Baoh

Starring:Tomoko Maruo, Hiroyuki Hori, Jim Clark, Mike Way, Sara Seidman, Sandy Clubb, YÃ´ Inoue, Nick Manatee, ShÃ»ichi Ikeda, Patrick Humphrey, IchirÃ´ Nagai, Mark Franklin, KÃ´zÃ´ Shioya, Chuck Denson Jr., Dave Underwood, Frank Lynn, Ikuya Sawaki, Gary Lawton, Shoji Sato (II), SanshirÃ´ Nitta
Director: Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Studio: Animeigo
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

So-So
I'm a new Baoh fan
Solid anime thriller with sci-fi theme and nonstop action
My Favorite Anime!!
very good for a Guyver wannabee.

Baoh
Starring: Tomoko Maruo , Hiroyuki Hori , Jim Clark , Mike Way , and Sara Seidman
Director: Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Manufacturer: Animeigo
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005B8U7
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Customer Reviews:

So-So.......2005-08-18

BaOH is a much older anime so I wasn't expecting very much when I bought it. It turned out pretty well in the end. The animation is pretty modern looking in comparison to other anime made at that time. The story line is quite different and the best part of the show. BaOH is a parasitic worm developed by an unethical scientific organization (Doress) trying to make new weapons to sell. This worm burrows into the brain and takes control of the hosts body whenever it is threatened. Surprisingly, the worm seems to share the hosts feelings and helps those whom the host loves. But beware the people who get in their way! The real problem with BaOh is that the villians are drawn rather like GI-Joe figures. The fight scenes resemble old T.V. action shows for boys back in the 80's. During the fights the screen will freeze when a "new" attack is performed and they will actually write the name of it on the bottom of the screen. They explain the "specifics" of it and it is always cheezily referred to as a "phenomena." For example BaOh Shooting Bees-Stinger Phenomenoa : BaOh's hair becomes spine-like and shoots out like darts. The name of the attack is better sounding than the description! Besides, who needs a description when you can clearly see his hair flying all over the place on the screen. The violence is repetitive and shows an unneccessay amount of brains and muscle tissue. This was common among 80's shows, so I'm not surprised. There is very little variation among the killing; melting fleshing from bones and exploding eyeballs, splitting down the middle, and head and arms being ripped off. In aditton Walken, one of the villians, highly insults Native Americans. He makes them seem like violent neanderthals. To be fair, the transformed BaOh is cool looking, particulary the dog one. My favorite part, and perhaps the redeeming one, is the relationship between the main characters. Ikuroo was nearly killed in a motor accident, and while he lay in the hospital he was given over to one of Doress's scientists. He injected Ikuroo with Baoh and tried transporting him to headquarters by train. Also on that train was a young psychic that Doress wanted to use. Sumire, the psychic, escaped and ended up taking Ikuroo with her. Doress will do anything to get Ikuroo back or if it must, to kill him before the worm can mature. They kidnapp Sumire and Ikuroo will do anything to get her back. The show was way too short for any real character development but the ending makes watching it all worth it. Sumire leaves Ikuroo all wet so that later she can hang him out to dry. What a conniving little girl she is. Go Sumire! A word of warning, make sure you watch all of the credits, there is more at the end of them. Although there are problems with this anime, its so cheap that its well worth the investment. I've seen a lot worse for more.

I'm a new Baoh fan.......2005-08-01

Reason to get this movie. It has: action, drama, gore blood, profanity, emotion, great animation. This is a great classic 80's anime just like "Akira".

Solid anime thriller with sci-fi theme and nonstop action.......2005-07-11

BAOH is a compact anime sci-fi action thriller about a teenaged boy injected with "Baoh," a parasitic worm which gives him a series of steadily accelerating super powers and bio-engineered weapons which he uses to defend himself against the onslaught of agents and assassins sent to kill him after he escapes from a top secret corporate-government project. Made in 1989, it has exactly the kind of detailed and boldly drawn comic book-style illustration and fluidly animated scenes of violent action that make so much anime of the mid-to-late 1980s so distinctive. When the boy goes into defensive "Baoh" mode, he dispatches his heavily-armed pursuers in the most spectacularly gory fashion this side of NINJA SCROLL. For those who need a break from such carnage there are scenes with the boy's cute and spunky sidekick, Sumire, a nine-year-old girl whose psychic powers make her a target of the bad guys as well. When the girl is eventually abducted and held hostage, "Baoh" launches a one-man assault on the organization's secret headquarters.

My only complaint is that, as a single OAV volume running just under 47 minutes, it's way too short. It's based on a manga that was published in English (by Viz) in two volumes and it follows the look of the manga and the overall storyline very closely. The anime leaves out various incidents that would have filled out the story, explained things a little more, and given it a little more depth. If they'd simply filmed everything in the manga they would have had a very satisfying 90-to-100-minute feature-length film or two-part OAV. Still, it's a consistently enjoyable work for fans of this genre and one which rates repeat viewings.

My Favorite Anime!!.......2004-03-06

Baoh is short, sweet, to the point, bloody and violent. Two thumbs way up!!

very good for a Guyver wannabee........2004-01-04

Basically i don't give about the not so good reviews about this anime. BAOH in my opinion, is another good example why i love anime; it has a decent plot although borrowing elements from GUYVER and the movie firestarter. but adds a bit of originality of it's own especially regarding the charcter designs, weapons and powers; i.e. the shooting bees phenomenom
(baoh's hair is used as electric particles that shoot out like darts) and it doesn't hld back when it comes to action, although the gore is a bit gratuitous that one ends up thinking,is baoh a superhero/sci-fi actioner or a horror anime?

as for familiar designs, Dr. kasumione resembles G.I. JOE'S Dr. Mindbender, walken is a combination of the tracker from firestarter (played by george c. scott) and one of the mutants from x-men. Durdo has an endoskeleton like the terminator and the three steel masked finacers of Doress look like a certain villian from a certain toyline/comic/carton.
the arm saber however is exactly like guyver's and that's where the simularity ends. lol

the DVD is bare bones meaning; no extras but inside the case is a nice filecard which explains baoh and his mysterious powers along with song lyrics speaking of which; the original japanese version of soldier is way better than the english song.

the english dub from the dvd isn't bad, but the cheesy song "can't stop loving you" has got to go!!!
it does not blend into the dark superhero thriller world of BAOH.

INCLOSNG the animaton still holds up even 15 years later. thanks to th talented folks o toho/shinshuiea (FIST OF THE NORTHSTAR and ANGELCOP)

if your'e lokng for a short balls to the wall superheroesque title, this buds for you. for those seeking something more complicated..well there's always garasaki and boogiepop phantom..zzzzzzzzzzz

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