Audience reviews
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- Overall reviews -
5/10 | Baki the Grappler
6/10 | Baki the Grappler: Saidai Tournament-hen
8/10 | Baki: The Great Raitai Tournament Saga
7/10 | Baki: Death Row Convicts
10/10 | Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre
I have watched every Baki arc and will update this list as I go since I do not like rating seasons individually.
- Summarized review -
Baki the Grappler had a strong arc, setting up his relationship and lore with his father, training to keep up with the ogre, it only felt like it wasn't at a point where the show knew what it wanted to be yet, not until the second tournament arc, where we get a true feel of the series and what it wanted to show and man was it a good ride, I didn't enjoy the death row convict arc as much as I did "Son of Ogre" but it was enjoyable, the fights were wacky, th…
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"If someone is born a male, at least once in his life he'll dream of becoming the strongest man alive."
This quintessential phrase of pure poignant basedness is the mantra by which Baki is made. This is a real man's show! This story will make you grow a second penis. The characters are MEN, the plot is MEN, the message is MEN. You've heard of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, well this is BIG MEN DOING MAN SHIT, a genre that is sadly dying as of late. But what can you expect, the based masculine male is the biggest threat to those hungry for power, that's why they're stuffing all the food and drinks with soy and estrogen to make men weak. But the innate male desire for strength of body, mind and spirit cannot be undermined and it will find a way, just like testosterone makes its way through t…
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Improved final third of the season fails to redeem an underwhelming story and characters that came before it.
With surface-level writing, an unlikable protagonist and unimpressive fight scenes, even the last few episodes which introduce some cool characters and potentially interesting storylines can’t make up for the extremely boring and unremarkable first 15 episodes that not only fail to develop the story and themes as anything more than the main character wishing to become the strongest person on the planet, But said character also behaves and treats everyone around him like an unlikable, rude brat with little redeeming qualities, and a couple of interesting supporting characters can’t salvage baki and his story. The finale also drops the ball on what little character development Baki…
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Notice: This review covers all three major arcs.
First arc
A typical shonen series is about hyperactive boys training endlessly in order to become the best in a specific field. Well guess what; this anime is also like that. It’s about a boy that wants to be the best fighter and to surpass his father, the strongest man in the world. The catch is, it’s way more focused on being brutal than telling a moral message about friendship or spicing things up with something other than fighting.
If you got tired of watching fighting shonen or sport series that are wasting a lot of time on not being about the action, Grappler Baki is where you go to, assuming you can tolerate bad animation and horrible openings. Seriously, if you want to get your blood pumping when you begin watching an episode of p…
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I were at a friend house and he told me "Theres a new anime in Netflix called "BAKI" let's watch it", so we did. I really really loved the 2018 version of Baki so I decided to start from the basics and watch the orignial 2001 "Grappler Baki" and oh god how dissapointed I was. I won't go over about the plot or about the story, i'm just gonna focus on the personality of the characters.
From episode 1 Baki has totally diffrent personallty from the 2018 version and not in a good way. The 13 years old Baki is a very robotic character with no personallty, every time he cries, every time he laughs, every time he's angry, nothing feels humanaic and real, no matter how much the serias will try bring the emotinal side from you, it just can't happen. If you want poeple to cry from scenes make sure…
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“There is always a stronger opponent” - is the non-ending loop that this series seems to be stuck in.
Let me preface this by saying that 13 years old Baki is the best version of himself yet. I don't know if that's an unpopular opinion or I'm just too much of a Shounen struck to know better, but it is what it is.
This show established itself as one of the most bizarre and weird Anime experiences I had the pleasure of enjoying, it's ridiculous and takes itself lightly, never too serious and desperate and that's what was the most fun. You'd think a show about martial arts would get stale and boring by the end of the first episode, after all, there is only so much you can do with throwing fists in the same direction only at different targets, but no, you're still missing out on the crack ver…
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Baki is an anime that is the definition of "the sum is greater than the parts." individually, it doesn't do anything outstanding. However, together, its just really entertaining.
Let's be real. This anime is just one long meme. It knows what it is, who are the people who'd watch it, and caters to them. The story, characters, situatiions are ridiculous and comical. You got one character that kills polar bears with his bear hands, and another who's alternate personality is a feared war hero. Not to mention, the main character and his friends are overpowered 13 year olds beating on grown men. You see where I am going with this?
