Bakuon!!
This article is about the motorbike manga and anime. For the Jump manga creator series, see Bakuman.
| Bakuon!! | |
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Cover of Bakuon!! volume 1 by Akita Shoten | |
| ばくおん！！ | |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Mimana Orimoto |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young Champion Retsu |
| Original run | February 2011 – present |
| Volumes | 7 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Junji Nishimura |
| Studio | TMS Entertainment |
| Released | March 18, 2016 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Junji Nishimura |
| Written by | Kurasumi Sunayama |
| Music by | Ryosuke Nakanishi |
| Studio | TMS Entertainment |
| Licensed by | |
| Network | Tokyo MX, SUN, BS11, Animax |
| Original run | April 5, 2016 – present |
| Episodes | 12 |
Bakuon!! (ばくおん！！) is a Japanese manga series by Mimana Orimoto. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten's seinen manga magazine Young Champion Retsu since February 2011 and has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment began airing in April 2016.
Plot
One day, while trying to ride her bicycle up a large hill on her way to school, Hane Sakura becomes awed upon seeing another student ride to school on a motorcycle. Taking an interest, Hane joins her school's motorcycle club and gets a motorcycle license. After buying her own bike, Hane begins her exciting, two-wheeled, motorized high-school life along her new friends; Onsa Amano, Rin Suzunoki, Raimu Kawazaki and Hijiri Minowa.
Main Characters
- Hane Sakura (佐倉 羽音 Sakura Hane)
- Voiced by: Reina Ueda
- The friendly, kind-hearted main protagonist, who rides a pink-colored Honda CB400SF Hyper VTEC Spec III.
- Rin Suzunoki (鈴乃木 凜 Suzunoki Rin)
- Voiced by: Nao Tōyama
- A blonde, large-breasted, pig-tailed girl who is an avid fan of Suzuki motorcycles, to the point of getting angry when someone belittles any of their models, no matter how weird they look, and having troubles riding bikes from any other company. She rides a Suzuki GSX400S Katana which belonged to her father. Despite not being an official member of the club, Rin always accompanies the others with their activities nonetheless.
- Onsa Amano (天野 恩紗 Amano Onsa)
- Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama
- A wild-hearted, passionate girl whose family runs a bike shop. She rides a Yamaha SEROW225W put together with parts from two other broken bikes.
- Hijiri Minowa (三ノ輪 聖 Minowa Hijiri)
- Voiced by: Rikako Yamaguchi
- A wealthy girl in glasses who dreams of becoming a rebel and delinquent, but her kind nature usually leads her to do otherwise. She is still too young to get her license, as she must wait until December to turn 16, thus when she takes part in the motorcycle club's activities, her butler Hayakawa rides a Ducati 750SS Imola Replica for her, while she sits in a sidecar.
- Raimu Kawasaki (川崎 来夢 Kawasaki Raimu)
- Always wearing a helmet, Raimu never talks and her face is never shown, in a fashion similar to The Stig. She acts as the big sister figure of the group, but little the others know that Raimu is actually a seasoned biker in her thirties who re-enrolled using a false 18-year-old student ID by the principal's request to keep an eye on them when they decided to reform the motorcycle club, which was disbanded twenty years ago after a serious accident involving her during a race. Her surname is actually unknown, as she uses a false one on her ID taken from her bike, a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R.
- Chisame Nakano (中野 千雨 Nakano Chisame)
- Voiced by: Ibuki Kido
- The newest member of the club, Chisame is a prodigy with racing motorcycles, but has a serious height complex due to her petite figure. She rides a Honda NSF100.
Other Characters
- Yume Sakura (佐倉 由女 Sakura Yume)
- Voiced by: Azusa Tadokoro
- Hane's younger sister, she seems to be more responsible and levelheaded than her.
- Hayakawa (早川)
- Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka
- A butler who serves the Minowa family and rides Hijiri's bike for her until she is old enough to get her license.
- Tazuko (たづ子)
- Voiced by: Yoko Hikasa
- The Principal of Okanoue Girls High School and an old friend of Raimu, who is older than her. She later buys herself a BMW K1300R.
- Onsa's Father (恩紗の父 Onsa no Chichi)
- Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata
- Father of three children, he runs a bike shop which used to be a Yamaha bike dealership, but lost its credentials once it could not meet their criteria anymore, and now sells motorcycles older than they seem by rolling back their odometers a little, much to Onsa's shame.
- Rin's Father (凜の父 Rin no Chichi)
- Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki
- Alyaws seen wearing a helmet and never showing his face, just like Raimu, Rin's father is also a Suzuki fan but not as passionate as her. He rides a Suzuki 1135R Katana Yoshimura that Rin won for him on an essay contest. He has the tendency to be reckless and ends up getting into accidents frequently.
- Enko Saruyama (猿山 猿子 Saruyama Enko)
- Voiced by: Kazusa Aranami
- The motorcycle club's adviser who has bad luck with men. She also has the habit of attacking other girls (including her students) when drunk and rides a 50cc bike.
- Baita (バイ太)
- Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue
- Baita is a Honda CB400SF training motorcycle Hane piloted during her license examination and somehow could communicate with her, giving her hints. Baita talks with a feminine voice as she claims that she was emasculated due to being tuned down for training use only. After Hane got her license, Baita was retired, but satisfied that Hane was the 1000th student that lost her "virginity" with her. Hane's friendship with Baita is what inspired her choice of personal bike.
