The Insanity of Grappler Baki and Why You Should Care

[@nobodyimportant4778]

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

[@logandunlap9156]

“teens have muscles, right?”

[@thebaconguy1661]

A good example of this is Jotaro Kujo, he’s 17 and looks like he’s in his freaking 30s

[@PeaShooterAutoHunter]

@@thebaconguy1661 compare that to jotaro in his 40s (Part 6)

[@anarcopablo]

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

[@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen]

Are you realising they used to be teens, right ?

[@realwolfingen8896]

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.

[@GyaruRespecter]

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

[@anemosupremacy9386]

Oh it's basically god of high school

[@Testosterooster]

*laughs in Katsumi*

[@KiraCain]

That is why i don't like early Baki.

[@LucaGas]

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

[@macromondo8026]

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"

[@resurrectedpa]

Lol basically

[@nyetnyetcykablyat9483]

The accuracy in this is immeasurable

[@deinemam7115]

i always say its JoJo but not gay

[@thechad3239]

Nice man..LOL

[@Algorithm_God_Cult]

@@deinemam7115 not gay? after seeing baki is exactly the opposite (not to mention the fights of naked guys kicking the balls)

[@ejlowell0329]

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_]

hahahahahahaha wHAT

[@thisrandomdude_]

no seriously w h a t

[@ejlowell0329]

@@thisrandomdude_ yeah, in Baki Dou they straight up resurrect Miyamoto Musashi who died over 300 years ago

[@thisrandomdude_]

@@ejlowell0329 bruh I _have_ to read this manga

[@scout360pyroz]

@@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.

[@juakored]

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

[@imature0117]

Exactly lmao

[@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn]

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

[@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn]

Tafari Nicholas that’s disappointing to hear. If someone confirms this I’ll stop watching. Know any like Baki?

[@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn]

Juako Queca thank you but I already watched it all the way through. The new season too. I like it.

[@uenoyamakamishiro7646]

@@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn You're strangely a contradicting person.

[@p0rt3r]

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

[@hasamc6943]

🤣🤣🤣 That was literally the last episode I watched and I was thinking of that moment before seeing your comment WTF hahah

[@kambuchanan9876]

Damn. Now I wish a finished baki before canceling my netflix acc

[@alias4795]

If the video didn't convince me to watch the show this definitely would

[@kambuchanan9876]

@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.

[@zakiahmed6655]

@Mark Campione wait why r u calling him a dumbass over netflix?

[@duckfilms3662]

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

[@hasturthekinginyellow5003]

The father's obsession with POWER and the daughter's obsession with society's problems

[@hasturthekinginyellow5003]

@OutBre4k It would be funny that characters of Baki were put into beastars as Easter eggs

[@Clos93]

Holy fuck! About to look this up. *That's pretty dope, talent is in the genes!

[@warrensellers1933]

He should be happy. His daughter has surpassed his abilities as a mangaka.

[@goddoda412]

@@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

[@Capin91]

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

[@RileyDia]

i'm watching it because of this channel, it's pretty silly but pretty great, especially for someone who doesn't really watch Anime

[@chickenslayer5165]

I think they have an old anime

[@raeB_D_ahC]

​@@chickenslayer5165 you think? It's literally said in the video Baki The Grappler

[@TCGAnimeGuru]

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.

[@kiarasha1106]

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.

[@KeggleStomp_Pogrompa]

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

[@apuapustaja1]

british and canadians: we apologize for the slightest inconvenience imaginable to humans itagaki: hold my manga

[@DriedJizzSock]

reminds me of melting classroom honestly

[@Kncperseus]

I spy with my little eye - a Japan Hater

[@immapenny2355]

@@Kncperseus Why would that mean he hates Japan?

[@SeveralGhost]

Haven't you Heard? I'm Sakomoto

[@ijustworkhere1008]

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

[@cjec21]

The culmination of 4000 years of Chinese kenpo love

[@burritodog3634]

definitely not the biggest chad

[@mikeshy6456]

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

[@mr.goblin6039]

@@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.

[@requiem6465]

@@mr.goblin6039 please give me the name of that work of art

[@savage7882]

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

[@burritodog3634]

because they are both japanese

[@stinkydoober]

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.

[@philip2205]

Except for the perspective

[@sridrawings4510]

but its over exaggerated to the Extreme

[@urmomseffect]

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

[@ari_wastaken]

I think the cgi aint too bad

[@verycoaljohn4890]

How about when yujiro broke Kaku kaioh's Jaw

[@spoof2062]

What about this season?

[@Picmanreborn]

@@ari_wastaken exactly

[@sadpee7710]

@@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

[@sparklyhyena7339]

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

[@handler8838]

Just a JACKed boy

[@Mikito456]

Seriously lmao. "Oh what's that? Broken every bone in his body? Missing a hand? We'll have him up in a week"

[@malakarvonstroheim5372]

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

[@spazmagoog]

@@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.

[@benhayfield6182]

@@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

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

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.

[@Testosterooster]

Can you imagine the Pickle arc ?

[@kapkanyy8585]

I keep seeing u every where

[@BlastCODM]

I cant wait for kaku vs yujiro!

[@euro__]

@Dwaler Mulders what's your meaning of gay??? cuz i don't see anything 'gay' in baki

[@beck02ify]

Are you serious ?!!!!! When they gonna air it ? :oooooo

[@BarackObamah]

Watching Baki will make your testosterone levels go up

[@aryaankhan3725]

If only bro

[@AdobadoFantastico]

Reading Baki made me flag positive with USADA.

[@aryaankhan3725]

Pimp Extreme vat

[@doggerlander]

And reading Golden Kamuy on top of that will cause testosterone poisoning.

[@chopslap5497]

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)

[@Mixajlo]

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

[@awman2964]

hell yeah man thats awesome

[@yeahah3617]

And how to piss on other people too, don't forget that!

[@idkhahahaha]

Sigma anime

[@poego6045]

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

[@exitioregem8466]

Mortal kombat?

[@soarinduscai]

One piece does it too lol

[@Goo762]

@@soarinduscai 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

[@MrSGZone]

So it's an anime/manga?

[@thenew4559]

Teeth don't grow back, the fighters just have fake teeth implants.

[@sulffojus1227]

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.

[@ivandimitrov7743]

Honestly, they look like surgical diagrams drawn by a caricature artist, it’s amazing.

[@dadriancarter1778]

Yea at first I didn’t fw with it…just take time to get use too

[@praveenp1369]

Fools with tools

[@dilbophagginz]

FYI, the art is way better in the manga.

[@memesfromdeepspace1075]

Art is exageration of real life - Leonardo Dicaprio

[@ivandimitrov7994]

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

[@He-who-wakes]

Would that count as fantasy?

[@CNNBlackmailSupport]

@@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.

[@ivandimitrov7994]

Superhero origins for one

[@killzone866]

Science fiction?

[@jonathanthompson592]

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?

[@mahdimatika2936]

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.

[@Alibaba-le2ku]

Where’d you watch it? I’m still trying to find it

[@mahdimatika2936]

@@Alibaba-le2ku gogoanime would be one source.

[@kotominekirei2887]

netflix

[@myassinelguirati8878]

Same , intro alone had me hooked

[@sadpee7710]

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.

[@miraj6272]

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

[@gvapanese]

yeah he threw his son off one lol

[@EionBlue]

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.

[@Next-xm2dh]

@@EionBlue don't forget the Abusive fathers

[@kiko485]

Miraj I’ve never thought of that comparison before, and it’s both sad and freaking hilarious!

[@SolidSnake240]

@@Next-xm2dh If you played Tekken 7 Heihachi isn't all that bad lol

[@detekOP]

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

[@r2dezki]

Or a caveman existing at the time of T-Rex... But seriously, who cares?

[@snakemilthescienceeel2565]

Miyamoto Musashi was a real guy

[@rafaeltiburcio6624]

@@snakemilthescienceeel2565 he was a real DEAD guy who they cloned a body of and then resurrected

[@saragos1216]

SnakEmil the Science Eel they brought a spirit medium to revive him

[@Carnige32]

Ya was thinking the same exact thing 😂

[@acurlyboi2944]

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

[@Intenxsify]

Ippo's bizzare adventure? Oh interesting

[@genjiiswithyu447]

Erocks 18 is that a mother fucking Jojo reference

[@kimashitawa8113]

That name is the most beautiful Duwang... *chew*

[@ElusivEnigma]

To the top you go

[@adoptdontshop3911]

I loved Hajime no Ippo :(

[@skeletonwithagun2119]

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

[@sridrawings4510]

what? no its not

[@JaxBlade]

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

[@ryancarless7921]

I knew he would be here. This show is crazy awesome

[@michaelmartinez4641]

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

[@wuj0-themanthemyththelegen856]

Stop this emoji cancer train.

[@mihirdas4741]

When I saw the topic of this video I knew you would comment

[@egzonahmeti1420]

Because of you i started reading baki 😁😁 and now this came up nice

[@steepology5985]

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.

[@89Dustdevil]

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

[@Orthuzz]

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.

[@crapcase3985]

@@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)

[@ragosauce8227]

Imagine yujiro in Naruto and knowing how to use chakra.

[@macntosh4359]

@@ragosauce8227 it would be like orochimaru on steroids and super intelligent

[@sepg5084]

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.

[@brandonolsen579]

“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

[@alexj7440]

pls explain. I'm not cvltvred

[@brandonolsen579]

@@alexj7440 the creator of Berserk (rip) was infamous for taking massive hiatuses that span years

[@alexj7440]

@@brandonolsen579 sounds like George R.R. Martin

[@justaguy00000]

@@alexj7440 16:25 of this video has a Berserk panel

[@bondocena6654]

@@alexj7440 Yes. Even Berserk and Game of Thrones are very similar ( specifically the golden age arc).

[@TheModernMartialArtist]

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.

[@littlescreen9175]

love your channel

[@wellguesswhatIthink]

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

[@erdrick8670]

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.

[@HurricaneDDragon]

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.

[@MMAWARRIOR20]

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

[@LordZonar]

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

[@Egghead012]

His mother, Strongest woman alive.

[@josiahlalrineng4010]

@@Egghead012 Don't even get me started 😂

[@torbenfranke1859]

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')

[@OMartinez91]

@@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

[@novandyamcals5633]

@@Egghead012 alive

[@user-zz4eu6tm2t]

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

[@slamsuperslam]

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

[@jpnarrations1180]

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

[@seijin4426]

That's cuz some scenes were incomplete.

[@eastsideyugi1710]

@@seijin4426 that makes so much sense I felt the same way about thw weird graphics

[@assassinkillerelite]

I'm just glad the newest season didn't have any cgi

[@LucasMartins-dy6no]

@@assassinkillerelite it was awesome

[@chellejohnson9789]

At least part 3 is all 2d

[@michaelgorilla9910]

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

[@alstoyle]

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

[@zizu1236]

@@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

[@alstoyle]

@@zizu1236 yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Really post raitai anyone not named "yujiro" or "pickle" is a one shot

[@zizu1236]

@@alstoyle i wonder how it would be if doppo fought baki?

[@alstoyle]

@@zizu1236 Baki would body him. A pre "man" and pre "kaiho" awakened Baki beat retsu in the maxim tournament and retsu beat orochi

[@jjj-sl2ok]

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.

[@victorotero3157]

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]

I find that hard, to me the art style is really ugly

[@victorotero3157]

@@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

[@cry9297]

@@victorotero3157 people can have preferences

[@victorotero3157]

@@cry9297 bro I know that it an opinion I don't need someone to tell me that

[@ltcrescent4011]

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

[@Kurial94]

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.

[@planatano_]

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

[@gdadder]

@@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.

[@alexkrauss3758]

"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."

[@megapanka]

Lmao when oda nobugada or miyamoto musashi or wtv comes back from the past and uses a dude as a sword. Jfc.

[@Nico42048]

I thought the fight with gaia was crazy,and then musashi f@#$ing myamoto just takes a sword and cuts through a swat team

[@linko9720]

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

[@AmbroseBoaBowie]

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

[@AmbroseBoaBowie]

Grow up

[@quinny98]

@Amygdala 😒😒😒😒just enjoy both mangas. Theyve worked hard on them

[@freshmadgod]

OMG YOURE FUCKING WITH ME NO WAY

[@freshmadgod]

BY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT

[@StickWuzHere]

I didn't I know that. Preciate it

[@MrL0WEL]

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.

