Anime like Bari Bari Densetsu

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

Pelican Road: Club Caroucha

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

High school boy Kenichi Watanabe is crazy about his MBX50 motorcycle. So he and his buddies organize a motorcycle club, which they call Culture.



Tags: Motorcycles , Delinquents , Shounen , Male Protagonist

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: Motorcycles , Cars , Rural , Shounen , Delinquents

Circuit Angel: Ketsui no Starting Grid

Studio: Studio Unicorn , Hiro Media
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

Kentauros no Densetsu

Also known as The Legend of Kentauros.

Studio: Wako Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race.



Tags: Motorcycles , Male Protagonist , Nudity , School , Love Triangle

Shounan Bakusouzoku

Studio: Toei Animation , AnimEigo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life

In Japan, the country that inspired the slogan "Born to be Mild," the blood of young men still runs hot. In the old days they'd go off into the country and hack each other up with swords, but these days, what with school, that isn't very practical.

So some of them do something very un-Japanese. They strap on a big bike, roar around annoying people, and pound anyone they consider dishonorable.

Now meet Eguchi Yousuke, leader of a high-school Biker gang AND the school's handicrafts club. Which means he divides his time between fistfights and fancy needlework.

And if you think he's weird, wait until you meet the rest of his gang...



Tags: Motorcycles , Delinquents , Parody , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Gangs , Shounen , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Primarily Male Cast , Chibi , School , Martial Arts , School Club