Be-Bop High School

Be-Bop High School
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Toru Nakama (left) and Hiroshi Kato (right)
ビー・バップ・ハイスクール
(Bī Bappu Hai Sukūru)
GenreYankī[1]
Manga
Written byKazuhiro Kiuchi
Published byKodansha
ImprintYanmaga KC Special
MagazineWeekly Young Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original run19832003
Volumes48
Further information
Live-action film
Directed byHiroyuki Nasu
ReleasedDecember 14, 1985
Runtime90 minutes
Live-action film
Be-Bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Aika
Directed byHiroyuki Nasu
ReleasedAugust 9, 1986
Runtime95 minutes
Live-action film
Be-Bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Kōshinkyoku
Directed byHiroyuki Nasu
ReleasedMarch 21, 1987
Runtime96 minutes
Live-action film
Be-Bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Kyōsō-kyoku
Directed byHiroyuki Nasu
ReleasedDecember 12, 1987
Runtime90 minutes
Live-action film
Be-Bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Ondo
Directed byHiroyuki Nasu
ReleasedAugust 6, 1988
Runtime90 minutes
Live-action film
Be-Bop High School: Kōkō Yotarō Kanketsu-hen
Directed byHiroyuki Nasu
ReleasedDecember 17, 1988
Runtime90 minutes
Video game
Be-Bop High School: Kōkōsei Gokuraku Densetsu
DeveloperData East
PublisherData East
GenreAdventure
PlatformNintendo Family Computer
Released
  • JP: March 30, 1988
Original video animation
Directed by
Written by
  • Kazuhiro Kiuchi (1–3)
  • Kazumasa Kiuchi (1–3)
  • Tatsuhiko Urahata (4–5)
  • Sara Uemura (6)
StudioToei Animation
Released January 26, 1990 December 11, 1998
Episodes7
Live-action film
Directed byKazuhiro Kiuchi
ReleasedFebruary 19, 1994
Television drama
Original networkTBS
Original run June 16, 2004 August 17, 2005
Episodes2

Be-Bop High School (Japanese: ビー・バップ・ハイスクール, Hepburn: Bī Bappu Hai Sukūru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Kiuchi. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from 1983 to 2003, with its chapters collected in 48 tankōbon volumes. It has been adapted into seven live-action films, a video game, and an original video animation (OVA) series.

The manga has sold over 40 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 1988, the series won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category.

  1. ^ Chavez, Ed (February 7, 2008). "Yanki Doodle Dandy!". Otaku USA. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2020. The yanki ideal made popular by titles Be-Bop High School, Shounan Bakusouzoku, Bukkomi no Taku, and Rokudenashi Blues was especially appealing to me. Yanki are basically Japanese juvenile delinquents, prone to fighting over turf, foxy girls, and imitating the honor-bound world of the yakuza on their own troubled-teen terms