# Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger, also called Omnidirectional Middle Finger (全方位中指), is a December 2022 parody art trend from Bocchi the Rock! where a chibi animation of Ikuyo Kita made her look like she was flipping viewers off in every direction. Niconico commenters spotted the apparent gesture first, and Pixiv illustrators soon tagged dozens of fan drawings under 全方位中指, with the manga's author Aki Hamaji replying 😌🖕 by December 14[5]. ## Origin On December 4, 2022, Aniplex published the 3rd post-credit sequence from the 8th episode of Bocchi the Rock! on its official YouTube channel, featuring chibi Kessoku Band members performing "Nani ga Warui"[1]. Later that day a Niconico user re-uploaded the clip, and viewers packed the comment overlay with jokes claiming that between 0:56 and 1:00 Ikuyo Kita was holding up a middle finger and pointing it in every direction[3]. Popular comment lines included "This is the result of learning Rock from Kikuri-san!" and "Ikuyo finally understands what ROCK is"[5]. Catalyst clip: December 4, 2022 (Aniplex YouTube upload and Niconico mirror). Earliest viral fan posts: screencaps and highlight clips shared on Twitter in the following days[2]. - **Platform:** YouTube (source clip) / Niconico (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown (anonymous Niconico commenters) - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview Illustrators on Pixiv tagged their drawings 全方位中指 and redrew Ikuyo flipping the bird in every direction, usually with mosaic censor bars or a black bleep over the hand[11]. Some artists kept the stubby chibi proportions from the original Kessoku Band ending, while others redrew her at full character scale wearing her yellow track jacket. The 😌🖕 emoji combo stood in for the whole joke in Japanese Twitter replies, including from members of the show's own staff[7]. The gag relies on an animation quirk, not real rude behavior. In the chibi style used for the "Nani ga Warui" (なにが悪い) ending, Ikuyo's rounded fist and the thumb's position near the center of her hand read as a middle finger when she rotates on screen[9] (translated from Chinese). Director Haruka Suzuki later clarified on Twitter that the digit was actually her forefinger[8], but by that point fan artists had already committed to the funnier reading. The 4Gamers Taiwan write-up described it as a meme the production side accepted rather than disputed[10] (translated from Chinese). ## How to Use A typical Omnidirectional Middle Finger post redraws Ikuyo in her ending-sequence pose, often with a censor over the hand so it reads as unambiguous flipping off, and tags the image 全方位中指 on Pixiv[11]. In text, 😌🖕 alone works as a reply when quoting anything Bocchi the Rock! related, since staff and the manga author used the same combo publicly[7]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger? It is a December 2022 fan art trend around a chibi animation of Ikuyo Kita from Bocchi the Rock!'s 8th-episode ending, in which her thumb reads as a middle finger pointed in every direction[5]. ### Where did Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger come from? The source clip is the 3rd post-credit sequence of Bocchi the Rock! episode 8, uploaded by Aniplex to YouTube on December 4, 2022, with Niconico comments noticing the gesture that same day[1][3]. ### What does Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger mean? It is a visual gag, not a real rude gesture: the chibi hand's rounded shape makes the thumb look like a middle finger, which fans turned into the 😌🖕 shorthand and the Pixiv tag 全方位中指 ("Omnidirectional Middle Finger")[9][11] (translated from Chinese). ### How do you use Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger? Fans draw Ikuyo flipping viewers off, often with censor bars, and post the result under the 全方位中指 tag on Pixiv or reply to Bocchi the Rock! posts with 😌🖕, as the manga author and animation director both did[7][11]. ### Is Ikuyo Kita's Middle Finger still popular? It is classic within Bocchi the Rock! fandom: Taiwanese outlets covered it in December 2022[10] (translated from Chinese) and the Pixiv tag kept gathering new fan art, though the main viral spike was late 2022[11]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijkvUYwJhU]() 2. [https://x.com/i/status/1602969043786682369]() 3. [https://nico.ms/sm41458919]() 4. [https://x.com/i/status/1603027028361752576]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ikuyo-kitas-middle-finger-omnidirectional-middle-finger]() 6. [https://x.com/i/status/1603081037671989248]() 7. [https://twitter.com/suzukiharuka0_0/status/1603036966571986945]() 8. [https://twitter.com/suzukiharuka0_0/status/1603040059959091202]() 9. [https://games.yahoo.com.tw/bocchi-the-rock-064519328.html]() 10. [https://www.4gamers.com.tw/news/detail/56291/bocchi-the-rock-new-ed-middle-finger-meme-explain-by-director]() 11. [https://www.pixiv.net/tags/%E5%85%A8%E6%96%B9%E4%BD%8D%E4%B8%AD%E6%8C%87/artworks]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/ikuyo-kitas-middle-finger-omnidirectional-middle-finger Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library