Audience reviews
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JJMFREAP
"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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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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[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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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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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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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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Baki the grappler: Overall Rating 9/10
Have you ever dreamed about becoming the world's strongest?
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be defeated by someone a hell of alot stronger than you?
Have you ever trained your hardest, but you could never win against your father? That's what Baki the grappler is all about.
It starts off with the main character Hanma Baki a fearless 13 year old delinquent who is hot headed and isn't afraid to pick fights with anyone, just to test his fighting skills. Baki would charge his way through the crowded street gang of a 100 young punks but in baki's eye's he only see's 4 people all together, ready to fight he charges.
Secretly Baki was being watched by his mother's employee, to see how he was progressing. Baki goes back to the gym and his hot he…
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First of all, the bad stuff. The art is not easy on the eyes and quite inconsistent. For instance, Baki looks like a completely different person once he ages. Storyline is pretty much non-existent and very generic of fighting animes (fight - train - fight again - train - win ultimate final fight).
It's not a challenging anime to watch at all. Nothing unique about the way its done. Pretty much the same as stuff like Tenjou Tenge. But having said that, the entertainment value is enormous. It's very gratifying to be fed action scene after action scene. Fights were well choreographed and exciting to watch (even though you knew in the end who would eventually win).
Very much worth watching because its a no-nonsense blast for fighting anime fans. If you've never watched a fighting anime befo…
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What's great is all the characters have a back story and even though they want a piece of Baki, they are portrayed in ways where you can sympathize with all them including Baki and I feel you can sympathize with Yujiro to some extent. They are people that are portrayed with reasons of what they do. And what’s also good about this anime is that it’s very fast pace. You can watch like 4 episode and you feel like maybe 15 to 20 minutes have passed by. But what I really didn’t like is in the last 45% of the season with the time skip, some of the characters like the cop that was watching Baki and Emi’s assistant who also watched over him are now written out and I thought they had very significant roles.
With the art, I really like the character design a lot. Especially…
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The synopsis of "Grappler Baki" couldn't be more boring and unoriginal; a teenager seeks to become the most powerful fighter in the world.
However, the execution of this hackneyed concept is what's extraordinary.
For starters, there are hardly any monologues or emotional flashbacks, and absolutely no cute, "funny" scenes of the main character being hit by a girl. Instead, each episode is filled with brutal, highly entertaining fights, most of them featuring the hero, Baki, getting the absolute piss beaten out of him.
Getting multiple bones shattered, having one's ankle exploded, one's eye nerves severed, being thrown out of a window on the third floor, swallowing glass, having one's mouth torn apart by a giant beast-ape, being hung execution-style by a rope, or having one's bloody, unco…
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There are a lot of things to consider when grading this anime as it has some strong points but a lot of flaws, so let's get started.
The story is about a 13 years old boy named Baki who wants to get as stronger as he can be for one purpose: to defeat his father. The story is at weak as it sounds as there's nothing else to support it. In theory there's another reason for this as well, as Baki wants to get stronger to be admired by his mother to finally be loved by her (she loves strong people.......). There's nothing else to say about the story as that is all there is to it.
The art is not that bad (given that this is from 2001) and shows what needs to be shown. The details of the body of each fighter are spectacular as it show muscles that I didn't even know they were there. The backgrou…
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at first i saw the anime art and thought... heck no... but i had a go anyway and never regreted it. Yes the art is not so cute but its roughness backs up the tough story of a son trying to win the love of his mum and to an extent his dad... though fighting. The most interesting part to this anime is the fight match ups where you would have judo against boxing or street brawling against chinese kenpo for example and the best part, there are no rules. Plenty of blood and plenty of unique action where each fighter has their own techiques. Story is unpredictable and very intriguing... once i started i couldnt stop, a must for for fighting anime lovers such as Dragon ball Z, naurto (minus the whole energy ball things... a lot more real)
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This is an anime everybody should see. The story may not be as deep as keshin or love hina but still this is a good anime. If you ever want to see a cool anime give this one a try. It may seem like a bad anime at first but it is sort of like the anime berserker. You will defintely want to see more. An anime with figting scenes all the and a nice story line. What more can you ask for. Yeah!!!
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