[@sridrawings4510]

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

[@wellguesswhatIthink]

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

[@gdadder]

He was training for like a month straight and we didn’t see him for like 30 chapters, that shit was hype

[@wellguesswhatIthink]

I think that's basically the same part, when he realizes insects are fast cuz' their muscles are liquid

[@alearnedman]

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.

[@joshgroban5291]

@mu mu he said proportionally

[@SebastianIsGod]

@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"

[@markburns4837]

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

[@juanramirez5898]

Still waiting for season 2 on netflix. I seen season 1 twice already.

[@naivz8395]

Juan Ramirez you can watch season 2 online

[@Trxpamvs]

@@juanramirez5898 It's out on Netflix now

[@juanramirez5898]

@@Trxpamvs yessss finally.

[@jamieweir9843]

Juan Ramirez I just started watching Baki today on Netflix 👊

[@SwaggerJoyce]

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

[@samuelraji8343]

The art is fine if you have ever read American or UK underground comics

[@reimusabelli2127]

Its funny because the art was what got my attention

[@lucian5389]

Yup that's what we all thought before we watched JoJo as well

[@thenew4559]

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.

[@kallenjosenavarro9785]

**sends them a link directed to this video**

[@ChristianSedaPlays]

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

[@DLevii]

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

[@mariojimenez691]

Same here.

[@codinhandrau5332]

tips on order i should read it in ?

[@DLevii]

@@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

[@claudiu6387]

@@DLevii it is long? How much time took to read the whole manga? Sorry for my english

[@claudiu6387]

@PsychoDieter91 it is on mangarock

[@vicenteortegarubilar9418]

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

[@Poukeli]

Ok tell me how it was

[@xRedFlag]

He still has more than 700 chapters to read

[@Cronalixz]

@@stayskeptic3923 I'm sure you would translate it faster than spinyback team like that

[@Ecko1985]

It's gonna take you a couple, couple hours.

[@INSYA]

Ik u already started u told me

[@ryancarless7921]

Eyepatch Wolf always chooses the best anime with bizarre moments.

[@Darwingreen5]

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.

[@Flamelance_Accendo]

Sounds like Jojo

[@derkdirk3553]

Ryan Carless first B.B. l,k, mmmmv def,ole, DZV.lo Mll,

[@davi0121]

@@Flamelance_Accendo *JoJo's on Crack

[@Mareforyou]

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.

[@nuckelaveez5029]

This is the video that got me into Baki. Its now one of my favorite things ever. Big ups E.W 👍

[@Busterdrag]

>"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.

[@noxiousfred3675]

cala a boca mermão

[@Arkhs]

Would say those are more preternatural

[@bakithebaker5216]

OF COURSE HAHAHAHA

[@cruzwindu777deffsff4]

''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 ?

[@paulandreotti1639]

Don't forget blowing someone's own intestines through their ears...somehow.

[@mechathunandthecultofdeath4958]

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

[@Daniel-ri2dy]

Hey another chapter of berserk supposedly comes out on the 28th of September

[@kylotl5690]

source ?

[@Daniel-ri2dy]

@@kylotl5690 last page of the latest chapter gives a September 28th continuation date

[@iyobosajoshuaowiejosh900]

HxH is not a good anime let’s be real

[@bleachcool1465]

Joshua Owie is that supposed to be funny kid

[@damnthatsrough970]

Finally someone giving baki the respect it deserved

[@dergoat3978]

You should check out the Anime Hero, he covers a lot of Baki on his channel

[@Takato-ym2dk]

@@dergoat3978 that anime is awesome

[@dergoat3978]

@@Takato-ym2dk yeah it is

[@dreb5776]

Ikr

[@Trxpamvs]

@@dergoat3978 damm glad to find another who likes the KZbin anime goat

[@myriad2878]

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.

[@angelvelazquez1478]

16:15 is around where I started to get emotional..what a phenomenal video that truly grasps Baki for what it is. I'm sharing this with everybody I know. Thank you for putting your heart and soul into making this video..truly!

[@route1trainer]

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)

[@DieHardjagged]

What the actual fuck, this series is really over the top. Maybe i should Start reading it.

[@chunksie3851]

he defeats a US battleship with it.

[@SolidSnake240]

@@DieHardjagged You should. Theres also another series called TOUGH thats crazy as well.

[@Ascension7707]

@@DieHardjagged yes you REALLY should

[@prakrithkeshav9425]

What even?

[@Crazelord91]

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

[@Trxpamvs]

That's actually a nice analogy.

[@lucian5389]

Holy shit that's a perfect explanation

[@manuelmateo3392]

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.

[@manuelmateo3392]

@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.

[@mechasentai]

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.

[@skeleytonz5319]

And then his daughter made the biggest furry manifesto ever published

[@dumbun6660]

Damn right she did.

[@appleyapple9019]

Hell yeah

[@thepope2412]

When I become god emperor of man kind, I will personally deal with every single fury

[@beansmcsquenz4444]

Have you guys even read the Manga?.. I mean, im no furry, but that shit is good

[@appleyapple9019]

@@beansmcsquenz4444 Yeahi read it, that shit is good and your probably just in denial

[@Tardis]

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.

[@alexanderchon9058]

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

[@WEBTEAM1000]

Dorian is sexy as fuck. Change my view.

[@Rebel37th]

For a while, Dorian was my favorite of the five.

[@r2dezki]

It's a shame that Spec got so little time.

[@DamnedPunk135]

@@Rebel37th he still is for me

[@Rebel37th]

UrProbablyGay 135 what are your thoughts on how his part ended by losing his mind?

[@johnnyminecraft8255]

Awaken My Masters...

[@Brother-Martell]

Mosin Nagant WAMMU

[@Ghost3210]

*vampiric aztec bodybuilding gods approve*

[@shen5533]

AYAYAYAY...

[@jocosesonata]

**! ! P O S I N G I N T E N S I F I E S ! !**

[@BigDave18]

*base drop*

[@Shad0wyNinja]

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

[@chasewilson3693]

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

[@C.Hendrick5662]

I came here to say exactly this. Baki definitely has some supernatural elements.

[@ThiagoSilva-lg7tj]

What about Pickle? (I mean, I don't think he himself is supernatural, but how did they bring him back?)

[@chasewilson3693]

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).

[@kodytiffany5686]

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.

[@noktron9714]

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.

[@takumifujiwara300]

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

[@claudiu6387]

When? I think he never beat his father

[@Godswithu123]

Incognito i think he means in the future when he surpasses his father

[@wiseguy01]

so most anime protagonists

[@themartialartgod5425]

In the manga

[@mdnain7841]

I don't know dude.Yanagi build up like a final boss of thr convict arc but his fight with baki kinda let down.

[@MF-Productions]

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

[@blackpants7385]

I find that was perfectly normal after the "intestines out of ear" part.

[@klickonthat5244]

I don't care what everyone says, that was the brain being blown out. Because what other internal organs are between your ears?

[@samleheny1429]

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.

[@JammesJack-td6gv]

Its funny cus retsu's dead

[@mochgaming4873]

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

[@BenDover-rz3kq]

Ark.... just hearing that name gives me nam flashbacks

[@kraniumdranium1364]

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 :)

[@marvelbladez993]

You sound like you would do that to your son

[@kraniumdranium1364]

@@marvelbladez993 only if I was the strongest human being ever, but I'm not :)

[@marvelbladez993]

@@kraniumdranium1364 Lol

[@victorotero3157]

@@kraniumdranium1364 what to have a strong son but with baki I doubt that he too soft

[@RandmAnimal]

How to be best dad

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

My favorite series is finally receiving the attention it deserves.

[@zinnydin2345]

i would've guessed it was fairy tail lol

[@akashicvariable]

same

[@sylezmakefightz9727]

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

[@harpseal9234]

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.

[@raikoedgymoto]

Yeah it's called Manime lol

[@nue7361]

How is jojo nasty. Oh yeah notorious B.I.G and purple haze. Nevermind carry on

[@isagiyoichi5207]

@@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

[@nue7361]

@@isagiyoichi5207 oh yeah ratt yeah i remeber now

[@artbyatticus3001]

@@isagiyoichi5207 it actually melts them

[@Koumori555]

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

[@JovanaSanchez000]

It's better to read about tho! I don't want to be spoiled on why Yujiro is the world's greatest fighter!

