Barakamon Images

Author & Illustration (Manga, Original character design): Yoshino Satsuki
Illustration (Anime): Majiro

Animation Production: Kinema Citrus

Prequel: Handa-kun



General Information

Barakamon (ばらかもん) was originally a Japanese slice-of-life, comedy manga series written and illustrated by Satsuki Yoshino and started serialization in Square Enix’s Gangan Online on their February 2009 issue. Barakamon eventually had an anime adaptation having 12 episodes with the pilot episode being aired on July 6th, 2014 and the last episode being aired on September 27th, 2014. Barakamon was directed by Masaki Tachibana and the animation was done by Kinema Citrus.

Plot:
"Handa Seishuu (半田 清舟 Handa Seishū) is a professional calligrapher at the age of 23. However, after being criticized by an elderly curator of an exhibition saying that it does not have any originality, Handa got mad and punched the curator. After what happened, Handa’s father decided to send him off to Gotou Island, near Kyushu for a much-needed vacation.

Upon arriving in the island, he was surprised that there are no shuttles in the airport terminal and no one is waiting for him who would accompany him in going to where he would be staying for the remainder of his vacation. Forced to walk and find the address of his would-be house on his own. Along the way, he gets a hitch offered by an elderly man who was driving a tractor.

He eventually gets home only to find out that it is locked and was assisted by the village chief. And it did not take long before a kid named Naru started intruding inside his home as well as two teenagers named Yamamura Miwa and Arai Tamako respectively. It did not take long before Handa slowly realizes that most of the people in the island have some sort of annoying quirk; whether it be entering his house without his permission or driving tractors as a means of transportation or catching weird insects.

He is starting to wonder if he would still be able to accomplish what he was meant to do in the island with all the distraction around him."

Source: Zerochan; written by l_i_z

*(2016-02-06)/sub