From seeing a whole bunch of fresh YouTube videos of "Akiba Maid War"（アキバ冥途戦争）pop up this afternoon, that show has finally reached the end of its run, and man, was it a run! It pretty much ended as I'd generally predicted since it was going along the lines of a yakuza flick. I think that I have at least one more song to cover for that series.
However for Fall 2022 in terms of anime, there was another completely different show that has been garnering big attention among the fans. Even my anime buddy has been singing the praises of anime adaptation "Bocchi the Rock!"（ぼっち・ざ・ろっく!）. Originating from a yonkoma manga, the comedy has been fast and furious as the series focuses on a high school girl, Hitori "Bocchi" Goto（後藤ひとり）, who suffers so much regarding any social interactions that she makes Komi-san and Aharen-san look like super-outgoing Miss Congeniality in comparison. Yet, she also has a hidden talent on her electric guitar so it's time to make a band with her buddies.
The animators must have had an incredible ball making "Bocchi the Rock!" considering all of the weird and crazy transformations that Bocchi herself has undergone. In the scene above, she could have traveled the multiverse and met Dr. Strange and Miss America without even getting off the floor. I will be paying more attention to this anime over the Holidays.
As for that group of musicians, it's called the Kessoku Band（結束バンド...Zip Tie） and they're responsible for the opening theme song, "Seishun Complex" (Youth Complex). Vocalist and Bocchi buddy Ikuyo Kita（喜多郁代）, played by seiyuu Ikumi Hasegawa（長谷川育美）, leads the song which reminds me a lot of the stuff that rock band Porno Graffitti（ポルノグラフィティ）was performing back in the early 2000s. The lyrics were provided by singer-songwriter Ai Higuchi（樋口愛）and the music was composed by otoha（音羽）.
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