Grappler Baki (TV)

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

Improved final third of the season fails to redeem an underwhelming story and characters that came before it.

With surface-level writing, an unlikable protagonist and unimpressive fight scenes, even the last few episodes which introduce some cool characters and potentially interesting storylines can’t make up for the extremely boring and unremarkable first 15 episodes that not only fail to develop the story and themes as anything more than the main character wishing to become the strongest person on the planet, But said character also behaves and treats everyone around him like an unlikable, rude brat with little redeeming qualities, and a couple of interesting supporting ... characters can’t salvage baki and his story. The finale also drops the ball on what little character development Baki has managed to accumulate over the course of the season.

The only truly good thing about this anime is the soundtrack, not the opening or ending, but the music itself. It brings nostalgic retro flavor and manages to somewhat elevate what little the story this anime had to offer

Hajime no Ippo, a masterful anime in the same genre that also came out near the same time as Baki does a far superior job of exploring similar themes with an actually great cast, pacing and thematical depth. Go watch that instead.