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This fun high school comedy features a shy and anxious protagonist who just wants to make friends, similar to the popular manga and anime series Komi Can’t Communicate.

Having signed on with the Stray Beat indie label, Kessoku Band is hard at work putting together their first mini-album! To keep their sound fresh, each member of the band is trying their hand at new roles. Faced with the unfamiliar task of arranging their next potential hit, is Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh in over her head?!

Kessoku Band has successfully cleared the first round of auditions for the Unidentified Riot music festival, but this is no time to rest on their laurels. The next step is a death knell for introverts everywhere-a popularity contest! Every vote in the online poll matters when they’re trying to stand on the same stage as powerhouses like SIDEROS, so Bocchi will need to call in a favor from all the...friends she has? Um, is this the end of the line for Hitori Gotoh?!

Things are finally getting serious for Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh and the rest of Kessoku Band. To celebrate the release of their first album, Stray Beat plans to hold the gang’s biggest show yet alongside Klimt’s Night—a hit musical duo from the same label who pack some real star power! In preparation, they’re introduced to the group’s reclusive songwriter, who…has even worse social anxiety than Bocchi?!

Everyone in Sick Hack is living the dream as Eliza convinces the others to cosplay, Kikuri enjoys a bottle of the good stuff for a change, and Shima sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get her old friend to give up the booze cold turkey! But will things really go as planned?

Things are finally starting to get serious for Hitori “Bocchi” Gotoh as Kessoku Band sets its sights on participating in Unidentified Riot, a teen music festival! The winner will get fame, connections, and a whole lotta cash-generous prizes that will attract fierce competition. Now’s the time for the girls to band together and get their name out, but when faced with new venues and unfamiliar faces, will Bocchi be able to settle her nerves long enough to come out on top?

Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her fall to pieces. Her solution-become a rock legend so cool that people approach her instead! However, while spending all of middle school in her closet shredding on the guitar may have earned her anonymous internet fame, it did nothing for her social skills. Now a high schooler, Hitori’s feeling ready to shrivel up and die-when she gets a sudden request to fill in for a band! It’s like her wish came true-but does this most anxious of introverts have what it takes to perform in front of a live audience?!

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?!)

Kikuri Hiroi has two passions in life—booze and music. One day she’s drinking in Kabukicho, the next day she’s drinking at a powerboat racing event, and the following day she’s drinking at…a high school festival...? Follow her alcoholic adventures in this second spin-off volume of the smash-hit manga Bocchi the Rock!

Bocchi the Rock! Another Story is the spin-off manga of the popular music manga series Bocchi the Rock! focusing on the character of Kikuri Hiroi, the genius bassist of band SICK HACK.