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"Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuon!! "
 
   LAST EDITED ON Jun-12-16 AT 07:42 PM (EDT)
 
I just think its a neat little show; I read somewhere that it's supposed to be a kind of take on Top Gear and I can honestly kinda see that.

At the very least, Raimu-Sempai is totally a Stig cousin.


Anyway, it's your basic slice of life school club show like K-On, or Girls Und Panzer, or Stella Women's Academy, but with motorcycles.

I think Gryphon might enjoy it, tho I don't recall him having any particular fondness for bikes...

EDIT: decided to make this a bit more like the 'Recent Anime' threads of old, perhaps to get some more talk going; revamp follows:

Hane Sakura is starting high school, and is riding her bicycle up the last of many hills to school when a motorcyclist pulls up beside her. What follows is another in the string of 'cute girls doing cute things related to after-school club activities' and I think it may be the funniest one since K-On!

Clearly inspired by Top Gear (filtered through the lens of Japan and Girls Und Panzer) its currently streaming on Crunchyroll.

I REALLY LIKE this show, and Raimu-Sempai is totally a Stig. Anyone else watching?


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  RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ? BobSchroeck May-24-16 1
     RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ? mdg1 Jun-13-16 2
         RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ? BobSchroeck Jun-14-16 3
             RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ? Lime2K Jun-14-16 4
  RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo dbrandon Jun-15-16 5
     RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo Kendra Kirai Jun-15-16 6
  RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo Kendra Kirai Jun-23-16 7
     RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo BobSchroeck Jun-23-16 8

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BobSchroeck
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1. "RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ?"
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   >I just think its a neat little show; I read somewhere that it's
>supposed to be a kind of take on Top Gear and I can honestly kinda see
>that.

Yeah, I chugged the existing 6 or so episodes over on Crunchyroll this weekend. And yeah, you can find images out on the web already mapping the girls to the guys.

>At the very least, Raimu-Sempai is totally a Stig cousin.

I'm of the opinion she's a deliberate shout-out. And yeah, you can find Raimu-Stig fanart out there already.

>Anyway, it's your basic slice of life school club show like K-On, or
>Girls Und Panzer, or Stella Women's Academy, but with motorcycles.

With a big dollop of magic realism on top. Like talking transsexual Hondas and Jesus on the road to Aomori handing out the Holy Grail to deserving schoolgirls...

>I think Gryphon might enjoy it, tho I don't recall him having any
>particular fondness for bikes...

I don't, myself, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'd say it's at least looking at to see if it's to one's taste.

-- Bob
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2. "RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ?"
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   >>At the very least, Raimu-Sempai is totally a Stig cousin.
>
>I'm of the opinion she's a deliberate shout-out. And yeah, you can
>find Raimu-Stig fanart out there already.

Sailor Stig?

Mario


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BobSchroeck
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3. "RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ?"
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   >>I'm of the opinion she's a deliberate shout-out. And yeah, you can
>>find Raimu-Stig fanart out there already.
>Sailor Stig?

Well, if you search for that phrase on Google, you find this.

-- Bob
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4. "RE: Anybody watching Bakuon!! ?"
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   CLARKSON: I went on the internet today, and I found ... THIS.

<crowd gasps in horror>

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5. "RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo"
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   I tried the first few eps, and yeah, it's pretty good. I feel like it's trying a little too hard to actually be "K-on with motorcycles", though; the archetypes they draw on for the girls' personalities are very similar.

dbrandon


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Kendra Kirai
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6. "RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo"
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   I get the feeling myself that that's at least partly the point; like, I'm thinking it's at least 20-30% parody. It's just too silly to be considered a straight slice-of-life.


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Kendra Kirai
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7. "RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo"
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   And I do believe that, as of today, Bakuon!! Has ended, in a lightly odd way.

All in all, i think it was a cute little show, not nearly as, shall we say, WHOLESOME as many of the recent 'cute girls doing cute things as part of a cute after school club' shows, but with a certain internal consistency to its occasional....unwholesomeness.

In the end, it really did feel like a decidedly odd series of Top Gear, and I hope a few more of you folks watch it. Once again, it's on Crunchyroll, so have at it!


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8. "RE: Recent Anime: Bakuon!! (was: Anybody watching Bakuo"
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   >And I do believe that, as of today, Bakuon!! Has ended, in a lightly
>odd way.

Mm. Gotta catch up then, I'm still a couple episodes behind. And an odd way is what I've come to expect from the show.

-- Bob
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