Bari Bari Densetsu

Baribari Legend
Cover of volume 19
バリバリ伝説
Genre	Action, Sports, Drama
Manga
Written by	Shuichi Shigeno
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run	1983 – 1991
Volumes	38
Original video animation
Directed by	Nagayuki Toriumi Satoshi Uemura
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Released	May 10, 1986 – December 16, 1986
Episodes	2

Baribari Legend (バリバリ伝説, Baribari Densetsu^?) is an early motorbike racing manga series by Shuichi Shigeno, who went on to create the Initial D series. It was published in 38 volumes between 1983 and 1991 by Kodansha. In 1985, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.

The story has a lot of similar points with Initial D. Racing on the public road (illegal of course) is the center of the storyline in the first half. It became a social problem in Japan because many "Hashiriya" got influenced by it and became "Rolling-zoku"(hashiriya trying to see how fast they can go through curves).

There is also an OVA based on the manga. It is called Bari-den for short. In August 1987, it was shown in the theater by JapanHerald.

In 1989 the manga was also licensed as a commercial video game by Taito Corporation for the PC Engine, under the original title.

The character Gun Koma appears as a hidden character in the PlayStation 2 game MotoGP by Namco.