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Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo (ボボボーボ・ボーボボ) is certainly a strange anime, but does the
title mean anything?

The main character's name is also Bobobo-bo Bobo-bo (Bo-Bobo for short - but
not Bo).

Some of the other names in the series are jokes - there is someone called
Beauty and another called Don Patch (a pun on "donpachi", the Japanese sound
of machine gun fire).

Is there some joke in his name (apart from the obvious absurdity)?


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Does the title of Bobobo-bo bobo-bo mean anything?


Bōbō (ぼうぼう or ボーボー) is a common
[phenomime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sound_symbolism
"phenomime") (non-auditory onomatopoeia) expressing excessive growth of things
such as weed or hair, growing all over the place and unkept. The originally
planned title was Hanagēbo Bōbobo (ハナゲーボ・ボーボボ), with hanage being nose hair as
you may well know. This was scrapped because although Bo-bobo uses his nose
hair extensively, his is not exactly growing "all over the place". But the
author wanted to keep the phonomime in the title, and ended up with the final
title.


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