BaraRonTai

BaraRonTai is a parody web-comic of the indie anime Rabbit Saviors made by Eve Da Cas and Hayden Roberts. Its main character is Ron Maple, a secondary character in the original story. The story follows him becoming a Rabbit Savior after a string of events.

The goal of this web-comic is to explore interactions between the characters, see new sides of them and expand the lore with a more mature look at the series as a whole.

The web-comic is updated on the 1st, 10th, and 20th of every month on WebToon and Tapas through Eve's account, Evening Owl.

### **Conceptualization/Production**

*BaraRonTai* is a collaborative effort between Eve Da Cas (a.k.a Evening Owl/Owleeve) and Hayden Roberts. The concept came about when project leader Eve Da Cas came across a drawing of Ron as a Rabbit Savior from 2019, before she had joined the server. Seeing this, she drew a parody image, showing Ron in Baraguntai's outfit striking a pose identical to that of Josuke Higashikata of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*. Over time, Da Cas decided to take this initially sarcastic concept and make it into a full-fledged webcomic that would be published weekly on Webtoon and Tapas. Despite its obviously sarcastic nature, the web-comic was going to still be a mostly serious work where Da Cas and Roberts take the Rabbit Saviors narrative and put a creative spin on the work, introducing new themes and characters.

More liberties were made when the original series creator, Ryder Aijou, gave his blessing to the work and practically allowed the two complete creative control. As a result, the webcomic features a more distinctive sheen toward the writing styles of both writers, which is best reflected in the themes going from the external (primary focus on the environment) to the internal (mostly psychological).

In December of 2020, about one month after updates began releasing on Webtoon and Tapas, Eve and Hayden made an announcement on the server for BaraRonTai that updates would be moved to the 1st, 10th, and 20th days of each month instead of the original weekly updates to ensure a higher-quality final product.

### **Changes from *Rabbit Saviors* to *BaraRonTai***

#### Chapter 1

* The story focuses on Ron Maple rather than Brynn Frank, who was previously the primary protagonist.
* Minor dialogue changes
* Ron becomes Baraguntai rather than Brynn.
* Eve Dambrose's personality is more over-the-top than what is presented in the animated series.
* Ron's Tech Club is held on that day rather than Brynn's Eco Club, in spite of the events occurring on Earth Day.
* As with many other beats in the web comic, there are more references to parody titles of existing properties (e.g. *Buddha Idol* in place of *Jesus Christ Superstar* and *BoBo's Strange Journey* as a JoJo reference). Such references appear throughout the entirety of the comic.
* Profanity is also more common within *BaraRonTai*, especially with Kadinger.
* Shizen is portrayed as being a bit faster to anger than in the main show.
* Baraguntai's outfit has a stronger color scheme than in the original series. This is because Eve learned from Rabbit Saviors creator Ryder Aijou that, the more vivid and saturated an outfit's color scheme is, the more tormented and unsure of their beliefs in the environment are.