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| great episode the first half it was the school concert, the best of all the anime series! The sencod half was a new guitar!! Well, I hope in a future a next season 7/10 kekeke |
| This is the most outstanding ending episode for the fall season... we never forget that this anime will be inspired specially introverted people that they want to release their potential that they will become more popular... |
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| solid 9/10 from me... The directing, plot, music are all well-written and exceptionally good There MUST be a second season soon, the BDs are selling like a hot cakes! |
| It's cemented now. This anime is the Anime Of The Year for me. What an amazing end to an equally amazing anime. No other anime has made me laugh so hard and made me emotionally invested in the characters at the same time. The absolute animation in this episode, the slow development of Bocchi and Kita, the fantastic music, the cringe-inducing but still hilarious jokes...My GOD, I cannot stop with this show. This is easily a 10/10 AOTS and AOTY for me and one of my favourite anime of all time. |
| Finally it ends and to be honest a final episode doesnt necesarilly needs to go out with a hype and a bang i loved how it did, in a nice calm wholesome way like it should be imo. The performance though not epic but was still great and enjoyable. The girls did a great job especially Kita and bocchi. I loved how kita sang with expressions and her body movement vibe was syncing well with the music, especially this part i replayed this many times, it was so good. Then even going further and doing a clutch support for bocchi with the improvisation. She totally earned my respect. Then coming to bocchi, after seeing kita supporting her, doing her own improv and that too with kikuri's sake glass,like i have no exact knowledge how that works, but i guess that was just genius thinking on the spot. *applause* Then from genius thinking she goes back to our regular social anxiety bocchi by just doing the unexpected jump off the stage and face plant into the ground, i just had the same reaction as ryou and kikuri laughin myself out. Pure gold After bocchi wakes up from the stunt is probably one of my favorite moments, Kita and bocchi having a nice talk, complimenting and bonding with each other. I personally think kita has resepect and affection for bocchi in a different manner to how she has for ryou in a more endearing way. How the times have changed when she once just saw an unknown bocchi to being one of her close friend and someone she wants to be a pillar for. Best part was she called bocchi by her first name, that was a bliss moment <3 Then we have some family time. Let me say her dad is just so wholesome and amazing, so proud of her and didnt even care if bocchi broke a guitar instead encouraged her to break more xD . i loved the fact he thought practically for his daughters future, made use of her talent in a positive to support her and even the mom (whose voice i can just keep listening to all day) just cheers her on. Ofcourse cant forget the adorables sister and pup just wanting to play. Bocchis family is just heartwarming and pleasant. Finally bocchi buying her very first guitar with the money she got. Though her main excitement was to skip part time job with money just ascended her to super saiyan levels. Another top grade meme worthy material ofcourse and then she goes back in the garbage pin after getting shot down by the manager easily. Also can i say manager is absouloutely adorable blushing. Bochis anxiety strikes again at the shop inducing the headbang simulator, Ryou humblebragging with the bass while nijika feeling left out as the drummer. I liked how they displayed different types and brands of guitar, where bochhi finally picks a yamaha, ofcourse cant converse with the store employee and kita being the mediator controlling bocchi like a doll to do the formalities. Atleast bocchi conveys her thanks to the employee for taking good care of the guitar and her kind words even though she ran out like the flash and left the guitar behind. I am glad ryou understood bocchis feelings as a fellow guitarist, that she wanted to get a feel for her guiar first. In my perspective the new and old guitar is a nice symbolism of bocchi changing herself over the course of the series with her music, there is her new self but there will be the old bocchi too & she will embrace both sides as she moves on in life. Little by little shes reaching out and coming out of her shell. A nice touch to the end tbh. Till the end i just loved every bit of this. Hillarious and delectable expressions & references, the amazing music, the girls bonding and creating music together, bochis social problem presented in both humorous and serious apspects and how she slowly comes over it with her passion of music and experiences she makes through it, the great side characters which contribute and make the series even better (kikuri my all time favorite, love that drunk goofer). All of this combining and making this series such a unique and precious experience to take in and enjoy. Thank you to cloverworks and the staff to make such an amazing piece of work including the beautiful visual art, animation and the ost's. Also i knew the name of girls were in reference to one of my favorite bands asian kung fu generation, but to end the series on the cover of their songs was just chefs kiss. Ty bocchi, will miss you <3 [font="\"Proxima Nova Regular\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"]  [/font] |
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| Had a blast with this one. The music is good, much better than K-On in my honest opinion. The art style was more interesting and lively, and while it didn’t have as long of a run of the season as the aforementioned show of similar concept, what it managed to do in the 12 episode run it had was excellent. CGDCT genre is amazing and underappreciated. Hope this gets a second season very much. |
