Much of the entertainment value in this anime is in its confusion. But Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo doesn't need to be understood, and it doesn't need you to understand it. All of these traits are sort of mashed together on the show, resutling in something difficult to follow.
He's eventually joined by a team that includes a teenage girl, a smelly young man, and an orange creature that looks like a cartoon sun.īobobo-bo Bo-bobo has a lot of typical Japanese manzai traits- lots of mutual ridiculous misunderstandings, cheesy puns, and verbal gags paired with cross-dressing, fourth-wall-breaking, and a load of pop culture references. An afro-sporting heroic rebel named Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo stands up to this terrible dictatorship to save the people around him. His gang of hair hunting soldiers steal innocent citizens' hair, leaving them bald and their towns in war-torn despair.
In the year 300X, the world is ruled by a tyrant known as Baldy Bald the 4th. Mostly because of how nonsensical and unexpectedly strange it was. 13 Bobobo-bo Bo-boboīobobo-bo Bo-bobo aired on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s for Western audiences and it was a hard show to forget. Saint Young Men makes fun of Christianity and Buddhism without being nihilistic or antagonizing, or even very offensive. The show is bizarre for its plot and unusual characters but is also refreshingly entertaining.
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Each chapter of the series follows how these religious icons are just dudes just being dudes and love drinking beer together, blogging, and playing video games. Saint Young Men is the totally canon and historically accurate account of when Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha moved in together as roommates in an apartment in Tokyo's Tachikawa district. Saint Young Men takes the genre and makes it completely different, and we can confidently say there is nothing else in the world of anime even remotely like this hilarious gem. Not to say that's a bad thing- anime like Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh, and K-On! are very entertaining and adorable series. "Slice of life" genre anime series tend to be pretty predictable- they usually involve a group of high school girls having fun and living their lives. The soundtrack is amazing too- check out The Pillows if you get a chance. The series is very short (only six episodes) but is able to pack themes of surrealism, politics, capitalism, mecha, coming-of-age, science fiction, sex, and comedy into less than two and a half hours of screen time. That's quite a sentence, right? It gets even better- since getting bonked on the head by the flighty galactic investigator, giant robots begin to come through the spot on Naota's head, which has apparently become some sort of extraterrestrial portal.
His life is flipped around when a pink-haired psychopathic alien girl named Haruko runs him over with her yellow Vespa and beats him in the head with a blue vintage Rickenbacker 3001 base guitar.
This comedic science fiction story follows the young blasé Naota who lives with his eccentric widowed father and grandfather. FLCL has a special place in the hearts of little weirdos who stayed up a bit too late to watch Adult Swim’s anime block back in the day.įLCL is a sort of cool weird- almost an avant-garde weird.