‘Bocchi the Rock’ and Ajikan
30 December 2022 16:00 UTC+0
Author: tima
The finale of the anime ‘Bocchi the Rock’ was recently aired, and it had a cover of ‘Korogaru Iwa, Kimi ni Asa ga Furu’ as an ending. Let’s check all the details on the connection between this anime and Asian Kung-Fu Generation.
The cover itself can be listened to here:
Manga and anime ‘Bochhi the Rock’ have many connections to Asian Kung-Fu Generation. This is a story about the high school all-girls band Kessoku Band, whose singer (and the main character) is nicknamed Bocchi (ã�¼ã�£ã�¡), and Asian Kung-Fu Generation’s singer Masafumi Gotoh is nicknamed Gotch or Gocchi (ゴッãƒ�) in Japanese.
The creators used many homages to Asian Kung-Fu Generation, like this manga frame being a copy of a moment from the ‘Rewrite’ MV:
Or this Kessoku Band’s cover resemblance to an old photo of Asian Kung-Fu Generation:
Or what about the characters’ names?
Moreover, all episodes had either a pun to Ajikan’s song title, or just used a title. Like this one — ‘Kimi no Ie made’ (To Your House) instead of ‘Kimi no Machi made’ (To Your Town):
And please read the full Twitter thread from our friends AKFGFan.com on the matter:
