A friend asked me to explain to them Baki in a single sentence, i said "Baki's what you watch to stop feeling like humans are weaklings after watching DBZ"
The simptoms of actually spotting one of those, in the wild, include severe deppression, nonsensical ramblings and addiction tô symbolism, as seen in the last case of that happening, 25 years ago, to the Brave Explorer Hideaki Anno
@@warrensellers1933 I mean they write for two different audiences the original baki was more realistic for me but then he just started getting into his flow and changed it up alot but tbh he still is a good writer and he has a creative mind plus alot of this absurd content is based on real concepts in martial arts but people write it off as bull shit he knows alot about martial arts and certain concepts from them
I like how early baki was like: use the enemy’s pressure points to win. And baki now is like: oh yeah, musashi is such a good swordsman that he can cut you with his mind
@@thisrandomdude_ I hope you read it. Miyamoto was hilarious. The way he viewed the modern world, and the fighters in particular, led to some very entertaining interactions.
More like “don’t watch because every 8 episodes they want to jerk off their favorite character with time wasting BS just to show you how “cool” and “strong” he is when in reality is has plot armor
Stumbled across Baki on Netflix with zero context, and the fact that it drops in the dead middle of the story despite clearly being a new show is sort of perfect. I was just uniformly dumbfounded, but def entertained
Honestly same, back when I first watched it on Netflix I never heard of baki before, I just looked at the cover and was like I'm in. The story was amazing and captivating.
SEW: “Itagaki was obsessed with Kenpo as a child” Itagaki: *makes Retsu Kaioh, the Chinese Kenpo master, the biggest chad in the series* Yep, checks out
Retsu was such a bad ass his arm when surgically attached to a karate practitioner was still busting out Chinese kenpo, the man died and still came back and busted a couple hundred years of knowledge out real quick to help out his boy katsumi, retsu whooped ass from beyond the grave, dude could kick gods ass with a quick HAYIIIIIIII
@@mikeshy6456 Retsu is such a badass that after he died, they gave him an isekai parody manga where he goes to a generic fantasy anime land and beats up monsters with his 4000 years of Chinese Martial Arts… No, I’m not kidding. That’s an actual spin-off. Retsu is the GOAT.
Early Baki: Being a Giant is hell on your knees. Supersonic Punches would break your limbs. Late Baki: IF YOU DONT PUNCH WITH SPEED OF LIGHT YOU ARE NOT EVEN TRYING.
Early Baki: My father is a nearly unthinking monster who dedicated his entire life to pure physical power and achieved it at the cost of any sense of humanity that could make him relate to anything that's not violence and just being near him is an incredibly exhausting mental task due to his unhinged sociopathic nature Late Baki: MY DAD IS THE FULFILLMENT OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PROPHECY THAT MASTERED MARTIAL MOVES IN A FEW DECADES WHAT AN ANCIENT CHINESE MASTER TOOK A CENTURY TO, IF YOU STAND NEAR HIM YOUR ENTIRE BODY WILL START TO CONVULSE RAPIDLY AND YOUR ANCIENT HUNTER INSTINCTS WILL AWAKEN TO TELL YOU TO RUN THE FUCK AWAY ALSO HE'S BESTIES WITH MUHAMMAD ALI
Baki now: 260kg giant sumo wrestlers are the pinnacle of human evolution and all the characters we've shown up until now have become weaker just to support this theory
RIGHT BRUH!!?!! Watched a few episodes n went next door n beat the hell out of my neighbor.... 95 y/o wheelchair bound bastard didn't stand a chance!!!! (This is just a joke dw)
especially the eye slants on many characters as anime nowadays completely goes over the average japanese genetic makeup with much lighter skin tones, hair colors, and much wider eye shapes than the traditional japanese (or most asians for that matter) genetic makeup. Baki definitely resembles traditional japanese paintings more than most anime today.
Baki pulled me out of some of the shittiest mindsets ive had in my life. Searching for love non stop being needy and anxious. Baki taught me that all the love i need can be found in the things im even mildly interested in. Let alone the things i love like workout martial arts and music. If one can just focus on improving himself in the primary things his being and character consist of, life can get so much more meaningful. It also taught me to deal with failures. Its rare to find such a messages in today's anime
In the Netflix show one of my favorite funny moments was when Baki's girlfriend was taken hostage by that Russian bad guy. And he said: "If you scream, I'll kill you and you mom. Do you believe me?". To which she replied: "I do believe you, but I also believe in someone else." And she tooka deep breath to shout Baki's name, so the Russian guy wanted to cover her mouth. Before he can, though, she managed to shout "BA" and Baki came flying through the window, kicking the guy right in the face, before she even finished his name. xD
@Mark Campione uhh what ??? I canceled my netflix account 2 months ago because I was running low on money. I'm assuming you mean the movie cuties btw? I really dont care about that lol I had already cancelled it by then.
You're more on the mark than you think. The secret tournament organized by an insanely rich and influential man, the demonic family lineage aspect that the Hanma and Mishima family shares, the wild characters, Feng Wei is just a clone, * ahem *, sorry, "inspired" by Retsu Kaio. Basically, Tekken is just Baki: The video game.
As a random guy that works out I am disgusted but amazed by the art in the show. I spent a period of time just looking at how accurate the muscles were in the body even though they were abnormally huge.
@@spoof2062 some bad looking CGI in the first season, however it's spliced together with 2D art. most of the fights are in 2D but randomly there will just be a shot of them posing as 3D models for a few seconds, maybe throwing a few kicks, before returning to 2D. it's weird. as i said tho most of it is still in 2D and while you're watching that you forget the CGI was ever there
@@malakarvonstroheim5372 The nerve cutting is actually one of the silliest things about the show for me. Even in an alternate reality where humans can heal from near-mortal wounds overnight and stop earthquakes by punching them, there's no reason why the nerves connecting your eye to your brain would need to pass along your neck.
@@spazmagoog i mean there's no need for the nerve for your voice box to run down into your chest loop round an artery and then head back up but it does. Human body is full of stuff with no reason behind it. Pretty sure the optic nerve things bs though
@@sorenduscai but unlike magically re-appearing at least Oda has them drink milk or eat meat before the teeth immediately grows back giving us =0 =D laughs and a shrug instead of a feeling of "uhmmm... wtf",... while both Manga's are amazing, this really shows why Echiro Oda has slowly seperated himself from the rest of the pack in legendary mangaka. That being said, i wouldnt consider my life complete without reading both
After a year of my friend trying to convice me to watch Baki, I finally started with the show "Grappler Baki". The intro of the very first episode started with this sentence: "If one is born a male, at least once in his life he will dream of becoming the strongest man alive." Some shows take ten or more episodes to captivate one. To me, this became one of my most favourite animes just from this first statement. If you love martial arts, you will definitely love this show.
i honestly really disliked that line. the unquestioned hyper masculinity of the show was something i had to try my best to ignore so i could stick around and enjoy the technical spectacle that is baki. the grotesque images of raw muscles is an aesthetic i can be fine with, but the extreme focus on "manhood" is a turn off. normal, non monstrous men watching beasts fight and commenting that they "wish i was a real man like them" etc. baki having to lose his virginity and "become a man" to elevate his fighting power. that's the gross part for me. the series is being completely carried by the technical aspect of the fights and the faithful descriptions of different fighting concepts and mechanics. the passion of it's author. if not for that i would have stopped watching the show as soon as i heard that line.
Now that Baki is finally receiving the attention that it deserves, the Raitai Tournament arc is finally getting animated. People will fall in love with the brutality and the showcase of strength that the fighters will perform. When Son of Ogre gets animated, that's when stuff really goes down.
I don’t know why anyone would want to criticize Itagaki’s art. Drawing manga is already difficult; drawing a nearly 3 decade-long series with figures made of raw muscle with a level of thought and detail that tricks you into believing that a human can actually look like this is nothing short of artistic brilliance. Truly the greatest battle manga I’ve ever read.
people criticize itegaki not because of art...its because of the way he potrays sexism and nationalism and other bizzare aspects which isn't everybody's thing...that's why still to this day...even with the help of netflix isn't increased it's popularity that much
And if that's not crazy enough, we have characters fighting, and being wounded by, imaginary thought-ups. That's Harry Potter level shit. If that doesn't do the trick then how about human beings stopping earthquakes and bending guns as if they were made of play-doh?
Yujiros own mother became a monk, being traumatized at her sons hunger for... Anything. Jack hanma's mother also went bald and crazy, since she was raped probably. Baki's mother became obsessed with training him so that Yujiro would return to her... So either that was really good sex or she really hated her ex husband, whom Yujiro killed befor bedding her... And subsequently killed her, after she tried to interfere Ina fight between baki and him (because baki wasn't strong enough yet, killing her was 'motivarion')
@@torbenfranke1859 the irony is once Baki chilled out a bit, be became stronger, which Yujiro hates because it reminds him of his dad who was a chill gigachad
“What I love about comics is they are the only form of visual story telling that can be feasibly produced by a single creator on a consistent basis.” *shows a panel of Berserk
Baki goes against, like, EVERYTHING i look for in an anime. Yet I still loved it. It was so insane in a unique way, and you’re right, it IS incredibly silly yet very sincere about it. Watching Baki made me feel like I was a kid, playing with my action figures again, and that’s a feeling unique to this show.
Nope, Yujiro has completely different feel than Madara. You see Yujiro in Baki and u know he is total beast, u feel it, u hear it, u see it. Madara is badass, but it aint same, he lacks in what he invokes in you against Yujiro.
@@Orthuzz An overpowered badass that makes the greatest fighters in the current generation shit themselves when his name is mentioned sounds right for both of them, the only real differences are their motivations and the lengths they'll goto (madara is a saint compared to yujiro)
I like both characters. Madara has gone insane because of his war trauma and side effects of sharingan, and he had an incredible level of power and skill. The way that he undid the edo tensei binding was such an "ooohhh shiiit" moment. The only other character in Naruto that appeals to me as much is Itachi: his extreme sacrifice, imperfections, and his mastery of the ninja art is such a nice combination. His susanoo with sword of totsuka and yata mirror just sounds more legendary than Madara's more powerful susanoo.
I love Baki because as ridiculous as EVERYTHING that happens in the series is, they present the characters as humans who just take martial arts SUPER seriously it’s so ridiculous it’s beautiful
I feel like I love baki for a similar reason that I love jojo's. The series is just so wild and over the top, but the mangakas dont care, and just do what they want, making it enjoyable since you just go with whatever they do
When you take a step back, it's no more "ridiculous" than the recent marvel movies. We are just so used to a boy dressed like a spider fighting along side a wizard and a guy in a robot suit that we are willing to suspend our disbelief, which is what a good story can do.
To be fair though, Baki has pulled some rather insane shit. How's about the fact that they had a literal cave man, who fought actual dinosaurs, as a challenger or the current arc were they resurrected a legend just so they could have more people to fight. I don't know, Baki gets pretty wild, still fun though.
The Modern Martial Artist ...Nah, Baki is still weirder because there is technically ZERO supernatural explanation for the really crazy things that happen in the story.
variety is the spice of life. Some fiction still is consistent with it's own universe's set logic. but sometimes utter ridiculousness can be fun. kind of like american dad and family guy as a equivalency
Doesn't he one-up the praying mantis scene with a triceratops later? Man, it just keeps getting more and more insane, they revive a legendary swordsman from the past, thaw out a caveman, have an arc where it turns out Sumo wrestling is actually the strongest martial art all along, it's just that no one had the balls to face them so they pretended Sumo was weak. This manga/anime is awesome.
I found a lot to enjoy in Baki, but it also irritated me a bit too. Particularly the having-one's-cake-and-eating it attitude towards character injury. Characters are brutally injured regularly and it never ever sticks. People get their hands severed, their faces blown off, their rib cages systematically destroyed, and then those injuries are improbably reversed or healed a few chapters later if not just ignored a few scenes later. And because of this, Itagaki seems to feel the need to always one up himself in terms of the brutality of these injuries, so you know that THIS time, it's for real! ...But it never is. The story has gradually devalued the drama of characters receiving these horrific injuries and I've stopped falling for it when the manga tries to tell me "No really! The bad guy is properly down for the count this time, look! Read all this exposition explaining how Retsu irreversibly crippled him three different ways!". Nope. Very next scene I bet he'll be in hospital and a couple bandages on his knees will put him back to peak physical fitness.
What I love about Baki is that there is no silly excuse why the characters fight as they do in DBZ for example which will just summon one shallow villain after the other. In Baki the characters are obsessed with fighting, its their only purpouse. Also the way its drawn is oddly refreshing. No skinny pretty boys, just flesh, muscle, bone and raw force collapsing onto each other
The best part of Baki to me is how Baki wins most if not all of his fights mentality first. He rarely over powers anyone and just makes them play into his games
In Baki part 2 he has 3 major fights and 3 shots all of them and then in Baki part 3 he fucks over the entire Arizona State black pentagon including oliva. Really the maximum tournament and pickle were his only true challenges after he's 17-18
7:04 quick correction: the sternomastoid (or more correctly, the sternocleidomastoid muscles) is the muscle of the neck that connects the head to the upper chest bone, it’s not the upper trap muscle
"Damn Grappler Baki get's crazy" - me after reading it. Future Me: "Grappler Baki? That one's pretty tame honestly. Wait till we start unfreezing and reincarnating people."
Baki is perfect binge material. I entered in expecting a more serious story, but what I got was just fights...a lot of them. Even though I couldn't get myself invested in a lot of the characters, I kept on watching just because the fighting is completely batshit crazy. That said, there's still that bit of realistic inspiration for many of the fighting moves. If I had started the series without expecting a serious story, I think it would've been an even better experience.
mu mu That's not quite how that works, insects truly are proportionally far stronger than just about any other animals, and while they're minuscule size compared to us does contribute to this, the main factor actually comes from that fact that insects have exoskeletons rather than internal ones, leaving much more space in their bodies for their muscles, increasing the amount of power they can pack into smaller frames. And the only reason insects don't get any bigger than their current tiny sizes is due to the much lower levels of oxygen in our atmosphere compared to 300 million+ years ago.
@mu mu cheetahs are not small animals and they are really fast, what about them? The beetle, called Onthophagus taurus, was found to be able to pull a whopping 1,141 times its own body weight, no other animal would be able to do that. And even humans, who are way bigger, way stronger, way faster will struggle a lot when trying to lift even 1 or 2 times their own body weight. The force of gravity itself isnt "lower" in smaller animals btw. Gravity exterts itself equally unless an object is as big as say, our planet. Only if youre THAT big will you be able to change the way gravity "operates"
Hey wait. Jack's motivation is to take down Yojiro. He doesn't care about taking down Baki. You got the wrong in the video. Jack is pissed at Yojiro for what was done to his mother.
>"There's no supernatural things in Grappler Baki" >Thawed-Out Cavemen, People turning to Liquid, People turning hairs into needles by blowing them at people. Seems Legit.
''Busterdrag those things aren’t supernatural except for the liquid thing, which was only in Baki’s imagination '' You forget that the caveman kills Tyranosaurus Rexs ? Or that Musashi Miyamoto was brought form the dead ? Or that there is a guy with 1xx years capable of fighting a guy who breaks through concrete like it was pape mache ?
At first I hated the art style, I thought it was so ugly, but I gave an opportunity to the manga, and then I understand how it makes sense, it blends perfectly with this world, the fights are bizarre and so good, the art style adds more to the moment. honestly, the style is still... weird, but I got to appreciate it and now love it.
The manga compared to the anime it not even a comparison the manga wins 100 percent that is due to the fact that in the manga there more detailing on the character will in the anime they have to cut cost so it isn't going to be as amazing though they been doing a great job either way I love the new baki duo arc with the new samaria miyamoto which he took that into context from history
@@slyose6154 it a muscular art style what you would expect the manga art is better than anime if you meant the anime one. If you came to an anime based on magic what art style you getting oddly some magic style
after being recommended to this manga this video was finally my final push towards reading it, saw the video a couple months ago, just finished reading the whole series, what an amazing piece of art it was, and an amazing story too!! thanks man, i really love your videos
He didn't talk about "Dress", the strongest move in Grappler Baki, where Baki's grandfather grabs a person by their leg and uses them as nunchucks so fast it looks like he's wearing a dress (look it up)
The manga is ridiculously good, with how fluid and well drawn the fights are, you don't really need a anime. So anime only peeps should check it out. Of course the first arcs are a little old-school style but once you get the prisoner arc everything turns amazing. Also you'll be missing some context if you start by watching netflix baki (it's season 3 actually), feel free to still watch it, you'll probably rewatch it anyways once you read/watch the first arcs.
IMO you should just start with the manga or Netflix anime and re-read the manga. Then if you start with the manga finish it then watch the OVAs and anime
@@planatano_ I’m super late to this comment section but I highly disagree, the early manga for English users freaking sucks super hard. It’s very VERY mistranslated from a douchebag who barely knows Kanji and does it all for money. The first anime is a great and faithful adaptation. Not to mention the beginning of the manga starts in the middle of the story and then backtracks, it’s very confusing lol.
I love specifically your analysis of his style in this video. I absolutely adore the art in this series and seeing other appreciate it really speaks to the artist in me.
also the gorn, the horrible gorn. Like dudes punching so hard their limbs explode from the impact... they I could be mixing up moments from "Tough". There's a lot of overlap with those two manga.
why he not choose Baki before? Only anime came out and he makes video about baki and this piss me off. This manga is 27 years old and nobody even talks about it.
@@codinhandrau5332 I recommend from the beginning -Baki The Grappler -Baki: New Grappler Baki - Baki Son Of Ogre - Baki-Dou / Baki-Dou (2018) In my opinion that is the best order, I wouldn't skip the first one like he said in the video, even if you've already watched the netflix anime
So happy I found this video. I only first heard of Baki through the Netflix anime and I fell in love with it. I love long form, researched videos like these. Thank you.
Your passion and analysis is something so amazing that I think the world should care about it. I hope to see you gain so many more subscribers that 1 million feels like 1000.
I think the absurd anatomy is something that anybody will appreciate if they read the manga. While the art quality of the earlier parts is not nearly as good as it currently is, it is also quite a good deal more realistic and more tame. Over time it gradually morphs into what it is today, allowing readers to gradually get used to the absurd anatomy that is characteristic of this franchise. Over time it is hard to resist falling in love with the art style, through his art Itagaki shows a level of passion and care for detail that is unparalleled. The art is one of the serie’s greatest strengths.
5:37 - 5:49 Literally me to most of your videos lol. The way you narrate the video just makes it sounds so interesting and believable, so much so that I ended up watching all of the videos in your channel
this video's fantastic but im honestly disappointed at the lack of discussion about yujiro hanma and just how big of an impact he leaves on the series and his role as an antagonist in general
I watched your video about baki long long ago, it was the seed that made me into the training maniac that i am today, i was a lazy fat timid, i knew baki since 2014, but you and the anime man were the ones that made me curious about it 1 year ago i think, thank you. Edit: i watched the whole thing from the start, and yeah i continued watching after that opening of the season 2
I started reading the manga when i was in middle school, some second-hand shop sold them at very low price and here i entered the madness of this amazing manga. I was very fond of fighting mangas at the time, and I was shocked because I never read anything like this before, but i was so hooked. I'm grateful for that discovery and i'm glad someone shares it with the world. Read baki folks !
It's comparable to *Jojo* (especially due to the exagerated muscular of characters) but with a distinct difference in their ridiculousness; At least to me. Jojo's feels like the bizarness is an active choice (it's in the name even) and written with that intent. The whole memeness of it is more self aware and part of the storytelling. The character names, the posing, stand powers, the overt supernatural elements, etc. It all seem purposeful, like Araki goes out of his way to make things outlandish; which is part of why it's unique and great. Baki feels more like the weirdness is a byproduct of telling a story about the limits of fighting mixed with the Itagaki's unique personality. Less intent on purposely making the story crazy vs the escalation of events and character strength leading to the absurd. I see this mostly from his use of more "supernatural" like exagerations of seemingly realistic abilities and situations vs straight up shonen powers. Someone being so strong and conditioned they can take a bullet to the knee cap and still stand up vs a magical ability to withstand bullets. Best analogy I can think of is Araki actively sprays a room with a soda spritzer while Itagaki shakes a bunch of soda cans and they happen to explode and cover the room. And I love them both partly for the absurdness I obviously could be wrong, just my interpretation
Not exactly, since the "Bizarre" in the title is more meant to mean "whimsical" or "fantastical" than outright weird. And while Araki does indeed go out of his way to make things crazy and goofy, it has also several moments where it's legitimately grounded, and at times poignant. Araki also makes extensive use of including and referencing scientific tidbits and historical facts in order to explain the strategies his characters come up with during fights, or to further explain the "rules" of the encounter in question. Itagaki definitely does exactly what you describe, what with a good portion of the manga celebrating and casting light on martial arts techniques, styles, and the simple act of conditioning oneself to fight and succeed.
@Alexander Supertramp The point is that they aren't as distinct as OP would think. Also, I mentioned extensive, and I'm willing to bet that Araki makes more usage of trivia and scientific precedents in his work than Itagaki does, especially since Itagaki often usually puts his facts under the purview of martial arts or combat styles, whereas Araki ranges from explanations on turgor to an entire explanation on the Ganges river, and even to quoting astronomer Fred Hoyle.
Excelente analysis! Yes I agree with this. JoJo is more pure fantasy whereas Baki is fantasized reality. Almost like the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. It's grounded in "realism" but of course it's all just imposible or at least fantasy. It's almost a self contradiction but that's also what makes it fascinating and fun. It's analogous to how he draws muscle. He takes reality (good anatomy) and exaggerates it to fit the story.
He was frozen in ice and thawed out. Its not unheard off for even people to survive being frozen for a period of time. Obviously hundreds of millions of years is a bit much, but the author does at least try to frame it as something scientific. Miyamoto Musashi being brought back to life was just straight up supernatural BS though. There really was no real explanation of the psychic putting his soul in the cloned body (the cloning of which is in and off itself highly suspect).
I thought Yetis were by definition supernatural. I think what he meant was no beam weapons or spirit bombs; the fights themselves are not really supernatural... though some make me doubt that even.
I mean, there are various people with superpowers in Baki the consistently use them. If you've read the Scarface manga, the little midget guy can click his fingers and create an illusion, or there's Yanagi's vacuum inside his hand, or Baki's straight up imagination constructs.
I like the part when Baki's dad Yujiro was sneaking up on him just before he was about to have sex, and straight up tells him to have sex everyday, and anytime :)
One of my favorite moments in Baki is in Baki son of ogre where Baki mentions how powerful a praying mantis really is because a lion could defeat a animal four to 3 times it’s weight but praying mantis could beat animals 6 to 7 times stronger
This got me into Baki a couple years back great vid! Now excited about Pickle Arc and eagerly awaiting Baki vs Yujiro, what a time to be alive. Can't wait to get that can of juice.
@@imXSUPERXVEGITO It does, but it also takes inspiration from a lot of real life fighters as well. It also shows a lot more restraint with what its characters are able to do.
Keiji Sawamatsu nah. Kengan atleast had some natural joke-y humor in it (ie Ohma being swarmed by girls)while Baki's humor relies on the absurdity of it's world (ie Retsu running on water lmao)
@@hotsizler305 >"Demon Forms" >More grounded Pick one At least in Netflix Baki, when they take a bullet in the jaw, it gets nasty af, even for a muscle mountain (but the grenade explosion survivor is a bit over the top)
this series is a series thats a part of the that section of anime/manga that jojos a part of . realistic , nasty, silly, absurd situation filled , full of action , and extreme exaggeration . the same part of anime/manga thats is truly unforgiving to its characters through extreme violence . its wild.
@@nue7361 Have u forgotten the rat stand, in part 4 that makes human bodies have cancer or something (making them grow excess flesh). Jotaro and Josuke fought against that rat
I really like this quote. "What I love about comics is that they're the only form of visual storytelling that can feasibly be produced by a single creator on a consistant basis, and so these stories you get from them can feel a lot more individualistic and personal than a bigger production potentially could. Particularly with manga, where a creator is tied to do one series and characters. I think something special happens when a person puts their unique obsessions and experiences into creating a world story. That's the feeling I get when I read Grapple Pocky. For all it's absurd, outlandish and straight-up insane ideas, there's a level of sincerity to it that I think could only come from a singular vision, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that people should care about.
I completely disagree on starting with the Netflix sequel. Either read the manga or watch the old anime. Experiencing the whole story from Baki's more humble beginnings, and just how it keeps getting crazier and crazier as it goes is a ride! At first you don't believe for one iota of a second that Baki could EVER even come close to fighting on the same level as his dad, but as the series goes on, you get to see just how much of a genius he can be. You see this little runt grow, change, improve, culminating on an absolute spectacle of a fight in Baki Hanma part 2. It's worth it.
Great video! I've read most of Baki and watched it all, so I may be biased in saying, that my only disagreement is that people should watch or read the maximum tournament arc, if not read a summary. I say this because I've recommended Baki to a few people and they were really confused about the plot and characters, and that the Maximum Tournament arc clarified things for them.
