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ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！アンソロジーコミック [Bocchi the Rock! Anthology Comic] #1
Bocchi the Rock! Comic Anthology, Vol. 1
Bocchi the Rock! Comic Anthology, Vol. 1
- GenresManga
136 pages, Paperback
First published October 27, 2022
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Note: WorldCat is an excellent resource for finding author information and contents of anthologies.
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July 25, 2025
Anthology series are, by nature, hit or miss, although I feel I am particularly cursed to be disappointed whenever I attempt another one. And, so it goes here. You just get a lot of Bocchi for your troubles.
(The irony is still not lost on me that one of my favourite stories in any manga ever comes from Eclair Blanche - Fly’s superlative Flowers in a Storm.)
Well, I say a lot, but this comes in at 126 pages and that includes a lot of ‘congrats’ messages from the mangaka involved, so it’s a real questionable value for money proposition here. Regular Bocchi runs the same length, but is double stuffed due to its 4-koma format.
Anyway, that’s all an aside if the stories are great and these are… stories, at least. Some of them capture the vibe of the series very well. Some are borderline ridiculous, in a good way, such as the one where Bocchi gains a nightmarish amount of muscle mass.
Too many break the fourth wall for easy jokes; the first story in particular is ruthless at it, although it ironically gets the characters really well. The isekai chapter is less interesting than it should be, as the author apparently only wants an excuse to put the girls in animal ears and also shorten their skirts by 50% (genuinely, the fascination here with those skirts is… a lot).
For my money, the best one is a chapter that involves a background character from the manga and reflecting events of the series through her viewpoint. It’s pretty short and doesn’t lean hard into the comedy, instead trying something a little more serious that works.
On balance, however, this is for the hardcore series fan, I think, and even then the very wobbly quality of the various chapters still makes it an iffy proposition. It’s not bad, but I don’t know that it justifies its price.
2.5 stars - maybe round it up if you’re super into this, but not enough hits and not enough content sink this a bit lower than I was hoping for. I’ll read the next one, but I wouldn’t say I was excited.
(The irony is still not lost on me that one of my favourite stories in any manga ever comes from Eclair Blanche - Fly’s superlative Flowers in a Storm.)
Well, I say a lot, but this comes in at 126 pages and that includes a lot of ‘congrats’ messages from the mangaka involved, so it’s a real questionable value for money proposition here. Regular Bocchi runs the same length, but is double stuffed due to its 4-koma format.
Anyway, that’s all an aside if the stories are great and these are… stories, at least. Some of them capture the vibe of the series very well. Some are borderline ridiculous, in a good way, such as the one where Bocchi gains a nightmarish amount of muscle mass.
Too many break the fourth wall for easy jokes; the first story in particular is ruthless at it, although it ironically gets the characters really well. The isekai chapter is less interesting than it should be, as the author apparently only wants an excuse to put the girls in animal ears and also shorten their skirts by 50% (genuinely, the fascination here with those skirts is… a lot).
For my money, the best one is a chapter that involves a background character from the manga and reflecting events of the series through her viewpoint. It’s pretty short and doesn’t lean hard into the comedy, instead trying something a little more serious that works.
On balance, however, this is for the hardcore series fan, I think, and even then the very wobbly quality of the various chapters still makes it an iffy proposition. It’s not bad, but I don’t know that it justifies its price.
2.5 stars - maybe round it up if you’re super into this, but not enough hits and not enough content sink this a bit lower than I was hoping for. I’ll read the next one, but I wouldn’t say I was excited.
February 5, 2026
They go to a mental asylum, stalk a little girl, and became furries what else could you want in a book.
March 18, 2026
Really fun read! Definitely feels like a “bocchi” thing to read
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