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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Mar 15, 2024

LemonadeSamurai

Recommended

Bobobobobo is a personal favorite purely due to how utterly insane it is.

Bobobobo is a parody of FOTNS but can stand on it's own. It's humor is top notch

The anime censored and changed many things from the manga to make it more child friendly but that isn't a bad thing. It's still hilarious.

Bobobo's humor relies on heavy Japanese troupes and slapstick comedy.

Some examples are Bobobo "training" at a supermarket with "master tuna" to earn a new $10 jacket. Or aliens obsessed with making people drink green tea. Yes, its very nonsensical.

The plot revolves around a man named Bobobo, a master ... of the Secret Fist Of The Nose Hair trying to stop the hair hunter empire from making everybody bald. He might also be completely insane.

He is joined by Beauty, a pink haired girl, Don Patch, an orange spike ball that has multiple personalities, Jelly Jiggler, a former hair hunter General who just wants to be loved and always ends up on the wrong side of things, Softon, a man with a literal ice cream head and Heppokamaru, a boy whose martial art is literally farting.

The humor is very outlandish as per Japanese humor. It's always what you least expect to happen that happens.

Such as a man trying to eat spaghetti on a toilet while cats rain down on him. Yes. That is an actual scene.

Animation wise, it's fairly dated but still holds up. It looks like any 2000s anime you'd see on Toonami in 2008. It's in 480p quality and a 4:8 resolution.

Sound is good in both sub and dub, I personally grew up with the dub but the sub is also very enjoyable. The only thing changed is the dub "Americanized" many things to make it easier for non Japanese audiences.

If you've never seen an episode of Bobobobo i highly recommend you watch it.

Why? Because the humor is just so bizarre that you can't help but laugh at how nonsensical it is.

Characters will cross dress, they'll turn into different animals, they'll even fight amongst themselves for no reason.

The show knows that it makes no sense and it doesn't have to. The humor is genius. What other show has an enemy dressed like a stereotypical soldier whose base of operations is a LITERAL water slide at an amusement park?

If you ever need to laugh, Bobobobo and his sweet afro full of squirrels will always do the trick.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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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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Apr 23, 2018

Bofthree

Not Recommended

Preliminary (20/76 eps)

TL;DR Version: This anime is SHIT! It's just random for the sake of being random, not for laughs.

Semi-long Version:
First of all, don't listen to the people who say, "if you take so-and-so seriously, you don't understand this show's comedy." They're just trying to justify their pretentious attitude and make you out to look like a fool. For comedy in general, you NEVER take it seriously. You just go in and if the jokes fall under your personal preference, you laugh. If you don't, you don't. THAT is what comedy's about. I don't need to be reminded that the show's a comedy. It's just not MY ... kind of comedy.

Now that that's out of the way, in my opinion, this is one of the worst anime I've ever seen. It has a poor attempt to showcase Japan's bread-and-butter of comedy, Manzai. Manzai doesn't have to have a main plot or buildup to be funny. It can be just as random as the show has tried to do when it was airing. The only problem is that to me, the execution and timing is REALLY off and it just comes in waves that misses more than it hits.

What I've noticed is that when a joke or gag comes up, it's very "in your face" and it has this same feeling as when a waiter comes up and asks if you need anything right when you have food in your mouth. That's exactly how I felt every episode. It's just awkwardly placed and I get irritated more than I smile and that's never a good sign for a comedy show. The high points of the show caused me to chuckle and that's only a FEW times for a full show of 76 episodes. SEVENTY SIX!!! That is PATHETIC! I full on laughed about several hundred times more when I watch Daily Life of High School Boys and it only has 12 episodes total and is just as random! There is no excuse for it to fail like it did the entire run.

The main plot about a guy with hair based fighting style to defeat an evil empire of bald people is ripe with material, but this was a failed opportunity. It's like they're trying to be original by throwing out every possible jokes they could come up with before another anime could attempt it. I'm not saying that I could write better jokes, but this doesn't deserve anything above a 7. Hell, even a rating of 4 is too generous in my opinion.

If you like Bobobo's style of comedy, more power to you because it has 76 episodes of YOUR kind of comedy. I'll just stick to something better.

(Reposted due to the fact that I apparently didn't watch enough of this crap to be allowed to post a review, even though EVERY EPISODE utilizes the same shitty format. That's right, I jumped a few episodes since it's so random that it doesn't matter if I watch it chronologically and I still get that bad taste in my mouth.)

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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