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Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu

Japanese manga series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ47087063 ↗
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Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (Japanese: ひとりぼっちの○○生活; lit. "Bocchi Hitori's ____ Life" or "The ____ Life of Being Alone") is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Katsuwo. It was serialized in ASCII Media Works' Comic Dengeki Daioh "g" magazine from September 2013 to April 2021. Eight tankōbon volumes have been released. An anime television series adaptation produced by C2C aired from April to June 2019.

Story

Bocchi Hitori is a girl with social anxiety who has difficulty communicating with others. Before starting middle school, her friend Kai Yawara, who will be attending a different school, tells Bocchi she is breaking off their friendship until she can make friends with her entire class at her new school. Thus, Bocchi is left with the task of befriending everyone in her class before graduation.

Characters

Bocchi Hitori (一里 ぼっち, Hitori Botchi)

Voiced by: Chisaki Morishita

A girl whose social anxiety makes it hard to talk to people. When her only friend Kai breaks up with her, she is tasked with trying to befriend everyone in class, usually passing out whenever she does.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu” as japanese manga series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2021, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013. The account is most persuasive where Hitori, Bocchi and Marumaru can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as japanese manga series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47087063. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2021 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.