Baoh Raihousha (Baoh the Visitor)

Add to My List

Add to Favorites

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Baoh, Baoh Caller

Japanese: バオー来訪者

More titles

Information

Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Sep 16, 1989

Producers: Toho, Shueisha

Licensors: AnimEigo

Studios: Studio Pierrot

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Themes: Gore, Martial Arts, Super Power

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 46 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 6.11¹ (scored by 8,046 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #8434²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #4616

Members: 16,066

Favorites: 33

External Links

AnimeDB, AnimeNewsNetwork, Wikipedia

6.11

Ranked #8434Popularity #4616Members 16,066

OVAStudio Pierrot

Add to List

Episodes: /1

* Your list is public by default.

Edit

Synopsis

An 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.

(Source: AnimeDB)

Edit

Background

No background information has been added to this title. Help improve our database by adding background information here.

Edit

Related Anime

Adaptation:

Baoh Raihousha

More characters

Characters & Voice Actors

Hashizawa, Ikurou

Main

Hori, Hideyuki
Japanese

Dr. Kasuminome

Main

Nagai, Ichiro
Japanese

Sumire

Main

Hidaka, Noriko
Japanese

Walken

Supporting

Yara, Yuusaku
Japanese

Dordo

Supporting

Ikeda, Shuuichi
Japanese

Sophine

Supporting

Inoue, You
Japanese

More staff

Staff

Matsuura, Noriyoshi

Sound Director

Terada, Kenji

Script

Machida, Yoshito

Theme Song Performance

Araki, Hirohiko

Original Creator

Edit

Opening Theme

No opening themes have been added to this title. Help improve our database by adding an opening theme here.

Edit

Ending Theme

"Eien no Soldier (永遠のSoldier)" by Yoshito Machida

More reviews

Reviews

Nov 25, 2009

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Skadi (All reviews)

100 people found this review helpful

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.

Helpful

permalink | report

May 6, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

ViskMusic (All reviews)

53 people found this review helpful

Hello, Visk here and today I will be clearing up this misconception about how this masterpiece has been misrepresented in the other reviews here.

I love Baoh. I truly do. The world seems to also. I've been told that this OVA was the basis for how alchemy worked in the critically acclaimed series FMA. I've also been told that it was also the inspiration for the T800 Robot in Terminator. In many ways this OVA is superior to the aforementioned titles but due to its short run time and lack of exposure critics nitpick just because they are worried someone else will see through their clever ruse that I've seen through. I will now tell you the truth the others are to scared to tell you. Sure it is flawed but this is a real gem compared to the shit that comes out every season nowadays.

(Note: The same Mango Farmer that made Jojo wrote the source material for this.)

[PART 1: THE STORY]
There was once a parasite, no not the maxim one, and this said parasite was named Baoh. The parasite infects our main character's love interest. Said love interest gains the ability to become blue and that entitles gaining the ability to be baller like a Smurf or the "I'm Blue" guys. The evil people are jealous of his baller status and loli girlfriend so they set out to kill him. That is what you get at the start of this riveting story. I personally think this one of the most engaging and relatable stories I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. There is literally no way this could have gone in any other way than sheer perfection. I was told by a friend that the production of this show was done in a five year long orgy that only ended because the decade was about to end.

[PART 2: THE ART & ANIMATION]
For something that came out in 1989 it looks brilliant but the problem comes in when all your amazing characters are dwarfed by Col. Dordo. There just was not enough screen time for this glorious hunk of man and machine. Stan Lee also agrees with as Cyborg is pretty much a wannabe of the power that Dordo holds. Marvel makes Cyborg's enemies laughably weak compared to man that Dordo faces. He takes on the last Indian on Earth while Cyborg fights some skinny bitch boys who die in one hit. To our knowledge Baoh is invincible. Now, you are wondering why I rated it so high but the reason for that is that Dordo made it worth the money and the fights were as smooth as Bruce Willis's bald head. With that out of the way I will now continue onto the next segment.

[PART 3: CHARACTERS]
This show suffers from the fact that Dordo wasn't the main character. The world spoke and now we know that the only true flaw this show has is that there isn't more Dordo. It is a paradox because of the fact that Dordo exists the characters are instantly a 10/10 but the fact that he isn't the main character warrants this section a 0/10; so to be fair to the show I will give the characters a 2/10. Better luck next time Pierrot.

I will end this with an overwhelming recommendation that you should watch it and then tell 5 friends to watch and repeat and repeat and repeat etc. This saved anime way before your French Killers and your Attacking Titans ever tried to. You will not regret giving this 46 minute masterpiece a shot. The end has to be one of the most memorable I have seen in any piece of media.

Visk here and I'm signing out.
I hope you enjoy the show.

Helpful

permalink | report

Oct 25, 2014

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

literaturenerd (All reviews)

28 people found this review helpful

*This review contains spoilers*

Overview:

My quest to review more obscure, terrible anime continues with Baoh. Yes, I am aware other critics online have already pointed out Baoh's...flaws, but very few people on this site seem to be aware of it. Allow me to remedy the situtation. I first learned about Baoh after attending an anime convention where there was panel called "If this is voice acting, then I'm a banana".

Story and characters: 1/10

To say that Baoh has generic story and characters would be the understatement of the century! A mad scientist creates the ultimate living weapon, but the weapon named Baoh escapes and must flee the evil scientist with the help of a cute little girl and her magical animal sidekick! Baoh essentially is like a darker version of a saturday morning American cartoon from the 1980s. This show is very awkwardly paced and even more ineptly cut. I will give the reviewer "Bennet the Sage" credit for actually counting that it takes Baoh 53 fucking seconds to slowly limp away while the assassin after Baoh simply stands there and does absolutely nothing. Where Baoh "shines" is with its absolutely wretched dub and bad habit of stating the obvious. This has the worst use of expositional dialogue I have ever seen in my life! A character will open a door and another character will awkwardly state" Dear lord, character A just opened a door!" I think the dialogue for Baoh was created with 2 assumptions: firstly that the audience is blind, and secondly that the audience is mentally handicapped.

