Hitori Gotoh is an introvert of the highest order. In middle school, she decides to pick up the guitar, under the belief that if she's amazing enough a guitarist, she'll be able to join a band and conquer her introversion.

So. Very. Wrong.

She does become a good solo guitarist, recording covers of pop songs under the name "GuitarHero" and posting them to the internet. (As far as I can tell, she aims the camera to cover from collarbone to strumming fingers.) But she's still not any closer to getting out there.

Then comes the social cannonball known as Nijika Ijichi, drummer in Kessoku Band (apparently that translates as "zip tie.") By the end of the night, she knows that being in a band is a far cry from being a solo guitarist, she's been nicknamed "Bocchi" (loner), and her world's started to change.

This is nowhere near as happy as K-On! is*, but my impression so far (seven episodes) is that while there's going to be fun moments, the main arc is Bocchi-chan's growth. And for that to happen, things have to suck a little every so often.

Peter Eng
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* - Is such a thing even possible without feeling like a copy?