Audience reviews
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BlackBusterMAL
English.
A season that concludes this anime, which I think lasted just enough and was necessary. In addition to giving us this ending, it also gives us hints of a battle that will be epic.
Look, I don't think this season is better than the previous ones, but the story gives us a fairly interesting new tournament. It may not be the best or have a satisfactory resolution, but it still entertained me and lived up to my expectations.
The animation improved a bit, especially in the fights, because they removed the 3D style, which honestly didn't suit the series at all.
What else can I say other than what I said before? It was a satisfying season for those who've seen the previous seasons as well as for fans of the series. Specifically, I think if you've seen the previous seasons, you won't be d…
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The next season of BIG MEN DOING MAN SHIT is here and it's another tournament arc! Time for some epic action, some bizarre fighting styles and some dramatic conclusions.
If you've gotten this far into Baki, you should really know what to expect and this season is more than happy to deliver on that. There are some awesome fights, some outrageous macho nonsense and just like in the previous tournament, this one is used to showcase a variety of wild and unique fighting styles (HANDO POKETTO!). The gore has been cranked up even further with some extra vile moments being shown. The CGI is also mostly gone and now the fights are actually animated properly, hooray! Also, the whole season is worth it just for the clash between Yujiro and the old guy. That was some damn amazing shit!
Beyond that,…
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Baki: The Great Raitaisai Arc follows the previous Baki anime that aired in 2016. In this latest offering, Baki is poisoned and Retsu Kaioh abducts him in order to treat him using ancient Chinese combat arts. The show centers on the Chinese Raitasai Tournament, a tournament that occurs once every 100 years.
Most fights in the anime are nonsensical without backstories, and the opponents break bones during fights. Nonetheless, the slowness of the show’s pace often translated to some episodes that dragged on and on. The tournament arc as plot is the main focus of the story, and very little characterization is made available for the antagonists.
The characters’ traits do not change that much, except for their badassery and limitless blood. The animation has gained some improvement, however t…
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Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen is a Japanese anime series that follows the story of Baki Hanma, a young man who aspires to be the strongest fighter in the world. The anime is a continuation of the Baki series and focuses on the upcoming "Great Raitai Tournament Saga," which brings together the strongest fighters from around the world to compete in a brutal tournament.
From the very first episode, I was immediately drawn into the show's intense action and high-stakes battles. The animation quality is impressive, with fluid movements and dynamic fight scenes that are sure to get your heart pumping. The show's emphasis on martial arts and combat sports is a refreshing change of pace from the usual anime fare, and the characters are well-developed and engaging.
The anime explores themes of persever…
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Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen
After the very tough but amusing Convicts arc, we actually got a sequel to everyone's surprise. After the relatively poor results of the new Baki 2016 series, I didn't expect it to stay alive, thank God I was wrong.
This next season is all about Baki's recovery after being poisoned and the 4000-year-old traditions of the 4000-year-old Chinese Raitasai Tournament which is held every 100 years. Hoping that 4000-year-old Chinese martial arts and broken bones can heal Baki, Retsu Kaioh kidnaps the dying Baki to save him.
Now comes the most important point, if you are not a Baki fan "yet" or the show has not convinced you yet, then you should draw a line here. Baki won't change much and every season has the same weak points. This series is only for people who can do…
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Baki just leveled up to new heights.
I used to start these reviews with “remember when Baki already beat the strongest X champion in the world until he suddenly didn't?”, but no more. Doing so will completely be missing the point from Baki, this is a grindy series, probably the only fun type of grind that never gets dull, and how can it? With the ever-growing rooster of characters that never cease to amaze.
Baki is the ultimate anti-guilty-pleasure to watch, remove the guilty part because this shit should be broadcasted on national television. It's as if the writer read the fans mind, he gathered all loved characters and rounded them against each other in a tournament so there is no excuse for anyone of them to shy down from participating in the fan service that was this season.
The sea…
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I really liked the Death Row Convicts arc, after coming off of that high I said to myself I would give this season a 10/10 if it could somehow top that.
And the tournament arc itself was really impressive. However there are two big problems that hold it back for me. First we have the obvious one, which is the anti-climatic end to the final fight between Kaku and Yujoro. The second and also the much more disappointing to me was the handling of Kaiou Retsu and his character. At the start of the arc he gives baki tough love and helps him in his own way, even going to the extent of saving his life from the fatal poison. But then, out of nowhere, he does the Sasuke Uchiha special, a complete 180 in personality where he turns around and starts being racist towards Baki and the other non-chinese…
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Roleply scenario: I am enjoying the show and then the show ends.
