Alternative TitlesEnglish: Baoh the Visitor Synonyms: Baoh Raihousha, Baoh Caller Japanese: バオー来訪者
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Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 16, 1989
Duration:
48 min. per episode Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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StatisticsScore: 6.401 (scored by 819 users)
Ranked: #44172
Popularity: #2950
Members: 1,420
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SynopsisAn innocent young man, Ikuroo, has a parasite known as Baoh implanted in his brain by an evil organization, Doress. The parasite makes him nearly immortal and gives him the ability to transform into a really powerful beastie when he's in trouble.
Doress intends to use him in some sort of ploy for financial success, world domination, or something along those lines, but when they're transporting him on a train, a young psychic girl, Sumire (who's being held by the organization due to her abilities), sets him free and the two escape together.
Of course, Dr. Kasuminome is the mad scientist behind the whole Baoh thing, and he isn't about to let his test subject get away and he has considerable resources (including some superpowered lackeys, as well as a small army) at his disposal.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Baoh
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Skadi
67 of 101 people found this review helpful
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1 of 1 episodes seen
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4 |
| Story |
4 |
| Animation |
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| Character |
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If you like your anime complete with exploding heads, melting flesh, dismemberment, and blood spilled by the liter, then look no further. BAOH is a visual orgasm of blood and violence. Of course if you also want an interesting story and characters that don’t look like they were stolen from other movies and stereotypes then you should probably not waste your time with this piece of crap.
Our story starts with a young girl Sumire being chased through a train by the henchmen of an evil organization we later learn is called Doress. Apparently this group kidnaps and uses people with various supernatural and mystic powers and also experiments on people, turning them into super powered monsters for military applications. Sumire stumbles on one of their experiments and during her escape, the man called Baoh escapes along with her. His real name is Ikuroo, and together they run from the Doress organization as they send out various assassins to kill them.
It could be an interesting story but it isn’t. The plot is never adequately presented, providing only the scantest amount of back-story in between the sequences of gore. The blood and violence level is completely over the top. Unless you just love heads being exploded or bodies being cleaved and dismembered then you’re in heaven. But that’s all there is to the action. The action scenes just aren’t that interesting or exciting. Baoh seemingly comes up with a new ability whenever he needs it (conveniently named and displayed on the screen as if I cared to know) and he never uses the same one more than once. The climactic battle at the end is really...anti-climatic.
The characters are boring and uninspired. Sumire and Ikuroo are given brief backgrounds but nothing that is even remotely interesting. The drama over Ikuroo being consumed by the monster he transforms into is poorly developed and might have been of interest to me. The various villains are really where this show fails miserably. Besides all of them being silly, they all look and feel like rip-offs from other sources. There’s a cyborg soldier who looks like the Terminator but most amusingly at the end is the ridiculous clichéd Native American, Walken. He has a big "W" on his belt buckle in case you forget his name.
Artwork and animation is also extremely substandard. The character designs are not that good and look extremely dated or like knockoffs of other movies. Sumire is the only exception and I kind of liked the way she looked. Most of the detail went into animating gore and melting faces and other body parts. Even this isn’t that good. The musical score is typical 80s electric disco and is almost comical to listen too.
In the end BAOH is an experience that should be missed by all but the most hardcore fans of gore anime. Unless you are just really feeling nostalgic for 80s anime or thought Power Rangers was good programming, I can’t recommend this title. If you want to torture yourself with something crappy watch something that at least looks good.
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RogerZaraki
6 of 17 people found this review helpful
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1 of 1 episodes seen
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7 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
8 |
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6 |
| Character |
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7 |
Well...who here likes GUYVER!!!
I know I do!
And if you like Guyver, Akira, Devilman, Elfen Lied or any kind of anime like that then you will surely enjoy BAOH.
Its filled with hundreds and hundreds of gory violent scenes so many I cant even count em all! The story's pretty cool and the fight scenes are the big stuff of this one.
If you expect to see kidy little guys merely fighting each other, by knocking eachother out...youre wrong...DEAD WRONG.
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Both about people who have viruses who turn in to monsters. also same gore and violence.
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Another older, obscure anime. Cool concept with good violence.
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Opening ThemeNo opening themes found, add themes.
Ending Theme"Eien no Soldier (永遠のSoldier)" by Yoshito Machida
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