Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo: Bo-nafide Protector

"Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo: Bo-nafide Protector" is the first installment in the series that both is anime and mocks anime with its surreal randomness. Though I hear much discussion of the inadequacy of the subtitles presented here, I'm happy to stick with generally good English dub. The first four episodes of the show are on this disc, and they are excellent.In "Bo-nafide Soulful Bo-tector of Hair", Bo-Bobo first reveals his magic nose hair and the two squirrels living in his afro, and as he protects the village he reveals he's also a nose hair poet and has the ability to hear everyone's hair, while he fights his mortal enemy Baldy Bald and his henchmen at Hair Hunt Headquarters. We also get a bit about his heritage, learning that his father was "Nappy Pappy" and while he was just a hairball, he never used bargain-priced conditioner."Let's Get Wiggy With It" lets us see "A Very Bo-Bobo Christmas" where he wins a year's supply of hot pepper flavored artificial gelatin, but, oh, the pathos! Bo-Bobo is allergic.In "Wacky Quacker Cooks His Own Goose" Bo-Bobo attends a festival advertising "Free pomade and hair scrunchies for all. Not recommended for big toe hairs". The animators cleverly break the fourth wall in this episode, and we learn the duck's father is alive and living in Bo-Bobo's afro. You see the father duck fell in love with Ursula, a pair of underwear, and their union spawns a duck and underwear hybrid and gives rise to the eternal question "Am I a weird duck, or just a pair of undies?" Of course it turns out the hybrid is a "dundie", which we learn as Bo-Bobo engages in some hamburger research.Finally, in "Bababa-ba Ba-baba! The Honorable King Nose Hair" the episode starts out with subplots about bears stuffed with beans, pork rind soup delivery, and Fern Day, in which you are expected to dress up as your favorite kind of fern. But enough of the preliminary sensibilities: Bo-Bobo turns into a tank and starts a war over tater tots (note the nice tater tot jingle), which, of course, leads to a marketing pitch for nose hair rings marketed to high school girls between 16 and 16 1/2. To bring this, the trippiest of the four episodes to a close, we learn that King Nose Hair awakens in Bo-Bobo's nose every 3,000 years, and wanders the Nasal Passages of Life on a red bicycle.Clearly, this entire show is a spoof of the more over-the-top elements of anime, and like "Perfect Hair Forever" simultaneously advances the genre while gently mocking it. Of course much is nonsensical (and I didn't even mention Don Patch, the orange hedgehog), but if you like anime (or if you don't) this is a joyful noise on entertainment's sonic spectrum.

Great series though realize this DVD only includes the first four episodes.

Bobobo is a very quirky and random anime. They are constantly cracking jokes and making parodies of other manga and anime. I really enjoy watching this and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys anime and over the top humor.

A very funny spoof of all hero stories, the one who controls the fist of the nose hair defends his blonde afro and the hair of others against evil (sometimes wearing a bridal gown).

I love this DVD. It works fine, but I give it four stars because when I got it in the mail, the DVD was not fastened in and was just jumbling about the case, which could have led to scratches (but thankfully there were none). Also, the menu is REALLY loud and scared the mess out of me, so just a heads up.

The subtitles that are in this DVD are those for the english script. Which, unless you speak Japanese, you're not going to understand anything in the original Japanese dub. However the 2nd DVD to be released DOES have subtitles that match up to the original Japanese script.

I love this DVD because it has japanese, japanese with english subtitles, and dubbed english. At first the menu is a bit unorganized but it was not an inconvienience. I do not think the english subtitles for the japanese moved too fast. The dvd came with a hologram cover thing that peels of so I put it in my locker. :)

The video is good but the sub-titles are timed so briefly that we cannot read them. This is a gift for a hearing-impaired individual so it is challenging to watch it when she cannot read much of what the sub-titles say. I watched it with her and I could not read them and I am a fast reader.

it was good, but arrived a month late