[@jwonjwonk1777]

He isn't the greatest villain if we're being honest

[@BrotherCam]

OMFG ONE OF MY MAIN WORKOUT MOTIVATIONS! Thank you for giving this series exposure just like my dude, JaxBlade!

[@johnnywu8708]

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.

[@bjtucker5]

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

[@thenew4559]

@CHAN LEE , yeah. It's even too manly for most men.

[@dunterriker3301]

I’m going to screenshot this. I’ve never agreed with a comment more

[@clownworldhereticmyron1018]

@CHAN LEE what, do you think women are incapable of being interested in fighting? Rofl

[@pebbles9649]

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

[@MohamedAli-ij4ko]

Tbh baki sound and looks weirder than jojo

[@Next-xm2dh]

Nah, Baki is His Own Beast

[@MohamedAli-ij4ko]

@@shawn-ju8ey true i only read to part 6

[@yarbitmot]

>tfw the fact you have 4 balls is a crucial plot component

[@longjohns7087]

Well, I'm sold.

[@Kanji1Sawamatsu]

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

[@imXSUPERXVEGITO]

I feel like kengan asura takes inspiration from baki

[@BestWayKilla]

​@@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.

[@pianogiovanna4854]

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]

Nah, kengan is much more grounded(imagine that lol)

[@outsidercain3038]

@@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)

[@vaquero2322]

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.

[@mrjanemba]

5:23 "There's nothing supernatural in baki's world" Yeah, except for the fact that the Hanma brains are shown to have lobes that striate into the form of a demon's face, that Baki's father Yujiro once stopped an Earthquake by punching the ground into submission, and that a archaeologic dig found reliefs in an undergrouns temple that told a prophecy of two demons of vastly different sizes fighting, both of whom can be identified by the back muscles in the form of a grinning demon, both of which baki and yujiro had. Oh yeah, and baki's grandfather was so strong that he we withstood over 20 tons of military rounds that were all just short of a nuclear bomb and thrived during the whole event. Nope, nothing supernatural at all.

[@FishBoneD14]

mrjanemba Also Baki’s grandpa was strong enough to throw people into naval vessels and have them stick like darts. Also you know musashi, pickle, the giant ape and all that wonderful strangeness.

[@joeparrigen4982]

That's all.due to muscular strength and not Ki or chi.

[@stevencastellanos6560]

Just that strong Hanma nut.

[@mondocool5670]

supernatural implies elements that can't be explained in nature such as spirits, magic, or other powers

[@BaneDane_JB]

Not supernatural doesn't mean realistic, it just means its not explained by ghosts or otherworldly powers.

[@ilierares1560]

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).

[@acdenton5726]

^ This

[@bloodnbones1]

Not gonna lie, when baki lost his shit from yujiro tryin to pat his head i was tearing up worse than baki was. Or when baki was kicking yujiro with just his fighting spirit. Geez, that final fight had way too many feels.

[@joeparrigen4982]

I'm 13 and I was born in the wrong generation Excellent breakdown.

[@supereyepatchwolf3007]

Very well put. Fair play sir.

[@vizzydrink433]

Dude you need to make some videos this was a wonderful breakdown

[@RoloTonyBrownTown69420]

Please please please read the manga. The entire fight between the imaginary mantis is the goofiest but genuinely the greatest fight youll ever see.

[@Ostnizdasht206]

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

[@yourneighbour5738]

Yanagi plucks oxygen from people's face - > nothing supernatural Oliva heals shotgun wound from eating a lot of steak -> nothing supernatural By anime standard, nothing supernatural happened.

[@gabrielbereza1793]

@Mr.Oliva you love your gal to

[@scottbruckner4653]

THEY CLONED A FUCKER AND STUCK HIS SOUL INTO THE NEW BODY, FUCK YOU MEAN!

[@kanibelazy0585]

Its more Sci fi than supernatural

[@stefanlazarevic3520]

​@cameron phares Didn't the same dude who they cloned have imaginary swords he imagined so hard people actually felt like they got cut. Also Baki posing so hard people can see dinosaurs. Baki drinking sugary water and regaining all his muscle mass in couple of minutes after poison almost killed him. I mean don't get me wrong non of these are what you would usually call supernatural but i it is really walking a thin line. Also don't get me wrong i enjoy baki.(tho imaginary swords almost pushed my bs meter a bit too far ) Also certain somebodies ghost appearing while some people fought(tho i don't really care about this since he didn't intervene in fight or anything )

[@edn1279]

Baki is so over the top and stupid that it's entertaining. The fight scenes are choreographed beautifully and just makes it seem so clear. It's really underrated so great job on bringing awareness.