[Action!]
Am watching the show.
"I really like this show."
Ending happens. "I really dislike this show."
[And scene.]
Ahem, This show was very entertaining for the most part. I enjoyed a lot of the fights, and for the most part I enjoyed everything else. What I did not enjoy was the ending. The ending felt like this show was a huge waste of time, and a huge waste of time it was. I simply cannot reccomend watching this show untill the next season is released, if such a thing even happens that is. It ends in a horrible way. It sets something up, and then gives you a middle finger and says "lol, we got lazy and didn't feel like ending it in a satisfying way whatsoever."
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i wana say, i love baki.
the fighting and unique odd-ball chraraters going head-to-head is awsome.
i love baki's father as a charater and how he is esablished, and baki's gole to beat him.
i think it was grate that the animtion team dropped the 3D in this half of the show ( was prob the worst part of the first season).
most of the charaters are awsome! (esspesally the inmates)
and its sad, i wana love this arc of baki but muhammad ali jr. involvment was WAYYY to much!, it would be fine if he was in the show to fight baki or just be in the tournament or whatever but the amount of time they focus on him is overboard! no to mention they prise him and his dad at every moment they have. its also un-realistic MAjr. goes up with these crazy strong fighters and hold his own, BS!!!!!!
ALSO, t…
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I'm a big fan of the Baki series but I was very disappointed with this season. As far as tournaments arc go this was a really short tournament arc not helped by the hype and build up to it as the most prestigious tournament ever featuring the best practitioners of Chinese martial arts in the world. There's a lot of padding and anti-climatic fights in the anime.
Also I know it's a Japanese manga so natural bias is normal but they really crap on Chinese representatives apart from Retsu and Kaio Kaku everyone else got decimated and not even close to the threat level of the convicts in the previous season.
The fight choreography and animation was never what the Baki series has been known for, but was always more known for being crazy and ridiculous. Those over the top moments were the highl…
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Netflix Baki season 2 is the second season of the new Baki funded by Netflix, it continues directly after its predecessor, and has two arcs the great Raitai tournament, and the Muhammad Ali Jr. arc, plus the revenge tokyo episode where we find out what happened with the death row convicts. It tells the story of Baki Hanma participating in the Raitai tournament in order to find a cure for his poison, along the way he fights strong foes and gets stronger, same goes for his friends. This season is ultimately better than the first one, but it has a lot of major flaws like how Netflix Baki has started this trend where all the fights are like 2-6 six minutes max, i miss the og baki series where fights mattered more and were longer. Next up how Baki recovered from the poison, mans recovered throu…
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[SPOILER WARNING]
Baki was one of the first animes that I watched, but I soon dropped it. After giving it another try after watching Baki the Grappler, I very much enjoyed it. Unfortunately, almost all of the things I enjoyed about the first season are no longer present in the second. In hindsight, I wish i kept Baki dropped, or at least stopped after the first season. I will state my major problems with the second season, which is where the spoiler warning will come into play.
First: The Raitai Tourney
This tournament was set up to be spectacular, but did not live up to it (to me). Firstly, the major problem coming into this season was Baki being poisoned. Him being cured right away dispels any notion that he was really in danger. Secondly, most of the fights aren't very unique, and are…
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Honestly It baffles me how many people thought this was a good season. I already had a bunch of things that I dislike regarding the first season, but honestly this one is just plain worse in every step of the way.
Not going about too many spoilers, first there's this tournament, that gets all hyped up and delivers basically nothing. Just the main characters fighting a bunch of random "kaioh masters" that get defeated very anti-climatic. Then there are the episodes regarding Mohamed Junior that seems to be getting to a point, and barely makes a point at all. When we finally get to the fight in question, it lasts 3 seconds. And the end is just pathetic.
This entire season doesn't have a SINGLE well-built climatic exciting fight. They ALL are simply boring, yet they want to be more than wha…
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After the release of the first season I had high hopes for this adaption of Baki, however, while it is a great adaption- its a far cry from the first season. I have 3 key points to pick at.