| i dunno why this show so famous !! for me nothing special from this anime !! for last episode is kinda dissapointed !! bocchi didnt use 100% her skills on that stage !! 8/10 |
| oh how much it makes me happy to see the rating above 9. fully deserved. the concert was decent but bocchi managing with a broken guitar without panicking was great to see. her jump though lmao. i'm sure she's popular in her school now. the head banging part got me good lmao. great episode. 10/10 goes without saying. |
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| Oooooh that was a good final episode, I may have laughed too hard at that stage dive scene, but now kessoku band had has gone back to sleep, someone, somewhere is shredding her guitar in extreme anxiety and turning into a ohysics engine and everyone eagerly waits for her return. |
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| And it's done :'( The sometimes safe space sometimes trauma inducing anime is over and I can't say I won't miss it. It was absolutely wonderful watching Bocchi till the end and I'm really glad I picked it up back in ep.3 |
| "Even if it has good reviews, if I don't like it then it is shit" -Some random anime character |
| Bocchi stage diving was the peak of this series. At the end of the day this series was more of a comedy/SOL for me then CGDCT and way more then a music anime. Cloverworks did great but they failed to deliver whenever instruments were being played. But at the end of the day like I said this really isn't about the music and it's more about Bocchi's development. Solid show. 8.8/10 |
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| Dude when i started watching anime on internet you were 8 years old, and i still love bocchi, talking about generations being 20 years old hahahaha. |
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| Well that pretty fun... the show and final performance ended in kind of a anticlimactic way, I assume Bocchi still has a bit to learn about how to deal the interactions with the audience when she has to perform. Anyhow good way to end and what amazing looking cover at the end. I'm expecting a season 2 to come out some day... I mean with how it did well in Japan along with good ratings I would be more surprised if it doesn't get a new season. We all wait, in the mean time... good job to all the girls! 7.6/10 Thanks to everyone involved with this show for putting a lot of passion |
JoshhhpSep 1, 2023 6:05 AM
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| Definitely the best non-sequel I watched this year. Absolutely loved the characters and the animation/directing was some of the unique and innovative I've ever seen. Really hoping for a second season. |
TsukuyomiREKTDec 25, 2022 7:34 AM
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| Bocchi and friends rock concert season conclusion in great style and messing up in the last moment It wouldn't be her if she didn't do it. I'd appreciate a season 2 very much. I'm interested in how far they can reach with that new guitar. |
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| If you listen to Bocchi's solo it actually sounded good. That's with the nerf of having her 1st string snapped and 2nd string unusable so she had to do bottle neck guitar sliding. Nice adlib for Kita too. |
| Wouldn't expect Bocchi to jump into the crowd like that, but it mainly went just how I thought it would. This has been quite the season. Really wasn't expecting much from this anime, but it is definitely the "hidden gem" of Fall 2022 (if you can even call it that). Overall I'd say it has been a very enjoyable show, having some lovely CGDCT and comedy moments. It manages to make so many different things work well together, like the variety of characters that comprise the main cast. Would definitely be able to recommend this. |
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| Yikes, that was too much second-hand embarrassment for one episode. But overall pretty fun show that ended on a nice note. |
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lucio54 said: Dude when i started watching anime on internet you were 8 years old, and i still love bocchi, talking about generations being 20 years old hahahaha. starflutter said: See how you didn't read anything I've written, I gave the show an 8, obviously I am self aware I am a zoomer and I like the anime because of the same reason I've talked about. Typical of MAL behaviour, feeling targeted about your tastes meanwhile the analysis do not concern you at all. You can like this show, everyone can and I do as well but I try to understand why the vast majority of people would brand this show as a masterpiece while it's clearly not even tho it's good. Don't care about the MAL score as well, just the overall reception I find intriguing.I'm taking this moment to flex the fact that my account is 8 years older than yours, I watched K-on while it was airing, I'm not a zoomer, yet I loved this anime Just noticed this guy is complaining about Gen Z anime watchers when he was born in 2002 lol Animaaaaaaa said: That might be one of the biggest headcannon I've seen in my life, "dive of young age as her alcohol addiction etc". I hope you actually know her addiction is treated as a joke during the entire series and that alcoholic character are a standard of anime ? Also most people don't die of alcohol at a young age otherwise half of japanese population would die before they hit 25. Bocchi's story is lighthearted, her anxiety is used as a way to create as much visual metaphor as possible but there is not character drama in Bocchi, they don't face much hardships compared to what at real group would suffer, they can practice easily, they have the money they need, they are extremely skilled for their age and they succeed all their performances. If the plot