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"

One common thing unites writers, artists, producers, and directors alike. NONE of them have even SEEN a teenager

Fun fact: The mangaka of Grappler Baki has a daughter. Her name is Paru Itagaki She is the author of BEASTARS.

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

Baki can be summarized into "Everyone is Gangsta until they piss off Yujiro".

“His special ability is that he is really good at apologizing” I have scarcely heard anything more Japanese

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Watching Baki will make your testosterone levels go up

The doctors are freaking wizards in Baki. Even DBZ senzu beans have nothing on them. Wow,Jack is like Captain America from hell

Happy to announce that there is NO CGI in Baki’s newest season

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

Drew Carrey: Welcome to Grappler Baki, the show where the teeth grow back and the wounds don't matter.

Baki fell off a cliff to become stronger? Heihachi Mishima would have been proud

And then his daughter made the biggest furry manifesto ever published

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.

Ah, grappler Baki, or as I like to call it, " Ippo's Bizarre Adventure."

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.

Baki is literally what got me serious about working out, because the sincerity of the ridiculous shit these "totally normal" men do

"this is an anime without any fantasy elements." "Now sit down and hear the story of evil Captain America".

Yujiro is like If in pretimeskip Naruto Madara just walked around randomly trolling whenever he felt like it.

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.

“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

OH HELL YEA GIVING MAH BOY BAKI SOME LOVE!!! Mad Respect mah man!!💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥

Super Eyepatch Wolf: "Nothing supernatural..." Me: Miyamoto Musashi

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

Loved the Netflix version, but the CG moments made me feel like I was being robbed of potentially amazing fights

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

Baki has incredible detailed art even for the most minute event. You gotta respect that.

My mom watched this anime and she turned into my dad.

For real though, who was strong enough to survive a night with Yujiro and subsequently birth his child?

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.

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

Finally someone giving baki the respect it deserved

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

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

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

>"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.

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.

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

Because of this video I read the whole manga... Completely worth it

"The most deadly death row inmates arc"how does that not sound so cool.

I mean his daughter is also the Creator of Beastars so that's neat. Weirdness runs in the family

I remember reading an issue of Grappler Baki back in the day and noticing the amazing gesture artwork in the fight scenes.

Okey, after the first seconds of the video, I am sold. I will come back in a few hours after some reading.

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.

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 !

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.

"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."

Eyepatch Wolf always chooses the best anime with bizarre moments.

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

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, Baki's image training with a praying mantis is actually one of his biggest points of character growth. Yeah.

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.

The most absurd thing in Grappler Baki is that second op from the original anime.

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.

Seeing Dorian just pukes up a grenade is just funny af.

Someone: I don't wanna watch Baki, look at its art- Me: **sends them this video**

I agree as absurd as Baki is you can feel the love that made it. The same way you can listen to a song and feel the emotion in the song versus a quality but produced song made to make money. Its like a sixth sense we have its the ability to feel and recognize the emotion that was put into a piece of art. The burning passion and emotion almost seems to come of as an energy from its creator/creators into the artwork like an enchantment that flows into whoever experiences that piece of art. And energy we cant see or feel but an energy we can connect with emotionally.

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.

Awaken My Masters...

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)

As a fight choreographer i am falling i love with this manga as I am reading it. Thanks for the recommendation

Wow this was a pleasure watching!! Amazing effort and quality!! It also reminded me to once again level up my training!

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

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

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

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

Jojo's weirdness+Hajime No ippo's fights+badass story=Grapplers Baki

the way the characters look in the manga are like those custom characters made in the game ark survival evolved

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!

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.

baki's bizarre adventure

It's not "off-putting"... It's manime. And I LOVE it👌

0:14 Most based line of the baki manga EVER: "I hanma baki.. Have just pissed in my pants."

Is it just me, or does Baki have the best art out of any manga ever. Say what you want about the style, but the art is objectively phenomenal.

Hell yeah, another interesting thing I had no idea about

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

My man just summarized the Father and Son fight in the most out of context way possible to man lmao.

Great work man !! :D

Everyone compared this to JoJo in comments but Kengan Asura is just basically more serious Baki.

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.

Thanks for this video. I've been curios about the series for a while.

I’m more interested in checking out more of this content. That was an excellent breakdown.

16:24 '...On a consistent basis.' (Immediate cut to Berserk.) Only HunterxHunter would have been more ironic.

I love Baki to death and beyond, and it's nice seeing you mention it. Altough, I feel there's so much more to Baki that makes it worthwhile as a piece of art than you've mentioned. I'm not sure how much of it Itagaki is aware of, but among Baki's madness there's this sense of thematic continuity. It repeatedly reinforces the notion of purity and how combat should be approached with utmost dedication. It criticizes the complacent state of modern combat sports and portrays athletes who've grown greedy or distanced from the nature of combat as being weak and impure. It even criticizes the convicts to an extent, for using combat merely as a means to attain a sense of finality and by doing so, clouding its very purpose. It draws parallels between combat and human connections, with Yujiro mentioning in his fight against Kaku how he views techniques as circus tricks, or mere distractions. Its notion of purity branches off into so many directions (far, far more than the ones I just mentioned), to the point it's not only applicable to combat, but art in general. And that's only the foundation of Baki, Son Of Ogre takes it several steps further by exploring the nature of freedom (Oliva's freedom being shown as artificial as it comes from his powerful position. He doesn't act the way he wants to like Baki, he acts the way it's expected of someone in his position to act. He's chained within his position as Unchained, in a sense. That's actually seen in his relationship with Maria, whom he loves because he sees in her everything he lacks and wishes he could be himself: a person living of his volition, without a care for the opinions of others) and the way modern society's obssession with mannerisms and etiquette has made us weaker as a species. And while it's true that the characters don't develop much (with the exception of Baki whose development I consider to be among the finest in the medium), Itagaki understands their essence perfectly, and exposes their ideologies or draws parallels between characters to highlight certain features, which often feed into the series' study of purity (just think about the differences between Musashi's and Motobe's approaches to combat, and how Motobe is the only person in the series to have had a definitive win against Musashi.) Very beautiful stuff, and I consider the word beautiful to be very fitting for this series. Not only does it embody the features that every art piece should strive to achieve, but it can be such a visceral experience at times (Baki telling Hanayama that he wants to kill himself because his mother doesn't love him and the two of them drinking sake until sunrise, Baki carrying his mother on his back and having a peaceful conversation only to realize that he is carrying his mother's corpse, or him breaking into tears when Yujiro offers to pat his head for the first time; I cried on several occasions while reading Baki and that's something not many series have done for me).

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

damn, you dont know how many times i've watched this video, i just...love it, i cant get enough of it

This happens.................. Pukes up grenade........ YUP

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

Very nicely explained & descriptive! I enjoyed this very much! Thank you for sharing!

I wish more people like SEPW would bring up the art of Baki. I mean just look at the image at 8:04, where the proper use of black and white in the right spots makes it extremely clear where the bend in Baki's lifted leg is even though the knee is on the opposite side. Yujiro's back muscles peaking also feel like they're further back because of this same use of shading. There's plenty of current day manga that just don't have that