Baribari Legend

Baribari Legend

Cover of volume 19
バリバリ伝説
Genre Action, Sports, Drama
Manga
Written by Shuichi Shigeno
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run 1983 – 1991
Volumes 38
Original video animation
Directed by Nagayuki Toriumi
Satoshi Uemura
Studio Studio Pierrot
Released May 10, 1986 – December 16, 1986
Episodes 2

Baribari Legend (バリバリ伝説 Baribari Densetsu) is an early motorbike racing manga series by Shuichi Shigeno, who went on to create the Initial D series. It was published in 38 volumes between 1983 and 1991 by Kodansha. In 1985, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.[1]

The story has a lot of similar points with Initial D. Racing on the public road (illegal of course) is the center of the storyline in the first half. It became a social problem in Japan because many "Hashiriya" got influenced by it and became "Rolling-zoku"(hashiriya trying to see how fast they can go through curves).

There is also an OVA based on the manga. It is called Bari-den for short. In August 1987, it was shown in the theater by JapanHerald.

In 1989 the manga was also licensed as a commercial video game by Taito Corporation for the PC Engine, under the original title.

The character Gun Koma appears as a hidden character in the PlayStation 2 game MotoGP by Namco.

Characters

References

  1. ↑ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.

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