After a human being finally summarized what Bocchi The Rock is about instead of just sharing screengrabs and talking about how relatable she is, I am now watching Bocchi the Rock.
It's good. I don't want to sit here and say, like, hey, it's time to ani-blog again, but what I'll say is that like many people, I was very much literally Bocchi.
Before I say any more, let me do the thing I wish someone had done a month ago, and that my friend did yesterday: Bocchi the Rock is an anime about a high schooler with extreme social anxiety and who plays guitar. The story is about her attempts to use music to overcome her anxiety and actually make friends.
OK, there we go.
So when I say "literally" I mean it in this sense: I literally sat and read books in high school and didn't understand why people wouldn't talk to me. Now, that's not the only reason people didn't talk to me, it turns out I'm also neurodivergent and some version of queer, and I mean even if I didn't know those things, they affected the way I behaved, which means "regular" people just didn't like me. But also, if you're sitting and reading a book, talking to you is interrupting you.
My dad ended up meeting an old classmate of mine years and years after high school, and she asked how I was doing. And she said she remembered how she'd wanted to talk to me but she was so intimidated because I was always reading and not talking to anyone.
Let me please at this point say I was not reading intimidating material lol. I wasn't reading fucking Spinoza or some shit, I was reading Star Wars EU novels.
So one episode in, yeah, Bocchi is kind of nailing that attempt to be social by doing something that's overtly not social, and all the other crap that comes with social anxiety and an intense hobby.