1. A melancholy Monday has arrived.Copy !req
2. Feels good to be over your cold, huh?Copy !req
3. Y-Yeah...Copy !req
4. Or are you happy your cold
let you miss school a few days?Copy !req
5. Not at all.Copy !req
6. How come?Copy !req
7. You always say you wanna stay home...Copy !req
8. I don't like going to school,Copy !req
9. but for someone like me,
even one day of failing to attend classCopy !req
10. puts me in risk of being
forgotten by my classmates.Copy !req
11. Guess you're a real pain
in your own ass, Sis!Copy !req
12. Oh, and Mom says it's time to eat!Copy !req
13. Yes, it's true.Copy !req
14. I could burst from the sheer volume
of nuisance I inflict upon myself.Copy !req
15. But wait a minute.Copy !req
16. I joined a band, and I'm
working part-time at a club!Copy !req
17. Perhaps I've graduated from my introversion!Copy !req
18. Yes!Copy !req
19. I'll take my guitar to school again.Copy !req
20. Someone's bound to talk to me this time!Copy !req
21. Yep. Putting the onus on
others fails once again.Copy !req
22. Hey, did you watch the latest Oto-Station?Copy !req
23. I did did!Copy !req
24. You can stream BAKWIMPS again!Copy !req
25. I've been listening to them
so much since yesterday,Copy !req
26. they're still playing in my head!Copy !req
27. Uh-oh!Copy !req
28. Band talk!Copy !req
29. What's up, Gotoh-san?Copy !req
30. You hardly ever talk to anyone!Copy !req
31. All my preparation assumed
others would approach me first,Copy !req
32. so I don't know how
to start a conversation...Copy !req
33. I forgot.Copy !req
34. In that short a time?Copy !req
35. It's lunchtime!Copy !req
36. This is for the best.Copy !req
37. If I'd managed to talk to them,
right about now...Copy !req
38. Barging into our convo like that...Copy !req
39. Was she listening in the
whole time or something?Copy !req
40. I didn't know she was such a creep!Copy !req
41. That's definitely how it'd be!Copy !req
42. I'll never rise above my station again.Copy !req
43. I'll live under the radar forever!Copy !req
44. Thank you for the meal.Copy !req
45. Still... A quiet place like this
is just perfect for lunch.Copy !req
46. I'm glad I found a nice spot.Copy !req
47. It's awkward eating all alone
in the classroom.Copy !req
48. And once I become a popular guitarist,
I'll go on Oto-Station and say...Copy !req
49. What were you like in high school?Copy !req
50. I didn't have any friends back then.Copy !req
51. I often ate lunch in a dark corner
filled with desks and janitorial supplies.Copy !req
52. I can awe people with how much
I've changed! Y'know how it is...Copy !req
53. People!Copy !req
54. Kita-chan's such a great singer.Copy !req
55. I heard she played guitar in a band before she quit.Copy !req
56. Wow! Now that's musical talent!Copy !req
57. Band?Copy !req
58. Come to think of it, Nijika-chan was talking
about wanting a new guitar-slash-vocalist...Copy !req
59. Since my cold kept me from
working for a few days,Copy !req
60. I must find a guitar-slash-vocalist
to prove my commitment to Kessoku Band!Copy !req
61. But the thought of going up
to a total stranger...Copy !req
62. Kita-chan!Copy !req
63. Heya!Copy !req
64. I'm super sorry, but I have
a huge favor to ask...Copy !req
65. What kind of girl is she?Copy !req
66. What is it?Copy !req
67. Would you mind pitching in at
our basketball game next week?Copy !req
68. She's pretty!Copy !req
69. Hey, sure thing!Copy !req
70. She's super nice!Copy !req
71. Maybe I'll land a three-pointer!Copy !req
72. She's pretty, and athletic, and popular,Copy !req
73. Awesome! Thanks!Copy !req
74. and she plays the guitar...Copy !req
75. I'm supposed to issue an
invitation to someone like her?Copy !req
76. In fact, my identity...Copy !req
77. My entire identity is crumbling!Copy !req
78. Pwip.Copy !req
79. What was that sound?Copy !req
80. I liked dark, cramped spaces,Copy !req
