Bakuon!!

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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.

Bakuon!! began as a Japanese manga series by Mimana Orimoto in 2011 and has since been collected into a seven tankobon volumes. An anime adaptation, which this page primarily catalogs, began airing in Japan on March 18, 2016. It can also be see on Crunchyroll.

Tropes used in Bakuon!! include:

• Absurdly High Stakes Game: In episode 7, when the principal sees that Raimu's odds in the motorcycle race are 11-to-1, she immediately slams down a 3,000,000-yen bet (roughly $30,000).

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• The Alleged Bike: Almost everything for sale at Nicoichi Motors.

• Analogy Backfire: Onsa dismissively claims that Honda CB400 Super Four ("Su-Four") owners never buy anything other than Su-Fours when it comes time to replace their bikes, and compares them to women who stay faithful to one man all their lives. The other girls basically says, "and that's bad why?" and she wonders if she used the wrong analogy.

• Androcles' Lion: Hane suggests this trope might be invoked in Episode 4 if a band of foxes Rin "saved" as a child remembers her and "returns the favor". How, exactly, she does not explain.

• Angel Unaware: The robe-clad biker with a halo whom Hane helps out on the road to Aomori, who appears to be a clean-shaven Jesus.

• Berserk Button: Touching the principal's new motorcycle -- especially with a tool in hand -- is likely to cause you injury.

• Binocular Shot: In episode 5, we get a "goggles-eye-view" from Raimu's P.O.V.

• Blackmail: What the girls have on Saruyama-sensei after episode 5, in order to convince her to be their club's advisor.

• Blatant Lies: "Ducatis never break down," uttered moments after a broken Ducati has been replaced by a new one airlifted in by a helicopter. Also his claim that his life is linked to the Ducati, and that he'll die when it breaks down.

• Born Unlucky: Rin's father seems to suffer an unusual number of accidents with his motorcycle.

• Brand X: Thoroughly averted. Every trademark that could be there, is there, right down to helmets, convenience stores and canned beverages. And the Amazon.co.jp shipping boxes in the club room.

• The Chosen One: If, as seems possible, it wasn't a dream in Episode 4, Hane may well be this.

• Censor Steam: When they finally get to the hot springs in Episode 4.

• Compensated Dating: In Episode 5, Saruyama-sensei tells the girls they should stop riding motorcycles and instead do the kinds of things they can only do in high school -- like enjo kosai.

• Compensating for Something: Averted in-universe, at least according to Saruyama-sensei, who claims that the size of a man's motorcycle engine reflects the size of his personal endowment -- which is why men don't like women who ride more powerful motorcycles than they do.

• Conspicuous CGI: For the most part averted, but there is the occasional moment when the motorcycles look just a hair too crisp and clean.

• Contractual Purity: For 16-year-olds, the main cast are entirely too innocent to be believable. When even would-be tough girl Onsa cannot understand a veiled reference about how the size of a man's motorcycle engine reflects on his personal endowment, Suspension of Disbelief starts crumbling. However this is apparently a requirement for heroines in the genre, regardless of how bizarrely ignorant it makes them seem.

• Cosplay: While emceeing the bike race in episode 7, Hijiri dresses up like the villainess of a Sentai show.

• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Hane's "body wash" of her motorcycle's seat and gas tank in episode 5.

• Don't Try This At Home: End-of-episode notices warning viewers not to try the cycle stunts seen therein.

• Embarrassed Finger-Twiddling: Onsa, when Rin declares that all the bikes for sale at her family's shop are junk.

• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Panel That Somehow Cools Your Engine When You Go Over It (Trademark of the Minowa Group). Unfortunately, it works too well.

• The Faceless: Raimu and Rin's father are only ever seen wearing helmets.

• Fan Service: Episode 5, what with Saruyama-sensei's ...little moment and the bike washing scene at the end. Oh, boy, the bike-washing scene.

• Festival Episode: Episode 7.

• Flash Back: Rin gets one in episode 2 explaining her devotion to Suzuki motorcycles.

