It’s hard to believe that Baruuba no Bōken is a once-domestically popular but now largely retired franchise, which was created initially as both an unofficial Tarzan retelling and a spinoff book series by Yoshimasa Ikeda for his own Tarzanesque character, the first Baruuba himself. In fact, it is likely the first franchise to be publicly acknowledged as a series of unofficial Tarzan retellings. The classic Baruuba and his official expy, the Hideo Oguni created Buruuba, are two different characters who have similar backstories, but otherwise end up becoming different heroes due to different circumstances. There are technically seven books in the Baruuba no Bōken series, but only six are numbered as such because the first one was likely a partial prototype. The last one by the creator, a largely complete but not totally finished novel, wouldn’t be released until 1992, likely because there are too many complicated circumstances behind its freaky development hell. Good examples of the or
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