Trivia / Bocchi the Rock!

• Acting for Two: Kotori Koiwai voices both PA-san and Jimihen.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: Slowly becoming this for Manga Time Kirara, as this is their biggest hit since Laid-Back Camp. Following a streak of underperformers in-between both, it doesn't hurt to say they are happy to have another one.
• Cross-Cast Role: Miki Sawada portrays the only male character, Naoki Gotoh (Bocchi's father), in the live action stage adaptation.
• Demand Overload: The popularity of the anime caused the manga to sell out in bookstores, encouraging Houbunsha to publish three reprints of the manga.
• Late Export for You: The manga began serialization in 2017, but wasn't released in the Anglosphere at all until Yen Press announced that they would publish it in fall 2023, likely spurred by the anime's success.
• No Dub for You: For reasons unknown, the English blu-ray release for the anime does not come with an English dub.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: Japanese fans often call it Bozaro for "Bocchi Za Rokku."
• The Red Stapler: Sales of the Les Paul Custom and the Yamaha Pacifica went up when fans were inspired by this show to take up the guitar themselves.
• Sleeper Hit: Despite being released in the middle of a season full of other highly anticipated anime (like Chainsaw Man, Bleach, Mob Psycho 100 and Spy X Family), Bocchi's anime adaptation quickly gained popularity, with many praising its relatability and willingness to mix and match different styles and looks of animation in order to better deliver its gags.
• Throw It In!: When her bandmates suggest that she open an "Isstagram" account, Bocchi is so distressed by the idea of doing so that she responds by "glitching out" while screaming. The voice director's plan was to distort the screaming in post to sound like an audio corruption, but Yoshino Aoyama was able to get the intended effect entirely on her own, with this take being used in the final episode.
• Tourist Bump: Shimokitazawa, especially the SHELTER live house that STARRY was based on, received an increasing number of visitors making pilgrimages to the locations within the series. However, rowdy behavior from fans caused the official Bocchi website to issue a reminder for fans to behave themselves.
• What Could Have Been: Bocchi was at first meant to have a personality of being cute and cheerful, but her personality was changed to be essentially the complete opposite of that to avoid comparisons with Yui from K-On!. In fact, plenty of the decisions made for the series were made primarily to differentiate itself from K-On!.

Miscellaneous trivia:

• The anime adaptation's existence is in part to a conversation between Shōta UMEHARA and Kerorira, who would later become the respective producer and character designer, at an art exhibition of Kocha, on June 16th, 2019. The latter had brought up the idea of adapting Bocchi the Rock!, a manga he had been interested in, with CloverWorks, to the former. The negotiations worked out, and the show would shortly enter production in mid 2019 for a late 2022 release, adding up to three years of total development.

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