History Anime / RidingBean

* BadBoss: Semmerling. Anyone under her employ is completely expandable to her plans. To wit, she kills one underling that was meant to be the driver of her big rig out of town just use his body to weight the gas pedal (apparently never hearing of cruise control) and uses Carrie as a hostage when Bean closes in to kill her just to get him to back off. Keep in mind, Carrie's her ''assistant''.
* TheBerserker - Bean got really pissed at Semmerling for hitting him with a fragmentation grenade. Later, she tries to run him over. He ''shoulder-checks'' her car and not only stops it cold, but pops it right off its front wheels!
* BerserkButton - Don't diss or mess with Bean's car. And do not mess with kids if he's around your general vicinity..

* CannonFodder - Potentially, any one of Semmerling's Mooks.

** Later on Semmerling tries run over Bean with a hijacked car. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out well for her.]]
* TheChessmaster - Semmerling, at least she would've been if she didn't leave too many clues for Bean and Rally to get their head around.
* CoolCar - Bean's especially so. With Bulletproofing, Gun Ports, [[BladeBrake Blade Braking]] and the ability to turn it's wheels 90 degrees and drive that way. In ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', Bean worked hard and paid millions of dollars to make the car and christened it as "The Buff".

* HeavySleeper - Bean. Not even a ''stungun'' can wake him! What does? ''A heated frying pan to the face''.
* HyperCompetentSidekick - Dick (the Ying to Percy's Yang)

* InspectorLestrade - Percy, to a degree.
** InspectorZenigata - He's way more interested in taking out Bean than doing his duty as a Chicago PD officer. And collateral damage be ''''damned'''.

* KarmicDeath - [[spoiler: Semmerling is killed when her attempt to murder Carrie triggers an explosion caused by the gas leaking from the wrecked car she tried to hit Bean with. Made doubly more embarrassing by the fact that she probably would have survived the entire altercation were she not to have done that.]]
* KickTheDog - How Semmerling treats Carrie.

* LatexPerfection - Semmerling can flawlessly impersonate a man with a handy rubber mask and a throat-ring that makes her voice low.
* KillItWithFire
* MadeOfIron - Bean. This guy can take stungun shocks without even flinching, and [[spoiler:even takes a BULLET TO THE HEAD and get hit by a car (twice!) while still remaining standing!]]

* MirthlessLaughter: Both Semmerling and Bean share a brief moment of stress-laughter when [[spoiler: he somehow body-checks her car.]]

* PsychoLesbian - Semmerling.
* PunchClockVillain - Anyone stupid enough to join Semmerling's gang. See CannonFodder above.

* SmugSnake - Semmerling fancies herself as a competent and elegant schemer, but makes plenty of extremely stupid decisions throughout her caper and goes absolutely ballistic when her plans inevitably goes awry.

* TooDumbToLive - [[spoiler:Semmerling decides that attempting to murder Carrie for offering to pay Bean their entire ransom in exchange for Semmerling's life is a good idea. Except for the fact that this is the only thing keeping Bean from killing her and taking the money anyway.]]

On May 18, 2018, appropriately in Chicago, Kenichi Sonoda revealed ''Project [B.B]'', a new anime about both Bean and [[Manga/GunsmithCats Rally Vincent]].

[[ForeignLanguageTheme It's also notable for being one of the few Animes to have a soundtrack composed and performed entirely by a foreigner.]] In this case, Jazz Fuson keyboardist David Garfield and his band.

* FrameUp: Semmerling purposefully hires Bean as a getaway driver for a bank heist while her assistant, Carrie, dresses as Chelsea, the daughter of a wealthy CEO, and be caught on camera as he's driving through a warehouse. Once the job is finished, her second phase is to kidnap said CEO and take his daughter to Bean, under the disguise of a "bodyguard" to have Bean deliver her to her manor in "his" place after he's "killed" by pursuers. Since the police caught whom they thought was Chelsea on camera in Bean's car, they assume Beam kidnapped her and go after him.

