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== Sakura Hane ==
[[File:Bakuon hane sakura.jpg|framed|right]]
The main character of ''Bakuon!!'', Hane is an apparently ordinary
No, really.
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The closest this series gets to a nasty, badass biker. Like most of the other girls, Onsa is sixteen, and she thinks she's a lot tougher and meaner than she really is. In fact, she's almost as innocent as Hane, but she grew up around motorcycles and has a certain amount of biker in her blood as a result, making her a bit on the rough and crude side. It makes for an odd combination. She's an enthusiastic, if not always terribly eloquent, advocate of motorcycles and biking in general; it's her encouragement (as casual as it was) that pushed Hane over the edge from "curious about bikes" into "must have, must ride".
Her family owns a motorcycle shop, but [[Honest John's Dealership|it specializes in junker bikes with their odometers turned back]], and isn't an authorized dealership for any manufacturer as a result. She seems permanently poised between accepting and embarrassed by this.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Onsa include:}}
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Onsa reacts this way when Hane's choice of motorcycle shop turns out to be the Amano family store when it comes time for her to buy her bike.
* [[Badass Biker]]: Onsa clearly thinks she's one.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: Averted. Onsa tries to give the impression she is more sexually knowledgeable and/or experienced than she actually is, but the pretense is obvious to anyone who is less innocent or ignorant than her.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Onsa ties up her shock of curly hair with a white bandanna.
* [[Jerkass]]: Has a thread of this running through her personality, but not so much as to annoy most people.
* [[Malaproper]]/[[Little-Known Facts]]: Onsa seems to hover between these two tropes, always willing to make a confident-sounding guess when she reaches the boundaries of her ignorance or innocence. Unlike many examples of the latter trope, though, she occasionally makes it clear when she's not sure but trying to figure things out (like guessing that "proletariat" has some something to do with art because it has a syllable that sounds like "art" in it). Other times, though, she's just confidently wrong.
* [[Messy Hair]]: Prompting Rin's nickname for her, "Moja" (literally "frizzy", but [[Woolseyism|rendered as "Mophead"]] on the DVD).
* [[Tomboy]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Seems to be developing into this with Rin, with a touch of [[Les Yay]] as well.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: It's her family business. When Hane chose to buy her bike from the Amano family store, Onsa took it upon herself to ensure that it was in full working order and proper condition (unlike all the other bikes in the store).
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Despite a history that seems just a little worse with every [[Flash Back]] we see, Rin is an almost obsessively dedicated motorcyclist, but has clearly lost all respect for her father, from whom she gained her love of biking. She doesn't have much respect for anyone else, either, taking several episodes just to officially join the biking club despite hanging with its members and even going on a trip with them; she sometimes seems to want to be both a solitary biker making her own way through the world ''and'' The Leader of the Pack. That she's ''not'' the Leader seems to grate on her -- as does the fact that nobody respects how obviously superior Suzuki motorcycles are compared to anything else on the market.
However, despite her abrasive ways, she's actually a nicer, kinder girl than she pretends to be.
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Rin include:}}
* [[Chest Insignia]]: Her pink racing suit has a prominent Suzuki "S" emblem on it, as seen in her picture.
* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Thanks to yet another brilliant move by her father when she was much younger, Rin has {{spoiler|the Suzuki "S" emblem literally branded onto her butt}}. But she didn't know it until she was sixteen and the rest of the Bike Club noticed it at the hot springs in episode 4.
* [[Gag Boobs]]: Just look at the image. She is substantially bustier than every other girl or woman in the series, including ''all'' the adults.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Rin can't ''move'' without gainaxing.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Of the "twin tails" type.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: She has bells and bows tying off her ponytails.
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Rin's [[Jerkass]] father frequently put her in peril with stunts he pulled while she was a pre-teen riding on his motorcycle with him. She was never seriously injured (although as noted above she once had a Suzuki logo seared into her butt because of him), but he [[Laser-Guided Karma|inevitably ended up]] a [[Bandage Mummy]] in the hospital.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: What with being the bustiest girl in the series and her skin-tight pink suit.
