Bakuon!!/Trivia
< Bakuon!!
- Expy: It's surprisingly easy to draw parallels between the core cast of Bakuon!! and that of K-On! -- see the list of parallels on the YMMV page.
- Hey, It's That Place!: The mound with a pole on it where Hane wakes up after the overnight ride with "Jesus" is a real place in Aomori, the tomb of Jesus according to local tradition.
- Hey, It's That Voice!:
- Kikuko Inoue in her gruff tomboy mode as Baita, the talking transsexual Honda that Hane learns on.
- Unsho Ishizuka -- Professor Oak, Alex Rosewater and Jet Black, among many others -- as Hayakawa.
- Reina Ueda -- Cure Lillian -- as Hane.
- Nao Tōyama -- Nakagawa Kanon, High Elf Archer -- as Rin.
- Meaningful Name: Each girl's name corresponds to their motorcycle:
- Hane means "Wing". Not only does it reference the Honda Wing logo, it also ties into her wing-shaped barrettes, the opening theme referring to her as "the girl with wings", and repeated images of her with spectral wings as she rides her pink Su-Four.
- "Onsa" is a pun on the Japanese word for "tuning fork": Yamaha also makes musical instruments, and a six-pointed star made of tuning forks is part of Yamaha's logo.
- Rin's last name -- Suzunoki -- very obviously incorporates "Suzuki".
- Hijiri's last name, Minowa, literally means "three wheels", referencing the sidecar she rides in for most of the series.
- Kawasaki Raimu is a more of a case of an (en)forced trope. Raimu is transliterated into English on the leaderboard for the race at the school festival as "Lime",[1] which is the color of both her uniform neckerchief and her motorcycle. It is unknown if it is her actual personal name or a nickname. Her last name, "Kawasaki", is a known alias, given to her by the school principal.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed:
- Chisame's father, Kinya Nakano, is a thinly-disguised version of retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Shinya Nakano.
- The three Suzuki riders on the dock at Hokkaido were cameos by three famous racers of the time.
- Shout-Out:
- Hijiri invokes Rebel Without a Cause when explaining why she wants to play a game of "Chicken" with the other girls, complete with hand-drawn "stills" from the movie.
- "Is this Heaven?" "Of course not. We're in Aomori." (In the original Crunchyroll sub; the Sentai Filmworks DVD translates the lines differently.)
- To Journey to the West in Episode 5, as the girls briefly envision themelves as the characters of that novel.
- In episode 6 there is a brief appearance of the same medieval woodcut of the sephiroth that's used in Neon Genesis Evangelion, in the same manner (a transparent moving image overlaid on a full-color background).
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- ↑ We assume that the work's creators know how they intended her name to be spelled.