Anime

Source is episode 7.

If you haven't heard of this show before, the I assume you were probably in a coma during the Fall 2022 anime season because this show absolutely blew up and Bocchi and Co. were absolutely everywhere.

In a season packed with popular series like Chainsaw Man, Mob Psycho 100, Spy x Family, Blue Lock, etc., this "girls putting a band together" anime, adapting a 4-koma manga series made a huge impact. This was also the directorial debut of Keiichirou Saitou who would go on to follow this series up with a little show called Frieren. It is hard to imagine having a better start in the director role than with those two being your first shows.

One of my favorite aspects of this series is how much they played with the medium of animation. In this sequence we see extreme shifts in style and even things like aspect ratio to help deliver the joke. The live-action footage of a zoetrope included in this clip was one of my favorite parts of that and shows a knowledge and respect for the history of animation (some behind the scenes pictures of the zoetrope).

If you somehow have not seen Bocchi the Rock! up to now, I highly recommend it. Out of the 4-koma manga to anime adaptations I have seen, this is probably the best of the bunch. It uses the medium of animation and all the freedom it allows to its fullest extent rather than allow itself to be bound by the panels drawn on the page.