81. so I'd bury my face deep in my hoodCopy !req
82. My eyes resented the heartless world,Copy !req
83. but yearned for loveCopy !req
84. I liked being soaked by the rain,Copy !req
85. because my face looked better clouded overCopy !req
86. I pretended to be afraid of the stormCopy !req
87. while waiting for the sky to burstCopy !req
88. Strum through the light's distortionCopy !req
89. I want to make thunder roarCopy !req
90. Drum beyond the painCopy !req
91. What can I do? This fierce
pounding is out of controlCopy !req
92. Strum in a harmonizing quartetCopy !req
93. I want to cause a revolutionCopy !req
94. Drum in a lamenting forteCopy !req
95. What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wildCopy !req
96. I worked up the courage
to arrive at her classroom,Copy !req
97. but my mental fortitude lags behind...Copy !req
98. You're Gotoh-san from Class 2, right?Copy !req
99. Sh-She knows my n—Copy !req
100. Are you looking for someone in here?Copy !req
101. S-Say it, Hitori!Copy !req
102. "My band is looking for a guitar-slash-
vocalist. Would you be interested?"Copy !req
103. Ba! Gui! Vo!Copy !req
104. She became a human beatbox!Copy !req
105. Er...Copy !req
106. Bam-chika-boom-chika...
bam-chika-boom-chika...Copy !req
107. I... I'm so sorry!Copy !req
108. W-Wait!Copy !req
109. Two more additions to
my dark past in one day.Copy !req
110. Lend me your ears.Copy !req
111. This is my new song: Double Dark Past,
Bocchi Acoustic Version.Copy !req
112. Melancholy days, multiplying traumasCopy !req
113. Wanna ditch this negative legacy I carry...Copy !req
114. The memories bring soft,
secret tears to my eyesCopy !req
115. Mourning my past, so many dark morningsCopy !req
116. Wishing, someday,
to just laugh it all away...Copy !req
117. Begone, memories...Copy !req
118. That was awesome!Copy !req
119. K-Kita-san?Copy !req
120. How long have you...Copy !req
121. I got so worried when you ran off like that,Copy !req
122. but that was incredible!Copy !req
123. You're amazing at guitar, Gotoh-san!Copy !req
124. That song you were playing
had me totally enraptured!Copy !req
125. She's saying nice things about me!
What a nice person!Copy !req
126. Are you in a band?Copy !req
127. K-Kind of...Copy !req
128. Hey, can you play other stuff? I wanna hear!Copy !req
129. The extrovert aura... It's so powerful,
I can't look straight at her!Copy !req
130. Oh, and you were trying to talk
to someone earlier, right?Copy !req
131. Th-This is my chance to invite her!Copy !req
132. W-Well, our band is actually
looking for a guitar-slash-vocalist,Copy !req
133. and I heard you played guitar, so...Copy !req
134. Oh, so that's why.Copy !req
135. H-Huh?Copy !req
136. I'm sorry, Gotoh-san.Copy !req
137. I can't join your band.Copy !req
138. O-Oh, but...Copy !req
139. I'm kind of a nerd, but the others are cool!Copy !req
140. Oh, it's not a problem with you or anything.Copy !req
141. They're holding a barbecue next weekend!Copy !req
142. Meat!Copy !req
143. They host a sports meet every six months!Copy !req
144. They party in limousines after every gig!Copy !req
145. This is the life!Copy !req
146. They do so much cool stuff!Copy !req
147. I don't want a band that parties that hard...Copy !req
148. And... And...Copy !req
149. The truth is, I can't
actually play guitar at all.Copy !req
150. I was in another band not long ago.Copy !req
151. I lied when I joined because
I wanted to get close to my senpai.Copy !req
152. But the whole thing was just
beyond me, so I ran away.Copy !req
153. Beyond you?Copy !req
154. Yeah.Copy !req
155. There's more to playing than just
this strum-strum stuff, right?Copy !req
156. I'd figured this wooden stick part
was just for decoration!Copy !req
157. It's way too hard for someone
to learn on their own.Copy !req
158. "Major chords"? "Minor"?
