Bocchi the Rock (episode)

"**Bocchi the Rock**" (ぼっち・ざ・ろっく, *Bocchi za Rokku*) is the eighth episode of the anime series, *Bocchi the Rock!*. It premiered on November 27, 2022.

## Synopsis

On the day of the concert. Due to the typhoon, family and friends who were supposed to be calling have been contacted one after another to cancel. Even just before the concert, the audience is sparse, and in a heavy atmosphere, Kessoku Band will have its first live performance as a four-member group.

## Plot

PA-san wipes her clothes. After Bocchi goes to the live house, she wipes her hair using the towel. PA-san looks at the teru teru bōzu above and Nijika and her friends made them by the manager. PA-san thinks the typhoon is almost at the end, the manager doesn't affect teru teru bōzu for the weather. PA-san hopes they are heartbroken by the small crowd. She brought a handkerchief to her, but the manager annoys her.

Kita noticed that her friends can't come either. Bocchi also noticed her parents can't come, especially since her grandma was supposed to look after Futari, but now she can't come too. Kita awful our audience is going to be less than, Nijika will take it in stride. Ryo sleeps on Nijika's shoulder, Bocchi remembered that Nijika is worked so hard to cheer her up and wears the weird thing.

Hiroi came to the live house when she is soaked and recognized Bocchi. She knows the manager when Bocchi asks her, the manager knows Hiroi is a kōhai in college. Hiroi hugs the manager to have an afterparty tonight picked in an izakaya. Two Bocchi fans from the street concert came to the live house. Bocchi uses the power to blow away the typhoon when they are a fan of Bocchi. They got the wrong person for Bocchi.

Kita looks at her phone looks like the rain's only going to get worse, Ryo should stream it with no audience concert. Bocchi wears the card box and waits to see us perform. They are looking for the audience before stating our performance. Bocchi's fans never heard of our band Kessoku Band. Nijika looks nervous because they are new and it's almost time for the concert.

They are ready for the performance and Kita introduces our band, but it's way too polite. Bocchi thinks for wants to card box to hide altogether. Kita gets our first original song called "Guitar, Solitude, and the Blue Planet". Two Bocchi fans wave their body during the performance. Kita sings the song, but she looks nervous, Bocchi thinks Nijika's drumming feels a little slow and Kita makes our mistake and didn't make it in practice. Also, Ryo and Nijika are not syncing at all. The long gray hair girl leaves during the performance. Bocchi looks at them for not playing as they usually do while the audition and the performance. Hiroi waves her head during the performance.

Two Bocchi fans wasted all their time, Nijika hopes Kita will need to introduce the next song. As a result, Bocchi stares at the performance and our songs are not good enough, and plays the guitar quickly. The recording engineer sets the equalization and Kessoku Band performs the next song while Bocchi plays the guitar. Bocchi fans are waving their body. They are watching the performance without getting a reaction. Bocchi focuses on her guitar, Hiroi waves her head and the manager smiles at the performance. They are applauding and make it cool after the song, Hiroi takes a picture and sends it to the social app. Nijika wonders if Bocchi did a great job, Kita revealed the second song called "That Band" and took our last song.

Kessoku Band and the STARRY staff members cheer at the izakaya bar for the success of the concert. Kita asks the manager who is that drunk woman. Hiroi introduces herself to them and left the bass at a drinking party yesterday. Ryo tells Hiroi about her concerts, Hiroi sprayed booze and spitted on the audience. The audience gets mad at her, and Hiroi takes off her jacket and stands up to thank the Shinjuku audience. Nijika calms Hiroi not learning all that.

Nijika discusses Hiroi about the audience, and the manager keeps up Nijika working hard for the next concert and makes sure that she will pay the quota fee. Bocchi turns into a husk and Nijika tells her not to turn into ash. The Mic-kun and the Guitar Man congrats Bocchi, Bocchi go order the food as much as. Nijika thinks to order karaage, but the manager talks to Kita on her phone and Kita becomes the minister of Isosta. Kita seems fun for giving people a piece and makes her bright. The manager is fading away.

Bocchi minded the food order and give the menu to her. Kita orders the avocado and cream cheese pinchos and the Spanish omelette with hollandaise sauce, and the manager tries to say "hollandaise" properly. Bocchi thinks Kita speaks in gibberish and Kita can casually walk into a Starpucks and will make a trendy choice. She will have the wrong reading order as Machu Picchu Ruins but will order french fries instead, Ryo orders pickled fish offals and Hiroi asks Ryo for her age.

