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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Vol. 1 (of 3)


Time to move on to volume 1! I don't know either. We've skipped a bit ahead from the other volume- Gasser has been kidnapped and we have to save him from Cyber City. We're just in time to see Pana, a spinny executioner guy and one of the six Cyber Knights, fall to Bobobo's nose hair, which he had been weaving throughout the arena all fight. The remaining five are viewing by floating screen, and the gang gets pulled into screen #2.

They find themselves strung up by bungee cords in the bungee execution ground! It'll be Bobobo, Jiggler, Rocks, and Beauty against Sonic the Cyber Knight and his useless-looking sidekicks, Super Rabbit and Emo Boy, all of whom are hanging by their feet over a deep chasm. Bobobo creates a Wonder Box over the abyss, and it does weird stuff to whomever falls in. The gang makes pretty quick work of this fight, and Jelly Jiggler gets weird exorcist powers and seals the bad guys in a bottle, for once accomplishing something without getting hurt.

Turns out that Giga, the big bad of this arc I guess, is hunting down practitioners of the "true fist," and he uses his Fist of the Objet d'Art to turn Gasser into a weird sculpture. Bobobo and Softon get sucked into one screen, while Rocks, Jiggler, Beauty, and TORPEDO GIRL go into another. The B-Team will be fighting Poet, whose Fist of the Gothic Font allows him to tap into words and kanji to attack. Another actually-pretty-cool-opponent! Bobobo and Softon (and mascot character Dengaku Man) are up against Carman, a guy with a car for a head. Poet's on the ropes until he wipes the B-team's memories (except Poppa Rocks because he's stupid) but Carman and his Evil Driving School Execution Ground go down quite easily. Poppa Rocks hits Poet with some extract that makes him think like Rocks does. Thenceforth, all of Poet's attacks do weird stuff, and he loses after trapping himself inside Heartthrob<3Yakuza High.

The whole team is teleported to the power plant, where J the weird onion/garlic-headed man powers the city with his Fist of the Black Sun. He's the last of the Six Cyber Knights! (yes, we've only beaten four of them) Softon will fight so Bobobo can save his strength for Giga, but first J squashes Jiggler and Rocks. Softon goes down in one hit as well, but figures out that J is using illusions from refracted light to dodge attacks. Bobobo counters this Sleepless Five Suns with a desk lamp, and then goes for a fusion...but accidentally fuses with Dengaku Man, creating Denbo, a magical girl whose only ability is beautiful song. Her departed father bestows upon her the sacred family heirloom- some nunchaku that turn her into a kung fu movie character. Denbo uses One Song Museum, where everything sung into the microphone happens. After a long string of goofiness, Denbo wins with the Holy Radical Ceremony....a nose hair attack.

After some gratuitous Jojo poses, Softon decides to power the city in J's place, and the fight against Giga and his Fist of the Objet d'Art begins! He has the ability to pre-calculate the results of everybody's actions, but Dengaku Man throws it off a bit.

My rating: 8/10
This had some fights that were actually kinda cool. This manga is very one-note, but eh, it's fun. I stand by my assessment of not wanting to read more than a bit of this at a time, but tomorrow is the last one so that works out.
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