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ぼっち・ざ・ろっく! [Bocchi the Rock!] #2
Bocchi the Rock!, Vol. 2
Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh once played guitar in solitude, but ever since Nijika roped her into joining Kessoku Band, she’s started to emerge from her shell...kinda. She may still be a nervous wreck, but with a show or two under her belt, a part-time job, and even some real-life friends, those rocker fantasies don’t seem so unrealistic anymore! However, the band’s about to face its biggest challenge yet—performing onstage at the school festival! Can Bocchi hold it together and become a rock legend, or will she embarrass herself in front of the entire student body? (Why not both?!)
136 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2020
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December 18, 2024
It's a fun character driven series...a little bit annoying to read most of it in 4 panel comics..
May 29, 2024
In the throes of summer vacation, everybody is up to something fun. Except for Bocchi, who remains expectant, yet has fallen off everybody’s radar. It’s time for emergency fun, plus the school festival shows up and Bocchi’s stock takes a dive before it rises again.
If anything ever justified my remarks about how much content is crammed into a single volume of 4-koma, consider that after 2/3s of this volume we surpass how far the Bocchi anime managed to get in the storyline with its entire run of episodes.
On the upside, that means that we stop re-treading the same ground after a bit. The horrible music journalist, Aiko, whose age keeps getting progressively younger, gets some really strong gags and firmly sits on the right side of annoying. She’s great.
There’s a lot of strong Bocchi throughout, but she really comes into her own towards the end, where her dreams are about to be realized, except her friends aren’t invited, and she has to consider just how she managed to achieve anything beyond playing guitar online.
Everybody else just stays on their personality traits, although there is a pretty fun tweak on tropes when it comes to who the smart one in the group actually is. And I did appreciate the acknowledgment that the big sister character is, in fact, classic tsundere.
As I noted last time, some of this just works so much better in the anime version. This manga was made to be animated. The summer trip is a hoot in the anime, but there’s just something overly whiny about the manga that irked me somewhat.
And as good as the school festival arc is, there’s no possible way that it can live up to the absolute killer version in the anime, one of my favourite scenes in anything last year, where Bocchi just obliterates everything holding her back, right before comedic timing sends her plummeting back to earth.
For the reader who doesn’t have that to go on, however, these will hit pretty good, but there’s definitely a flair the anime brings to all of this that I cannot disconnect from personally and does elevate the material from mere print.
The one place the manga does step ahead is with its constant visual gags related to Japanese music acts and other such digs. It’s pretty clear that beyond the goofing around, the mangaka has a sharp eye for parody as well and it does fill in the series a bit more than the anime.
As before, bless the extensive translation notes that show how much thought went into some of those jokes. These are the thickest set of notes I’ve seen in some time and they definitely enrich the experience. It’s still a good read without them, but they are appreciated.
3.5 stars - the new stuff is great, the old stuff is good, but was done better in another medium. I think this is still a worthwhile read and I actually suspect that now that I don’t have the anime version to reference, subsequent volumes will do better with me.
If anything ever justified my remarks about how much content is crammed into a single volume of 4-koma, consider that after 2/3s of this volume we surpass how far the Bocchi anime managed to get in the storyline with its entire run of episodes.
On the upside, that means that we stop re-treading the same ground after a bit. The horrible music journalist, Aiko, whose age keeps getting progressively younger, gets some really strong gags and firmly sits on the right side of annoying. She’s great.
There’s a lot of strong Bocchi throughout, but she really comes into her own towards the end, where her dreams are about to be realized, except her friends aren’t invited, and she has to consider just how she managed to achieve anything beyond playing guitar online.
Everybody else just stays on their personality traits, although there is a pretty fun tweak on tropes when it comes to who the smart one in the group actually is. And I did appreciate the acknowledgment that the big sister character is, in fact, classic tsundere.
As I noted last time, some of this just works so much better in the anime version. This manga was made to be animated. The summer trip is a hoot in the anime, but there’s just something overly whiny about the manga that irked me somewhat.
And as good as the school festival arc is, there’s no possible way that it can live up to the absolute killer version in the anime, one of my favourite scenes in anything last year, where Bocchi just obliterates everything holding her back, right before comedic timing sends her plummeting back to earth.
For the reader who doesn’t have that to go on, however, these will hit pretty good, but there’s definitely a flair the anime brings to all of this that I cannot disconnect from personally and does elevate the material from mere print.
The one place the manga does step ahead is with its constant visual gags related to Japanese music acts and other such digs. It’s pretty clear that beyond the goofing around, the mangaka has a sharp eye for parody as well and it does fill in the series a bit more than the anime.
As before, bless the extensive translation notes that show how much thought went into some of those jokes. These are the thickest set of notes I’ve seen in some time and they definitely enrich the experience. It’s still a good read without them, but they are appreciated.
3.5 stars - the new stuff is great, the old stuff is good, but was done better in another medium. I think this is still a worthwhile read and I actually suspect that now that I don’t have the anime version to reference, subsequent volumes will do better with me.
February 10, 2024
This was an okay manga its a cool concept but I just couldn't get into it enough to want to finish this series. I did enjoy reading this book it was cool I also didn't like how it was written but it was still really good.
August 19, 2024
Цей томик також не розчарував.
Люблю я цю милу дівчинку.
До того ж, я вже повністю призвичаїлась до незвичного оформлення й читалось швидко
Люблю я цю милу дівчинку.
