Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

In a futuristic world, the Maruhage Empire is a militant organization out to steal everyone's hair, and thus their freedom. But a brave man with an afro of gold and nose hairs of steel stands up against their tyranny. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, trained in the ways of hair, rescues a teenager named Beauty from the grunts of the Maruhage Empire. Together, they start on a journey to defeat Emperor Tsuru Tsurulina IV. As Bo-bobo meets new friends and battles foes along the way, so too does he begin his quest to save all the hairs of the world!

Light-hearted and comical, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo details a wacky adventure in which Bo-bobo and his companions fight all sorts of villains and deviants within the Maruhage Empire, all the while having a fun and exciting adventure.

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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Main

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Don Patch Main

Onosaka, Masaya Japanese

Tokoro, Tennosuke Main

Sonobe, Keiichi Japanese

Softon Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Dengakuman Main

Kaneda, Tomoko Japanese

Beauty Main

Nonaka, Ai Japanese

Heppokomaru Main

Shindo, Naomi Japanese

Pickle Supporting

Saitou, Kimiko Japanese

Service-man Supporting

Oota, Shinichirou Japanese

Gyorai Girl Supporting

Nishikawa, Hiromi Japanese

Matsuda, Saeko Producer

Yoshizawa, Takao Producer

Umezawa, Atsutoshi Producer

Shibata, Hiroki Director

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Dec 21, 2007

ArcherKinao

Recommended

This anime is crazy. But thats why you have to love it. It is pretty much a gag on all other anime out there. Pulling jokes on everything

Most of the time this anime doesnt make sense. And the ultimate story is pretty stupid. but like I said it suppose to be. Its like Scrubs to ER...or better example Reno 911 to COPS.

Its inane, everything in it is for pure humor. Its not suppose to make sense. So don't judge it by its lame art story and characters. Because thats how its suppose to be.

I really thought the ending was something...completely unexpeceted...you must watch to find ... out..

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 23, 2017

Katapultar

Mixed Feelings

Featuring the antics of a very hairy man and his equally silly sidekicks in their stand against an evil balding empire, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is as zany and over-the-top as it gets. There isn't really a story so much as an engine to kick the comedy into overdrive, a ridiculous shonen premise with absolutely no breaks between the gag-filled battles ... most of the time. Bobobo and his gang take on the various factions of the evil Chrome Dome Empire, going from base to base to take on the endless hordes of bad guys along with various allies that come and go to suit the show's ... needs. There are no cute or beautiful girls here, contrary to what the heroine's name would have you believe, but there is plenty of testosterone and animate food like pop rocks and jelly men among other things.

Characters? Just know that Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is the driving force here; his personality largely amounts to mass random outbursts that belie his manly appearance (sort of), along with a healthy dose of nosehairs, cross-dressing and beating up some of his allies for added comedic effect. Secondary character Don Patch isn't too much different, only he is something of a butt monkey and more prone to over-the-top and violent outbursts. And then we have Jelly Jiggler, a more pitiful jelly man and a big butt monkey who often finds himself being a literal punching bag when he's not joining in on gags. Other characters include the token pink-haired teenage shonen heroine who exists for the sake of having a straight man; and a white-haired, edgy teenage boy who fights with his farts and also exists to give commentary and to perhaps be a parody of more popular Jump heroes. There are other recurring characters like a tiny dough man, a torpedo woman, an ice cream head man and a blonde psychic who literally does nothing, but the main starts of the show are the ones who enforce the comedy that comprise the show. Dozens of villains exist; most are piddly in more ways than one, largely existing as fuel for the comedy as their over-the-top skills are overcome in absurd ways. Some are slightly decent for the sheer memage they can enforce, but we're not here to see great villains, no? There are other animes for that.