was treated in a true realistic approach if wouldn't be a CGDCT anymore because you'd see them fail each episodes, which is the opposite of what this genra want of a show. K-ON! didn't have much drama either but it had one arc dedicated to a tension of 2 characters inside of the band, something you never see in Bocchi because it's centered around just Bocchi overcoming her anxiety. Your writing style seems quite unexperimented so I don't blame you. Bocchi is bocchi. its story is pretty grim tbh since we're talking about someone with social anxiety putting everything on music and dont get me start talking about kikuri who is basically a girl who's gonna die in a very young age as her alcohol addiction goes in a downward spiral that it started to affects her life. this is a direct opposite of the lighthearted story of k-on. (pretty much, k-on sugarcoated a lot of things. its unnoticeable until you realized "well..if i'm that position, i maybe in a fetal position") Now enough with replying because it is fundamentely pointless, this show has success and my goal is to understand why because I've watched enough KyoAni and Doga Kobo show to know having cute girls and a good production value doesn't create automatically an acclaimed masterpiece in the anime community. I believe Bocchi popularity is due to its vibes, I'm a very aesthetic man and the shows I like the most have this research put in their aesthetic, drawing things that look and feels cool. Bocchi is exactly that, the imagery of a cute pink hair girl in a black shirt doing sick guitar riffs to overcome her social anxiety on a stage is cool, it's out of the norm and it has this bizarre indie vibe you don't have find in 90% of modern anime. I think that's what people resonated with Bocchi, the vibes, especially of these performances, the effort the animator put into it gave them this down to earth feel of overcoming your problems through music. My main issue is that those performances are just a slight part of the show, most of it looks like any cute girl doing a specific hobby show you can find on the catalogue. I you look at the vast majority of the fanart of Bocchi the rock they are either Bocchi being embarassed or Bocchi being cool doing the performance of episode 8. The title drop as well in the same episode is a good trick Bocchi has used to make believe of an emotional climax. It's extremely nicely put in the conversation but it fails as representing anything other than what I talk about, "Bocchi the Rock" are these moments Bocchi is rocking the stage, but Bocchi the Rock the show is 5% of that and 95% of cute girls comedy skits. I have now a lot of troubles finding people able to contradict this ideas because most of the discussion surrounding Bocchi is vague and centered about liking these cute girls, which I give them, are very cute, but unfortunately Bocchi fall in this category of show people know they like but they cannot explain why they like them. Everyone can like the show they like for whatever reason they feel and they don't have to explain it at all, but sometimes it's cool to know why you like the things you like and that's analysis. |
| 10/10 i laughed i smiled i related to it i cried Bocchi the Rock! was the best thing occured to me in long time to the author, cloverwork studio and the staffs and people behind it Thank you! i miss the anxiety saturdays |
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| And so the day has arrived. The final episode of Bocchi the Rock is here. This was one of my most anticipated anime this season since the first PV was released. I never would've imagined that it would be this good. It surpasses the expectations I had. You can feel the love poured into each episode, a passion project. A lot of people say this show is similar to K-on, but I never see it that way. Bocchi the Rock and K-On only has one thing in common: CGDCT about band. It is executed very differently, the casts are different, the settings are different, the song genre is different (don't really understand about musical genre but songs from both band sound very different). Because they are different, I don't think one is superior than the other. I'd been giving this show an 8/10 rating all this time, but after the final episode, I will change it to 9/10. Bocchi the Rock was a candidate for anime of the year (at least for me), the other one was Summertime Render. Now that both shows have aired, I'm certain that Bocchi the Rock takes the crown this year. While Summertime Render is amazing, it's lost its charm in the last arc, and this is not the case with Bocchi the Rock. It stays true from start to finish. I'm going to miss this series. I hope we got to hear more Distortion as it's my favorite ending, but I'm satisfied. 9/10, here's hoping season 2 down the line. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| I knew nothing about this show except that it looked like cute girls doing cute things in a rock band. Man oh man, did this show deliver on that (in a very crazy and hardcore way). Loved the show and the finale. |
| Ya'll I am so sad that this is over. This anime genuinely got me through my first semester at college and I am destroyed that it is over. Praying for a second season but until then I will be listening to the album on repeat on Spotify and waiting for that Sick Hack full song to release 🙏 |
| imagine bocchi playing the solo part of this wonderful ed at 2:28 T_T https://youtu.be/H7ZyZdqLb5Q |
| I really liked what I saw for the past 12 weeks. These girls are a lovely bunch together and I want more of it. You could tell Cloverworks was having fun with this anime for sure. Score-wise it's for sure my personal anime of the year. Planning on rewatching this for sure somewhere in the future. I ordered the full CD to pay my support for the Kessoku Band. Doing that also makes Ryo doesn't have to eat weeds for yet another day. |
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