“Baki” has got to be the BEST Anime I’ve ever watched in my life.

[colicolicoli]

I couldn’t make it through the first few episodes

 

[KingJay]

Ive actually watched that on and off growing up. Never fully paid attention and finished it. I fell in love with that “Shiki No Uta” song. I still listen to it till this day.


I’m going to watch and finish it.

If you dig it still check out Cowboy Bebop. Bounty hunters but set in space and like Champloo is themed to hiphop, Bebop is themed to jazz. Same director/writer, and probably even better than Champloo. Got a dope variety of episodes paying homage to things like Blaxploitation films even

 

[Smokee Robinson]

The one with Muhammad Ali or the prison one? They’re both flames, breh.


You got any recommendations?


None of that weirdo fantasy shyt neither. I was fukking with “Attack on Titan”, but they cry and bytch too much on that show. shyt turned out to be boo boo after a while.

Must watch Anime:

Afro Samurai
Outlaw Star
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost In The Shell
Berserk
Ninja Scroll
Akira
Monster
Samurai Champloo
Death Note
Psycho Pass
Yu Yu Hakusho
Gantz

 

[Bondye Vodou]

Lol its hot garbage and low key racist to black characters

 

[Buddy]

When Hakito activated the Chēnzo prefecture to shimasu the wasuremashīta

 

[milanoAT]

They did Ali Jr. incredibly dirty, and I found it disrespectful to use Ali's name in such a way. I stopped watching after that.

 

[bordeaux]

I enjoyed baki. Now baki hanma is just too ridiculous for my liking. It’s gotten dbz level goofy. And as others have said the portrayal of black characters is cringe.

 

[42 Monks]

They did Ali Jr. incredibly dirty, and I found it disrespectful to use Ali's name in such a way. I stopped watching after that.

im usually whatever on opinion threads, but this gotta be the laziest common take on baki by far

Ali is literally the only notable foreign fighter to get the kind of respect shown for their craft, humility, and dominance in a series where folks get destroyed routinely. Its Ali and that's it. Even Mike Tyson got shyt on (almost literally) - and no one brings that one up.

And Ali Jr? They gave him a better representation than that actual real world Ali Jr. They went out of their way to create a fictitious narrative that was objectively better than the real life crackhead version while still holding to the narrative fact that his son plainly just don't want to walk the path his father did. Even let him escape being completely mutilated like rest of the cast has lol...

I enjoyed baki. Now baki hanma is just too ridiculous for my liking. It’s gotten dbz level goofy. And as others have said the portrayal of black characters is cringe.

this i can agree with

even if the majority of JBO rocks with the same shyt

 

[milanoAT]

im usually whatever on opinion threads, but this gotta be the laziest common take on baki by far

Ali is literally the only notable foreign fighter to get the kind of respect shown for their craft, humility, and dominance in a series where folks get destroyed routinely. Its Ali and that's it. Even Mike Tyson got shyt on (almost literally) - and no one brings that one up.

And Ali Jr? They gave him a better representation than that actual real world Ali Jr. They went out of their way to create a fictitious narrative that was objectively better than the real life crackhead version while still holding to the narrative fact that his son plainly just don't want to walk the path his father did. Even let him escape being completely mutilated like rest of the cast has lol...

I think it's a common take for a reason.

I'm not sure how you can watch that arc and see an older Ali depicted with drool on his face:

Or witness Ali Jr. get the shyt beat out of him and humiliated repeatedly, and leave with a positive impression.

 

[42 Monks]

I think it's a common take for a reason.

I'm not sure how you can watch that arc and see an older Ali depicted with drool on his face:

Or witness Ali Jr. get the shyt beat out of him and humiliated repeatedly, and leave with a positive impression.

Because that's not the only time you see Ali -and even with that *very real* depiction of Ali in his later years when suffering from his disease, there's no talking down to him ever. Ali got like two montages of being the GOAT when most just talk shyt and die in this series.... and they even broke their guard rails on political events to further validate his integrity as a man.

You have to go out of your way to find a screenshot of Ali at the end of his rope - and even then, the context of this isn't that he's some blathering idiot, but that he's still worth the utmost respect despite what illness did to him. Everyone in this room still reveres him.

Its a low effort take. That would've been better reserved for Tyson's depiction too.

shyt, Ali's introduction is the only time anyone sees the main antagonist pay direct homage to another man ever. This same arc revolves around the absolute dismantling and ridicule of martial arts from other cultures. Instead, boxing gets its flowers and its chaperone gets deferential treatment through its entirety. Even when his son only wants the benefits from his dad's pedigree and none of the hardship that created it.




And again, the real Ali Jr was a dope fiend folks stay talking around this. They could've easily reminded folks how embarrassing the facts are regarding what happened in reality. The fact they let him cook at all was off the rails.

 

[ShadowBroker]

I started watching one. I don’t know which one it is and didn’t know which one to start in what order. I saw there were other Baki shows I guess?

Anyway, the one I’m in the middle of is some old white biker man that seems to be immortal and can’t nobody beat this muthafukka. This dude is singing opera and shyt. Like what the hell is going on?

Oh and there’s FOUR of these dudes???

Why are these guys like 12ft tall?

 

[WaveWhisperer]

Is there a new season out?

 

[Quiet Magician]

Is there a new season out?

Yep its two arcs in one season.

 

[FishNGrits]

This shyt is so fcking trash. Unintentional comedy tbh

 

[Slic Ric]

One of my favorite anime series ever, legit 10/10

Saying that the last two seasons (baki hamma) are a far cry from the original is losing juice. I sorta lost interest by the time Baki fought Pickle