Bean Bandit

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: BEAN BANDIT


Information

Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 19, 2021
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Creators in Pack
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, ComedyComedy
Theme: DetectiveDetective
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 11 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.091 (scored by 11431,143 users)
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Ranked: #128642
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Popularity: #8519
Members: 5,392
Favorites: 6

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Synopsis

A legendary courier-for-hire also known as "Roadbuster," Bean Bandit can deliver anything and everything anywhere, but only at a high price. He won't tolerate anyone standing in his way or betraying him, and when faced with such a challenge he removes them with his strength and muscles.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Sonoda, Kenichi
Director, Script, Planning, Original Creator, Chief Animation Director
Aoki, Yuu
Director


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Reviews

Jul 28, 2024
This was a passion project by the author Sonoda Kenichi, funded on kickstarter in 2018 (with the incredibly low funding goal of 15 million yen). The project fell under multiple delays, and ended up with the incredibly short runtime of 11 minutes (7 minutes excluding credits). The final outcome serves better as advertisement for the manga, and possibly as test footage for a future film or series set in the Riding Bean universe (although nothing like this has ever been expressed formally to my understanding).

Bean Bandit follows the cast from the Riding Bean manga, and introduces May Hopkins and Becky Farrah as some may ...
May 14, 2022
Mixed Feelings
As a fan of Sonoda's work from Gunsmith Cats to Riding Bean, hearing that a new OVA was in the works was great and I was steadily waiting for it to release over the years, but unfortunately what we got was quite a disappointment.

It's not bad, far from it actually. From what we got, it seems like a perfect modern interpretation of Riding Bean. Fast muscle cars, realistic depictions of firearms and hot girls. That's Riding Bean to a tee and this OVA is pretty damn accurate to the manga/anime. Evening adding a few aspects from Gunsmith Cats (such as May and Becky who ...
Aug 6, 2022
This is essentially just 7 minutes of out of context action scenes (which aren't really all that memorable to begin with), where the characters aren't being used to their fullest potential, especially Percy, where he only appears in a single scene. For a short called "Bean Bandit", May takes the spotlight in the majority of the runtime for some reason, although i gotta admit that the music and animation aren't half bad. Other bad aspect is the cliffhanger ending, one which i doubt will ever be resolved.

Overrall, a disappointing ride, while i do think that Gunsmith Cats/Riding Bean has a lot of potential for a ...

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Recent Forum Discussion

Poll: Bean Bandit Episode 1 Discussion
anime-prime - May 9, 2022
19 repliesby Nikoslovescoffee »»
Nov 4, 2023 6:49 AM
RIDING BEAN IS GETTING AN SPRING 2019 OVA!!!
Somali_Strawhat - Oct 18, 2018
46 repliesby phynto »»
Jul 19, 2022 4:03 AM
Delayed to when?
O_T_T - Apr 1, 2021
12 repliesby anime-prime »»
May 8, 2022 1:53 PM