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• Expy: It's surprisingly easy to draw parallels between the core cast of Bakuon!! and that of K-On! -- see the list of parallels on the YMMV page.
• Hey, It's That Place!: The mound with a pole on it where Hane wakes up after the overnight ride with "Jesus" is a real place in Aomori, the tomb of Jesus according to local tradition.
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Kikuko Inoue in her gruff tomboy mode as Baita, the talking transsexual Honda that Hane learns on.
  • Unsho Ishizuka -- Professor Oak, Alex Rosewater and Jet Black, among many others -- as Hayakawa.
• Meaningful Name: Each girl's name corresponds to their motorcycle:
  • Hane means "Wing". Not only does it reference the Honda Wing logo, it also ties into her wing-shaped barrettes, the opening theme referring to her as "the girl with wings", and repeated images of her with spectral wings as she rides her pink Su-Four.
  • "Onsa" is a pun on the Japanese word for "tuning fork": Yamaha also makes musical instruments, and a six-pointed star made of tuning forks is part of Yamaha's logo.
  • Rin's last name -- Suzunoki -- very obviously incorporates "Suzuki".
  • Hijiri's last name, Minowa, literally means "three wheels", referencing the sidecar she rides in for most of the series.
  • Kawasaki Raimu is a more of a case of an (en)forced trope. Raimu can be transliterated into English as "Lime" (and is, on the leaderboard for the race at the school festival), which is the color of both her uniform neckerchief and her motorcycle. It is unknown if it is her actual personal name or a nickname. Her last name, "Kawasaki", is a known alias, given to her by the school principal.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Chisame's father, Kinya Nakano, is a thinly-disguised version of retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Shinya Nakano.
  • The three Suzuki riders on the dock at Hokkaido were cameos by three famous racers of the time.
• Shout-Out:
  • Hijiri invokes Rebel Without a Cause when explaining why she wants to play a game of "Chicken" with the other girls, complete with hand-drawn "stills" from the movie.
  • "Is this Heaven?" "Of course not. We're in Aomori." (In the original Crunchyroll sub; the Sentai Filmworks DVD translates the lines differently.)
  • 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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