What is this, baseball?Copy !req
159. Her non-comprehension
is on a whole other level!Copy !req
160. Did someone teach you to play, Gotoh-san?Copy !req
161. N-No, I mostly taught myself...Copy !req
162. What? Really? That's awesome!Copy !req
163. It's not that great...Copy !req
164. I know! Will you teach me to play, Gotoh-san?Copy !req
165. You can be my teacher!Copy !req
166. You're so brilliant, I just know
you'll get me through it!Copy !req
167. Oh, shucks...Copy !req
168. I want to learn to play properly,Copy !req
169. go back to my old band, and apologize!Copy !req
170. So, when can you teach me?Copy !req
171. After class, maybe?Copy !req
172. I-I've got a job at a club after class...Copy !req
173. Then after work, maybe?Copy !req
174. Is there a studio next door?
We can do it there!Copy !req
175. Oh... Oh...Copy !req
176. V-Very well.Copy !req
177. Really? Thanks!Copy !req
178. Why am I so stupid? Say no, girl!Copy !req
179. Can we start right away?Copy !req
180. C-Certainly...Copy !req
181. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!Copy !req
182. I've gotta get the girls
to act like party people!Copy !req
183. It's from Bocchi-chan.Copy !req
184. I'm sorry!Copy !req
185. Please come to work today blaring EDM and
dancing around with energy drinks on hand!Copy !req
186. What in the world?Copy !req
187. Beats me.Copy !req
188. Oh... You work in Shimo-Kitazawa?Copy !req
189. Y-You've been?Copy !req
190. My last band was in Shimo-Kita,Copy !req
191. and its members lived in the area, so...Copy !req
192. R-Really?Copy !req
193. Hang on!Copy !req
194. You can't walk behind me!
I don't know the way!Copy !req
195. I'm sorry. I'm still not
used to being here...Copy !req
196. I'm so embarrassed!Copy !req
197. I'm the one embarrassed here!Copy !req
198. W-We're almost there.Copy !req
199. It's a place called Starry.Copy !req
200. Nijika-chan and Ryo-san
will already be there...Copy !req
201. I'm sorry. I can't go.Copy !req
202. How come?Copy !req
203. I'm sorry.Copy !req
204. I can't tell you why,
but that's the one place I can't go!Copy !req
205. And you can never tell those people I was h—Copy !req
206. Bocchi-chan!Copy !req
207. Your instructions were super weird,
but I bought energy drinks like you asked!Copy !req
208. The runaway guitarist!Copy !req
209. Runaway... guitarist?Copy !req
210. Kita-chan, what are you doing here?Copy !req
211. W-W-Well, I...Copy !req
212. Eh?Copy !req
213. Forgive my prior discourtesy!
I'll do anything to make up for it!Copy !req
214. I give you permission to rough me up good!Copy !req
215. Shh! You're gonna give people the wrong idea!Copy !req
216. What?Copy !req
217. So you couldn't play guitar, Kita-chan?Copy !req
218. Nope.Copy !req
219. And that's why you always ditched practice?Copy !req
220. Yeah...Copy !req
221. Poor Kita-san seems so uncomfortable...Copy !req
222. I-If only I could think of
something nice to say.Copy !req
223. We were worried when we didn't hear from you.Copy !req
224. Ryo-san, so smooth!Copy !req
225. Senpai!Copy !req
226. I assumed you were dead, so I've been
lighting incense for you every day.Copy !req
227. RIP.Copy !req
228. That's a pretty wild assumption...Copy !req
229. Um... You aren't angry?Copy !req
230. I sorta blame ourselves
for not catching on sooner.Copy !req
231. Besides...Copy !req
232. We managed to work it out anyway!Copy !req
233. S-Still, I feel too awful!Copy !req
234. Please, let me make it up to you!Copy !req
235. I'm not sure how...Copy !req
236. How about you help out today at the club?Copy !req
237. It's gonna be a busy night.Copy !req