• Flung Clothes: Episode 4, at the hot springs. And Episode 5, when Saruyama-sensei attacks.

• Fundamentally Female Cast

• Hair Decorations: In an interesting subversion of the usual practice, we do get to see the girls without their hair decs and habitual styles, usually upon waking up.

• Hot for Student: It might be just that she's drunk at the moment, but in Episode 5 Saruyama-sensei seems ready to all but sexually assault a sleeping Hane, and claims it's the girls' fault for being "too cute". She then lunges at Onsa instead and then clothes go flying...

• Hot Springs Episode: Episode 4, which is actually entitled "Hot Springs". Unlike most such episodes, they only get to the springs in the last few minutes of the show.

• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode title is a single word (in Japanese) followed by two exclamation points.

• Imagine Spot: In Episode 5, as the girls briefly envision themelves as the characters of Journey to the West.

• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Hane is so very this at the end of episode 5. So are the other girls, too (except Raimu), but Hane turns it Up to Eleven.

• Japanese Delinquents: Hijiri is totally delighted to be one, after talking the other girls into playing "chicken" with their bikes and winning. Of course, she doesn't even come close, but she takes such innocent joy in finally being a "bad girl" that it seems cruel to tell her she isn't one, nor are the other girls.

• Jerkass: Rin's father. Not only does he keep the motorcycle her essay won for himself, he's foisted off a refurbished motorcycle with its odometer turned back on her as a "new" bike.

• Kabuki Sounds: Episode 3, when Hane puts her stamp on the loan agreement.

• Limited Wardrobe: Most of the girls seem to be limited to their school uniforms, nightwear, and riding gear. Raimu doesn't have even that much, riding in her school uniform. Hayakawa always seems to be in a butler's uniform, even when biking.

• Lipstick Lesbian: Saruyama-sensei, who is also closeted and in denial -- at least until she gets drunk.

• Magic Realism: Talking transsexual motorcycles, Jesus on the road to Aomori handing out the Holy Grail to deserving young girls, Ducatis with souls...
  • Raimu seems to be able to inspire motorcycles and even scooters to go beyond their physical limits for her.

• Magical Land: Onsa seems to regard Hokkaido as one for bikers.

• Meido: Onsa, Hane, Rin and even Raimu-sempai all find themselves wearing maid costumes -- apparently due to Hijiri -- in episode 7 as part of the school festival. Especially during the motorcycle race they're holding as their contribution.

• Motorcycle on the Coast Road: Part of the opening credits.

• Nakama/True Companions: Hijiri believes that the game of "chicken" she talks the others into playing will make them this -- and indeed, she seems to be right.

• Noodle Incident: Whatever it was that Hayakawa did in Siberia.

• Ocular Gushers: Raimu when by herself on the ferry to Hokkaido in Episode 4.

• One-Gender School: The high school appears to be an all-girls school.

• Parental Abandonment:
  • Hane and Yume's parents are in America.
  • Subverted in episode 2: we see an extended flashback which is clearly intended to lead the viewer into believing Rin's father died of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. However, upon exiting the flashback we find that her father is both very much alive and a bit of a Jerkass. And, given other flashbacks, prone to both severe cycle accidents and claiming he's about to die afterward.
  • Hijiri's only adult supervision appears to come from her butler, Hayakawa.

• Pink Means Feminine: Hane's Su-Four, helmet and other gear. Also, Rin's race suit.

• Pink Product Ploy: Possibly the reason why there was a pink Su-Four in the first place.

• Product Placement: Judging from the show's website, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Ducati, Honda and Yamaha have all authorized the appearance of their logos and vehicle designs in this show.

• Shout-Out:
  • "Is this Heaven?" "Of course not. We're in Aomori."
  • 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).

• Stealth Hi Bye: During the bike race in episode 7, "Jesus" appears in the stands next to Yume, speaks to her briefly, then vanishes.

• Technology Porn: One of the trademarks of this show is the incredibly loving detail in which it shows each and every motorcycle.

• Yamato Nadeshiko: Hane's younger sister, Yume.