Bao is a character from the Chinese animated spin-off Stitch & Ai from the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is a cousin of Wang Ai Ling and Jiejie who lives in the city with his and his cousins' aunt Daiyu.
Role in the series[]
Bao is first brought to the Huangshan mountains in the episode "The Phoenix" by his aunt Daiyu on a mission to convince Ai Ling to move to the city. He tries to tell her at first but gets interrupted by Stitch and then Meiying, the latter who and her mother takes interest in him due to his city background. Meiying's mother even tries to invite him over to their place, but Daiyu denies the visit to keep him focused on Ai. She then sends him to Ai's bedroom, which had just been made a mess of by Jumba's phoenix, to get him to talk all about the city. However, Ai instead forces him to join her, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley to chase after the phoenix without telling Daiyu about what they're doing.
They head to the Huangshan Grottos in Jumba's spaceship, on which Bao was blindfolded with a sleep mask and convinced that he's riding a bus during the journey, though he had suspicions. Once at the cave entrance, Jumba then gives him and Ai equipment to track down the phoenix, and he and Pleakley leave them and Stitch to look for it while they head back home to do research.
During the journey, Bao, Ai, and Stitch befriend and follow the phoenix, deal with a couple of alien bounty hunters, and hang-glide to and discover an ancient ruined shrine that the phoenix and the Sage who's been appearing to Ai have been looking for. Bao also finds some ancient coins during their time in the grottos, which he, Ai, and Stitch later find out are meant to be placed in an old cauldron. Upon putting them all in the cauldron, the preserved parts of the shrine and a chest with three scrolls the Sage has been looking for rise up from the ground. Bao, Ai, and Stitch then ride the phoenix back home, where Ai tells Daiyu that she and Bao had a "very quiet" and uneventful day together. Bao then excitedly asks Daiyu if he could live with Ai, finding the mountains to be exciting and magical, much to Daiyu's shock and dismay.
Bao appears again in "Nuo Opera", where he and Daiyu bring in and clean Ai and Jeijei's house with a large cleaning machine. After they've just finished cleaning, Stitch's "naughty creatures" come in and start making a mess of things. Bao feeds one with a clam-like head a coin, which it then spits out as a pearl.
Later on, after the naughty creatures run off, Bao joins Ai and the aliens to find them, although Ai has rehearsal for the town's upcoming nuo opera, which gets disrupted by the naughty creatures anyway and nearly ruin the town's chances of holding the nuo opera until she suggests the locals perform and contribute to the performance themselves. Bao then runs in and tells Ai that the naughty creatures are at the town's school's gym, where they find the creatures and Stitch causing another mess. Sometime later, Bao joins the town in performing the nuo opera.
Trivia[]
- Unlike most other characters in the show, Bao only appears in the hand-drawn digital ink and paint episodes (sans the earlier episode "The Lock").
Gallery[]
