Bakuten!! This Spring, Rhythmic Gymnastics Guys Are HOT!? 【Spring 2021 Anime】

2021-05-19
Hi guys! Honestly, I’m not familiar with the rhythmic gymnastics at all!! It’s Mafuyu from Goods Republic!
I think I’m a little familiar with a figure skating since I can actually see it on TV but…… I have no idea what kind of sports the rhythmic gymnastics is since we really don’t see it in public in Japan.
So, today!! I’ll be featuring one of the spring anime, now on air, focusing on the world of the rhythmic gymnastics!! Are you guys ready? The spring anime, depicting the rhythmic gymnastics, is……!?

【Spring 2021 Anime】
This Spring, Rhythmic Gymnastics Guys Are HOT!?
Featuring Bakuten!!, Now on Air!!

What Is Bakuten!!?

It’s an original Japanese anime television series, now airing in “noitaminA.”
The series is part of the “Zutto Oen Project 2011 + 10……”, focusing on the boys in the Tohoku area, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. To create the rhythmic gymnastics scenes, they actually have the pro-rhythmic gymnastics athletes and have it reflected through motion capture.
As you can see this image, the performance scene seems so real, huh? What kind of characters will be in such a brilliant rhythmic gymnastics world?

The main protagonist is a boy, who used to be a baseball player! One day, he was attracted by the rhythmic gymnastics’ performance, which led him to come to want to try it……!!

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Futaba Shotaro
The main protagonist, Futaba Shotaro, is a boy, who was a member of the baseball club in his middle school days.
However, he was never chosen to be an official player as a member of the baseball club during the middle school day.
One day, after Shotaro finishes his last baseball game in his middle school, he happens to see four strange boys in the park, on the way back home.
It looks like they are all doing group warm-up, trying to make complicated poses. Then they go into the stadium close by.
In the stadium, he sees the rhythmic gymnastics competition going on. The four boys that he sees earlier are doing a perfect and beautiful performance as well.
Shotaro, who is an amateur, even thinks their performance is by far good. However, the result ends up…… 8th place! It’s incredibly low……!
In a rhythmic gymnastic tournament, six members are supposed to perform.

But they did it only with four. That’s why they got penalties of 1.5 points per person.

The full score are 20 points in a rhythmic gymnastics tournament so 3 points deduction is quite big.”
One student teaches that to Shotaro. The student also tells him that their achievement placing in 8th is such a good result with that disadvantage. They performed so perfectly and beautifully and ended up getting penalties just because they didn’t have enough members…… That day, Shotaro learns that the rhythmic gymnastics world is beautiful but strict at the same time.
Then time has passed since that day…… Shotaro is now a high school student. He enters the same high school as those four rhythmic gymnastics members.
He wants to give it a try. He wants to challenge something. Although he has no experience in rhythmic gymnastics, he comes to want to get into the rhythmic gymnastics world.
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Misato Ryoya
Although Shotaro has no experiences, the members welcome him warmly.
However…… another student who joins the club in the same timing is…… Misato Ryoya, who has won the 2nd place in the Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior Competition!!
Are these two going to win the championship with four other Senpai members……?
A boy, with a dream, challenges to the new world, although he has no experiences…… It’s a storyline of the classic-type sport anime but…… that’s why we can easily get immersed into that world!
The main protagonist, Shotaro-Kun, is an amateur, so all the Senpai treat him so kindly but train him strictly as well, to achieve their goal! There are also the rivals from other schools, however, they encourage with each other (without getting awkward) so we can enjoy watching it without feeling stressed!!
What do they do specifically in a rhythmic gymnastics training? How are they judged? For those who are curious about such questions! Why don’t you learn them through this anime, Bakuten!!?
Bakuten!! Merch
Oki-doki! This is all for today! I’ll see you guys at the next article~!
Bye~!

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