History Manga / BoboboBoBoboBo

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine

* CatchPhrase: Torpedo Girl's "I'm a '''TORPEDO!'''" Even her ''laugh'' is just her repeating the word "torpedo" over and over again.

** Episode 22 briefly parodies [[ASpaceOdyssey]]. Also episode 31 has Tennosuke thinking [[NeonGenesisEvangelion 'Mustn't run away..mustn't run away..', with 'Ode to Joy' as background music.]] Also his opponent is (temorarily retarded)Heppokomaru, white haired pretty boy like the 17th Angel...

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Korean]]: Denbo, the {{Magical Girl}} fusion warrior of Bobobo and Dengakuman, can speak Korean...[[FunnyMoment very badly.]] In fact, when that episode was aired in [[South Korea]], that
line wasn't dubbed over, for extra funniness.
** Also, some epsodes have characters chanting "Bulgogi!"(Korean Barbecue) for some reason.

* NoExportForYou: Initially, all that the American fanbase had gotten was a compiled book of the Halekulani story arc (Parts of volumes 9 and 10), and VizMedia refuses to translate the first eight volumes (allegedly, it was because Yoshio Sawai was ashamed of the artwork, but it's odd considering that most other countries that translated it got all 21 volumes). They finally decided to translate it again, [[WhatAnIdiot in the middle of the Cyber City Arc]], some time after the anime went off American airwaves. Now it's stuck in limbo at volume 15. And given that it had a lukewarm reception, ''Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bobobo'', the sequel, was never exported.

!!This series features examples of:

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Korean]]: Denbo, the {{Magical Girl}} fusion warrior of Bobobo and Dengakuman, can speak Korean...[[FunnyMoment badly.]] In fact, it was so funny that South Korean version didn't dubbed over that line.
** Also, some epsodes have characters chanting "Bulgogi!"(Korean Barbecue) for no specific reason.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome

* NoExportForYou: Initially, all that the American fanbase has gotten is a compiled book of the Halekulani story arc (Parts of volumes 9 and 10), and VizMedia refuses to translate the first eight volumes (allegedly, it was because Yoshio Sawai was ashamed of the artwork, but it's odd considering that most other countries that translated it got all 21 volumes). They finally decided to translate it again, [[WhatAnIdiot in the middle of the Cyber City Arc]], some time after the anime went off American airwaves. Now it's stuck in limbo at volume 15. And given that it had a lukewarm reception, ''Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bobobo'', the sequel, was never exported.
** Again in the States, the anime was licensed by a no-name distributor that had three other titles, and only two [[BadExportForYou sloppily put-together]] volumes were released on DVD before the company went out of business. Thankfully, another new company, S'more Entertainment, is now releasing the anime on DVD in full.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: Double subverted: When Baldy Bald/Tsuru Tsurulina III awakens, Bobobo slams his cryogenic chamber shut, duct-tapes it, and blows it up. Unfortunately, the emperor had already escaped./

In the post-apocalyptic world of the year "[[YearX 300X]]", Bo-bobo fights the machinations of the Margarita (from ''marugarite'', the Japanese word for "bald-shaven") Empire and their leader, Emperor Tsuru Tsururuna IV (Czar Baldy Bald IV), who has sent his "Hair Hunters" to shave the hair off everyone in the world. Ostensibly, Bo-bobo does this through the art of ''Hanage Shinken'' (translated as " Fist of the Nose Hair"), an oddball form of martial arts that allows him to manipulate his body hair to defeat his enemies. More often, though, he defeats his enemies by confusing the hell out of them with his oddball behavior and an assortment of sight gags (like [[GhostInTheMachine little people living inside his afro]]). This is eventually revealed to be an actual fighting style in the world of ''Bobobo'', known as "Hajike" (from the Japanese word "hajikeru", which literally means "to burst" but can also mean "to go crazy", translated as "Wiggin" ala the phrase "Wiggin Out"), where the object is to use these strange happenings to distract and confuse your enemy into submission.

* {{Calvinball}}: [[ThisIsSparta Every. Battle.]]

* TestosteronePoisoning: Parodied with the "Macho Man Fist".

* SurrealHumor: Taken UpToEleven
* TestosteronePoisoning: Parodied with the "Macho Man Fist".
* TomokoKaneda: Dengakuman
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-Universe, Giga's ''Super Fist of Objet d'Art'', ordinary objects turned into incomprehensible art. He also considers Don Patch the true definition of art for some reason.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WMbzvxJW7A Even Jeff Nimoy thinks so.]]

* ShipTease / ToyShip: Namero and Pokomi in Shinsetsu, despite being 16 and 10, respectively.

* ThePowerOfRock: Parodied again. Denbo, Jelly Jiggler and Don Patch fight J by singing, which makes stuff in the song real. But the songs they think up are ridiculous, involving things like Beta-Carotene and a jelly wave. There's even a little [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution DDR]] section. This is [[RecycledInSPACE recycled]] in the manga sequel, except that [[BrattyHalfPint Pokomi]] is the one singing.

* ThePowerOfRock: Parodied again. Denbo, Jelly Jiggler and Don Patch fight J by singing, which makes stuff in the song real. But the songs they think up are ridiculous, involving things like Beta-Carotene and a jelly wave. There's even a little {{DDR}} section. This is [[RecycledInSPACE recycled]] in the manga sequel, except that [[BrattyHalfPint Pokomi]] is the one singing.

* {{Tsundere}}: Torpedo Girl is Dere to Softon and Tsun to everybody else

* HeroicSociopath: Don Patch and to a lesser extent Bo-bobo.

* DerangedAnimation: The current page image, and it's one of the tamer examples

In the post-apocalyptic world of the year "[[ExtyYearsFromNow 300X]]", Bo-bobo fights the machinations of the Margarita (from ''marugarite'', the Japanese word for "bald-shaven") Empire and their leader, Emperor Tsuru Tsururuna IV (Czar Baldy Bald IV), who has sent his "Hair Hunters" to shave the hair off everyone in the world. Ostensibly, Bo-bobo does this through the art of ''Hanage Shinken'' (translated as " Fist of the Nose Hair"), an oddball form of martial arts that allows him to manipulate his body hair to defeat his enemies. More often, though, he defeats his enemies by confusing the hell out of them with his oddball behavior and an assortment of sight gags (like [[GhostInTheMachine little people living inside his afro]]). This is eventually revealed to be an actual fighting style in the world of ''Bobobo'', known as "Hajike" (from the Japanese word "hajikeru", which literally means "to burst" but can also mean "to go crazy", translated as "Wiggin" ala the phrase "Wiggin Out"), where the object is to use these strange happenings to distract and confuse your enemy into submission.

* BeyondTheImpossible: How totally and impossible weird can this episode be? Only answer is "more than the last."

* ShoutOut: For one, Bobobo summons [[spoiler:Yugi Mutou from his afro in one chapter (drawn by Kazuki Takahashi, no less)]], and Dengakuman looks suspiciously like [[SonicTheHedgehog a Chao]]. Also, he once does a attack that involves [[spoiler:A Dragonball Z posterboard, and Bobobo, when thrown while doing this attack, shouts "Vegeta"!]] [[BeyondTheImpossible All of this is from one volume.]]

* SurrealHumor: Taken BeyondTheImpossible.

* VisualPun: None of which translated. Enough were there that the already-insane series became [[BeyondTheImpossible even less comprehensible]].

* {{Nakama}}: Parodied, of course, but also (believe it or not) played straight. After all, Bo-bobo doesn't want Beauty to get hurt...

* ArthurDent: Beauty