До того ж, я вже повністю призвичаїлась до незвичного оформлення й читалось швидко
February 27, 2025
This continues to be a fun series, and I continue to wish it wasn’t in the four panel format.
November 6, 2023
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Intrigue ⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5
Je me suis beaucoup retrouvée en Bocchi, introvertie et pas très sociable 🫠 et j’ai bien accroché à l’histoire! Elle qui est très douée pour jouer seule, doit apprendre à l’être en groupe. Dur pour une solitaire! Nous la suivons dans sa progression dans le groupe « Les Attaches » et dans son amitié avec les membres.
Suivre le festival du lycée a été mon moment préféré des deux tomes, Bocchi y est adorable ♥️
En résumé : C’est chill, les dessins sont mignons et les cases originales (petites cases quasiment tout le temps)
Personnages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Bocchi me fait beaucoup rire et je me suis déjà attachée à elle. Elle est si timide, c’en est touchant. Puis sa progression dans sa timidité et sa relation aux autres est intéressante à suivre je trouve, grâce au groupe elle arrive de mieux en mieux à interagir avec les gens toi en gardant son caractère.
Les filles du groupe sont mignonnes aussi et chacune a son caractère. J’ai bien aimé Ryo 🥰
Romance 🚫 (pour l’instant en tout cas il n’y en a pas!)
Rythme ⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5
On est sur un rythme chill/ slice of life donc ne vous attendez pas a énormément d’action, mais c’est un bon rythme lorsque l’on souhaite se détendre avec un manga ✨
Une bonne découverte en somme, un manga qui nous parle de musique, des débuts dans un groupe, de l’introvertion, la timidité et le rapport aux autres. ♥️
Merci aux éditions @meianfr - Collaboration produits reçus gratuitement 🫶
Intrigue ⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5
Je me suis beaucoup retrouvée en Bocchi, introvertie et pas très sociable 🫠 et j’ai bien accroché à l’histoire! Elle qui est très douée pour jouer seule, doit apprendre à l’être en groupe. Dur pour une solitaire! Nous la suivons dans sa progression dans le groupe « Les Attaches » et dans son amitié avec les membres.
Suivre le festival du lycée a été mon moment préféré des deux tomes, Bocchi y est adorable ♥️
En résumé : C’est chill, les dessins sont mignons et les cases originales (petites cases quasiment tout le temps)
Personnages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Bocchi me fait beaucoup rire et je me suis déjà attachée à elle. Elle est si timide, c’en est touchant. Puis sa progression dans sa timidité et sa relation aux autres est intéressante à suivre je trouve, grâce au groupe elle arrive de mieux en mieux à interagir avec les gens toi en gardant son caractère.
Les filles du groupe sont mignonnes aussi et chacune a son caractère. J’ai bien aimé Ryo 🥰
Romance 🚫 (pour l’instant en tout cas il n’y en a pas!)
Rythme ⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5
On est sur un rythme chill/ slice of life donc ne vous attendez pas a énormément d’action, mais c’est un bon rythme lorsque l’on souhaite se détendre avec un manga ✨
Une bonne découverte en somme, un manga qui nous parle de musique, des débuts dans un groupe, de l’introvertion, la timidité et le rapport aux autres. ♥️
Merci aux éditions @meianfr - Collaboration produits reçus gratuitement 🫶
April 12, 2024
Same as volume 1, I like the story and the characters, but I’m really not getting on with the format and it just feels too long, slow, and hard to follow for me. I might try watching the anime to continue with these characters, but I think I’m gonna stop here with the manga because I don’t enjoy the reading experience enough. Rated as a 4 because I do think it’s well written, it’s just not for me format-wise.
January 28, 2024
Le groupe est hyper attachant (leur nom "les attaches" est bien trouvé). Les membres ont toutes une personnalité bien différente mais ça fonctionne de fou, elles se complètent.
C'est vraiment agréable de voir Bocchi prendre peu à peu confiance en elle !
C'est vraiment agréable de voir Bocchi prendre peu à peu confiance en elle !
April 29, 2023
we are forming a band and we love it! 🎸🎵🎤👩🏻🎤🧑🏻🎤🥁🎹
January 13, 2024
cute cute cute. i'm thoroughly sucked in at this point
January 26, 2024
This series is great 😌 hope it continues to be consistent!
January 27, 2024
The print is just so tiny!
February 27, 2024
I cannot tell any of these characters apart but it's still pretty alright.
March 25, 2024
第二集就有動畫沒有的橋段了
動畫用的素材會不會太少啊?!
動畫用的素材會不會太少啊?!
April 8, 2024
I'm still having a fun time, but I still think this story works better in the anime format.
May 21, 2024
Segundo tomo argentino en formato símil-kanzenban y con varias páginas a color.
January 11, 2025
I found this one quite a bit funnier and more cohesive than the first volume … and we’re past the timeline of season 1 of the anime and into new material already! This is a very fun series so far.
September 18, 2025
The series and my appreciation for it are both improving.
October 20, 2025
I definitely liked this volume more than the previous one!
February 2, 2026
Bocchi the Rock? More like Bocchi the Sock! But no this book is really good.
February 11, 2026
Pretty good story; could care less for the 4-panel format.
September 9, 2024
Цей том сподобався більше ніж перший (може тому, що тут вже почалися події, яких у першому сезону аніме не було) — тут вже відчувається більше подій і якогось розвитку Ґото. Звичайно, також трохи помітно, що режисери серіалу трохи додумували певні стосунки, але це не критично.
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