Bocchi eating french fries as well, but she looks to go to an izakaya for the first time. When she becomes grows up, she can drink it too and looks for the two adult men. Salaryman A thinks that she locking her smartphone, Salaryman B thinks that he is cheating, and Salaryman A is so busy with work every day. He should go drink with him instead, and Salaryman B needs more shochu. Bocchi probably thinks that if she can't make her stage debut in high school and she is going to have to get a proper career. If Bocchi jumps to a job, her sales get the lowest on the team. Bocchi asks her to buy tokoroten, but she was refused. If Bocchi jumps to hikikomori (shut-in), her mother needs to open up the door and eat dinner with her daughter again, but Bocchi always drinks again and never asks her. And then, Bocchi jumpscares again for that and collapses. Kita and Ryo will fix Bocchi's face using sandpaper and it's already done. Bocchi makes depression on her face, but Kita will fix it a little.

Nijika is going outside the izakaya bar, Kita is shocked when Ryo calls her first name "Ikuyo", as she played well today for only three months. Hiroi and Bocchi didn't know about Ikuyo, the manager knows Kita's first name. Kita hates her name for hiding it and she makes a bad pun for the manager as "Hoshi no Uta" (星の歌, lit. "Song of the Star"; as likely her name Seika). She embarrassed herself to make a bad pun for "Came" (きた, *Kita*) and "Let's go" (いくよ, *Ikuyo*) and Seika broke her. Kita gets the full name of Kita Kita, but Ryo seems her withdraw. Hiroi asks her and Bocchi makes lost her head recently. Hiroi will give her some advice as her senpai as well. Seika has an important to enjoy the process of making kōhai's dream. Hiroi asks her when Seika was in a band, but she got sick of the band. Bocchi thinks that Nijika never said a word about that. She asks them if she needs to go to the bathroom but to go outside the bar instead.

Bocchi talks to Nijika about something wrong. Nijika realizes that summer break is almost over, Bocchi doesn't want to hear and needs the endless summer break. Nijika knows while she's watching her play today, and knows Bocchi's alias name guitarhero. She was pretty obvious from the point way when Bocchi is strumming and finally noticed that she has the same guitar. Bocchi didn't hide on purpose, but since she is a hero. Nijika told her she had a dream before, her mother died when she was little and her father was never home, and only Nijika and her sister. But since she hated being alone when her sister started a band and takes her to the live house all the time. When Nijika was a kid, the band shone to them, and her sister was an inspiration for quitting her band and starting their own live house. So STARRY is a place for her sister to make that and her sister won't admit it. Nijika's real dream is to make a band popular enough and make STARRY even more famous. She started her band, she spent a while thinking that and everyone was so disheartened today. She looks at her every time things are worst in the previous story, and she breaks through it for us. Nijika hopes that Ryo wants to use her band to play music, and Kita wants to do something with us, and they've all invested their hopes in the band. She reminds her that Bocchi never told her what she was doing that band for now. As a guitarist, Bocchi wants to make the band they all care so much about the best band, and she wants us to become a popular band that will make money and not has to finish school. Nijika accepted her investment, but she does wish Bocchi could play her videos every time. She was sure about her dream is possible and made her the nickname "Bocchi the Rock".

## Characters

List of characters in order of appearance:

* PA-san
* Ikuyo Kita
* Hitori Gotoh
* Ryo Yamada
* Nijika Ijichi
* Seika Ijichi
* Michiyo Gotoh (mentioned; spoken only)
* Naoki Gotoh (mentioned)
* Futari Gotoh (mentioned)
* Kikuri Hiroi

## 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
* **Michiyo Gotoh**: Rie Suegara

## Gallery

### Videos

Bocchi the Rock! - Episode 08 Web PreviewWeb preview for episode 8Bocchi the Talk! - 08
## Trivia

* Title card color: Yellow
* Ending quote was said by Nijika.
* Title of the episode is derived from the series name without the exclamation mark.
	+ Title of the episode is also derived from Masafumi Gotoh's book *GOTCH GO ROCK!* (ゴッチ語録, *Gocchi Goroku*).
* Kita sings our first song nervously during the live performance, but unlike the audition day in "Flightless Fish".
* Starpucks is a parody of Starbucks.
* The last four surnames from the sales result are references to the current members of CreepHyp.
* A concept animation by Kerorira was posted on Twitter on July 4, 2019, three years ago before it premieres; a scene where Bocchi thought can't make her debut in high school.
* This episode has no opening sequence, but the title card is presented after the final scene.

### Adaptation notes

* The anime expands the following:
	+ Bocchi wipes her head after arriving at the live house.
	+ Bocchi complains her parents and her sister Futari can come into the live house.
	+ Bocchi used her power to blow away the typhoon, but it comes back later.
	+ Kessoku Band introduces our two song titles in the performance.
* Kana-chan's message is not shown or her name in the anime.
* Kessoku Band performs our two songs in the anime, but it is expanded more than the manga.
* Hiroi's first name is not revealed in the manga.

## References

1. ↑ Translated from the official website.
2. ↑ けろりら [@kerorira1] (2019, July 4). "ぼっちちゃん..." [Tweet]. Twitter.