238. Th-That can't be enough...Copy !req
239. No, that'd be a huge help!Copy !req
240. Please join us!Copy !req
241. If you'd like...Copy !req
242. I'm so glad they worked it out...Copy !req
243. So, go over there and get changed.Copy !req
244. Changed?Copy !req
245. Why does Manager have that outfit?Copy !req
246. She's pretty darn good for a fill-in worker.Copy !req
247. Yeah, Kita-chan knows what she's doing!Copy !req
248. Sh-She really does!Copy !req
249. She'll give me extra time to slack off.Copy !req
250. I'll take it out of your pay.Copy !req
251. You smell good, Kita-san.Copy !req
252. Thank you so much!Copy !req
253. Maybe it's the shampoo? It's my favorite!Copy !req
254. Sh-She's never said my name before!Copy !req
255. You're pretty outgoing,
Kita-chan. Wanna try reception?Copy !req
256. I'll teach you!Copy !req
257. Okay!Copy !req
258. And the job they've never trusted me with!Copy !req
259. 500 yen for a drink ticket!Copy !req
260. What band did you come to see today?Copy !req
261. Take a flyer, if you like!Copy !req
262. Say, not bad at all!Copy !req
263. I love interacting with people!Copy !req
264. Ryo always handles reception,Copy !req
265. but her dead eyes are kind of a problem...Copy !req
266. And her poker face can be scary.Copy !req
267. Ryo-senpai looks fine just the way she is!Copy !req
268. Bocchi. What are you doing down there?Copy !req
269. Losing my identity.Copy !req
270. Now, lend me your ears. This is...Copy !req
271. "The Elegy of the Part-Time Worker Who Lost
Her Identity to the Just-Arrived Newbie."Copy !req
272. We haven't known each other long,Copy !req
273. but I enjoyed the precious
time we spent together.Copy !req
274. Bocchi-chan! Bocchi-chan!Copy !req
275. Teach Kita-chan how to do the drinks!Copy !req
276. R-Right!Copy !req
277. Now's my chance to restore my good name!Copy !req
278. I can't do it!Copy !req
279. I get nervous when I'm being watched!Copy !req
280. You okay?Copy !req
281. I think I get the idea,
so you can rest a while.Copy !req
282. Please forgive my arrogance...Copy !req
283. I'm just glad you
weren't seriously hurt.Copy !req
284. Th-Thank yo...Copy !req
285. What?Copy !req
286. Her fingertips...Copy !req
287. Gotoh-san, what made you want to join a band?Copy !req
288. It's an indoor activity where
you can be flashy and cool...Copy !req
289. And I wanna be popular...Copy !req
290. My motives are excessively impure!Copy !req
291. W-World peace... I want to
work toward world peace.Copy !req
292. How conscientious!Copy !req
293. Here's your cola!Copy !req
294. Um, so the senpai you
wanted to get closer to...Copy !req
295. Yeah.Copy !req
296. It's Ryo-senpai.Copy !req
297. Here ya go.Copy !req
298. Unlike you, I have very impure motives.Copy !req
299. I saw Senpai playing on the street,Copy !req
300. and fell head-over-heels for her.Copy !req
301. Ryo-san was in another band, too?Copy !req
302. Her above-it-all attitude, her unisex look...Copy !req
303. It all makes me squee!Copy !req
304. "Squee"?Copy !req
305. And she just looks so right
holding an instrument!Copy !req
306. Oh, I know what you mean!Copy !req
307. Wh-When I hold mine, it looks more
like the instrument's holding me.Copy !req
308. Right? You end up like
an appendage to the instrument.Copy !req
309. I wonder how that happens?Copy !req
310. It's like we're best
buddies all of a sudden...Copy !req
311. That's one thing about Ryo-senpai that—Copy !req
312. Um, can I get a cassis orange?Copy !req
313. Right! Coming right up!Copy !req
314. Bye-bye, buddies!
