YMMV / Baoh

• Awesome Music: “Eternal Soldier”, the song that plays during the credits, is fittingly soothing.
  • The English version is no slouch either. It’s a shame a full version of it was never released.
• Fight Scene Failure: At the start of the OVA, when Ikuro is on the roof of the train, Kasuminome orders to fire at him... while they’re below on the wagon’s platform. Thus, by shooting up at Ikuro, they somehow manage to hit the train’s roof.
• Memetic Mutation: Baoh has a laser cannon!
  • I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND!◊
• Narm: The dub is full of these due to the large amount of moments where the characters are pointing out the flippin’ obvious... and the less-than-stellar performances don’t help. Most famously: BAOH HAS A LASER CANNON!! ^Note No shit!
  • It’s a bit hard to take some of the villains seriously when the giant killer mandrill is called Martin and the powerful psychic warrior is called Walken.
• So Bad, It's Good: The OVA adaptation, the hilariously cheesy dub certainly helps.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Sophine in the OVA. Despite her being Spared by the Adaptation, she really doesn’t get to do much aside from being Kasuminome’s right hand woman (who, like him, also states the obvious), making one wonder what was the point of keeping her alive for so long compared to the manga.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Due to the OVA being only 45 minutes long, a lot of content was cut from the manga and a lot of people feel that it suffers heavily from it because it omitted stuff like Ikuro’s fight with Martin and the old couple who look after Ikuro and Sumire.
• Vanilla Protagonist: Ikuro doesn't have much of a personality outside of some generic heroic traits. While this is somewhat justified by his status as an Amnesiac Hero, considering the parasite in his brain gets more Character Development than he does, he borders on being a Decoy Protagonist.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The OVA overall has some really good and fluid animation, but particularly anything involving Baoh’s transformations and the various Phenomenons he uses.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Yes, this series appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump despite its graphic violence.

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