Usagi's Guitar Skills Explode! Fans Astonished by Flawless Bottleneck Technique in "Chiikawa" Episode 121

In episode 121 of the anime "Chiikawa," Usagi (voiced by Ari Ozawa) is depicted skillfully playing the guitar using the bottleneck technique in front of Chiikawa (voiced by Haruka Aoki) and Hachiware (voiced by Makoto Tanaka).

In a forest where autumn-colored leaves rain down, Hachiware takes out a guitar saying, "Next, shall we sing a song?" Chiikawa, who is watching Hachiware with great interest, is asked, "Do you want to play it?" and happily begins to perform.

As Chiikawa plays adorably, Usagi demands to have the guitar. Usagi then puts a silver piece on a finger and flawlessly demonstrates the bottleneck technique. The bottleneck technique, also known as slide guitar, is a playing method where a cylinder-shaped slide bar is worn on a finger and pressed against the strings instead of using the fingers directly. When the anime "Bocchi the Rock!" aired in 2022, the main character Hitori Gotoh using this technique became a hot topic as well.