12. Bocchi the Rock!
Release Year: 2022
Genre: Comedy, Music
Studio: CloverWorks
Where To Watch: Crunchyroll
Why It Rocks: I mean, it’s literally a “cute girls do cute things” show about a girl who shreds on the guitar. Of course, it rocks. But where Bocchi the Rock! strikes a chord in the heartstrings of its audience isn’t with its admittedly catchy bops, but rather with its painfully relatable protag, Hitori Gotoh. Unlike your typical rocker girl, Hitori sufferers from debilitating social anxiety. The show expresses the extent of Hitori’s condition with an array of dazzling, hilarious, and outlandish cutaway gags and off-model animation sequences. So yeah, Bocchi the Rock! rocks.
