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“Otaku Onoda's mamachari skills attract cyclists, shifting his goal from anime club to bicycle racing.”
Yowamushi Pedal: Special Ride
弱虫ペダル SPECIAL RIDE
7.35
2,806 rank · 20,505 viewers · 11 favorites
Sports
Racing
Shounen
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Synopsis
Otaku Onoda's mamachari skills attract cyclists, shifting his goal from anime club to bicycle racing.
Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku who just wants to find more people to join the recently disbanded anime club with him. However, when a couple cyclists spy his skill in riding the bulky mamachari bike he's had since youth, they attempt to convince him to join the bicycle racing club instead. An OVA bundled with the 29th volume of the manga.
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
9.0
/10
What 3 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 8
σ 0.82
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.82 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · May 2014 → Sep 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “tldr; A wholesome episode mainly revolving around how Onoda and Makishima got to be closer through Onoda's weeb activities during a training session that takes place prior to the Hakone race This...”
- 10 “In this "Episode" you will be watching a small portion of the schools training, (mainly focused on Sohoku) a little while before Inter High at Hakone occur. Should you waste time to watch this?...”
- 9 “Yowamushi Pedal: Special Ride is one of those OVAs where you expect it to be pure ridiculous boring filler for the OVA - and, to a degree, this would be correct. It's a filler of Onoda and...”
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Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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- Format 1 × 20′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 20m all episodes
- Aired Aug 2013 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-7805 catalog
Produced by
- TOHO animation Producer