Bakuon!!

Bakuon!! (ばくおん！！) 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 eighteen tankōbon volumes as of July 2025.[1] An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment/8Pan aired between April and June 2016.

Plot

The series takes place at Okanoue Girls' High School (丘乃上女子高等学校), 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 Kawasaki and Hijiri Minowa.

Characters

The Motorcycle Club

Reception

Previews

Anime News Network had five editors review the first episode of the anime:[15] Nick Creamer was positive towards the comedic content having solid visual and verbal jokes being delivered through humorous character expressions and voice acting; Theron Martin was initially entertained by the amusing cast and intricate motorbike knowledge but was distracted by the fanservice involving the girls' figures; Rebecca Silverman praised Onsa Amano for her "delightfully retro [character] design" and flighty yet endearing personality, and the surprisingly funny sex humor being delivered by Baita but found both Sakura and Rin to be unbearable and lacking interesting qualities to them; Lynzee Loveridge was also positive towards Onsa and the driver's ed bike providing decent comedy but felt the rest of the episode had an unspectacular cast, generic character designs (outside of Onsa's) and dull non-motorbike humor, saying the anime will appeal more to that specific subset of gearheads than a general audience. The fifth reviewer, Jacob Hope Chapman, found the series to be more of an "Akamatsu-style 90s harem comedy than K-On! on motorcycles", criticizing the humorless jokes, overbearing and screechy female characters, and lackluster production for delivering "garish flat designs" and lazily repeated animation, concluding that: "Bakuon!! has that unique kind of lameness where it feels like it's not really made for any audience in 2016. If you were hoping for moe motorcycles, there's no innocent charm to be found here, and if you just want to see some fanservice, you'll probably want to hold out for a show with better drawings."[15]

Series

Stig Høgset at THEM Anime Reviews was critical of the "cartoonish caricatures" and the last episode being disappointing with its signature humor being replaced with a flat joke but gave praise to the main cast for their charm and personalities being closer to real-life, quality animation to accentuate the motorbiking scenes and use of the gag comedy format to tell its stories (highlighting the Hokkaido arc), calling it "[A]n energetic, if flawed, show that nevertheless has its heart where it counts."[16]

type	TV series
director	Junji Nishimura
producer	Yosuke Tsuruki Takahashi Kazuaki Meiji Takuo
writer	Kurasumi Sunayama
music	Ryosuke Nakanishi
studio	TMS/8Pan
network	Tokyo MX, Sun TV, BS11, Animax
first	April 5, 2016
last	June 21, 2016
episodes	12
episode list	#Episode list

Plot

Characters

The Motorcycle Club

Other characters

Media

Manga

Anime

Episode list

Episode list

Reception

Previews

Series

External links

References