[@cithr0963]

> under-rated > baki lol

[@akashicvariable]

Yup, ikr.

[@theresastarmanwaitinginthe5149]

Your videos are like a delicious cake. It's always a treat.

[@AdequateProximityPH]

SPEEDOWAGONU

[@normalperson7282]

SPEEDWAGON SAN

[@Pineboii]

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

[@koladearasanmi2005]

Are still learning???just for curiosity

[@nobyra]

Hell yeah, another interesting thing I had no idea about

[@user-vs6oe8fl3m]

Same

[@MichaelNVADE]

Ye boi

[@guidomista3192]

Ikr

[@akashicvariable]

It's a great series, I highly recommend it. Don't take the action seriously though, it is mostly pseudoscience

[@kitakin10]

My genuine opinion on the art: I think it looks absolutely amazing. That itself was already a draw but really intense well built fights? My action loving heart couldn't beat any harder.

[@jeanraesasan8764]

This video’s timing is PERFECT. For the last couple of days I was wondering why this manga is so over the top and crazy and here comes supereyepatchwolf with a video answering just that hahahaha.

[@gerardosantos1324]

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

[@helloturkey1143]

"consistent basis" >image of Berserk lol.

[@deshirokkawa6609]

People would never expect this anime to literally get me to one to work out harder than I ever could as I was going through a relationship problem and instead of crying about it or going through serious depression mode I decided to watch Baki and work my ass off to train just like the main character Baki himself. Every time I watched an episode I would get the need to train and with every single time I was picking up my weights and training my body it was like being remade. it was awesome to be able to train and be inspired by an awesome anime like Baki the grappler.

[@dsdssdsddssdsdsd5094]

Greatest conflict is peace. If I remember right that was quote from Baki. Yeah it's best thing to be inspired by Baki whenever you fall. But remember we are humans, dont over do it lol.

[@obsidironpumicia4074]

dsdssdsd dssdsdsd I second this notion. Should your back muscles resemble a face, demonic or otherwise, or if reports come in of a Neanderthal man being discovered and subsequently thawed out, DO NOT FIGHT IT, grab some iced tea and read a good book.

[@MrL1G3R]

I started to train and working out since 2015 when I discovered Hajime no Ippo

[@GothamKnight84661]

Baki is inspiring people indeed. Manly!!!

[@DBZMacky]

Baki _does_ have supernatural elements. It's just relatively less compared to some of the ridiculous stuff most Anime has.

[@paulocuento9949]

i think the true strength of Baki is its the middleground of Hunter X Hunter and Hajime no Ippo

[@alearnedman]

I like to put it somewhere sort of right below the craziness of History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi.

[@kimkatsu1453]

Just because fighters from Baki don't fire hadoukens from their fingers doesn't mean that they are more realistic. Honestly, in many ways they are even more ridiculous than Kenichi and YuYu Hakusho.

[@akashicvariable]

Kenichi is a good series too.

[@a-crack8728]

Takamura kills a fucking bear with his bare hands

[@Thesigmaone747]

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

[@youngthinker1]

I think the major selling point of Baki, comes from its use of the logical extreme of martial concepts. Examples: 1. The mind body connection enables a person to do things way beyond what that person should normally do, see granny lifting cars, and people surviving extreme environments through sheer will power. If you make it so a person absolutely believes that his body can lift a car with one hand, and they have trained to a certain extent, then he will do it. Baki's own fighting philosophy reflects it. 2. Several of the exotic martial disciplines displayed through out the series, exist but are far less effective then what is displayed. For example, one of the first fighters Baki fights in the first arc, is a man who cuts people with his body, and directly targets nerves. If anyone has seen fights, or been in fights, then you will see people getting bloody from getting hit. Well, most of the cuts are actually acute tears caused by the bones gouging the skin, then accelerating beyond the skin's tolerance, causing the tear. 3. The ability to ignore pain, has been linked to fanaticism and training; the more religious a person is, or the more a person trains his body, then the more pain he can tolerate. Every character within the Baki universe has this sort of fanaticism towards something, and train diligently each and every day. Logically speaking, these characters should be able to ignore pain way beyond normal human tolerance.

