Yoyoko Ohtsuki (大槻 ヨヨコ Ōtsuki Yoyoko) is a supporting character from Bocchi the Rock! manga and anime series. She is in charge of the vocal and guitar of the band SIDEROS and is also its leader. She always looked up to Kikuri Hiroi and considers Kessoku Band as her band rival, and especially its lead guitarist Hitori Gotoh as her personal rival.
Appearance[]
Yoyoko has brown hair which is dip-dyed red and tied in pigtails. Her eyes are light red in color. She wears a beret and a black choker.
Personality[]
Yoyoko, despite her external appearance, has been very insecure and has a lousy communication style that makes it difficult for others to deal with her. While she already gained fame since being in SIDEROS that she can perform her own solo live, she still compares other people's achievements against her, feeling that she didn't do enough to surpass them. She likes to go karaoke alone, afraid that people would see and judge her singing. She also tends to measure people's followers by way of venue capacity to determine their popularity, for example, equating Kita's Isosta has 15,000 followers as equivalent to a Budokan.
In addition to the above, Yoyoko is considered to be "behind the times" in the social media world which stems from her incapabilities to understand the modern day trends. This is shown when she stays in bed for a few days whenever her "cool" videos lack views despite them being incredibly boring and lackluster.
Despite that, she also has been a considerate person, especially towards her sworn rival, Kessoku Band, she is willing to give tips for them to improve and succeed in Mikakunin Riot.
Relationships[]
Kikuri Hiroi[]
Yoyoko adores Kikuri Hiroi, which she called Nee-san (big sis) very much to the point she ignored all troubles caused by her and is willing to let her borrow the shower, lend her money, and so on. She always yearns for her recognition in bands, and will be easily jealous with Kikuri if she mentioned other girls, such as Bocchi.
Kikuri in the other hand will always accept Yoyoko's offers and requests (as most of the time she is just too drunk to care), but in serious moments she does care about Yoyoko and her social behavior. The reason why Yoyoko could interact with Bocchi and the Kessoku Band was Kikuri setting them up as opening performance in SICK HACK Christmas Eve live.
SIDEROS[]
Yoyoko has had many band members in the past, but many of them leave because of her dysfunctional social skills as a leader. The current members of SIDEROS acknowledge that she can be an awful person to be with in gatherings (like after-parties), but decide to stay out of respect for Yoyoko's determination and acknowledgement that she tries her best to be a better communicator.
Ikuyo Kita[]
Yoyoko unintentionally gave harsh criticisms on Kita as a vocalist soon after their initial meeting. This made Kita more critical of her performance in the band and made her practice harder. Kita has a lot of respect for Yoyoko as a vocalist and a senpai. Kita (and Sasaki) received Yoyoko's mobile contact from Fuko and messages her every now and then, but the extroverted energy overwhelms and intimidates Yoyoko.
Hitori Gotoh[]
Bocchi is Yoyoko's self-claimed rival, mainly because Kikuri recognised Bocchi more than Yoyoko, making their first meeting was quite awkward. Bocchi's Guitar Hero views in OH!TUBE made her more insecure about Bocchi. However Bocchi does not know about this fact and thought that Yoyoko's rough response to her is just Yoyoko thinking Bocchi is a weird person.
However as they met more often, Yoyoko started to soft up to Bocchi and cooperated together in band practices together with other members, and even credited her presence as her source of motivation during her Mikakunin Riot speech. Despite that Bocchi and Yoyoko remain awkward when talking to each other.
Nijika Ijichi[]
Yoyoko started to know Nijika, along with other Kessoku Band members when the band performed in FOLT for SICK HACK Christmas Eve live, and later when they are involved in Mikakunin Riot campaign. As fellow band leaders, they shared their opinions on managing the band, including the activities and their vision, including about their band van. Though, her ego (or just her social awkwardness) restricts them to fully cooperate in band capacity like how Yoyoko did not get to convince Nijika to have Kessoku Band involved in their tour.
Currently, they are college mates at Houdai University and started to interacting more often personally, despite occasionally getting fed up with how she communicates.
Ryo Yamada[]
Generally, Yoyoko does not like Ryo since Yoyoko is not good at socializing and Ryo makes it even harder. In most of their interactions, Yoyoko is on guard and baffled by Ryo's behaviors. She finds Ryo immature and inconsiderate. Meanwhile, Ryo seems to find Yoyoko bothersome since they often interact due to circumstance rather than by choice (recently, because both of them hang out with Nijika).
During the after-party of Kessoku Band and SIDEROS' Christmas Eve live at FOLT, Yoyoko sat at the same table as Ryo and Hitori because she was overwhelmed in any other table. Yoyoko awkwardly tried to start conversation which Ryo quickly refuses to play along with, which Yoyoko found infuriating. At one point, the SIDEROS members had to work part-time in a fancy restaurant which Ryo's family frequents, which Ryo teases Yoyoko with. The two now often encounter each other when hanging out with Nijika, of which both find disappointing.
Gallery[]
Etymology[]
- Yoyoko's surname Ohtsuki means "big" (大 oo) and "zelkova tree" (槻 tsuki).
Trivia[]
- Her name is derived from Moyoko Ohtsuki (大槻 モヨコ Ōtsuki Moyoko), which is an alias of Kenji Ohtsuki, a current member of Kinniku Shojo Tai.
- He used this alias in his indie era. It is taken from Moyoko Kure (呉 モヨ子 Kure Moyoko), a female character from Kyūsaku Yumeno's novel Dogra Magra (ドグラ・マグラ).
- He tweeted that he saw the Bocchi the Rock! anime and felt deep empathy.[2][3]
- In the manga, her guitar of choice appears to be an Ibanez JEM model, more specifically, a JEMJRSP.[4]
- Despite not having any proper roles in the initial anime adaptation nor is voiced, Yoyoko appears as a cameo in the opening sequence of the anime and a scene in Episode 10.
- Her presence in the anime is also acknowledged in the -COMPLEX- guidebook by mentioning her full name and revealed her full body design, describing her as "a bandman in Shinjuku FOLT".
- She is also featured as Episode 11 script cover, with her appearance is how she is in Chapter 26 in the manga.
References[]
- ↑ Bocchi the Rock! manga - Volume 7, chapter 75
- ↑ 大槻ケンヂ・オーケン [@officialoken] (2023, January 3). "まだ正月「ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！」観る。コミュ障の高校生がバンドを始めるアニメ。もう共感しかない。わかるなぁバンドあるある。ひとりちゃんは自虐的性格が反転したらいいボーカルになるタイプかと。" [Tweet]. Twitter.
Rough translation: It's still new year's holidays. I watched "Bocchi the Rock!", an anime in which a socially awkward high school student starts a band activity. I felt so much empathy. I've been through these all-bandsmen-can-relate things too. I think Hitori-chan may be the type who can be a good vocalist if she could invert her self-tormenting character. - ↑ 大槻ケンヂ・オーケン [@officialoken] (2023, January 3). "人目が怖くて完熟マンゴーの段ボール箱に入ってギター弾くとこ、ナゴムだったらそれむしろOKです。" [Tweet]. Twitter.
Rough translation: Playing the guitar in a ripe mango box trying to avoid the public gaze is actually rather fine in Nagomu. (Nagomu is the indie label he belonged in his indie era.) - ↑ Ibanez official site - https://www.ibanez.com/na/products/detail/jemjrsp_1p_03.html
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