Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Exhibition: DIVE INTO THE BO-BOBO WORLD

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Exhibition: DIVE INTO THE BO-BOBO WORLD is an exhibition on the gag-battle manga and anime Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. It opened in Tokyo at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro and then moves to ATC on the Osaka waterfront.

The exhibition

The show is staged as a Hajikerist Training Program (ハジケリスト養成プログラム), a course that claims to free modern minds from the hold of meaning and right answers. Its tagline translates as awakening to nonsense.

Visitors enter through a gate shaped like a nose and pass through themed zones. In the battle zone, fights from the series are recreated: Bo-bobo's afro opens and closes, and Don Patch performs his bulgogi routine with visitors. A zone of records shows reproductions of original manga artwork, with a photo spot where visitors hold one of the series' legendary weapons. A quiz and photo spots for the heroes' special attacks are also part of the course.

The key visuals

The teaser visual shows the colourful afterimage of Bo-bobo landing Sparkling (毛魂), a move of his Armpit Hair Fist (Waki-ge Shinken, ワキ毛真拳). The main visual, drawn for the exhibition, gathers Bo-bobo with Beauty, Don Patch and Tokoro Tennosuke.

About the series

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is an absurdist gag-battle manga by Yoshio Sawai, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2001 to 2007. Its 28 volumes have more than 7 million copies in print. The story is set in the year 300X, when the Margarita Empire sends its Hair Hunters to shave the whole world bald. Bo-bobo, master of the Nose Hair Fist (Hanage Shinken, 鼻毛真拳), sets out with Beauty and Don Patch to stop them.

A TV anime ran on TV Asahi for two years from 2003. A first stage adaptation followed in 2024 and a second in 2026.