* HeelFaceTurn: Carrie at the end, somewhat. She threatens to shoot Bean [[spoiler: for Semmerling's death. But Bean points out that her death was her own fault and Semmerling was willing to ''shoot through'' Carrie just to kill him. Heck Bean was willing to accept Carrie's demands to take the money in exchange for their lives. But Semmerling was too stubborn to know when to quit. Carrie ultimately concedes and accepts Bean's offer to join Rally and him.]]

* KarmicDeath - [[spoiler: Semmerling is killed when her attempt to murder Carrie triggers an explosion, made doubly more embarrassing by the fact that she probably would have survived the entire altercation were she not to have done that.]]

* BadBoss: Semmerling. Anyone under her employ is completely expandable to her plans. To wit, she kills one underling that was meant to be the driver of her big rig out of town just use his body to weight the gas pedal (apparently never hearing of cruise control) and uses Carrie as a hostage when Bean closes in to kill her just to get him to back off. Keep in mind, Carrie's her ''assistant''.

* CoolCar - Bean's especially so. With Bulletproofing, Gun Ports, [[BladeBrake Blade Braking]] and the ability to turn it's wheels 90 degrees and drive that way.

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Rally delivers one to the man brave enough to hold the little girl hostage.

* RatedMForManly: Exemplified by Bean Bandit. His typical breakfast includes a salami the width of a normal person's arm and an entire pineapple. A taser blast to the neck can't even ''wake him up.'' ''He crushes shelled walnuts with his teeth.''

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Thanks to Bean's SuperStrength he can throw a knife with incredible force.

* HeavySleeper - Bean. Not even a ''stungun'' can wake him!

''Riding Bean'' is an {{Anime}} {{OVA}} produced by studio Creator/{{AIC}}, created by KenichiSonoda and directed by Yasuo Hasegawa, released in February 22, 1989 with a run-time of 48 minutes.

* BulletProofVest: All but said that his leather jacket is heavily armored, with a strong hint that his headband bullet proof too, though the shot it stops does daze him for a moment.[[note]]The Gunsmith Cats version explicitly says this, revealing that the jacket weighs a ton.[[/note]]

** Later on Semmerling tries run over Bean witha hijakced car. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out well for her.]]

* CoolGuns: The OVA show a pretty nice selection of guns from somewhat common to quite uncommonly seen ones.

** InspectorZenigata - He's way more interested in taking out Bean than doing his duty as a Chicago PD officer.

* MoreDakka

* AxCrazy - Percy

* BerserkButton - Don't diss or mess with Bean's car. And do not mess with kids around him.

* TheChessmaster - Semmerling

* FriendToAllChildren - Bean may be a scoundrel but he's pretty nice to children, and finds child kidnapping distasteful.

* MadeOfIron - Bean. This guy can take stungun shocks without even flinching, and [[spoiler:even takes a BULLET TO THE HEAD while still remaining standing]]!

** Percy ''whishes'' he could be one.

* FriendToAllChildren - Bean Bandit

* KarmicDeath - [[spoiler:Semmerling is killed when her attempt to murder Carrie triggers an explosion, made doubly more embarrassing by the fact that she probably would have survived the entire altercation were she not to have done that.]]

* [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] - Semmerling

* BigBadassRig: The Scania T-142 M driven by Semmerling and one of her mooks.

* NamesTheSame - This version of Rally has absolutely nothing in common with the Rally of ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' aside from being a woman who is good with guns.

* AwesomeMcCoolname

It's also notable for being one of the few Animes to have a soundtrack composed and performed entirely by a foreigner. In this case, Jazz Fuson keyboardist David Garfield and his band.

* BigBadassRig: The Scania T142M driven by Semmerling and one of her mooks.

* Semmerling BMW 750iL. It's not as outwardly impressive as Beans car, but makes up for it with a [[{{Overdrive}} monstrously powerful V12 engine.]]