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The acclaimed anime adaptation of Bocchi the Rock will return for Season 2.
Animation studio CloverWorks has finally announced that its acclaimed anime Bocchi the Rock is returning for a second season. This follows the series’ first season and subsequent compilation films, titled “Re:” and “Re:Re” respectively, which retold the events of the season for a widescreen format.
No release date has been revealed for Bocchi the Rock Season 2, but fans have been treated to an early teaser trailer:
Bocchi the Rock officially returns with Season 2, new director comes aboard
Animation studio CloverWorks is officially hard at work on a new season of Bocchi the Rock. Over the weekend, the anime announced that it would return for Season 2, with CloverWorks returning for production on the series. However, Season 1 director Keichiro Saito will not return to helm Season 2. Presumably (though unconfirmed), this is because Saito has his hands full with directing work on Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Season 2.
Instead, Season 1 assistant director Yusuke Yamamoto will direct Season 2, with Erika Yoshida returning to work on scripts. Keito Oda and Kerorira are once again contributing to character designs.
Here’s Crunchyroll’s description of the series:
Hitori Gotoh, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah...” During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself.
After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend! She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little…
At the end of Season 1, Bocchi and the rest of Kessoku Band performed a concert that nearly went awry thanks to one of Bocchi’s guitar strings snapping mid-performance. The concert wound up being a success however, and Bocchi purchased a new guitar. Season 2 will likely see the band achieving new heights of fame, while Bocchi continues to struggle with her social anxiety.
