Bari Bari Densetsu (Japanese: バリバリ伝説, Hepburn: Bari Bari Densetsu, lit. 'Vroom Vroom Legend') is a Japanese motorbike racing-themed manga series written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1983 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 38 tankōbon volumes.
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バリバリ伝説 (Baribari Densetsu) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Shuichi Shigeno |
Published by | Kodansha |
Imprint | Magazine KC |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | March 9, 1983 – July 17, 1991 |
Volumes | 38 |
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Music by | Ichirō Nitta |
Studio | Pierrot |
Released | May 10, 1986 – December 16, 1986 |
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Episodes | 2 |
Game | |
Publisher | Pony Canyon |
Platform | FM-7 |
Released | August 1985 |
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Developer | Taito |
Publisher | Taito |
Platform | TurboGrafx-16 |
Released | November 29, 1989 |
Earlier parts of the story focus both on high school life as well as street racing. At first the characters are illegal street racers (Japanese: hashiriya) that race on public roads, particularly on the winding mountain roads known as tōge. Those kind of racers were called "rolling-zoku", a type of bōsōzoku, and were seen as a social problem in Japan. Later parts of the story revolve around professional motorcycle racing events held on road circuits like the All Japan Road Race Championship.
Written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, Bari Bari Densetsu was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 9, 1983,[1] to July 17, 1991.[2] Kodansha collected its chapters in thirty-eight tankōbon volumes, released from October 14, 1983,[3] to August 6, 1991.[4]
No. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | October 14, 1983[5] | 978-4-06-172922-3 |
2 | November 14, 1983[6] | 978-4-06-172932-2 |
3 | December 12, 1983[7] | 978-4-06-172937-7 |
4 | March 15, 1984[8] | 978-4-06-172955-1 |
5 | May 15, 1984[9] | 978-4-06-172970-4 |
6 | July 16, 1984[10] | 978-4-06-172977-3 |
7 | September 13, 1984[11] | 978-4-06-172990-2 |
8 | December 10, 1984[12] | 978-4-06-173010-6 |
9 | February 12, 1985[13] | 978-4-06-173022-9 |
10 | May 14, 1985[14] | 978-4-06-173044-1 |
11 | July 10, 1985[15] | 978-4-06-173053-3 |
12 | November 14, 1985[16] | 978-4-06-173085-4 |
13 | February 12, 1986[17] | 978-4-06-173120-2 |
14 | July 10, 1986[18] | 978-4-06-173155-4 |
15 | September 10, 1986[19] | 978-4-06-173176-9 |
16 | November 13, 1986[20] | 978-4-06-173190-5 |
17 | February 10, 1987[21] | 978-4-06-311211-5 |
18 | May 11, 1987[22] | 978-4-06-311236-8 |
19 | July 10, 1987[23] | 978-4-06-311256-6 |
20 | September 7, 1987[24] | 978-4-06-311273-3 |
21 | November 9, 1987[25] | 978-4-06-311291-7 |
22 | February 8, 1988[26] | 978-4-06-311312-9 |
23 | May 2, 1988[27] | 978-4-06-311342-6 |
24 | July 8, 1988[28] | 978-4-06-311361-7 |
25 | October 11, 1988[29] | 978-4-06-311387-7 |
26 | February 10, 1989[30] | 978-4-06-311419-5 |
27 | April 12, 1989[31] | 978-4-06-311436-2 |
28 | July 13, 1989[32] | 978-4-06-311465-2 |
29 | October 11, 1989[33] | 978-4-06-311490-4 |
30 | February 8, 1990[34] | 978-4-06-311525-3 |
31 | April 14, 1990[35] | 978-4-06-311548-2 |
32 | June 14, 1990[36] | 978-4-06-311569-7 |
33 | August 11, 1990[37] | 978-4-06-311587-1 |
34 | November 15, 1990[38] | 978-4-06-311613-7 |
35 | February 14, 1991[39] | 978-4-06-311637-3 |
36 | April 15, 1991[40] | 978-4-06-311655-7 |
37 | June 10, 1991[41] | 978-4-06-311675-5 |
38 | August 6, 1991[42] | 978-4-06-311705-9 |
A two-episode original video animation (OVA) adaptation produced by Pierrot, Part I: Tsukuba and Part II: Suzuka, was released in 1986.[43][44] The episodes were later re-edited and released in theaters in August 1987 by Nippon Herald (now part of Kadokawa Pictures).[43][45]
A Blu-Ray version was released in Japan on July 21, 2023.[44]
Two video games were released:
Gun Koma also appears as a guest character in Namco's MotoGP (2000) video game, based on the 1999 season.[48]
In 1985, it won the ninth Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.[49] As of April 2018, collected tankōbon volumes of the Bari Bari Densetsu manga series had over 26 million copies in circulation.[50]