Bakuon!! | |
Cover of Bakuon!! volume 1 by Akita Shoten
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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 | 9 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Junji Nishimura |
Studio | TMS Entertainment |
Released | March 18, 2016 – December 20, 2016 |
Runtime | 24 minutes |
Episodes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Junji Nishimura |
Produced by | Yosuke Tsuruki Takahashi Kazuaki Meiji Takuo |
Written by | Kurasumi Sunayama |
Music by | Ryosuke Nakanishi |
Studio | TMS Entertainment |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, SUN, BS11, Animax |
Original run | April 5, 2016 – June 21, 2016 |
Episodes | 12 |
Bakuon!! (ばくおん!!?, lit. "Roar!") is a Japanese manga series by Mimana Orimoto. The series began serialization in Akita Shoten's seinen manga magazine Young Champion Retsu from February 2011 and has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment aired between April and June 2016.
The series takes place at Okanoue Girls' High School (丘乃上女子高等学校 Okanoue Joshikōtōgakkō?), where girls are permitted to ride motorcycles to school, and follows Hane Sakura, a cheerful freshman who becomes awed after seeing another student ride a bike to school. 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.
An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment aired in Japan between April 5, 2016 and June 21, 2016 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The series was directed by Junji Nishimura with scripts written by Kurasumi Sunayama and music composed by Ryusuke Nakanishi. An original video animation was bundled with the seventh manga volume on March 18, 2016. A second original video animation will be bundled with the ninth manga volume on December 20, 2016. The opening theme is "FeelXAlive" by Sayaka Sasaki while the ending theme is "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.