* [[Punny Name]]: With a slight variation in spacing, Rin's full name apparently is also a term for "giraffe" ("suzu no kirin") -- a bit of trivia first mentioned by her father in a [[Flashback (trope)|Flashback]] in episode 2, and which is echoed in illustrations for bumpers and other interstitial moments that depict a preteen Rin with a giraffe. Given that she's the tallest girl in the show (although not big enough to be a [[Huge Schoolgirl]]) this seems somehow appropriate.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: The Suzuki "S" branded into her butt. Either her father never told her about it, or she forgot about until the other girls saw it in the hot springs.
* [[Tsundere]]
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Seems to be developing into this with Onsa, with a touch of [[Les Yay]] as well.
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{{quote|'''Hijiri:''' All problems that can be solved with money shall be solved with money. That is the Minowa family motto.}}
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Oddly, though, she's still a bit of a snob (calling the other girls in the club "proletarians", for instance), although such a pleasant, endearing one that you almost can't fault her for it.
* [[Tareme Eyes]]
* [[Universal Driver's License]]: Inverted. Thanks to a loophole in Japanese motor vehicle laws, Hijiri literally possesses ''every possible driver's license'' one can get in Japan, but she doesn't actually know how to drive or pilot ''any'' of those vehicles.
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{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Raimu include:}}
* [[Badass Biker]]: The real thing, as opposed to the girls' "wannabe" status.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: She hit nearly 200 mph when taking Hane on her first ride in episode 1. Unlike most examples of this trope, though, she always seems to be in perfect control of her vehicle.
* [[The Faceless]]/[[One-Way Visor]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: "[[Top Gear|Stig]]-sempai" started appearing on the Net within a week of the first episode being broadcast.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: In episode 7 the tote board for the bike race reveals that the spelling of her name in roman letters is actually "Lime" -- the color of her motorcycle and the tie on her school uniform.
** Her last name is unknown -- "Kawasaki" is a pseudonym given to her by the principal for her bogus student ID, inspired by her Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Raimu is actually in her middle to late thirties, if not older (in a flashback to the principal's high school years she's shown able to place bets at
* [[Shout-Out]]: Raimu is a very obvious shout-out to [[Top Gear|the Stig]], right down to wearing the same brand of helmet.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The more we learn about Raimu, the more she seems to be this.
* [[Talking with Signs]]: When simple nods and gestures are insufficient to communicate her message, Raimu will resort to notes jotted down on paper.
* [[Vague Age]]: She's in her mid- to late-thirties... at least. It's entirely possible that she was already older than high school age when she was part of the Motorcycle Club twenty years ago, given she was able to place bets at a bike race. And as mentioned above, there are forty-something racers who call her "sempai".
* [[The Voiceless]]: She's not mute, even though she never speaks on screen and resorts to [[Talking with Signs|written notes]] when she has to -- there's at least one moment where she steps away from the action to take a cell phone call.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Although we never actually see it, in episode 9 we learn that Raimu does all the maintenance for Hane's bike, and washes all the girls' bikes as well.
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* [[Pride]]: So very much of her behavior is driven by an intense need not to look foolish or stupid. This is so strong that it keeps from her asking for help in ''cycle license school'' once the instructor recognizes her from her publicity.
* [[The Stoic]]: She's not quite the [[Emotionless Girl]]; she can be boggled, she cries, and she does have the occasional [[Freak-Out]]. But her default demeanor is pretty much to not react to most things.
* [[Tareme Eyes]]
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== Hayakawa ==
[[File:Hayakawa bakuon.jpg|frame]]
Hijiri's butler and driver. Little is known about him, although the picture that is slowly forming seems to depict a [[Retired Badass]]. Among other things, he makes asides that indicate he was part of the [[wikipedia:Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union|Siberian Internment]], in which the Soviets held surrendered Japanese soldiers after [[World War
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by Hayakawa include:}}
* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Covered with Scars]]: As we see in episode 4 at the hot springs.
* [[Old Retainer]]: He's been a butler to the Minowa family for several generations.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: As noted above, Hayakawa makes off-handed comments that indicate he is a World War II veteran. He doesn't look like he's closing in on his 100th birthday...
* [[Vague Age]]: We can only guess how old he is from the comments he makes.
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