Bakuon!!/Trivia


 * Expy: It's surprisingly easy to draw parallels between the core cast of Bakuon!! and that of K-On!:
 * Hane corresponds to Yui: primary viewpoint character whose younger  Yamato Nadeshiko sister takes care of both of them while their parents are absent.  She joins the group inexperienced but quickly becomes quite skilled.  Both are The Heart of their respective clubs.
 * Onsa is Ritsu: tomboyish and a little crude, but the enthusiastic advocate for their hobby who both recruits and keeps assembled their group.
 * Rin is the anti-Mio: blonde, visibly busty and in-your-face where Mio is dark and retiring, and somehow manages to hide just how busty she is.
 * Hijiri is a funhouse mirror of Mugi: both Spoiled Sweet rich girls, but Hijiri is clueless and just a bit snobby, where Mugi is capable, friendly and unassuming.
 * Chisame has much the same role as Azusa, the new member of the club a year younger than the other girls, whose father is a professional in their field and who herself is a (near-)pro to their amateurs.
 * Raimu, to Sawako; both are experienced older women from a previous generation of the club, who coach and guide the girls whom they're watching over. Both also have secrets -- Sawako, that she was in club ten years earlier, although this is revealed quite quickly; Raimu, that she's not the upperclassman the girls think she is.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Kikuko Inoue in her gruff tomboy mode as Baita, the talking transsexual Honda that Hane learns on.
 * Shout-Out:
 * "Is this Heaven?" "Of course not. We're in Aomori."
 * To Journey to the West in Episode 5, as the girls briefly envision themelves as the characters of that novel.
 * In episode 6 there is a brief appearance of the same medieval woodcut of the sephiroth that's used in Neon Genesis Evangelion, in the same manner (a transparent moving image overlaid on a full-color background).


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