A friend asked me to explain to them Baki in a single sentence, i said "Baki's what you watch to stop feeling like humans are weaklings after watching DBZ"
Lol basically
The accuracy in this is immeasurable
i always say its JoJo but not gay
Nice man..LOL
@@deinemam7115 not gay? after seeing baki is exactly the opposite (not to mention the fights of naked guys kicking the balls)
One common thing unites writers, artists, producers, and directors alike.
NONE of them have even SEEN a teenager
“teens have muscles, right?”
A good example of this is Jotaro Kujo, he’s 17 and looks like he’s in his freaking 30s
@@thebaconguy1661 compare that to jotaro in his 40s (Part 6)
The simptoms of actually spotting one of those, in the wild, include severe deppression, nonsensical ramblings and addiction tô symbolism, as seen in the last case of that happening, 25 years ago, to the Brave Explorer Hideaki Anno
Are you realising they used to be teens, right ?
Fun fact: The mangaka of Grappler Baki has a daughter.
Her name is Paru Itagaki
She is the author of BEASTARS.
The father's obsession with POWER and the daughter's obsession with society's problems
@OutBre4k It would be funny that characters of Baki were put into beastars as Easter eggs
Holy fuck! About to look this up.
*That's pretty dope, talent is in the genes!
He should be happy. His daughter has surpassed his abilities as a mangaka.
@@warrensellers1933 I mean they write for two different audiences the original baki was more realistic for me but then he just started getting into his flow and changed it up alot but tbh he still is a good writer and he has a creative mind plus alot of this absurd content is based on real concepts in martial arts but people write it off as bull shit he knows alot about martial arts and certain concepts from them
I like how early baki was like: use the enemy’s pressure points to win. And baki now is like: oh yeah, musashi is such a good swordsman that he can cut you with his mind
hahahahahahaha wHAT
no seriously w h a t
@@thisrandomdude_ yeah, in Baki Dou they straight up resurrect Miyamoto Musashi who died over 300 years ago
@@ejlowell0329 bruh I _have_ to read this manga
@@thisrandomdude_ I hope you read it.
Miyamoto was hilarious.
The way he viewed the modern world, and the fighters in particular, led to some very entertaining interactions.
Baki can be summarized into "Everyone is Gangsta until they piss off Yujiro".
Exactly lmao
More like “don’t watch because every 8 episodes they want to jerk off their favorite character with time wasting BS just to show you how “cool” and “strong” he is when in reality is has plot armor
Tafari Nicholas that’s disappointing to hear. If someone confirms this I’ll stop watching. Know any like Baki?
Juako Queca thank you but I already watched it all the way through. The new season too. I like it.
@@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn You're strangely a contradicting person.
“His special ability is that he is really good at apologizing” I have scarcely heard anything more Japanese
british and canadians: we apologize for the slightest inconvenience imaginable to humans
itagaki: hold my manga
reminds me of melting classroom honestly
I spy with my little eye - a Japan Hater
@@Kncperseus Why would that mean he hates Japan?
Haven't you Heard? I'm Sakomoto
Stumbled across Baki on Netflix with zero context, and the fact that it drops in the dead middle of the story despite clearly being a new show is sort of perfect. I was just uniformly dumbfounded, but def entertained
i'm watching it because of this channel, it's pretty silly but pretty great, especially for someone who doesn't really watch Anime
I think they have an old anime
@@chickenslayer5165 you think? It's literally said in the video
Baki The Grappler
It made me wanna watch the original so I did, it's amazing and I'd recommend watching if you liked anything from Baki on Netflix.
Honestly same, back when I first watched it on Netflix I never heard of baki before, I just looked at the cover and was like I'm in. The story was amazing and captivating.
SEW: “Itagaki was obsessed with Kenpo as a child”
Itagaki: *makes Retsu Kaioh, the Chinese Kenpo master, the biggest chad in the series*
Yep, checks out
The culmination of 4000 years of Chinese kenpo love
definitely not the biggest chad
Retsu was such a bad ass his arm when surgically attached to a karate practitioner was still busting out Chinese kenpo, the man died and still came back and busted a couple hundred years of knowledge out real quick to help out his boy katsumi, retsu whooped ass from beyond the grave, dude could kick gods ass with a quick HAYIIIIIIII
@@mikeshy6456 Retsu is such a badass that after he died, they gave him an isekai parody manga where he goes to a generic fantasy anime land and beats up monsters with his 4000 years of Chinese Martial Arts… No, I’m not kidding. That’s an actual spin-off. Retsu is the GOAT.
@@mr.goblin6039 please give me the name of that work of art
Early Baki: Being a Giant is hell on your knees. Supersonic Punches would break your limbs.
Late Baki: IF YOU DONT PUNCH WITH SPEED OF LIGHT YOU ARE NOT EVEN TRYING.
Early Baki: My father is a nearly unthinking monster who dedicated his entire life to pure physical power and achieved it at the cost of any sense of humanity that could make him relate to anything that's not violence and just being near him is an incredibly exhausting mental task due to his unhinged sociopathic nature
Late Baki: MY DAD IS THE FULFILLMENT OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PROPHECY THAT MASTERED MARTIAL MOVES IN A FEW DECADES WHAT AN ANCIENT CHINESE MASTER TOOK A CENTURY TO, IF YOU STAND NEAR HIM YOUR ENTIRE BODY WILL START TO CONVULSE RAPIDLY AND YOUR ANCIENT HUNTER INSTINCTS WILL AWAKEN TO TELL YOU TO RUN THE FUCK AWAY ALSO HE'S BESTIES WITH MUHAMMAD ALI
Oh it's basically god of high school
*laughs in Katsumi*
That is why i don't like early Baki.
Baki now: 260kg giant sumo wrestlers are the pinnacle of human evolution and all the characters we've shown up until now have become weaker just to support this theory
Watching Baki will make your testosterone levels go up
If only bro
Reading Baki made me flag positive with USADA.
Pimp Extreme vat
And reading Golden Kamuy on top of that will cause testosterone poisoning.
RIGHT BRUH!!?!! Watched a few episodes n went next door n beat the hell out of my neighbor.... 95 y/o wheelchair bound bastard didn't stand a chance!!!! (This is just a joke dw)
The artstyle in Baki i've come to see has a striking similarity to ancient Japanese paintings. The figures have similar looks and facial expressions
because they are both japanese
especially the eye slants on many characters as anime nowadays completely goes over the average japanese genetic makeup with much lighter skin tones, hair colors, and much wider eye shapes than the traditional japanese (or most asians for that matter) genetic makeup. Baki definitely resembles traditional japanese paintings more than most anime today.
Except for the perspective
but its over exaggerated to the Extreme
Baki pulled me out of some of the shittiest mindsets ive had in my life. Searching for love non stop being needy and anxious. Baki taught me that all the love i need can be found in the things im even mildly interested in. Let alone the things i love like workout martial arts and music. If one can just focus on improving himself in the primary things his being and character consist of, life can get so much more meaningful. It also taught me to deal with failures. Its rare to find such a messages in today's anime
hell yeah man thats awesome
In the Netflix show one of my favorite funny moments was when Baki's girlfriend was taken hostage by that Russian bad guy. And he said: "If you scream, I'll kill you and you mom. Do you believe me?". To which she replied: "I do believe you, but I also believe in someone else." And she tooka deep breath to shout Baki's name, so the Russian guy wanted to cover her mouth. Before he can, though, she managed to shout "BA" and Baki came flying through the window, kicking the guy right in the face, before she even finished his name. xD
🤣🤣🤣 That was literally the last episode I watched and I was thinking of that moment before seeing your comment WTF hahah
Damn. Now I wish a finished baki before canceling my netflix acc
If the video didn't convince me to watch the show this definitely would
@Mark Campione uhh what ??? I canceled my netflix account 2 months ago because I was running low on money. I'm assuming you mean the movie cuties btw? I really dont care about that lol I had already cancelled it by then.
@Mark Campione wait why r u calling him a dumbass over netflix?
Baki fell off a cliff to become stronger?
Heihachi Mishima would have been proud
yeah he threw his son off one lol
You're more on the mark than you think.
The secret tournament organized by an insanely rich and influential man, the demonic family lineage aspect that the Hanma and Mishima family shares, the wild characters, Feng Wei is just a clone, * ahem *, sorry, "inspired" by Retsu Kaio.
Basically, Tekken is just Baki: The video game.
@@EionBlue don't forget the Abusive fathers
Miraj I’ve never thought of that comparison before, and it’s both sad and freaking hilarious!