[@iyobosajoshuaowiejosh900]

youngthinker1 you right

[@anonymouse9960]

Thank you young thinker 1. Thoughtful and insightful analysis

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

youngthinker1 it also has a grip on reality that even the most realistic and flexible power system in anime (yeah that one) could never hope to accomplish. Long range may be an option in that other series, but in this one Doyle made it clear that if he got to him before he could press the button, it’s still fair

[@devin3944]

superhuman feats are real, but in doing so, you would destroy your body (or your body will pass out to stop you).

[@tony_5156]

youngthinker1 first comment: im not going to read all of that, just think of monk training. Period.

[@justas423]

5:23 Miyamoto Musashi is brought back to life through a clone body putting his soul into said body. During Baki and Yujiros fight Yujiros dad appears as a ghost to encourage Baki.

[@DaMexSupaMario]

5:03 *sister walks in and hears that line; starts cracking up* yeah i guess u right.

[@elvisdiaz2349]

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

[@remiicario]

Your parents have good taste

[@nathanly2878]

I'd like to think you wrote this to mean that, your mom turned into your dad after watching Baki.

[@musa8693]

She got the hormones dude just not activated untill baki

[@Juginohero2137]

Underrated comment

[@elvisdiaz2349]

@@nathanly2878 yeah that's what i meant, sorry english is not my native language. :)

[@Allplussomeminus]

5:55 I don't think Baki's body actually liquified. I think instead that illustration told the reader how Baki felt after being slammed so hard. Also, it's a shame you didn't mention how the author often draws the characters with all white eyes in certain panels. Their eyes are drawn all white even in scenes where things are calm and a normal conversation is being had. It's done in a way that makes the character dialogue seem more serious.

[@akashicvariable]

yup

[@RX782GP03]

alot of the characters use that type of imagery inwhich they "become" something and the drawing reflects it to help the readers feel what the character is feeling if baki got slamed and he thinks he is liquid, but the reader just sees him laying flat, we wouldnt get that sensation that he is becoming water. as if almost we too are experiencing their Epiphany and we realize a certain something too. if you had to compare it to other anime, they don't even come close to this, instead the character just shifts into a power up mode and rejoins the battle and the reason why is because of some sense of will/guts/courage/friendship and apparently we're supposed to understand just because of that alone. in the show/manga, when doppo pulls out his "perfect punch" we're taken on a small trip to his enlightenment and in a sense we to become enlighten and imagine what his realization represents.

[@user-ko3sd9qj2h]

Wut 😂. No it was visualization, Baki was imagining his body becoming water so all his muscles would relax to the max and then burst out with power. You see the effect when he tackles yujiro through walls.

[@Huskasin]

Nice to see that is a characteristic of Itagakis style that is recognized and appreciated. The Netflix series does a good job portraying the white eye feature. To me it seems to visually signify the character is deep in thought.

[@tripleabd]

After seeing the announcement of this new anime on Netflix I immediately rushed to youtube to check some information about it and I saw your video first. IM SO GETTING INTO THIS ANIME IMMEDIATELY and I subbed to your channel! I really liked your presentation.

[@beastmasterbg]

Calm down

[@art_lobe]

As someone who recently watched Baki's two old seasons and started the new Netflix season, I think people should invest some time in watching those 48 episodes . They added a lot to my enjoyment of the new season and while it's true the animation isn't the best, you get used to it, and the characters and fights make up for it. (10:30) And I recommend the subbed version

[@sycofya1677]

Same here i coyldnt believe i had missed out on Baki all this time. I am glad i found out about it cause now its my favorite. It actually motivates me to train harder

[@thenew4559]

Yeah, I agree. Either watch the first 2 seasons or read the earlier parts of the manga (at least what parts of it actually have an English translation). Both versions of the earlier parts of the story are great and essential for understanding what’s going on and who else can of the characters are.

[@renatao6330]

What the fuck your profile picture.

[@Saint0999]

Alberto_S. So is the old series what happens before? Is the new series a continuation? Help

[@Breaded_Squirrel]

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