Though I ranked this anime a 6, I must confess that I think more highly of it at its best and much more lowly of its worst moments. That "worst" aspect is right at the start for roughly the first 10 episodes, where Bobobo only has the pink hair as his companion for the most of it and he the majority of the onscreen time waffling about in little episodic trifles and boring gags. This I would rank a 4 or even a 3 on its own, it's that boring. It gets a little better after that, and continues to get better and better as the show progresses - of which I would rank a 7 if I could. Episode 43 is where it starts to get good, as the show dumps a rather obnoxious straight man and really gets rapid-fire into its comedy through its non-stop fights, the core aspect of the show that makes it truly enjoyable. There's not a truly dull moment at this point on, always managing to throw in something new to keep things fresh right until the very end.

Bobobo is a niche anime to watch purely as a comedy and nothing else. Seventy six episodes is indeed long, but the sheer randomness and lack of consistency among character depth and immersion mean that you don't have to know what's going on to to enjoy yourself and keep going from that point. Personally, I would suggest to skip the first half of the entire anime (or at least the first 10-25 episodes) if you're coming in to see the show at its best, though the first episode is perhaps somewhat obligatory as a slight - introduction - of sorts.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 2, 2017

HardBash

Not Recommended

Preliminary (42/76 eps)

An anime so bad that it compelled me to join this site just to negatively review it.
(No really, I made my profile TODAY)

I don't know where to begin with this show. It's a constant assault on the senses with very little substance or strong points. The only strength this show has that I can mention without grasping at straws is that it is somewhat 'creative'. Like children's imagination creative, or horrible fever dream creative. I'm about 40ish episodes in now, forced to watch this through with a friend who is somehow enjoying it so far, please shoot me.

I'll start with story. Now, the show DOES ... technically have a story, albeit an incredibly silly and mind-numbing one, full of obnoxious characters that all behave extremely erratically except for the designated 'normal' person (Beauty). Every once in awhile the show remembers it had a plot and recaps what's going on via narration or a random goon showing up.

Speaking of the characters, they're all awful, just awful. I don't know why so many child-friendly shows out there think it's absolutely mandatory to make all the characters look as ugly as a naked-mole-rat that's been repeatedly stabbed with a fork, but this one does just that.

Bobobo (The main character) is some kind of reality defying abomination formed out of a bunch of geometric shapes arranged loosely into a body builder. His seemingly most defining personality trait is being an awful person to everyone around him. At least he's arguably the funniest and best voiced character in the show.

Don-Patch is another major character that competes with him for screen time and lines. He might be the single worst anime character of all time. He's ugly, he's almost always screaming obnoxiously, his jokes are lame, and he and Bobobo are crossdressing constantly. It's got to be on average at least once an episode, this show LOVES to beat already mediocre or bad jokes into the ground with constant re-use.

Of course what garbage kid's show isn't complete with toilet humor? Enter Gasser, a young boy whose fighting style revolves entirely around farting on things. As if that wasn't cringe-inducing enough, he also defaults into acting like a literal baby when he isn't wearing his choker. Why..? Just.. why..?

Onto the humor, I was watching this in dub so I can't speak for the Japanese jokes, but my god are the jokes terrible in this show. It constantly shotguns pun after pun after pun at you, which many of the events in this anime seemingly only happening because they wanted an excuse to fire off more puns at you. I enjoy puns but the majority of these are so bad and cringe-inducing that I'm considering never uttering a pun again and lobbying to have puns classified as a weapon of mass destruction.

The action and humor in this anime takes the 'more random = more better' approach. Nothing makes sense or seems to have any continuity to it, the characters just scream "WIG OUT" and then a horrible yet colorful cacophony of things happen set to the tune of more bad puns being screamed. It's hard to tell "fight"s apart from the characters behaving normally, and usually it's hard to grasp what even is happening until the "ITSSORANDOMLOL" antics stop and one of the characters goes "AH, I AM DEFEATED, YOU ARE MORE RANDOM THAN I".

I could continue to tear this show apart for ages but I feel like I've made my point.
I wouldn't recommend this to children, teens, adults, masochists, or even sadists.
Maybe toddlers will enjoy it, I'd recommend it for toddlers.
and maybe recommend it to suicidal people that are looking for extra fuel to actually go out and kill their self.

-End Rant

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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