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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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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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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It's very good. I liked the first season and let me tell you this one is like a better version.
Story could be better, the last episode kinda makes up for it.
There is a second half coming later in the year so this is only for the first half.
Animations are super nice and no more of those first season BS. Sound is great, all in all a enjoyable start of the season.
I'm kinda worried about them not giving us the finale in this season and doing it in the 3rd season.
TL;DR, So far exceeded my expectations lets hope for a great 2nd half.
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Completed Baki Part 3 11:10PM 5 Jun 2020 - Review contains minor spoilers
If we take Baki Part 3 (Season 2) at face value and compare it to its prequel, I think it was inferior in every aspect possible. In this recently released part, we mostly see through Mohammed Alai Jr, the son of the former legendary boxing champion Mohammed Alai which is one of the main reasons why this part didn't connect as well as the original story line did...
Story: 6/10
When fans are excited for a sequel of their favorite anime series, it becomes a make or break decision whether a sequel maintains the hype from its prequel or fails to meet a shred of that hype. I was extremely excited for the sequel of Baki, I binged it for my own personal satisfaction but I did notice a few details in the plot that aren't a…
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The team that made baki 2018 really learn from there mistakes from the convicts arc and showed it in this season of baki, the art, animation and sound is 100x better than it was in the first season with no cgi at all and an amazing op, Ed and and ost with even more songs than before, this season was amazing with the amount of improvment from the last season, but let me actually tell you what I think of each arc
Raitai tournament arc: 8.5/10
This arc is easily one of my favourite arcs in all of baki, i won't deny the fact that some of the kaioh's that were hyped up so much and then proceed to get battered was very annoying, the level of detail and animation made me enjoy it a lot more than i did reading the manga, and when there was a good fight, the fight was always top tier, and kaku vs…
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So this will include a spoiler or two so there is that. The last season left us off with Baki going to this tournament to help him recover his fighting spirit. And we continue with the tournament starting and finishing after around 7 episodes.
(Small Spoiler so small it doesn’t matter) when its Baki’s turn to fight he fights against Mr. poison hand man, Baki negates the poison and somehow this helps him in the long run.
This is great an all. An by all means if you like hearing about fighting instead of seeing it then this season/show is definitely for you. During the final fight between Yujiro and Kako in the tournament it was about 7 to 5 minutes of fighting And 30 minutes of explanations of fighting, techniques and classic “this guy is not as strong as he looks.
Muhammad Ali Jr. was in…
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Baki new season just dropped and like always its a wild journey
Story
Baki takes place right after season 1 with baki going to china to enter the Raitai tournament to cure the poisoned. It's differently one hell of a way to end and start a season but with over the top fights and characters it's such a fun bloody journey.
Art
They really went all out on this season no butt ugly cg and each impact of the fights looked painful it's a fun to watch.
Sound
The sound in this anime is great as I said in my art part the fights look painful but also sound painful with some exciting music it just makes for a awesome watch.
Ps the opening in this season is by far the best op for baki so far.
Character
The characters in baki are usually all baddasses with a few things to tell them apart with bak…
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