Aki Hamaji's "Bocchi the Rock!" is getting an anime film prequel set to screen in Japanese theaters in 2027.

The official website of Aki Hamaji's "Bocchi the Rock!" announced that the series is getting an anime film prequel to screen in Japanese theaters in 2027. It also added that they will host the "Kessoku Band Asia Tour: To Asia", which kicks off in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday, March 13th, 2027. Followed by Seoul and Hong Kong in May 2027.

The anime film prequel, titled "Bocchi the Rock the Movie: Starry Footprints", centers on the Ijichi sisters, including Seika Ijichi, the strict manager of Starry live house, and Nijika Ijichi, the drummer of Kessoku Band. Based on the 5th volume of the manga's special prequel, "A Love Flower Dedicated to the Star", as the sisters journey and ambition behind and establishing the live house and the band came together.

The cast from the previous anime series is reprising their roles for the anime film prequel, including Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi, the drummer and leader of the Kessoku Band has a kind, cheerful, friendly, and outgoing who always works to keep the group together.

Maaya Uchida as Seika Ijichi, Nijika's older sister and the manager of Starry, is professional, serious, and aloof, with a soft side. She has a strained relationship with her family and aims to fulfill her mother's wish for her to reconcile with Nijika.

Shin Wakabayashi will direct the anime film at the animation studio CloverWorks, Erika Yoshida is returning to write the scripts, and Yukiko Horiguchi is designing the characters.

The manga series was published in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in December 2017, and released in 8 manga volumes. It was adapted into a manga spinoff, "Kikuri Hiroi's Heavy-Drinking Story", published on Houbunsha's Comic Fuz manga website in July 2023, and released in 7 manga volumes.

Yen Press licensed the series and released it in English, with the first manga volume released in October 2023 and the spinoff in April 2025.

It was adapted into two seasons of the anime series, including the first season that aired in October 2022, and the second season is currently in development. The series won the Anime Trending Awards for Anime of the Year in 2022 and the Crunchyroll Anime Awards for Best Slice of Life Anime in 2024.

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Source:
- "Bocchi the Rock" anime website - https://bocchi.rocks/
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Photo:
- © Aki Hamaji/Houbunsha • Bocchi the Rock Production Committee.

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