Bocchi the Rock Manga Gets 2027 Film About Nijika and Seika
A teaser trailer on Sunday announced that Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga Bocchi the Rock! will get an anime film opening in 2027. The film is titled Bocchi the Rock! the Movie: Footprints of the Stars, and it adapts "Hoshi ni Tamukeru Ai no Hana," the special story at the end of the fifth manga volume that recounts a prologue about Nijika Ijichi's older sister Seika. Shin Wakabayashi directs at CloverWorks, with Erika Yoshida returning from the television anime to write the screenplay and Yukiko Horiguchi designing the characters. Animec distributes. The television anime premiered in October 2022, and a second season was confirmed in February 2025, with Yusuke Yamamoto replacing Keiichiro Saito as director. The main cast of the anime reprises their roles in the film: Yoshino Aoyama as Hitori Goto, Sayumi Suzushiro as Nijika Ijichi, Saku Mizuno as Ryo Yamada and Ikumi Hasegawa as Ikuyo Kita.