターダーク, *Afutā Dāku*) is the tenth episode of the anime series, *Bocchi the Rock!*. It premiered on December 11, 2022.

## Synopsis

The new semester has begun and preparations for the school festival have begun at Hitori's school. When Hitori finds out that there is a call for performances on the gymnasium stage, she vacillates between the desire to appear in a band and be frightened, and the fear of failing due to nervousness.

## Plot

A girl from Shuka High School quickly asks them when the band can't perform when it had scheduled. He forgets her name but the girl from Class 2 is Gotoh. The audience cheers for Gotoh and she will perform it. Bocchi wakes up and drools from her dream, she thinks about she was in homeroom and they started talking about festival project ideas. Class 2's project will be a maid and butler café with Bocchi and they wore our maid outfit. Bocchi makes depressed about a maid and imagines a grave café and almost spaces out. She remembers when she never got to do it in middle school, but she daydreamed about it a thousand times. She plays in the live house now and her band is not fun and/or games.

Bocchi almost submits her application form, but she does a reckless up at the student council room. She did write the application form, she bows her head as she is a professional guitarist and collapsed herself.

Bocchi wakes up and looks for an unfamiliar ceiling, she is fine after collapsing and Kita heard that. Bocchi thinks nothing about it if Kita sparkles her eyes when she gets excited. She is heading to work after a little rest, but she hides it. Kita got plans with friends today, but she can cancel them. After Kita leaves, Bocchi picks up the application form, but she thinks about it and she using her phone, but it attacks her while watching the concert. Bocchi maybe that her bandmates are coming; for example, the student council introduces Kessoku Band. Bocchi collapses again and throws her application form.

At the live house, Bocchi hides the trash can before she greets Seika. Seika asks her when she is already on the fence, but she barely cared about high school. PA-san asks them when Bocchi discussed Seika about the culture festival. But Nijika is so fun and different from performing at a live house. She did in middle school, Ryo played obscure songs and bombed with the audience.

Nijika is revealed when she never played with Ryo at a culture festival, but she did love to play. Ryo likes to play her original songs somewhere other than here. Bocchi thinks when she gets expelled for playing something and thus, it a disciplinary for her. Ryo explains Bocchi's scared, but she still has nightmares about that concert; that's why she bombed. Bocchi's thinking is over.

At night in her home, Bocchi is thinking about Nijika wanting to play at the culture festival too. She rolls around when she feels pretty good and bumps into the cabinet. She really can't do it because of it. The next day at her school, Bocchi thinks of her bandmates and makes them already nervous about playing in a live house. An AD asks about Bocchi's classmate in high school, and she is ready to drink her alcohol with her guitar stands. Kita calls Bocchi and discussed her being worried about the nurse's office. She turned it in for the culture festival performance, but Bocchi is reacting to that and surprised herself.

At the live house, Bocchi lies down with a coffin, and Kita becomes a criminal when she wears a signboard, but she will talk to them tomorrow. Hiroi arrived at the live house and Seika rejected her about giving her free booze. She hugs Nijika to tell her sister to be nicer. Nijika scares Hiroi to kindly depart. Kita volunteered with her for the culture festival against her, Bocchi really can't do it for herself and she is scared of performing at school. Hiroi gives her ticket to Bocchi and Ryo, and Nijika and Kita let her pay for it, but Hiroi mistakenly as a gift. Hiroi is angry and gives her one bottle of shochu, but she might not look at it, but her band is popular which means they make our ticket quotas. Nijika and Seika make angry in front of her because she did not pay rent. So Seika asks Bocchi would borrow more money that she hasn't paid back. Ryo and Hiroi respect Bocchi for not paying last time.

Seika warns Hiroi not to drink it before the concert and Hiroi goes to Shinjuku with Kessoku Band. Before they arrived in Shinjuku, Hiroi's band is SICK HACK, but they can see it for free, Bocchi knew that she was good from our street concert. At the train station, Bocchi enjoyed it before the concert. They arrived at Shinjuku's live house FOLT and Nijika thought about the live house is very different. Bocchi enjoyed it again before the concert when Yoyoko sees her. Ginjiro glares at them, and Nijika pleads with him to miss her sister. Hiroi introduces Ginjiro Yoshida, the manager of the live house FOLT. Ginjiro's favorite genre is punk rock when he has a choice. Shima told Hiroi not to be late because our rehearsal is already over. She realized them for the members of Kessoku Band and she was sure about Hiroi caused a lot of trouble. Eliza introduces them too and she lived in England until she was eighteen and is currently in her third year in Japan. She came to Japan for Comiket and has two keychains for that and wants to be an anime song cover.

They buy orange juice (except Ryo), and Nijika and Kita satisfy all the people. Ryo sits in front of them and takes in the sound and explains Hiroi's band is psychedelic rock. Bocchi much can't wait to hear them and Kita is interested in psychedelic rock, and Ryo will bring all her albums tomorrow. SICK HACK begins to perform the song, Bocchi satisfies them while performing a song, but they are amazing. Hiroi touches Bocchi's cheek and she holds is going somewhere with her. Hiroi jumps to the audience and they toss to her.

After the performance, Hiroi asks Bocchi would like the concert, but Bocchi is incredible for Hiroi's concert and Hiroi shined up there. Hiroi explains herself about the school, she was a gloomy person attracted to a corner of the classroom and she started playing rock. She was scared stiff of buying a bass and she started drinking to chill before the first concert and she remembered her were played both on the street and at STARRY. Bocchi is underage when Hiroi asks her to drink alcohol, but she would like her to come to the culture festival performance. Hiroi smashes the wall when she is excited and Ginjiro will add 100,000 yen to her tab for wall repairs.

At the restaurant, Nijika is hyped up for the concert and each will get fifteen minutes, Kita said and they have three songs. Kita will have Ryo some of her food, and Nijika refuse her because she needs to learn her lesson. Ryo begs Kita to give her some food, Nijika explains to Ryo to avoid the three Bs in a boyfriend are "bassist, bassist, and bassist" and gives her only one piece of french fries. Ryo confesses and Nijika gives all the french fries to her.

Ryo writes a setlist to do about the culture festival and they will put a guitar solo for Bocchi in the second one and make sure that Bocchi will shine. The cultural festival is a bit aggressive about that and Ryo will bomb again and they can split the shame. Kita stops walking after eating at the restaurant and ask Bocchi when she had thrown out the application form for the culture festival, but submitted it anyway. Bocchi is kind of looking forward to it and happened to Kita that she hadn't turned in the application form. Kita is going to work even harder at practice and make the culture festival a success.

Kita asks them to coach herself on guitar after work, but Bocchi has her practice to focus on, and she wanted to practice and get better too. Bocchi got make-up lessons today, but on the first day of the culture festival, she disappeared too Nijika was shocked.

## Characters

List of characters in order of appearance:

* Hitori Gotoh
* Ikuyo Kita
* Seika Ijichi
* PA-san
* Nijika Ijichi
* Ryo Yamada
* Kikuri Hiroi
* Yoyoko Ohtsuki (debut; cameo)
* Ginjiro Yoshida (debut)
* Eliza Shimizu (major debut)
* Shima Iwashita (major debut)
* Hiyori Minagi (Eliza's keychain)
* Koharu Minagi (Eliza's keychain)

## Cast

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

* **Seika Ijichi**: Maaya Uchida
* **PA-san**: Kotori Koiwai
* **Kikuri Hiroi**: Sayaka Senbongi
* **Shima Iwashita**: Maki Kawase
* **Eliza Shimizu**: Sally Amaki
* **Ginjiro Yoshida**: Katsuyuki Miura

## Gallery

### Videos

TVアニメ「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」第10話「アフターダーク」WEB予告Web preview for episode 10ぼっち・ざ・とーく！-10-TVアニメ「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」毎週土曜24時より放送中！Bocchi the Talk! - 10
## Trivia

* Title card color: Blue
* Ending quote was said by Ryo.
* Title of the episode shares the same song title of the same name.
* Hiyori and Koharu Minagi from the *Slow Loop* anime, who appears as two keychains for Eliza.
* One of the classmates in Bocchi's class references Yuno, the main protagonist of *Hidamari Sketch*, another manga serialized in *Manga Time Kirara Carat*.
* The two preview screenshots have an animation error and fixes before it premieres. For the following:
	+ Hiroi's blushing is edited when she talks to Bocchi after the performance and Bocchi's left eyelid is also edited.
	+ Nijika's backpack is edited without a shoulder strap.

### Adaptation notes

* The anime adds the following:
	+ Bocchi thinking about the culture festival at her home.
* The anime expands the following:
	+ Bocchi throws out the application form at the school.
* Bocchi walks before the live house is cut in the anime.
* Kita's flashback is cut in the anime when she needs to be canceled by the student council.
* The exam scenario for Bocchi and Ryo is not told further in the anime, despite it takes a whole chapter in the manga. Alongside the quote about Ryo's brain being empty in the last episode, the mention of them having a remedial class was the only parts of the exam chapter that has been adapted.
* Seika makes Hiroi NEET is cut in the anime.
* In the manga, Eliza holds the Kirara magazine, while in the anime, she holds the two keychains.
* In the manga, Ryo is standing before the concert, while in the anime, she sits on a chair before the concert.
* Hiroi smashes the wall using her foot in the manga. While in the anime, she smashes the wall using her hand.
* Kita shouts Bocchi in the public, but it is cut in the anime.
* SICK HACK song played in this episode has never been named in the manga, and while the name was not mentioned in the anime directly even, it only received its name right after the episode ends from the official anime Twitter account.

## References

1. ↑ Translated from the official website.