Art: 3/10

The art is at least somewhat decent considering the age of this anime. However, it wasn't exactly good even for its time. At least it looks awesome and hilarious when Baoh melts people's faces off!

Soundtrack: 3/10

Its just the same soundtrack from every low budget, shit OVA brought overseas during the 1980s.

Entertainment: 8/10
"BAOH has a LASER cannon!" - actual line spoken by a character seconds before being shot with a laser cannon. He then monologues on how cool the attack was while he bleeds out and dies!

Baoh is hilarious! It has been a few years since I first saw this one with my buddy and there will still be random times when one of us yells the classic line and the other cracks up laughing! Mankind must always remember: BAOH has a LASER cannon!!!"

Overall: 3/10

This is a HORRIBLE anime, but it is in fact quite enjoyable for that reason. If you love old, silly, and stupid anime than Baoh is your dream come true. follow the link and skip to 42:30 to witness one of the greatest moments in the history of anime!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS__N6Sh8Rw

Helpful

permalink | report

Sep 1, 2020

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

JizzyBizzy (All reviews)

8 people found this review helpful

I'm not sure about lightning but genius can definitely strike twice!

This fantastic short story comes from Hirohiko Araki, the creator of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, my all-time favourite manga/anime series, so naturally I had super high expectations going into this, which were lowered due to the 6.12 rating and the other reviews making fun of it. Was it anything like JoJo? Absolutely not. Did it deliver in terms of the initial high expectations? Absolutely yes.

Don't trust the mediocre rating! Baoh is an extremely entertaining short film. Since it is above 45 minutes it's technically long enough to be considered feature length, and well, it gives you everything that a sci-fi thriller you would see in theaters even today would give you, but only in a fraction of the time which for me makes this far superior to 90% sci-fi movies.

Story: 8/10
The story is the typical tale of a secret government/organisation scientist creating an ultimate weapon that ultimately kills him and endangers the world, however it is brilliantly executed here. It makes me think that this was in a way Akira, before the Akira movie was even released (the Baoh manga is from 1984) Baoh's tragedy is that Ikuro, a 17-year-old teenager who was experimented on and had a parasite placed in him, must confront and control his demons and use his superhuman abilities, that he can tap into with the parasite, to stop the hitmen sent after him. The scientist and his organisation will stop at nothing to capture him, even endangering the lives of the innocent by setting a gas station on fire or capturing and torturing a nine year old girl who was with him. The ending sequence is also great however I won't spoil it.

Art: 8/10
Given that this was made in the 80's I was not expecting anything jaw-dropping, but kind of got it in the end. True, the animation is quite choppy at times by today's standards, but "art" encapsulates more than just the fluidity of animation. For it's time it's relatively smooth anyways. The firey effects, the violence, the people's faces melting from Baoh's ability, the visual effects when it comes to the destruction of walls and buildings, though - amazing! This movie was not afraid to get graphic with it's gore and they animated it well. That is to be expected of Hirohiko Araki, since he likes to make even mundane injuries look really gory, which strangely appeals to me. As a result, all the fighting scenes looks great and are constantly tense, also due to the fact that Ikuro is vulnerable when he is in his human state.

Characters: 8/10
There aren't too many characters in this anime as it is only 48 minutes long, but the main two, Ikuro and Sumire were quite nice and wholesome. Sumire was cute, and Ikuro's struggle of taming Baoh and escaping from the mercenaries sent at them, while protecting her, was what made him so very likeable. I was very attached to these characters and even felt sad for them multiple times during the movie. Also, the hitmen were cool as you would expect from hitmen in a badass action anime, plus the last one had extremely cool abilities.

Enjoyment: 10/10
You won't believe what a blast I had watching this. First off, I'm usually not the biggest fan of old shows or movies since they are usually very slow-paced, however Baoh was not like that. I already explained how Baoh achives what most sci-fy moves do but only a fraction of the time, cramming as many sci-fi thriller tropes as possible in a short amount of time while still remaining original in its execution. I also already spoke about how entertaining the gore and destruction effects are. However, most importantly this movie flew right past me along with the time I spent watching it. At some point during the film I moved my cursor to see roughly where I am and I was at the 35 minute mark. I could swear I had been watching this for only about 10 minutes maximum. The truth is I was so sucked in that it felt like it past by too quickly for me to notice how much time had truly pased. I can definitely see myself rewatching this soon, even though I rarely rewatch anime.

The only major criticism I have for this is that it cuts off a LOT of content from the original manga. Really, it's an adaptation of the beginning, hook, and end of it, while leaving the three chapters in the middle completely.

Helpful

permalink | report

More stacks

Interest Stacks

Decent 1980s OVAs (Rated 6)

by Kamezuki

35 Entries · 5 Restacks

80`s VHS OVA

by CorvaX

50 Entries · 23 Restacks

More recommendations

Recommendations

More news

Recent News

More discussions

Recent Forum Discussion

	Poll: Baoh Episode 1 Discussion Zepwich - Jan 30, 2011	25 replies	by Dawnie_AJ »» Aug 25, 2021 10:58 PM
	Read the manga first busterbeam - Sep 28, 2017	0 replies	by busterbeam »» Sep 28, 2017 2:50 PM

Baoh Raihousha

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

External Links

Synopsis

Background

Visit MALxJapan
MALxJapan -More than just anime-

Related Anime