At the time of this review, the art is a bit dated at this point as is the music. However, its not dated enough to stop anyone from enjoying the series if they were…
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I only saw the anime that is in 2D animation. It's good but it gives me straw to see it with 3D animation. He has good fights, we see the origin of baki and who he is later in the other animes the story develops more and you understand more who are the protagonists this is only the beginning of baki.
I recommend it up to there; its animation is quite regular but well inside everything it entertains you
In the anime we see the beginnings of baki to become the strongest man in the world. We also see how he relates to other people who will be important to him in the future of the seasons, the difunctional relationship he has with his family as the son of the ogre and how that affects him personally.
En español:
Solo me vi el anime que está en animación 2D. Esta bueno pero me da paja verlo con…
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In this Review you will find very few spoilers.
Review first in English and then in Portuguese (PT/BR).
Story (Score: 5) : Baki's story is not the best, it has several holes, many things poorly explained and I feel that there was a "hurry" when writing/publishing. Maybe if they had introduced fewer characters and enriched/explained a few more, it would be more interesting to watch and the story would be better and more complete.
Script (Score: 4): Baki's script is probably the worst part of the anime, extremely cliché and vague. Everything sounds repetitive and underdeveloped. With a great script the anime could be much better, since the characters are good and the "intention" of the anime is good too.
Characters (Score: 8): The baki characters are good. Baki, despite being more of t…
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Grappler Baki is indeed a must watch
Its a lot better than the Baki on netflix, which in itself is a good anime too but lacks depth and sometimes great fights.
Grappler Baki, brings great story to the table, and every character Baki, encounters has a back story, and most of them are defiantly interesting. What is also cool about this version is Baki start of as 13 year old, and than grows up as the season goes a long. You see how he has changed, and matured as well. What is also cool, is how he develops a friendship with the opponents he defeats as well.
The art, sound, and music, and this anime is really amazing too, and i loved the opening theme song, its just epic on another level, and makes you want to train haha.
Its an anime I believe anyone can get into, even if your not a f…
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In the final scene the boy now grown as a young man decided that his life was of going forward. Life had already beaten him (in an spectacular way) and the memory of his new friends and former rivals propel him to the future. In the road to eternity he makes a stop to meditate and reflect on what just happened, closing the best fighting anime of those years.
"I have come here to find myself"
He says.
Story: Simple but exciting: 9
Art: While the outrageous designs from the manga are watered down, it still leaves an impression: 8
Sound: The music has the incomparable flavor of 90's house and early electronic, pure vibes: 10
Characters: A vivid interpretation of human emotions: 8
Enjoyment: A rollercoaster of emotions that will inspire you to be better: 10
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[This season is the best by far]
⪻- Review | Comment and Reflection -⪼
Baki's scoop is very fresh. By fresh I mean that it is a first that brings something new to this industry with such repetitive and generic animes, and this is surprising, since Baki itself is very simple.
Baki's story is good, simple, and entertaining. As the scoop says, Baki is a 13-year-old who under the supervision of his mother grows stronger, learns different martial arts techniques and fights against different enemies. All this to surpass his father from him, considered the strongest being in the world and nicknamed the "Ogre".
Baki as such does not have a strong enough reason to defeat his father, that is what I find interesting, since he is being forced into something he does not want, but then the push woul…
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I swear to god this a comedy
If your expecting anything like the 2018 Baki Netflix Anime, then your going to be disappointed. Its majorly different, down to how Baki looks, the story and much more. The 2018 Baki Anime, was set halfway through the story, during the deadliest Criminals arc thing, where shit gets crazy, but these 24 episodes are subdued, even though their still crazy. Bakis more like a Shounen Protagonist here, he strives to become the strongest man in the world, to surpass his father Yujiro Hanma. He trains tirelessly, and gets down when he fails, but then breaks boundaries, much like Goku, or Makunouchi Ippo from Hajime no Ippo.
Story: 8/10 Like said before, its much more different from the 2018 Baki Anime. Starts off the story from the beginning, when Baki was not as bu…
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So I started watching Baki, which turned out to be season 3, so I paused it and decided I needed to go and watch season 1 and 2 as I heard it’s integral for the story going forwards.
Story 7/10 – Quite a generic martial arts/tekken style story but with a few twists that caught me off guard that I enjoyed.