@@Next-xm2dh If you played Tekken 7 Heihachi isn't all that bad lol
As a random guy that works out I am disgusted but amazed by the art in the show. I spent a period of time just looking at how accurate the muscles were in the body even though they were abnormally huge.
Honestly, they look like surgical diagrams drawn by a caricature artist, it’s amazing.
Yea at first I didn’t fw with it…just take time to get use too
Fools with tools
FYI, the art is way better in the manga.
Art is exageration of real life
- Leonardo Dicaprio
Happy to announce that there is NO CGI in Baki’s newest season
I think the cgi aint too bad
How about when yujiro broke Kaku kaioh's Jaw
What about this season?
@@tempest8342 exactly
@@spoof2062 some bad looking CGI in the first season, however it's spliced together with 2D art. most of the fights are in 2D but randomly there will just be a shot of them posing as 3D models for a few seconds, maybe throwing a few kicks, before returning to 2D. it's weird.
as i said tho most of it is still in 2D and while you're watching that you forget the CGI was ever there
The doctors are freaking wizards in Baki. Even DBZ senzu beans have nothing on them.
Wow,Jack is like Captain America from hell
Just a JACKed boy
Seriously lmao. "Oh what's that? Broken every bone in his body? Missing a hand? We'll have him up in a week"
Reminds me of that time when Baki got a nerve cut that blinded his right eye and the doctor was like "I'm gonna glue and it's gonna be ok
@@malakarvonstroheim5372 The nerve cutting is actually one of the silliest things about the show for me. Even in an alternate reality where humans can heal from near-mortal wounds overnight and stop earthquakes by punching them, there's no reason why the nerves connecting your eye to your brain would need to pass along your neck.
@@spazmagoog i mean there's no need for the nerve for your voice box to run down into your chest loop round an artery and then head back up but it does. Human body is full of stuff with no reason behind it. Pretty sure the optic nerve things bs though
Drew Carrey: Welcome to Grappler Baki, the show where the teeth grow back and the wounds don't matter.
Mortal kombat?
One piece does it too lol
@@sorenduscai but unlike magically re-appearing at least Oda has them drink milk or eat meat before the teeth immediately grows back giving us =0 =D laughs and a shrug instead of a feeling of "uhmmm... wtf",... while both Manga's are amazing, this really shows why Echiro Oda has slowly seperated himself from the rest of the pack in legendary mangaka. That being said, i wouldnt consider my life complete without reading both
So it's an anime/manga?
Teeth don't grow back, the fighters just have fake teeth implants.
After a year of my friend trying to convice me to watch Baki, I finally started with the show "Grappler Baki".
The intro of the very first episode started with this sentence:
"If one is born a male, at least once in his life he will dream of becoming the strongest man alive."
Some shows take ten or more episodes to captivate one. To me, this became one of my most favourite animes just from this first statement. If you love martial arts, you will definitely love this show.
Where’d you watch it? I’m still trying to find it
@@Alibaba-le2ku gogoanime would be one source.
netflix
Same , intro alone had me hooked
i honestly really disliked that line. the unquestioned hyper masculinity of the show was something i had to try my best to ignore so i could stick around and enjoy the technical spectacle that is baki. the grotesque images of raw muscles is an aesthetic i can be fine with, but the extreme focus on "manhood" is a turn off. normal, non monstrous men watching beasts fight and commenting that they "wish i was a real man like them" etc. baki having to lose his virginity and "become a man" to elevate his fighting power. that's the gross part for me.
the series is being completely carried by the technical aspect of the fights and the faithful descriptions of different fighting concepts and mechanics. the passion of it's author. if not for that i would have stopped watching the show as soon as i heard that line.
And then his daughter made the biggest furry manifesto ever published
Damn right she did.
Hell yeah
When I become god emperor of man kind, I will personally deal with every single fury
Have you guys even read the Manga?..
I mean, im no furry, but that shit is good
@@beansmcsquenz4444 Yeahi read it, that shit is good and your probably just in denial
Ah, grappler Baki, or as I like to call it, " Ippo's Bizarre Adventure."
Ippo's bizzare adventure? Oh interesting
Erocks 18 is that a mother fucking Jojo reference
That name is the most beautiful Duwang... *chew*
To the top you go
I loved Hajime no Ippo :(
Now that Baki is finally receiving the attention that it deserves, the Raitai Tournament arc is finally getting animated.
People will fall in love with the brutality and the showcase of strength that the fighters will perform. When Son of Ogre gets animated, that's when stuff really goes down.
Can you imagine the Pickle arc ?
I keep seeing u every where
I cant wait for kaku vs yujiro!
@Dwaler Mulders what's your meaning of gay??? cuz i don't see anything 'gay' in baki
Are you serious ?!!!!!
When they gonna air it ? :oooooo
I don’t know why anyone would want to criticize Itagaki’s art. Drawing manga is already difficult; drawing a nearly 3 decade-long series with figures made of raw muscle with a level of thought and detail that tricks you into believing that a human can actually look like this is nothing short of artistic brilliance. Truly the greatest battle manga I’ve ever read.
people criticize itegaki not because of art...its because of the way he potrays sexism and nationalism and other bizzare aspects which isn't everybody's thing...that's why still to this day...even with the help of netflix isn't increased it's popularity that much
Baki is literally what got me serious about working out, because the sincerity of the ridiculous shit these "totally normal" men do
what? no its not
"this is an anime without any fantasy elements." "Now sit down and hear the story of evil Captain America".
Would that count as fantasy?
@@He-who-wakes i think it sounded like it was all realistic, but pumped up. The "magic performance enhancing drug" thing is a bridge too far.
Superhero origins for one
Science fiction?
And if that's not crazy enough, we have characters fighting, and being wounded by, imaginary thought-ups. That's Harry Potter level shit.
If that doesn't do the trick then how about human beings stopping earthquakes and bending guns as if they were made of play-doh?
For real though, who was strong enough to survive a night with Yujiro and subsequently birth his child?
His mother,
Strongest woman alive.
@@Egghead012 Don't even get me started 😂
Yujiros own mother became a monk, being traumatized at her sons hunger for... Anything.
Jack hanma's mother also went bald and crazy, since she was raped probably.
Baki's mother became obsessed with training him so that Yujiro would return to her... So either that was really good sex or she really hated her ex husband, whom Yujiro killed befor bedding her... And subsequently killed her, after she tried to interfere Ina fight between baki and him (because baki wasn't strong enough yet, killing her was 'motivarion')
@@torbenfranke1859 the irony is once Baki chilled out a bit, be became stronger, which Yujiro hates because it reminds him of his dad who was a chill gigachad
@@Egghead012 alive
“What I love about comics is they are the only form of visual story telling that can be feasibly produced by a single creator on a consistent basis.”
*shows a panel of Berserk
pls explain. I'm not cvltvred
@@alexj7440 the creator of Berserk (rip) was infamous for taking massive hiatuses that span years
@@brandonolsen579 sounds like George R.R. Martin
@@alexj7440 16:25 of this video has a Berserk panel
@@alexj7440 Yes. Even Berserk and Game of Thrones are very similar ( specifically the golden age arc).
Baki goes against, like, EVERYTHING i look for in an anime.
Yet I still loved it. It was so insane in a unique way, and you’re right, it IS incredibly silly yet very sincere about it. Watching Baki made me feel like I was a kid, playing with my action figures again, and that’s a feeling unique to this show.
Yujiro is like If in pretimeskip Naruto Madara just walked around randomly trolling whenever he felt like it.
Nope, Yujiro has completely different feel than Madara. You see Yujiro in Baki and u know he is total beast, u feel it, u hear it, u see it. Madara is badass, but it aint same, he lacks in what he invokes in you against Yujiro.
@@Orthuzz An overpowered badass that makes the greatest fighters in the current generation shit themselves when his name is mentioned sounds right for both of them, the only real differences are their motivations and the lengths they'll goto (madara is a saint compared to yujiro)
Imagine yujiro in Naruto and knowing how to use chakra.
@@ragosauce8227 it would be like orochimaru on steroids and super intelligent
I like both characters. Madara has gone insane because of his war trauma and side effects of sharingan, and he had an incredible level of power and skill. The way that he undid the edo tensei binding was such an "ooohhh shiiit" moment. The only other character in Naruto that appeals to me as much is Itachi: his extreme sacrifice, imperfections, and his mastery of the ninja art is such a nice combination. His susanoo with sword of totsuka and yata mirror just sounds more legendary than Madara's more powerful susanoo.
he has a daughter who is the author of Beast stars. That's right the two greatest Manga authors of this generation are father and daughter
Grow up
@Amygdala 😒😒😒😒just enjoy both mangas. Theyve worked hard on them
OMG YOURE FUCKING WITH ME NO WAY
BY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT
I didn't I know that. Preciate it
I love Baki because as ridiculous as EVERYTHING that happens in the series is, they present the characters as humans who just take martial arts SUPER seriously it’s so ridiculous it’s beautiful
I feel like I love baki for a similar reason that I love jojo's.
