Bocchi the Rock!‘s Kessoku Band has become the latest guest to appear on THE FIRST TAKE, the YouTube channel that features one-take performances from various artists.
For the channel’s 442nd episode, voice actor Ikumi Hasegawa, who plays Kessoku Band vocalist Ikuyo Kita in the anime, performed the song “Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet” from the show’s fifth episode.
Watch the performance below:
The Bocchi the Rock! anime premiered in October 2022 and ended with 12 episodes. A two-part recap movie with new footage for its opening sequence premiered in Japan on June 7 and is coming to North American theaters as well.
The show adapts the Houbunsha-published 4-koma manga by Aki Hamazi and follows the anxiety-ridden Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh, who becomes a skilled guitar player but remains socially awkward. Hitori’s life starts to change when she is invited to join a band led by the cheerful Nijika Ichiji. The other main cast members are Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori, Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika, and Saku Mizuno as Ryo Yamada.
Source: THE FIRST TAKE YouTube channel
