Bakuon!! (2016)

Name: Bakuon!!
Rating: 5.9

Rating: 5.9

Synopsis

The story revolves around high school girls who discover the appeal of motorcycles. Sakura Hane is a high school student who looks a little bit like an airhead. On the way to her all-female high school one day, she is worn-out climbing a hilly road with a bicycle, but she sees a girl named Onsa Amano who is riding a motorcycle. Sakura immediately becomes interested in motorcycles, and she and Onsa join the motorcycle club at the school. Then, Sakura sets out to get her license.

First Air Date: 2016-04-05

Last Air Date: 2016-06-21

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 12

Networks: Tokyo MX, BS11

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Top Cast

Kikuko Inoue as Baita (voice)
Reina Ueda as Hane Sakura (voice)
Nao Toyama as Rin Suzunoki (voice)
Ibuki Kido as Chisame Nakano (voice)
Rikako Yamaguchi as Hijiri Minowa (voice)
Yumi Uchiyama as Onsa Amano (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (2016)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Club Registration!! (2016-04-05)

On her way to her first day of school, Hane Sakura takes interest in her classmate, Onsa Amano, after seeing her ride a motorbike to school. The two go to the school's Bike Club, whose only club member is a silent girl in a helmet named Raimu Kawasaki, who takes Hane for a ride on her Kawasaki ZX-12R. After joining the club alongside Onsa, Hane applies for a motorcycle license, initially struggle with lifting a bike but managing to pull it off after seemingly hearing a voice coming from her bike. During her lessons, Hane comes across another classmate, Rin Suzunoki, who takes her and the others to a bike shop to pick out a bike, only to argue with Onsa when she disses her taste in Suzuki bikes.
Ep. 2: School!! (2016-04-12)

As Rin manages to get her bike license, she remains angry at Onsa over her prejudice towards her Katana, but is awed by Hane's honest compliments. Later, a freshman named Hijiri Minowa comes to join the bike club, giving Hane the idea to have Onsa and Rin settle their dispute with a chicken race. Though Onsa and Rin stop in order to keep their bikes safe, Hijiri and her butler Hayakawa go full force against Raimu. On the day of her license exam, Hane becomes nervous when she has to ride a different bike than from her lessons, but Hijiri and the others manage to cheer her on, allowing her to successfully pass her exam.
Ep. 3: Debut!! (2016-04-19)

With Hane now having her license, the girls visit the Nicoichi Motors used bike store, which turns out to be Onsa's family business. Despite the poor condition of most of the bikes on sale, Hane decides to buy a pink Honda CB400SF Hyper VTEC Spec III that catches her eye. Later, the girls overhear Rin being cheerful after a microphone is installed in her helmet, encouraging her to join them on the trip. Afterwards, the girls learn that the Bike Club has been defunct for twenty years and look to getting it reapproved, while Raimu and Tazuko, the school's headmistress reminisce about how it came to be defunct in the first place. After Raimu promises to protect the other girls from harm, Tazuko presents Raimu with a new Student ID and has the Bike Club officially reinstated.
Ep. 4: Hot Springs!! (2016-04-26)

The gang plans a road trip to Hokkaido for the summer. It becomes a grueling overnight race to the hot springs.
Ep. 5: Touring!! (2016-05-03)

The gang wakes up in tents in Hokkaido. They make a trip to the northern edge of the prefecture, where they run into someone they didn't expect to see.
Ep. 6: Prep!! (2016-05-10)

The school festival is coming up. The gang prepares for their event: a bike race.
Ep. 7: Cultural Festival!! (2016-05-17)

The crowd for the gang's school festival event is huge. Even the principal is betting.
Ep. 8: Winter Break!! (2016-05-24)

The gang exchanges gifts for Christmas, and bike to Inubousaki to watch the first sunrise of the year.
Ep. 9: New Students!! (2016-05-31)

It's the end of the school year and the beginning of the next. Raimu-senpai's graduating, and all the clubs, including Bike Club, are desperate for new members.
Ep. 10: Juniors!! (2016-06-07)

Chisame is an undefeated minibike champion. The gang wants her in the Bike Club, but she falls a bit short.
Ep. 11: Bicycles!! (2016-06-14)

Hane finds herself in a world where motorcycles don't exist and all her friends ride bicycles instead.
Ep. 12: A World of What-ifs!! (2016-06-21)

Hane finds herself in a world where motorcycles don't exist and all her friends ride bicycles instead.