BOCCHI THE ROCK! Anime Launches Converse Tokyo Collab Complete with Replica Jackets

Converse Tokyo is about more than just shoes—and a new collab with beloved music anime BOCCHI THE ROCK! shows what else the fashion brand has on offer. Starting next month, fans of Kessoku Band can pick up all sorts of merch, featuring goods designed by HUMAN ROBOT and featuring art by Yoshimi Miyoshi. Fans of the Pokémon TCG may recognize Miyoshi as the artist behind several cards starting from the Shrouded Fable expansion. Beyond this, Miyoshi's art is recognizable for its stylish profiles. RELATED: BOCCHI THE ROCK! Season 2 Announced Several creative companies are taking part in the collab, including HUMAN ROBOT—who have designed two replica jackets. Pick up Bocchi's iconic pink top or Kikuri Hiroi's black and white souvenir jacket: BOCCHI THE ROCK! x Converse Tokyo x HUMAN ROBOT Jackets Bocchi jacket Kikuri Hiroi jacket More goods will also be available, some integrating Miyoshi's art and others hailing from creative brands like GhosTee and JISS. Pick up memorabilia, jewelry and more in the band's image colors: BOCCHI THE ROCK! x Converse Japan Goods RELATED: 7-Eleven Japan Now Has Its Own Gundam Model Kit The Converse Tokyo store will stock the goods starting June 1, and pre-orders are now open on the store's official website . Additionally, anyone who spends at least 5,500 yen (about US$38) on collab goods will be entered into a lottery for Kessoku Band tickets. 40 winners will get to go to one of Kessoku Band's upcoming Zepp concerts at the end of June. Crunchyroll streams the first season of BOCCHI THE ROCK! ; a second is currently in production. Synopsis: Hitori Gotoh, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah...” During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself. After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend! She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little... Source: Comic Natalie

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