Baoh Chapter 1
Summary
The story begins on the following incident: one day, the mangled corpse of a woman washes up on a northeastern shore of Honshū, in Nikuru. The dead woman is revealed to have been on a certain train several days earlier.
On said train, Dr. Kasuminome (霞の目博士, Kasuminome-hakase, Pr. Hazyeye in the English translation) of the Dress Secret Organization (秘密組織ドレス, Himitsu Soshiki Doresu, Judas in the English translation), a covert government group responsible for creating secret weapons, escorts one of his latest creations, Baoh (バオー, Baō), kept dormant in a tank. Meanwhile, a little psychic girl named Sumire (スミレ, lit. "Violet"), who was kidnapped to be studied, escapes from her room and during her escape releases Baoh, revealed to be a young man with superhuman abilities. Baoh and Sumire subsequently escape the train, Kasuminome worried that he might have unleashed a terrible weapon.
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Weekly Shonen Jump #45, 1984
Weekly Shonen Jump, page 1 colored
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Weekly Shonen Jump #46 Announcement
