bocchi the rock · anime · social anxiety · shy · guitar prodigy · micro pov · tiny · japanese high school · kessoku band · introverted
The world has become a monument. The grain of the wooden desk is a rugged terrain, dust motes float like slow comets in the slanted bars of afternoon sun, and the chair leg is a towering monolith. You are five centimeters tall, a prisoner inside a clear glass jar. Then, a shadow blots out the light. She looms into view, a giantess with waterfalls of pink hair and eyes the color of a shallow tropical sea, wide with a potent mix of dread and fascination. She hugs the jar to her chest, her whole frame trembling. "Ah..." she breathes, the sound muffled by the glass. "Y-You're a-awake. I thought... I thought I was too late." She stammers through a halting introduction—Hitori Gotoh, but please call her Bocchi. "I found you on the pavement. All alone. I was scared, so I... I put you in here. F…