Media
Anime
An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment began airing in Japan on April 5, 2016.[1][2] The series is being directed by Junji Nishimura with scripts written by Kurasumi Sunayama and music composed by Ryusuke Nakanishi.[3] An original video animation was bundled with the seventh manga volume on March 18, 2016.[4] The opening theme will be "FeelXAlive" by Sayaka Sasaki, while the ending theme will be "Buon! Buon! Ride On!!" (ぶぉん! ぶぉん! らいど・おん! Buon! Buon! Raido On!) by Reina Ueda, Yumi Uchiyama, Nao Tōyama, and Rikako Yamaguchi.[5]
Episode list
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| OVA | "Bakuon!!" "Bakuon!!" (ばくおん!!) | March 18, 2016 |
| While taking a drive on the highway to try a "100-mile blend" of coffee, the girls stop by a service area, where they find cans of coffee with motorbike figurines included. Rin manages to obtain a figure of her Katana, only for it to get run over. Later on, everyone's bikes simultaneously break down due to an alleged curse, but they are soon aided by Raimu. Onsa becomes upset when she discovers the café serving the blend has been shut down, but Hane cheers her up with a can of coffee she had saved during their 100-mile journey. Afterwards, the girls enjoy a hot spring before returning to buy Rin a new figurine. | ||
| 1 | "Club Registration!!" "Nyūbu!!" (にゅうぶ!!) | April 5, 2016 |
| On her way to her first day of school, Hane Sakura takes interest in her classmate, Onsa Amano, after seeing her ride a motorbike to school. The two go to the school's Bike Club, whose only club member is a silent girl in a helmet named Raimu Kawasaki, who takes Hane for a ride on her Kawasaki ZX-12R. After joining the club alongside Onsa, Hane applies for a motorcycle license, initially struggle with lifting a bike but managing to pull it off after seemingly hearing a voice coming from her bike. During her lessons, Hane comes across another classmate, Rin Suzunoki, who takes her and the others to a bike shop to pick out a bike, only to argue with Onsa when she disses her taste in Suzuki bikes. | ||
| 2 | "School!!" "Gakkō!!" (がっこう!!) | April 12, 2016 |
| As Rin manages to get her bike license, she remains angry at Onsa over her prejudice towards her Katana, but is awed by Hane's honest compliments. Later, a freshman named Hijiri Minowa comes to join the bike club, giving Hane the idea to have Onsa and Rin settle their dispute with a chicken race. Though Onsa and Rin stop in order to keep their bikes safe, Hijiri and her butler Hayakawa go full force against Raimu. On the day of her license exam, Hane becomes nervous when she has to ride a different bike than from her lessons, but Hijiri and the others manage to cheer her on, allowing her to successfully pass her exam. | ||
| 3 | "Debut!!" "Debyū!!" (でびゅー!!) | April 19, 2016 |
| With Hane now having her license, the girls visit the Nicoichi Motors used bike store, which turns out to be Onsa's family business. Despite the poor condition of most of the bikes on sale, Hane decides to buy a pink Honda CB400SF Hyper VTEC Spec III that catches her eye. Later, the girls overhear Rin being cheerful after a microphone is installed in her helmet, encouraging her to join them on their trip. Afterwards, the girls learn that the Bike Club has been defunct for twenty years and look to getting it reapproved, while Raimu and school principal Tazuko reminisce about how it came to be defunct in the first place. After Raimu promises to protect the other girls from harm, Tazuko presents Raimu with a new student ID and has the Bike Club officially reinstated. | ||
| 4 | "Hot Springs!!" "Onsen!!" (おんせん!!) | April 26, 2016 |
| The girls plan a trip to Hokkaido, with Rin reminiscing about when she went with her father as a child. After the girls barely miss their ferry in Oarai, the girls decide to race to Aomori in order to catch another one. As Hane gets left behind, she comes across a peculiar biker with a halo who she helps get to a gas station. After receiving a supposed Holy Grail from the biker, Hane finds herself in Aomori ahead of her friends. Everyone soon arrives in Hokkaido and enjoys a dip in a hot spring the next day, where Rin discovers she has a Suzuki-shaped mark on her bottom. | ||
| 5 | "Touring!!" "Tsūringu!!" (つーりんぐ!!) | May 3, 2016 |
| While heading up north, Rin attempts to go at her maximum speed but gets stopped by some foxes, managing to stop herself from running them over. The girls soon reach Cape Soya, where they come across their teacher, Enko Saruyama, who is heartbroken over a recent breakup. Needing an advisor for the Bike Club, the girls try to cheer her up only to become subjected to her drunken behavior. Upon returning home, the girls try washing their bikes in a rather dubious manner. | ||
| 6 | "Prep!!" "Junbi!!" (じゅんび!!) | TBA |
References
- ↑ "Bakuon!! High School Motorcycle Manga Gets Anime". Anime News Network. May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
- ↑ "Bakuon!! TV Anime Slated for April, Casts Reina Ueda". Anime News Network. December 15, 2015. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Bakuon!! TV Anime's Trailer Reveals Main Staff". Anime News Network. December 29, 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-19/bakuon-high-school-motorcycle-tv-anime-slated-for-2016/.94359
- ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2016-02-11/bakuon-anime-about-high-school-girls-on-motorcycles-reveals-more-of-cast-theme-songs/.98600
External links
- Anime official website (Japanese)
- Bakuon!! (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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