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Bari Bari Densetsu
Japanese manga series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bari Bari Densetsu (Japanese: バリバリ伝説, Hepburn: Bari Bari Densetsu; lit. 'Vroom Vroom Legend') is a Japanese motorbike racing-themed manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1983 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 38 tankōbon volumes.
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Earlier parts of the story focus both on high school life as well as street racing. At first the characters are illegal street racers (Japanese: hashiriya) that race on public roads, particularly on the winding mountain roads known as tōge. Those kind of racers were called "rolling-zoku", a type of bōsōzoku, and were seen as a social problem in Japan. Later parts of the story revolve around professional motorcycle racing events held on road circuits like the All Japan Road Race Championship.
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Characters
- Gun Koma (巨摩 郡, Koma Gun)
- Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka
- A motorcycle racer, he rides a Honda CB750 as well as a Suzuki GSX-R.
- Ai Itou (伊藤 歩惟, Itō Ai)
- Voiced by: Yōko Oginome
- Gun's girlfriend.
- Hideyoshi Hijiri (聖 秀吉, Hijiri Hideyoshi)
- Voiced by: Ryūsei Nakao
- Gun's friendly rival, he rides a Suzuki Katana.
- Hiro Okita (沖田 比呂, Okita Hiro)
- Voiced by: Issei Futamata
- Gun's best friend, he rides a Kawasaki Z400GP.
- Miyuki Ichinose (一ノ瀬 美由紀, Ichinose Miyuki)
- Voiced by: Keiko Toda
- The daughter of the Ichinose Racing Team president, she is in love with Hiro and rides a Honda VT250F.
- Tomoyo Hijiri (聖 知代, Hijiri Tomoyo)
- Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu
- Hideyoshi's sister, she lost her parents in car accident.
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Written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, Bari Bari Densetsu was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 9, 1983,[1] to July 17, 1991.[2] Kodansha collected its chapters in thirty-eight tankōbon volumes, released from October 14, 1983,[3] to August 6, 1991.[4]
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OVA
A two-episode original video animation (OVA) adaptation produced by Pierrot, Part I: Tsukuba and Part II: Suzuka, was released in 1986.[43][44] The episodes were later re-edited and released in theaters in August 1987 by Nippon Herald (now part of Kadokawa Pictures).[43][45]
A Blu-Ray version was released in Japan on July 21, 2023.[44]
Video games
Two video games were released:
Gun Koma also appears as a guest character in Namco's MotoGP (2000) video game, based on the 1999 season.[48]
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Reception
In 1985, it won the ninth Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.[49] As of April 2018, collected tankōbon volumes of the Bari Bari Densetsu manga series had over 26 million copies in circulation.[50]
Japanese motorcycle racer Shinya Nakano credited his use of the number 56 throughout his career to Gun Koma also using the same number in the road racing portions of the manga.[51]
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