I'll know my place next time...Copy !req
315. After I heard her play,Copy !req
316. I followed Ryo-san's activities for a while,Copy !req
317. and she dropped out of her
last band pretty suddenly.Copy !req
318. H-Huh...Copy !req
319. Then I found out she was
recruiting for Kessoku Band,Copy !req
320. and without thinking, I said I'd do it.Copy !req
321. S-Such initiative! Extroversion abounds!Copy !req
322. A band is like your second family, you know?Copy !req
323. Family?Copy !req
324. Yeah, you spend more time with them
than with your actual family,Copy !req
325. and you're all chasing the same dream...Copy !req
326. It's a mysterious relationship,
closer than friends or significant others.Copy !req
327. I've never done clubs or anything similar,Copy !req
328. so I've always wanted to be part of that.Copy !req
329. I get you.Copy !req
330. I always wanted it too...Copy !req
331. Yes... I wanted to join Kessoku Band
and become Senpai's girl!Copy !req
332. So much deeper and more
intimate than friendship!Copy !req
333. Wait. Is Kita-san kind of not-okay?Copy !req
334. But that's all the more reasonCopy !req
335. I can't join the band now.Copy !req
336. I flaked out once already.
I'm too irresponsible.Copy !req
337. I don't deserve to be in the band.Copy !req
338. Okay, good work, all. Feel free to head home.Copy !req
339. Thanks for having us!Copy !req
340. Thank you for having us...Copy !req
341. Thanks for everything today.Copy !req
342. Good luck with your band!Copy !req
343. I'll keep rooting for you!Copy !req
344. Goodbye!Copy !req
345. H-Hey...Copy !req
346. Bocchi-chan?Copy !req
347. Are you all right, Gotoh-san?Copy !req
348. You're not still worried about me, are you?Copy !req
349. I'm sorry.Copy !req
350. Like I said before,
I can't join Kessoku Band.Copy !req
351. I can't play guitar,
and I already flaked out once...Copy !req
352. I... I... I...Copy !req
353. I also ran away before the concert.Copy !req
354. I hid in a trash can, and...Copy !req
355. A-A-And also...Copy !req
356. Let's get you up, Bocchi-chan.Copy !req
357. One, two...Copy !req
358. Here we go!Copy !req
359. K-Kita-san, your left hand...Copy !req
360. Y-You had calluses on your fingertips.Copy !req
361. I... I th-think...Copy !req
362. You'd have to be practicing
the guitar pretty hard for that.Copy !req
363. Y-Yeah!Copy !req
364. Kita-chan, we'd love to have you
rocking out with us in Kessoku Band!Copy !req
365. Why would you let me...Copy !req
366. Because if you hadn't flaked out,
we'd never have met Bocchi-chan!Copy !req
367. Y-Yeah!Copy !req
368. I've always wanted to have a band,Copy !req
369. so I get how it feels intimidating
and aspirational at the same time.Copy !req
370. S-So do I!Copy !req
371. S-Sorry. That came out
louder than I expected.Copy !req
372. You'd be happy to have her too, right, Ryo?Copy !req
373. I'll only have to pay one-quarter
of the studio and quota fees.Copy !req
374. Be a little less honest, would you?Copy !req
375. I can be part of Senpai's quota!Copy !req
376. So much for that healthy
moving-on thing, I guess...Copy !req
377. But I still can't play the guitar...Copy !req
378. That's okay!Copy !req
379. Bocchi-chan will teach you!Copy !req
380. Eh?Copy !req
381. Yeah, yeah.Copy !req
382. Ehh?Copy !req
383. You will?Copy !req
384. Y-Yes!Copy !req
385. I can't exactly turn her down now!Copy !req
386. Thank you.Copy !req
387. I'll work really hard to
play guitar in Kessoku Band!Copy !req
388. Oh, but you should probably give up
that party lifestyle of yours...Copy !req
389. You're dancing like mad
every night, right?Copy !req