The series is just so wild and over the top, but the mangakas dont care, and just do what they want, making it enjoyable since you just go with whatever they do
When you take a step back, it's no more "ridiculous" than the recent marvel movies. We are just so used to a boy dressed like a spider fighting along side a wizard and a guy in a robot suit that we are willing to suspend our disbelief, which is what a good story can do.
love your channel
Yeah but, the point in Baki's that it's not magic or sci-fi. Suspension of disbelief isn't relevant just cause a story has superpowers
To be fair though, Baki has pulled some rather insane shit. How's about the fact that they had a literal cave man, who fought actual dinosaurs, as a challenger or the current arc were they resurrected a legend just so they could have more people to fight. I don't know, Baki gets pretty wild, still fun though.
The Modern Martial Artist ...Nah, Baki is still weirder because there is technically ZERO supernatural explanation for the really crazy things that happen in the story.
variety is the spice of life. Some fiction still is consistent with it's own universe's set logic. but sometimes utter ridiculousness can be fun. kind of like american dad and family guy as a equivalency
OH HELL YEA GIVING MAH BOY BAKI SOME LOVE!!! Mad Respect mah man!!💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥
I knew he would be here. This show is crazy awesome
JaxBlade thank you for the would that work out work in real life it helped me a lot and now I am working out more
Stop this emoji cancer train.
When I saw the topic of this video I knew you would comment
Because of you i started reading baki 😁😁 and now this came up nice
Baki has incredible detailed art even for the most minute event. You gotta respect that.
Doesn't he one-up the praying mantis scene with a triceratops later? Man, it just keeps getting more and more insane, they revive a legendary swordsman from the past, thaw out a caveman, have an arc where it turns out Sumo wrestling is actually the strongest martial art all along, it's just that no one had the balls to face them so they pretended Sumo was weak. This manga/anime is awesome.
Loved the Netflix version, but the CG moments made me feel like I was being robbed of potentially amazing fights
That's cuz some scenes were incomplete.
@@seijin4426 that makes so much sense I felt the same way about thw weird graphics
I'm just glad the newest season didn't have any cgi
@@assassinkillerelite it was awesome
At least part 3 is all 2d
Super Eyepatch Wolf: "Nothing supernatural..."
Me: Miyamoto Musashi
Or a caveman existing at the time of T-Rex... But seriously, who cares?
Miyamoto Musashi was a real guy
@@snakemilthescienceeel2565 he was a real DEAD guy who they cloned a body of and then resurrected
SnakEmil the Science Eel they brought a spirit medium to revive him
Ya was thinking the same exact thing 😂
I found a lot to enjoy in Baki, but it also irritated me a bit too. Particularly the having-one's-cake-and-eating it attitude towards character injury. Characters are brutally injured regularly and it never ever sticks. People get their hands severed, their faces blown off, their rib cages systematically destroyed, and then those injuries are improbably reversed or healed a few chapters later if not just ignored a few scenes later. And because of this, Itagaki seems to feel the need to always one up himself in terms of the brutality of these injuries, so you know that THIS time, it's for real! ...But it never is. The story has gradually devalued the drama of characters receiving these horrific injuries and I've stopped falling for it when the manga tries to tell me "No really! The bad guy is properly down for the count this time, look! Read all this exposition explaining how Retsu irreversibly crippled him three different ways!".
Nope. Very next scene I bet he'll be in hospital and a couple bandages on his knees will put him back to peak physical fitness.
Its funny cus retsu's dead
My mom watched this anime and she turned into my dad.
Your parents have good taste
I'd like to think you wrote this to mean that, your mom turned into your dad after watching Baki.
She got the hormones dude just not activated untill baki
Underrated comment
@@nathanly2878 yeah that's what i meant, sorry english is not my native language. :)
What I love about Baki is that there is no silly excuse why the characters fight as they do in DBZ for example which will just summon one shallow villain after the other. In Baki the characters are obsessed with fighting, its their only purpouse. Also the way its drawn is oddly refreshing. No skinny pretty boys, just flesh, muscle, bone and raw force collapsing onto each other
The best part of Baki to me is how Baki wins most if not all of his fights mentality first. He rarely over powers anyone and just makes them play into his games
In Baki part 2 he has 3 major fights and 3 shots all of them and then in Baki part 3 he fucks over the entire Arizona State black pentagon including oliva. Really the maximum tournament and pickle were his only true challenges after he's 17-18
@@alstoyle bruh did you see how baki knockd out shunsei in the raitai in 2 seconds. He is now op enough to not need tactics
@@zizu1236 yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Really post raitai anyone not named "yujiro" or "pickle" is a one shot
@@alstoyle i wonder how it would be if doppo fought baki?
@@zizu1236 Baki would body him. A pre "man" and pre "kaiho" awakened Baki beat retsu in the maxim tournament and retsu beat orochi
7:04 quick correction: the sternomastoid (or more correctly, the sternocleidomastoid muscles) is the muscle of the neck that connects the head to the upper chest bone, it’s not the upper trap muscle
Baki got me back into martial arts , I'm learning muay thai and judo on my own seeing how those are both great for short statutes people
Are still learning???just for curiosity
"Damn Grappler Baki get's crazy" - me after reading it.
Future Me: "Grappler Baki? That one's pretty tame honestly. Wait till we start unfreezing and reincarnating people."
Lmao when oda nobugada or miyamoto musashi or wtv comes back from the past and uses a dude as a sword. Jfc.
I thought the fight with gaia was crazy,and then musashi f@#$ing myamoto just takes a sword and cuts through a swat team
I thought cutting cords so you're blind was crazy, and then we have a fucking miyamoto musashi get kissed so his soul gets back into the afterlife
"The most deadly death row inmates arc"how does that not sound so cool.
Still waiting for season 2 on netflix. I seen season 1 twice already.
Juan Ramirez you can watch season 2 online
@@juanramirez5898 It's out on Netflix now
@@Trxpamvs yessss finally.
Juan Ramirez I just started watching Baki today on Netflix 👊
Baki is perfect binge material. I entered in expecting a more serious story, but what I got was just fights...a lot of them. Even though I couldn't get myself invested in a lot of the characters, I kept on watching just because the fighting is completely batshit crazy. That said, there's still that bit of realistic inspiration for many of the fighting moves. If I had started the series without expecting a serious story, I think it would've been an even better experience.
Read this entire manga 8 years ago and never found a manga better with better illustrated to this day ..this is by far my favorite manga ever
Finally someone giving baki the respect it deserved
You should check out the Anime Hero, he covers a lot of Baki on his channel
@@dergoat3978 that anime is awesome
@@Takato-ym2dk yeah it is
Ikr
@@dergoat3978 damm glad to find another who likes the RUclips anime goat
Also, Baki's image training with a praying mantis is actually one of his biggest points of character growth. Yeah.
He was training for like a month straight and we didn’t see him for like 30 chapters, that shit was hype
I think that's basically the same part, when he realizes insects are fast cuz' their muscles are liquid
mu mu That's not quite how that works, insects truly are proportionally far stronger than just about any other animals, and while they're minuscule size compared to us does contribute to this, the main factor actually comes from that fact that insects have exoskeletons rather than internal ones, leaving much more space in their bodies for their muscles, increasing the amount of power they can pack into smaller frames. And the only reason insects don't get any bigger than their current tiny sizes is due to the much lower levels of oxygen in our atmosphere compared to 300 million+ years ago.
@mu mu he said proportionally
@mu mu cheetahs are not small animals and they are really fast, what about them? The beetle, called Onthophagus taurus, was found to be able to pull a whopping 1,141 times its own body weight, no other animal would be able to do that. And even humans, who are way bigger, way stronger, way faster will struggle a lot when trying to lift even 1 or 2 times their own body weight. The force of gravity itself isnt "lower" in smaller animals btw. Gravity exterts itself equally unless an object is as big as say, our planet. Only if youre THAT big will you be able to change the way gravity "operates"
I mean his daughter is also the Creator of Beastars so that's neat. Weirdness runs in the family
Hey wait. Jack's motivation is to take down Yojiro. He doesn't care about taking down Baki. You got the wrong in the video. Jack is pissed at Yojiro for what was done to his mother.
