Grappler Baki (TV)

Ever since he was born, Baki Hanma has always known nothing but fighting—strengthening every single muscle and learning different techniques from various martial arts under the supervision of his mother, Emi Akezawa. He trains in order to prepare himself to face and eventually surpass his own father, Yuujirou Hanma, a man feared by the masses as the "Ogre" and deemed the strongest being in the world.

However, when Baki realizes his mother's techniques are no longer enough, he sets out to become stronger in his own way. Seeking out powerful opponents and forming unbreakable bonds with them, he continues to grow both body and his soul, as the clock continues to tick closer toward the inevitable showdown against his father...

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Hanma, Baki Main

Kikuchi, Masami Japanese

Hanma, Yuujirou Supporting

Nomura, Kenji Japanese

Hanayama, Kaoru Supporting

Kumai, Motoko Japanese

Orochi, Doppo Supporting

Mugihito Japanese

Akezawa, Emi Supporting

Hino, Yurika Japanese

Matsumoto, Kozue Supporting

Kojima, Sachiko Japanese

Gaia Supporting

Yusa, Kouji Japanese

Motobe, Izou Supporting

Omoro, Masayuki Japanese

Yashazaru Supporting

Yanagisawa, Eiji Japanese

Tokugawa, Mitsunari Supporting

Kusumi, Naomi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Watson, Barry Producer

Nanba, Hitoshi Director, Storyboard

Takahashi, Hideo Sound Director

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Aug 12, 2007

Kain

Recommended

This is an anime everybody should see. The story may not be as deep as keshin or love hina but still this is a good anime. If you ever want to see a cool anime give this one a try. It may seem like a bad anime at first but it is sort of like the anime berserker. You will defintely want to see more. An anime with figting scenes all the and a nice story line. What more can you ask for. Yeah!!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 3, 2018

TheFirstEvil

Mixed Feelings

This anime is something.. Whether that's something good or bad will depend on your tastes. When this came out, I'm sure it looked amazing and I must admit I am a fan of that 'older' art style of anime. Everything art wise is very 'odd' or quirky for this show, the way Baki looks, the design of his father..

Yujiro Hanma, the villain of the series has a very striking design. His muscles are horrifyingly creepy looking, he's completely, totally despicable and... he vaguely resembles Akuma from Street Fighter.

Okay, I've yammered about the art and how it's both unique, yet dated.. ... The story is basically... meh. It's your typical kid fights to overcome odds thing but the action is always intense and full on badass throughout.

Character wise - there's very little depth to anyone other than 'I must beat so and so', outside of one episode where Baki and his mother deal with their relationship.

Overall. I'd call it a solid '6'. There's a lot to like if you enjoy fighting and big displays in your show, but, other shows have developed their characters while also juggling these big fighting displays much better. Not bad, but not the best.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 8, 2022

OphirNagar

Not Recommended

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I were at a friend house and he told me "Theres a new anime in Netflix called "BAKI" let's watch it", so we did. I really really loved the 2018 version of Baki so I decided to start from the basics and watch the orignial 2001 "Grappler Baki" and oh god how dissapointed I was. I won't go over about the plot or about the story, i'm just gonna focus on the personality of the characters.

From episode 1 Baki has totally diffrent personallty from the 2018 version and not in a good way. The 13 years old Baki is a very robotic character with ... no personallty, every time he cries, every time he laughs, every time he's angry, nothing feels humanaic and real, no matter how much the serias will try bring the emotinal side from you, it just can't happen. If you want poeple to cry from scenes make sure that the characters are humas and not robots... through out the serias Baki is full of hate about his father Hanma Yujiro "The Ogre" for bieng a piece of shit (which he totally is) but the problem is that you really can't feel the anger trough Baki's hatred, it is not something I can describe in words, the characters are totally fucking robots i'm not kidding about this one.

To sum it up, If your'e new to Baki I would reccomend to skip trough to the 2018 version but if you want to start from the start I won't stop you of course. Baki the 2001 version is a robotic anime with no persoanallty that will leave you with a bad impression about animes in general that came out in the same year.

Go watch fucking Boku no Pico or something I don't know, just keep away from this anime and skip to the 2018 version

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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