390. Where'd you hear that?Copy !req
391. I'm glad it's all mended.Copy !req
392. It came out like a mess, but I'm glad
I stopped Kita-san from leaving.Copy !req
393. I worked really hard!Copy !req
394. Well, I gotta head out now...Copy !req
395. Bocchi-chan, don't go!Copy !req
396. You're today's MVP!Copy !req
397. You're the reason we're back together.Copy !req
398. Thank you, Gotoh-san!Copy !req
399. Gosh, well, it was nothing,
really, honestly...Copy !req
400. It obviously wasn't nothing for you.Copy !req
401. Gotoh-san wears her heart on her sleeve.Copy !req
402. But I practiced for so long, and yet
I never really learned how to play guitar.Copy !req
403. It just made this quiet 'bum-bum' sound.Copy !req
404. Y-You're sure it wasn't a bass?Copy !req
405. Hey, I'm not that ignorant!Copy !req
406. A bass has four strings, right?Copy !req
407. See? It's got the full six strings!Copy !req
408. S-Some do have six strings...Copy !req
409. That's a six-string bass.Copy !req
410. K-Kita-san!Copy !req
411. It cost me two years'
advance allowance from my dad,Copy !req
412. not to mention my New Year's money...Copy !req
413. Kita-chan!Copy !req
414. And so, Kessoku Band officially
had all their members.Copy !req
415. No more!Copy !req
416. I hereby quit the guitar!Copy !req
417. What? Are we breaking up already?Copy !req
418. Is this one defective too?Copy !req
419. Did I get another bass?Copy !req
420. N-No, that's definitely a guitar...Copy !req
421. I'm sorry I whine so much.Copy !req
422. I know you're giving up your time after
class and during lunch to teach me...Copy !req
423. H-Hey, it's not...Copy !req
424. With Ryo-senpai lending me this guitar,
and everyone helping... I have to do my best.Copy !req
425. B-But I really am glad... that Ryo-san
b-bought that bass off of you...Copy !req
426. Yeah.Copy !req
427. But when she gave me the money...Copy !req
428. This is the last of my money,
so I'll be eating weeds from now on.Copy !req
429. That was a joke, right?Copy !req
430. She might have been serious!Copy !req
431. Oh, come on...Copy !req
432. This one's so hard to hold.Copy !req
433. The F chord is too hard!Copy !req
434. That takes me back.Copy !req
435. I was this way at the start, too.Copy !req
436. Ryo-senpai! Hello...Copy !req
437. You guys're here early.Copy !req
438. Sh-She really is eating weeds!Copy !req
439. Senpai's so wild!Copy !req
440. The tune that plays when my loneliness
and the pedal are stepped onCopy !req
441. Tracks down my cheeks over and over againCopy !req
442. The pounding of my lonelinessCopy !req
443. Is joined by the rhythm of the snare drumCopy !req
444. To create a solid pulseCopy !req
445. Someone, please remove
the distortion on my heartCopy !req
446. And take a look inside meCopy !req
447. Nobody can get inside my heartCopy !req
448. But it's the kind of night
when I hope someone willCopy !req
449. Distortion it's MotionCopy !req
450. Once it starts, there's no stopping itCopy !req
451. Limits can be overwritten with experienceCopy !req
452. Isn't that right?Copy !req
453. Distortion is always like thatCopy !req
454. My heart takes off, outpacing my left brainCopy !req
455. Toward where you areCopy !req
456. An escort to the next noteCopy !req
457. Distortion on my day-to-day anguishCopy !req
458. The chord I play when I'm alone at nightCopy !req
459. Is it the same for you?Copy !req
460. I spent all those days chasing my ideal imageCopy !req
461. Play an F chord with distortionCopy !req
462. So loud that the needle swings off the scaleCopy !req
463. Watch it!Copy !req