Check out the newest cast members below:
- Hitori Gotoh: Mamo Mamono
- Nijika Ijichi: Miki Otake
- Ryo Yamada: Karin Osanai
- Kita Ikuyo: Mirai Ohmori
- Seika Ijichi: Misato Kawauchi
- Kikuri Hiroi: Rei Tsukikawa
- Futari Gotoh: Nanami Oka, Arisa Tsukui (double cast)
The play is written and directed by Warui Shibai actor Akira Yamazaki. On the official website of the program, more details are available, including a more comprehensive staff roster.
The performance is scheduled to take place from August 11 to August 20, at the THEATER MILANO-Za in Tokyo. Starting today, advance tickets can be purchased via lottery on the ANIPLEX+ website.
At the CloverWorks animation studio, BOCCHI THE ROCK! is directed by Keiichiro Saito (key animator for Sonny Boy), with Yusuke Yamamoto (key animator for WONDER EGG PRIORITY) serving as his associate director. From October through December 2022, the show ran on Japanese TV and was available to stream on Crunchyroll.
Not familiar with the anime storyline? Here's a brief summary about the BOCCHI THE ROCK! 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...
Let us know in the comments down below if you will be attending the stage play adaptation of BOCCHI THE ROCK! in Tokyo this fall!