“Gun Koma must team up with rival Hideyoshi Hijiri to compete in a four-hour race for a big-league chance.”
Bari Bari Densetsu (1987)
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Synopsis
Gun Koma must team up with rival Hideyoshi Hijiri to compete in a four-hour race for a big-league chance.
Gun Koma is an ordinary high schooler with an intense love of motorcycles and a need for speed. When one of his classmates invites him to be part of a four-hour race that could help him reach the big leagues, Gun seizes the opportunity. The only catch is that he will have to team up with his longtime street racing rival Hideyoshi Hijiri. The opportunity to race on a formal circuit is tempting, but he must steel himself and set aside his differences with Hideyoshi to claim the gold.
What people say
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What 3 viewers settled on.
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σ 1.25 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 1.33
Running avg · Apr 2012 → Aug 2021
- 9 “What Initial D is to car fans, Bari Bari is to motorbike fans. And that's the greatest compliment a racing series can get. Hell, the manga was supposedly so good that people started to join the...”
- 8 “*SPOILER FREE REVIEW* Bari Bari Densetsu comes to us from the original creator of Initial D. The story follows illegal street racers on their path to professional races. Like Initial D, these teens...”
- 6 “VROOM, MOTHERFUCKER. VROOOOOOOOOOOM!!! Motorcycles are so fucking cool, dude. Seeing these ones animated so well when they might be obnoxious CG blobs today makes me happy. The story was pretty...”
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A Movie Production
Studio Pierrot.- Format 1 × 85′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 25m all episodes
- Aired Aug 1987 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-6795 catalog