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Шаблон:Nihongo is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, most famous for his manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Originally serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1985, it was later compiled into two tankōbon volumes. The series was adapted into a single-episode original video animation (OVA) by Studio Pierrot and distributed by Toho in 1989.

Baoh is Araki's first series to display his signature amount of over-the-top gore.[1]

Plot

17-year-old Ikuro Hashizawa is kidnapped and turned into a Baoh, a bioweapon with superhuman strength and other abilities, by the organization Doress. He escapes with the help of Sumire, a 9-year-old psychic girl. Dr. Kasuminome, head scientist at Doress, sends various assassins and monsters to try and kill Ikuro, desperate to stop the Baoh virus from spreading and infecting the world.[2]

Characters

Main characters

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The 17-year-old Ikuro initially knows very little of his past, waking up in the clutches of Doress and accompanying and protecting Sumire. He soon discovers that he has been transformed into a Baoh (standing for Biological Armament On Help), the result of Doress's evolution experimentations to produce a parasitic worm that buries itself into its host brain, slowly transforming them into a nigh-unstoppable killing machine. He later discovers that he was the victim of a traffic accident, with his survival beneficial to Doress's experimentations.
When the host body is attacked (such as during Ikuro's near death at the hands of Number 22), it transforms by means of the Шаблон:Nihongo, covering its body in a protective armor that grants the body superhuman strength and healing, which he can also use to heal others. As a Baoh, Ikuro displays other abilities. Шаблон:Nihongo allows him to secrete corrosive enzymes from his hands, melting through metal and human flesh. Шаблон:Nihongo produces two blades coming out of his arms that can slice through nearly anything. Шаблон:Nihongo turns Baoh's hair into needle-like projectiles that burst into flames upon contact. His most powerful ability is the Шаблон:Nihongo, where his body produces up to 60,000 volts of electrical energy, powerful enough to power a laser cannon. The only way to kill a Baoh is to kill the worm, by removing it from the brain by force and then burning it alive. A Baoh will also die after 111 days of the worm living in its brain, after which its larvae leave and kill the host, seeking out hosts of their own. A Baoh can also be put into dormancy by submerging the host in salt water.
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A 9-year-old girl possessing psychic abilities, including automatic writing, table-turning, and precognition. She is also a captive of Doress, as they wish to exploit her psychic abilities. She keeps another of Doress's experiments, a brand new marsupial-like lifeform she has named Шаблон:Nihongo as a pet.

Doress

The Шаблон:Nihongo created Baoh and seeks to kill Ikuro before the virus can spread.

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Doress's main scientist who is responsible for the creation of the Baoh parasite. Perhaps the ultimate irony, which Professor Kasuminome himself voices near the end of the OVA, is that he succeeded far too well. His intent was to create the ultimate soldier, a weapon of such power no one could possibly defeat it, but in doing so he created Baoh—a weapon no one, including Doress or Kasuminome himself, could ever possibly control or contain. Hirohiko Araki named him after the Шаблон:Nihongo neighborhood of Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai.
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Kasuminome's assistant. She is first seen chasing Sumire when she escapes in the first chapter.
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One of Doress's assassins sent to kill Ikuro Hashizawa and recapture Sumire. He unwittingly sparks Ikuro's Baoh Armed Phenomenon transformation and is killed.
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Doress's top assassin, said to be able to blow someone's brains out with a single sniper shot. During the fight with Ikuro, it is revealed that Dordo is actually a cyborg.
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A psychic assassin under Doress's pay, the last of a tribe of Native Americans known as the Шаблон:Nihongo. He is the world's most powerful psychic, capable of melting objects with his psychokinesis using the Шаблон:Nihongo and warp the ground with the Шаблон:Nihongo. He sees Baoh as a worthy opponent and carves a sigil into his chest, claiming that he will kill Baoh. Baoh, however, gains the upper hand by flinging his sabers off at him, removing his power dampening bandana, only for Walken to seek vengeance. Hirohiko Araki named Walken after American actor Christopher Walken.

Cast

Cast
Role Japanese[3] English[3]
Coastal Studios (1995)
Ikuro Hashizawa Hideyuki Hori Brian Hinnant
Sumire Noriko Hidaka Kimberly Helms-Stewart
Dr. Kasuminome Ichirō Nagai Michael S. Way
Colonel Dordo Shūichi Ikeda Dave Underwood
Sophine Yō Inoue Sara Seidman-Vance
Walken Yusaku Yara Chuck Denson Jr.
Masked Men Shinya Ōtaki

Masaharu Satō

Ikuya Sawaki

Paul Johnson

Marc Matney

Mark Franklin

Number 22 Sean P. O'Connell
Girl Tomoko Maruo Sandy Clubb
Technicians Kōzō Shioya Patrick Humphrey

Frank Lynn

Gary Lawton

Soldiers Michitaka Kobayashi Jim Clark

Nick Manatee

Kevin Greenway

Staff

Production staff
Staff role[3] Person
Director Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Supervisor-in-chief Hisayuki Toriumi
Executive producers Kazuo Nakano

Haruo Sai

Producer Reiko Fukusa
Screenplay Keiji Terada
Character design/ Animation direction Michi Sanaba
Mechanical designs Masayoshi Tano
Director of photography Jin Kaneko
Art director Michiharu Miyamae
Audio director Noriyoshi Matsuura
Assistant animation director Yoshimitsu Oohashi

Hiroki Takagi

Shouichi Masuo

Music Hiroyuki Nanba

English localization

English localization staff
Staff role[3] Person
Executive producer Robert Woodhead
Producer Janice Hindle

Peter R. Haswell

Production coordinator Natsumi Ueki
Dialog editor R. Roe Adams III
Translator Shin Kurokawa

Michael House

Subtitling director Michael House
Dubbing director Scott Houle
Script supervisor William Bailey
Audio engineer Nick Stuteville
Dialog mixer Ron Abfalter
SFX editor Skip Bowerman
M&E editor Kevin Turner
Communications Billie Houle
Duplications Billie J. Toney

Licensing

The manga was licensed in English and released in monthly chapters by Viz Media in 1990; sales were pitiful, and it was not until 1995 that they released it in graphic novel format.[4][2] The OVA was licensed for an English DVD release by AnimEigo in 2000[5] and was released in 2001.[6]

Other appearances

The series' main protagonist, Ikuro Hashizawa, was released on 14 November 2013 as a downloadable playable character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle in his Baoh form.[7][8] In the 2022 remaster JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R he is included in the initial roster.

Reception

Hiroyuki Takei, author of the manga Shaman King, said it was one of his favorite series along with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in his youth.[9]

References

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External links

Шаблон:Weekly Shōnen Jump - 1980–1989 Шаблон:Pierrot films

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