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“Bean Bandit and Rally Vincent, elite couriers, protect Chelsea in a deadly high-stakes escort mission.”
Riding Bean
ライディング・ビーン
7.06
4,427 rank · 27,135 viewers · 89 favorites
Action
Racing
Seinen
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Synopsis
Bean Bandit and Rally Vincent, elite couriers, protect Chelsea in a deadly high-stakes escort mission.
Bean Bandit and his partner Rally Vincent are couriers for hire—transporting clients and delivering goods in his custom sports car "Roadbuster" for a hefty price. When they accept a high-stakes job to escort a young girl named Chelsea to her destination, they find themselves caught in a dangerous game where nothing is as it seems, and every mile brings new threats that test their skills—and their trust.
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Community consensus
Derived from 17 sampled reviews
6.9
/10
What 17 viewers settled on.
92%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.21
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.21 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 1.06
Running avg · Mar 2008 → Apr 2026
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Riding Bean is a fast paced OVA with a competent narrative and excellent animation. Only clocking in at 46 minutes, it is impressive how much was able to be crammed in. The OVA is mostly non stop...”
- 7 “Sort of like an anime version of Walter Hill's The Driver, but with a set-up that involves a kidnapped kid. I actually remember renting this back in the day from Blockbuster, but upon watching it...”
- 7 “So here's the thing. Riding Bean is pretty mediocre. It's a little schlocky 80s action OVA that I only watched because it's attatched to Gunsmith Cats... and it's not that particularly exciting....”
Verbosity
Short · 35%
Medium · 41%
Long · 24%
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- Format 1 × 46′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 46m all episodes
- Aired Feb 1989 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0833 catalog