First off the fights, the art was crisp and direct exactly like the manga, I wasn't at all disappointed, but the commentary- the commentary was disgusting, I hope they know that most anime watchers aren't blind, I don't need a screeching voice drowning out the action and screaming "Ryujin this" "Ryujin that" every damn second. The narrator was as good as always
Secondly the pacing, while the pacing seemed fine at first they seemed to have shortened the fights out quite a bit but its overall fine.
Finally the characters, we finally see development in Baki and not side characters! The character of Moha…
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Now that was absurd.
Finally after 2 years Baki made a return in the form of an anime. Luckily it continues straight from where we left but there is a small recap in the first episode. TMS went all out on this since there is no PS2 grade cgi but since the character models are complex the animation is not the greatest thing on planet Earth.
Story: The story is about the Great Raitai Tournament which is a tournament held every century or something like that. In said tournament 10 Sea Kings fight for the title or Sea Emperor. Sea Kings are just very amazing martial artists. In this tournament 3 outsiders also competed and they are Baki Hanma, Yuijiro Hanma and Mohammed Ali Jr. Later on it evolved into a 5v5 between the Chinese martial arts and outsiders consisting of Yujiro Hanma, Biscuit O…
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Allow me to just say a couple of things before I get started:
1) the original Baki from 2001 is still the best;
2) Netflix continues to stain Baki's legacy and the sequel is actually worse than last season.
Animation:
1) incredibly inconsistent and CGI usage is cringy. The characters' bodies change in the middle of fighting (ex: Yujiro's devil back muscles disappear and reappear at will; Baki's body proportions; etc.)
2) it's 2020. It's about time we see movement in fights rather than random lazer beams. Hajimo no Ippo is also an old school anime with a rough art style and managed to update its visuals while maintaining its visual style.
3) Chest without nipples, regardless of gender, will always look weird
Sound:
1) I hated the OP but enjoyed the ED
2) the soundtrack is pretty g…
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There's some good things about this anime but there's also some very glaring flaws. If you enjoy fantasy/adventure with a fighting atmospere I say go for it but if you're expecting epic fight scenes and satisfying character growth and depth you're much better off watching something else (I'd suggest Kenichi at least).
It definitely has it's enjoyable parts mostly at building up to fights between a protagonist and antagonist along with some great brief explanations of techniques being used and the feats accomplished by the opponents. The animation creates a tense atmosphere and has some fairly interesting damage taken by characters. If you don't know much about martial arts or the limits of the human body then you might not even notice the bad parts I'm about to mention next. In that case…
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Baki 2nd season i believe is a step in the right direction in terms of the animation for the series,i quite honestly believe that if it continues to improve from season to season that it might get up there with one punch man,but as it is,it leaves a foul taste,sometimes when the characters are supposed to be walking or moving,the whole thing is so poorly done that it looks like they are walking in place.
Art style
Is in my opinion very good,i love the harsh black outline that depict's the harsh reality the characters are in and have to live in,but on the other hand it sometimes looks janky,but if we can keep this style and improve the animation in the season to come,it would be quite amazing,as it is now,its really good,but because we have this good art style,the animation quality suffer…
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Baki is back reminding everyone that it is the absolute, unrefuted, number one KING of mindless fighting in anime. Fight scenes galore (although some of them were kind of short) and completely ridiculous feats of strength, speed, and skill. If you liked Baki 2018 you’re going to like Baki 2020.
Tl;dr Baki 2020 is a continuation of the Baki 2018, so much so you’d seriously wonder why there was a 2-year gap between the two seasons. It's so similar in fact it's so much alike that most of the parts of this review is ripped straight out of my last one. --Minor spoilers below--
Story 5 Arguably its weakest point
In all honesty, I feel like I should give this a lower score, there’s honestly not much in terms of story AT ALL. But I also feel like it doesn’t really matter since the show doesn’t…
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Spoiler Free
NETFLIX GOOD JOB !!! i watched the original BAkI years ago and after years of waiting i lost hope in a second season long ago. The fights are awesome , for an action anime this is a must watch
Story
Different from the usual action anime in a good way . Many plot twists and suspense.
art
Netflix did a good job in animating but not the best at least they did not try any CGI this season. Character
the growth of characters are outstanding . Even minor characters have incredible growth.
WARNING!!!!!!
It ends in a cliff hanger. watch at your own risk
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