I think he doesn’t want to ruin the plot for everyone. Just like how he doesn’t say why Baki wants to beat Yujiro so badly.
@@jacobmcguire9174
That is because Yojiro killed his mother. Also he wants to be stronger than Yojrio because that is what his mother wanted.
@@LUCKO2022 Yujiro*****
@@LUCKO2022 That's what he said, he just want you to know that maybe he doesn't want to spoil it for others like you just did.
Dude,spooiiler!
>"There's no supernatural things in Grappler Baki"
>Thawed-Out Cavemen, People turning to Liquid, People turning hairs into needles by blowing them at people.
Seems Legit.
cala a boca mermão
Would say those are more preternatural
OF COURSE HAHAHAHA
''Busterdrag those things aren’t supernatural except for the liquid thing, which was only in Baki’s imagination
''
You forget that the caveman kills Tyranosaurus Rexs ?
Or that Musashi Miyamoto was brought form the dead ?
Or that there is a guy with 1xx years capable of fighting a guy who breaks through concrete like it was pape mache ?
Don't forget blowing someone's own intestines through their ears...somehow.
At first I hated the art style, I thought it was so ugly, but I gave an opportunity to the manga, and then I understand how it makes sense, it blends perfectly with this world, the fights are bizarre and so good, the art style adds more to the moment. honestly, the style is still... weird, but I got to appreciate it and now love it.
The manga compared to the anime it not even a comparison the manga wins 100 percent that is due to the fact that in the manga there more detailing on the character will in the anime they have to cut cost so it isn't going to be as amazing though they been doing a great job either way I love the new baki duo arc with the new samaria miyamoto which he took that into context from history
I find that hard, to me the art style is really ugly
@@slyose6154 it a muscular art style what you would expect the manga art is better than anime if you meant the anime one. If you came to an anime based on magic what art style you getting oddly some magic style
@@victorotero3157 people can have preferences
@@cry9297 bro I know that it an opinion I don't need someone to tell me that
I remember reading an issue of Grappler Baki back in the day and noticing the amazing gesture artwork in the fight scenes.
after being recommended to this manga this video was finally my final push towards reading it, saw the video a couple months ago, just finished reading the whole series, what an amazing piece of art it was, and an amazing story too!! thanks man, i really love your videos
He didn't talk about "Dress", the strongest move in Grappler Baki, where Baki's grandfather grabs a person by their leg and uses them as nunchucks so fast it looks like he's wearing a dress (look it up)
What the actual fuck, this series is really over the top.
Maybe i should Start reading it.
he defeats a US battleship with it.
@@DieHardjagged You should. Theres also another series called TOUGH thats crazy as well.
@@DieHardjagged yes you REALLY should
What even?
The manga is ridiculously good, with how fluid and well drawn the fights are, you don't really need a anime. So anime only peeps should check it out.
Of course the first arcs are a little old-school style but once you get the prisoner arc everything turns amazing.
Also you'll be missing some context if you start by watching netflix baki (it's season 3 actually), feel free to still watch it, you'll probably rewatch it anyways once you read/watch the first arcs.
IMO you should just start with the manga or Netflix anime and re-read the manga. Then if you start with the manga finish it then watch the OVAs and anime
@@planatano_ I’m super late to this comment section but I highly disagree, the early manga for English users freaking sucks super hard. It’s very VERY mistranslated from a douchebag who barely knows Kanji and does it all for money. The first anime is a great and faithful adaptation.
Not to mention the beginning of the manga starts in the middle of the story and then backtracks, it’s very confusing lol.
I love specifically your analysis of his style in this video. I absolutely adore the art in this series and seeing other appreciate it really speaks to the artist in me.
All of your videos are so beautiful. You know just the right things to say to explain the beauty of each series. You're amazing!
Eyepatch Wolf always chooses the best anime with bizarre moments.
also the gorn, the horrible gorn. Like dudes punching so hard their limbs explode from the impact... they I could be mixing up moments from "Tough". There's a lot of overlap with those two manga.
Sounds like Jojo
Ryan Carless first
B.B.
l,k, mmmmv def,ole,
DZV.lo Mll,
@@Flamelance_Accendo *JoJo's on Crack
why he not choose Baki before? Only anime came out and he makes video about baki and this piss me off. This manga is 27 years old and nobody even talks about it.
Because of this video I read the whole manga...
Completely worth it
Same here.
tips on order i should read it in ?
@@codinhandrau5332 I recommend from the beginning
-Baki The Grappler
-Baki: New Grappler Baki
- Baki Son Of Ogre
- Baki-Dou / Baki-Dou (2018)
In my opinion that is the best order, I wouldn't skip the first one like he said in the video, even if you've already watched the netflix anime
@@DLevii it is long? How much time took to read the whole manga? Sorry for my english
@PsychoDieter91 it is on mangarock
So happy I found this video. I only first heard of Baki through the Netflix anime and I fell in love with it. I love long form, researched videos like these. Thank you.
The most absurd thing in Grappler Baki is that second op from the original anime.
Okey, after the first seconds of the video, I am sold. I will come back in a few hours after some reading.
Ok tell me how it was
He still has more than 700 chapters to read
@@stayskeptic3923 I'm sure you would translate it faster than spinyback team like that
It's gonna take you a couple, couple hours.
Ik u already started u told me
The thing i love about baki is that. The main character is not OP af. and gets spanked by his father, until the day he gets to spanked him
When? I think he never beat his father
Incognito i think he means in the future when he surpasses his father
so most anime protagonists
In the manga
I don't know dude.Yanagi build up like a final boss of thr convict arc but his fight with baki kinda let down.
Wow this was a pleasure watching!! Amazing effort and quality!! It also reminded me to once again level up my training!
Your passion and analysis is something so amazing that I think the world should care about it. I hope to see you gain so many more subscribers that 1 million feels like 1000.
Someone: I don't wanna watch Baki, look at its art-
Me: **sends them this video**
The art is fine if you have ever read American or UK underground comics
Its funny because the art was what got my attention
Yup that's what we all thought before we watched JoJo as well
I think the absurd anatomy is something that anybody will appreciate if they read the manga. While the art quality of the earlier parts is not nearly as good as it currently is, it is also quite a good deal more realistic and more tame. Over time it gradually morphs into what it is today, allowing readers to gradually get used to the absurd anatomy that is characteristic of this franchise. Over time it is hard to resist falling in love with the art style, through his art Itagaki shows a level of passion and care for detail that is unparalleled. The art is one of the serie’s greatest strengths.
**sends them a link directed to this video**
Seeing Dorian just pukes up a grenade is just funny af.
Dorian is sexy as fuck. Change my view.
For a while, Dorian was my favorite of the five.
It's a shame that Spec got so little time.
@@Rebel37th he still is for me
UrProbablyGay 135 what are your thoughts on how his part ended by losing his mind?
5:37 - 5:49
Literally me to most of your videos lol. The way you narrate the video just makes it sounds so interesting and believable, so much so that I ended up watching all of the videos in your channel
Thanks for this video.
I've been curios about the series for a while.
this video's fantastic but im honestly disappointed at the lack of discussion about yujiro hanma and just how big of an impact he leaves on the series and his role as an antagonist in general
It's better to read about tho! I don't want to be spoiled on why Yujiro is the world's greatest fighter!
He isn't the greatest villain if we're being honest
the way the characters look in the manga are like those custom characters made in the game ark survival evolved
Ark.... just hearing that name gives me nam flashbacks
I watched your video about baki long long ago, it was the seed that made me into the training maniac that i am today, i was a lazy fat timid, i knew baki since 2014, but you and the anime man were the ones that made me curious about it 1 year ago i think, thank you.
Edit: i watched the whole thing from the start, and yeah i continued watching after that opening of the season 2
I started reading the manga when i was in middle school, some second-hand shop sold them at very low price and here i entered the madness of this amazing manga. I was very fond of fighting mangas at the time, and I was shocked because I never read anything like this before, but i was so hooked. I'm grateful for that discovery and i'm glad someone shares it with the world. Read baki folks !
where :(
It's comparable to *Jojo* (especially due to the exagerated muscular of characters) but with a distinct difference in their ridiculousness; At least to me.
Jojo's feels like the bizarness is an active choice (it's in the name even) and written with that intent. The whole memeness of it is more self aware and part of the storytelling.
The character names, the posing, stand powers, the overt supernatural elements, etc. It all seem purposeful, like Araki goes out of his way to make things outlandish; which is part of why it's unique and great.
