Anime like Bari Bari Densetsu (1987)

Initial D

Also known as Initial D 1st Stage.

Studio: OB Planning , Funimation , Fuji TV , Studio Comet , Studio Gallop , Pastel , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop early in the morning. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.



Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Rural , Seinen , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Age Gap

Bobby ni Kubittake

Studio: MADHOUSE , Kadokawa Shoten , Project Team Argos
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The "Bobby" referred to in the title is actually 17-year-old Akihiko Nomura, an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His grades are failing, and his father – traditional and strict (but who must have also at some point gave in and allowed him to have a motorcycle) – is trying everything he can think of to get the kid to apply for college. His mother is so silent, she might as well not even exist. Really, his support system lies entirely in his twinkle-toed little sister, who's nosy but cheers him on in her own way.

Bobby really does little else but work on his bike. He cleans his bike. He tunes up his bike. He rides his bike. One would call him a motorcycle otaku. His most recent achievement seems to have been getting photos of himself on a road trip printed in a motorcyclist hobby magazine. This leads to an unexpected result: a girl his age, who picked up that issue on a whim, decides to write him a letter. A long, rambling letter, but dreamily romantic just the same. Bobby admits to his sister that he's never gotten a letter from a girl before. He writes back, "I got your letter. I'm happy 'cause it was from a girl."

Bobby is not a well-rounded kid. He barely speaks – even to his own family – and the "letters" he writes back to the mystery girl usually consist of a single sentence or so. His motorcycle obsession is all-consuming, to the point where he happily quits school to work at a biker bar. Of course, his father, at a loss, kicks him out of the house. Staying with a friend, he's delighted when his female pen pal says she'll call him. On that day, his boss at the bar decides to take him to a motocross track. But that's a day that wouldn't end in a way that anybody would expect.



Note: Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Tags: Motorcycles , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Foreign

Aitsu to Lullaby: Suiyoubi no Cinderella

Studio: Kodansha , Studio Pierrot , Nippon Herald Eiga
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Kenji is a motorcyclist enthusiast who loves nothing more than to ride around on his motorcycle. He invites Tomomi on a tour of Hakone, but by doing so is introduced to a car driver named "Wednesday's Cinderella", whose Porsche is supposedly haunted by the "devil". Motorcyclists show up every week to try and compete against the driver, but none of them ever win. Kenji sees this as a challenge and asks a bike shop owner to tune his bike for the purpose of competing against this driver, just for pure fun. The bike shop owner refuses due to past trauma that gets triggered upon the sight of his bike (and due to trauma that the Cinderella driver has), but eventually does so anyway, in the hopes that Kenji can cure the Cinderella driver's trauma by winning.

Tags: Rural , Cars , Motorcycles , Shounen , Delinquents

Bakuon!!

Also known as Bakuon!!.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life , Sports

Riding a bicycle may be better than walking, but when another girl zips past her on the way to class, Sakura Hane realizes that there’s an even better option: motorcycles! Fortunately, Sakura’s all-girl school just happens to have a motorcycle club! It only has one member though: the mysterious Raimu Kawasaki, who’s never been seen without her face-obscuring helmet. But that changes immediately once Sakura and the girl who passed her, Onsa Amano, sign up and start recruiting! It won’t all be easy riding… Sakura still has to earn her license, and there are problems like the club’s official status having slipped, and the need to recruit a faculty sponsor.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Motorcycles , School Club , Female Protagonist , School , Ojou-sama , Butler , Seinen

Circuit Angel: Ketsui no Starting Grid

Studio: Studio Unicorn
Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Mariko is a downtown schoolgirl who loves motorcycles and wants to graduate from the street-racing circle of her friends to the world of pro racing.



Tags: Motorcycles , Nudity