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Hitori Gotoh just dreams of being popular, but the mere thought of interacting with her classmates leaves her feeling overwhelmed. Her solution? Becoming a rock legend so cool that people come to her! However, spending all of middle school holed up in her closet mastering the guitar only brought her anonymous online fame and did nothing to improve her social skills. Now in high school, Hitori feels utterly unprepared for real-life interactions—until she gets an unexpected request to fill in for a band! It’s as if her wish has come true. Does this incredibly anxious introvert have what it takes to perform live on stage?
I like the story concept of combining music and social anxiety, but in practice this story suffers from the common music manga problem, namely that depicting music in images works very poorly. In fact, Bocchi features scenes where we're supposed to be impressed by the band music, except that those pages are sometimes completely silent (i.e. no dialogue, lyrics, or sfx), so the parts that should be loudest are actually quietest. I imagine the anime might work better.
There's also another problem, namely that this is a moe (?) manga or something where all characters are girls, even the audience. And the mangaka just isn't skilled enough to differentiate all these characters, so they blend together. It's not like one could distinguish them by their silhouettes, either. I imagine that this problem would've been less severe if the spectrum of characters hadn't been so artificially constrained.
pyro appears
me: even better than god
a hot women blessed on him
Ohhh I see, damn lol too bad