Baki feels more like the weirdness is a byproduct of telling a story about the limits of fighting mixed with the Itagaki's unique personality. Less intent on purposely making the story crazy vs the escalation of events and character strength leading to the absurd.
I see this mostly from his use of more "supernatural" like exagerations of seemingly realistic abilities and situations vs straight up shonen powers. Someone being so strong and conditioned they can take a bullet to the knee cap and still stand up vs a magical ability to withstand bullets.
Best analogy I can think of is Araki actively sprays a room with a soda spritzer while Itagaki shakes a bunch of soda cans and they happen to explode and cover the room. And I love them both partly for the absurdness
I obviously could be wrong, just my interpretation
That's actually a nice analogy.
Holy shit that's a perfect explanation
Not exactly, since the "Bizarre" in the title is more meant to mean "whimsical" or "fantastical" than outright weird. And while Araki does indeed go out of his way to make things crazy and goofy, it has also several moments where it's legitimately grounded, and at times poignant. Araki also makes extensive use of including and referencing scientific tidbits and historical facts in order to explain the strategies his characters come up with during fights, or to further explain the "rules" of the encounter in question.
Itagaki definitely does exactly what you describe, what with a good portion of the manga celebrating and casting light on martial arts techniques, styles, and the simple act of conditioning oneself to fight and succeed.
@Alexander Supertramp The point is that they aren't as distinct as OP would think. Also, I mentioned extensive, and I'm willing to bet that Araki makes more usage of trivia and scientific precedents in his work than Itagaki does, especially since Itagaki often usually puts his facts under the purview of martial arts or combat styles, whereas Araki ranges from explanations on turgor to an entire explanation on the Ganges river, and even to quoting astronomer Fred Hoyle.
Excelente analysis! Yes I agree with this. JoJo is more pure fantasy whereas Baki is fantasized reality. Almost like the Christopher Nolan Batman movies. It's grounded in "realism" but of course it's all just imposible or at least fantasy. It's almost a self contradiction but that's also what makes it fascinating and fun.
It's analogous to how he draws muscle. He takes reality (good anatomy) and exaggerates it to fit the story.
Jojo's weirdness+Hajime No ippo's fights+badass story=Grapplers Baki
Tbh baki sound and looks weirder than jojo
Nah, Baki is His Own Beast
@@shawn-ju8ey true i only read to part 6
>tfw the fact you have 4 balls is a crucial plot component
Well, I'm sold.
I’m more interested in checking out more of this content. That was an excellent breakdown.
Bro me and my friend decided to read some baki stuff to one of our non anime watching friends. He asked us if we were high XD
5:23 the ancient soul of a samurai is brought back into his cloned body by an actual real psychic.....pretty sure there is SOME supernatural shit
I came here to say exactly this. Baki definitely has some supernatural elements.
What about Pickle?
(I mean, I don't think he himself is supernatural, but how did they bring him back?)
He was frozen in ice and thawed out. Its not unheard off for even people to survive being frozen for a period of time. Obviously hundreds of millions of years is a bit much, but the author does at least try to frame it as something scientific. Miyamoto Musashi being brought back to life was just straight up supernatural BS though. There really was no real explanation of the psychic putting his soul in the cloned body (the cloning of which is in and off itself highly suspect).
I thought Yetis were by definition supernatural.
I think what he meant was no beam weapons or spirit bombs; the fights themselves are not really supernatural... though some make me doubt that even.
I mean, there are various people with superpowers in Baki the consistently use them. If you've read the Scarface manga, the little midget guy can click his fingers and create an illusion, or there's Yanagi's vacuum inside his hand, or Baki's straight up imagination constructs.
I like the part when Baki's dad Yujiro was sneaking up on him just before he was about to have sex, and straight up tells him to have sex everyday, and anytime :)
You sound like you would do that to your son
@@marvelbladez993 only if I was the strongest human being ever, but I'm not :)
@@kraniumdranium1364 Lol
@@kraniumdranium1364 what to have a strong son but with baki I doubt that he too soft
How to be best dad
Very nicely explained & descriptive! I enjoyed this very much! Thank you for sharing!
One of my favorite moments in Baki is in Baki son of ogre where Baki mentions how powerful a praying mantis really is because a lion could defeat a animal four to 3 times it’s weight but praying mantis could beat animals 6 to 7 times stronger
16:24 '...On a consistent basis.' (Immediate cut to Berserk.) Only HunterxHunter would have been more ironic.
Hey another chapter of berserk supposedly comes out on the 28th of September
source ?
@@kylotl5690 last page of the latest chapter gives a September 28th continuation date
HxH is not a good anime let’s be real
Joshua Owie is that supposed to be funny kid
Awaken My Masters...
Mosin Nagant WAMMU
*vampiric aztec bodybuilding gods approve*
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This got me into Baki a couple years back great vid! Now excited about Pickle Arc and eagerly awaiting Baki vs Yujiro, what a time to be alive. Can't wait to get that can of juice.
damn, you dont know how many times i've watched this video, i just...love it, i cant get enough of it
Everyone compared this to JoJo in comments but Kengan Asura is just basically more serious Baki.
I feel like kengan asura takes inspiration from baki
@@imXSUPERXVEGITO It does, but it also takes inspiration from a lot of real life fighters as well. It also shows a lot more restraint with what its characters are able to do.
Keiji Sawamatsu nah. Kengan atleast had some natural joke-y humor in it (ie Ohma being swarmed by girls)while Baki's humor relies on the absurdity of it's world (ie Retsu running on water lmao)
Nah, kengan is much more grounded(imagine that lol)
@@hotsizler305 >"Demon Forms"
>More grounded
Pick one
At least in Netflix Baki, when they take a bullet in the jaw, it gets nasty af, even for a muscle mountain (but the grenade explosion survivor is a bit over the top)
this series is a series thats a part of the that section of anime/manga that jojos a part of .
realistic , nasty, silly, absurd situation filled , full of action , and extreme exaggeration . the same part of anime/manga thats is truly unforgiving to its characters through extreme violence . its wild.
Yeah it's called Manime lol
How is jojo nasty. Oh yeah notorious B.I.G and purple haze. Nevermind carry on
@@nue7361 Have u forgotten the rat stand, in part 4 that makes human bodies have cancer or something (making them grow excess flesh). Jotaro and Josuke fought against that rat
@@isagiyoichi5207 oh yeah ratt yeah i remeber now
@@isagiyoichi5207 it actually melts them
Really happy I found your channel. What a goldmine.
All in all.... great video like deadass everything I could want 💯 keep it up my guy
I really like this quote.
"What I love about comics is that they're the only form of visual storytelling that can feasibly be produced by a single creator on a consistant basis, and so these stories you get from them can feel a lot more individualistic and personal than a bigger production potentially could. Particularly with manga, where a creator is tied to do one series and characters. I think something special happens when a person puts their unique obsessions and experiences into creating a world story. That's the feeling I get when I read Grapple Pocky. For all it's absurd, outlandish and straight-up insane ideas, there's a level of sincerity to it that I think could only come from a singular vision, and I think that's really cool. I think that's something that people should care about.
Please please please read the manga. The entire fight between the imaginary mantis is the goofiest but genuinely the greatest fight youll ever see.
I completely disagree on starting with the Netflix sequel. Either read the manga or watch the old anime. Experiencing the whole story from Baki's more humble beginnings, and just how it keeps getting crazier and crazier as it goes is a ride! At first you don't believe for one iota of a second that Baki could EVER even come close to fighting on the same level as his dad, but as the series goes on, you get to see just how much of a genius he can be. You see this little runt grow, change, improve, culminating on an absolute spectacle of a fight in Baki Hanma part 2. It's worth it.
0:14 Most based line of the baki manga EVER: "I hanma baki.. Have just pissed in my pants."
baki's bizarre adventure
Fits like a glove
Endorphin Powaaaahh!!!
OH MY GOD! NANI?!?
Sounds about right
Most Masculine Animes:
Baki
Berserk
Fist of the North Star
Jojo’s Part 1-3
"consistent basis"
>image of Berserk
lol.
Great video! I've read most of Baki and watched it all, so I may be biased in saying,
that my only disagreement is that people should watch or read the maximum tournament arc, if not read a summary.
I say this because I've recommended Baki to a few people and they were really confused about the plot and characters,
and that the Maximum Tournament arc clarified things for them.
Thanks to this video, I have been enjoying Baki for a couple of years now and got into Kengan Ashura too. I appreciate that a lot.