Friday, 10 January 2025

The Introverted Intonations Of An Anxious Act (Bocchi The Rock)



Hi, welcome to 2025! I'm Frezno Inferno, and I am an incredibly anxious person and an introvert.


This is important information to know up front before I get into analyzing this here Japanese cartoon. In a lot of ways, this post is an opening up of my very soul for you all to read, and more so than usual. I have to do it in order to properly convey just what it is about the show that resonates with me. I have also chosen to attempt to add a little brevity to this writeup and just do it all in one reasonable shot, rather than a 10,000 word affair where I go over everything that happened in it. In the first place, the structure of the show doesn't really allow for that. More than that, opening myself up to that degree for that length would destroy me. Let's not do that. Let's instead open up about that anxious introversion, what I deal with, and define myself a little before we truly begin. I have to transmute myself into a fucking tuning fork so that you can hear how I and the show resonate. Weird metaphor, I know, but let us commence.