Otouto Upd: Baku

Bakuten!! is often abbreviated by fans. The Japanese title contains "Baku" (which means "Explosion" but sounds like the start of "Backflip"). If you are looking for the sports anime about men’s rhythmic gymnastics that aired in 2021, this is it.

That night, the baku sat on his chest, larger now. Its mouth was no longer a slit but a wide, patient grin. baku otouto

The room returned to normal. The shadows retreated. Hiro sighed, a giant smile spreading across his face, and fell back into a deep, sugar-sweet slumber. Bakuten

One rainy Tuesday night, the Otouto slipped through the sliding paper door of a small house in the suburbs. He found a young boy named Hiro tossed and turned under his blankets. Hiro was whimpering, trapped in a dream about a math test where the numbers turned into angry bees. If you are looking for the sports anime

The boy’s eyes fluttered open. For a second, the Baku Otouto froze. Humans weren't supposed to see them.

The Otouto was small—scarcely larger than a tanuki—and his trunk was still a bit too floppy for his face. While his brother was a connoisseur of "Great Fears" (the kind involving deep-sea monsters or falling from heights), the Otouto was stuck with the leftovers of children’s dreams.

In the creaking, wind-beaten house at the edge of the cedar forest, seven-year-old Akira Suzuki shared a room with his older brother, Haru.