Art 8/10 – It’s a shame this anime wasn’t a few years older as I reckon the fight scenes could’ve been of an unbelievable tier. For the time though, the art is pretty decent.
Sound 7/10 – Similar to the art, it was decent but there is room for improvement. Maybe I'm just being strict as I recently finished Bleach.
Character 6/10 – The characters were far too generic, I find myself comparing the characters to a show like One Punch Man, which had such diverse and unique characters, I’m…
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I'm watching these 2001 series anime in 2020 and i'm still amazed by the anime itself. I made a mistake. My mistake was to watch Baki 2018 from Netflix. That's how i found about the earlier series of Baki The Grappler so after i finished the first season of Baki 2018 i came into these series and i learnt a lot of the things i found for undone in the netflix anime. I like the entire idea of a kid from rich family who decides to live by himself. The first years of Baki are introduced to us really well. It is really original story. His dad as a main villain is great idea. You can see him being the strongest and Baki trying the achieve even more power than his father so he can actually beat him but at least in this first season this thing do not happen. Baki goes through a lot of lessons just…
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I just got done with the final episode and have moved onto the next season upon writing this. I prior to watching this was a huge Baki the Grappler fan regarding the manga. I very much enjoyed the manga, however the first season of Baki falls short for me. Some of the problems I have with the first season are as follows; the art is inconsistent and tends to look weird at times, the anime cut out very enjoyable parts of the manga, the anime was at a too fast of pass. The feeling really isn't there for me, and the manga was very emotional for me. The mangas story starts off differently and gets you into the characters and world much faster, giving you a better sense of the atmosphere. Orochi is in the beginning in the manga and its Orochi what else can I say :D. Finally, This adaptation is f…
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This anime is something.. Whether that's something good or bad will depend on your tastes. When this came out, I'm sure it looked amazing and I must admit I am a fan of that 'older' art style of anime. Everything art wise is very 'odd' or quirky for this show, the way Baki looks, the design of his father..
Yujiro Hanma, the villain of the series has a very striking design. His muscles are horrifyingly creepy looking, he's completely, totally despicable and... he vaguely resembles Akuma from Street Fighter.
Okay, I've yammered about the art and how it's both unique, yet dated.. The story is basically... meh. It's your typical kid fights to overcome odds thing but the action is always intense and full on badass throughout.
Character wise - there's very little depth to anyone other than 'I…
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The first season of Baki the Grappler focuses on the childhood life of our main hero, Baki Hanma, who is an energetic and a hard headed 13-year-old boy who loves to fight. Day and night he actively searches for any strong opponents from professional boxers, war veterans, monsters to gang leaders etc.
Baki 's reason for his hunger for fighting and to be strong is his father Yujirou. Yujirou is portrayed as the best fighter in the world, he is a scary and intimidating monster man who is almost something non-human because of his strength and brutality (he can frickin stop earthquakes with his fist). He is the main driving force for Baki to seek more strength and power. Baki's mother, Emi Akezawa, is a lady who is obsessed to Yujirou. She kinda loves Yujirou more than their own son and does ev…
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Story)
The series revolves around it being a complete action series. It manages to have a good plot of a boy trying to make his mother love him despite it not being reciprocated as a motivation but once the events of Emi Akazawa in the middle of the series the plot changes to a revenge story. Despite being simply action the majority of the time it does manage to do very well dramatically when it does. The best part of the series is the world building in the story by showing the fighting classes of the world which fall under the King Of Fighters character Yujiro Hanma.
Art)
The art is a big downfall of this series. It is fine at first glance but the low budget put into the series brings it down a few pegs. Character movements include in this at times as the movements are obviously just an…
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Although many have said similar ideas to what i am about to present to you, i believe it really is true with this anime.
What i love about this anime is how each character has its own background story, from the great Yasha Ape, Baki himself, to Yuri and Hanayama. All these characters make up the base of Baki the grappler. But lets not forget our favourite devil (Yujiro Hanma), yes you all hate him at first, but you actually end up actually liking him, the way he breaks up fights, his annoying weird voice and his devilishness :P
The story is about baki, a 13 year old kid, training martial arts since he was 3 years old, and having his father (yes that messed up psychotic bastard) as an idol or a goal for his life. But at 13 years old, he left his controlled training and started running hi…
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