is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Yoshio Sawai. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2001 to November 2005, with its chapters collected in twenty-one tankōbon volumes. It was followed by a sequel titled Shinsetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, serialized from December 2005 to July 2007, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. A seventy-six episode anime television series adaptation by Toei Animation was broadcast on TV Asahi from November 2003 to October 2005. In North America, Viz Media published some volumes of the manga. The anime series aired in the United States on Cartoon Network from 2005 to 2007. As of January 2021, the Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo manga had over 7 million copies in circulation. Plot In the year 300X, the entire world is under the tyrannical rule of a regime called the Maruhage Empire (Chrome Dome Empire in the English dub). Its ruler, Emperor Tsuru Tsurulina IV (Czar Baldy Bald IV), has initiated the Hair Hunt, a crusade where his soldiers, the Hair Hunters, invade settlements, shave bald every person they see, and leave said settlements in ruins. Standing against the Hair Hunt is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, a bizarre rebel who fights the Hair Hunters with the Hanage Shinken (Fist of the Nose Hair), a martial art that gives him the power to control his nose hairs like whips. Bo-bobo's team consists of Beauty, a normal teenage girl he rescued; Heppokomaru (Gasser), a teenage boy who fights with the Onara Shinken (Fist of the Back Wind), allowing him to weaponize his own flatulence; and Don Patch (Poppa Rocks), an eccentric creature who leads the Hajike Gang (Wiggin Gang), a group that fights by confusing their enemies into submission. Bo-bobo is on an exciting, gag-filled quest in which he uses his hair as a weapon in many locales to fight the forces of the Maruhage Empire as he gains other allies along the way. Media Manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, written and illustrated by Yoshio Sawai, was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 20, 2001, to November 14, 2005. Shueisha collected its 230 individual chapters into twenty-one tankōbon volumes, released from July 4, 2001, to May 2, 2006. A sequel manga titled was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 19, 2005, to July 2, 2007. Shueisha compiled the sequel's 73 individual chapters into seven tankōbon volumes released from