Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen (Baki: The Great Raitai Tournament Saga)

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Synonyms: Baki (2020)

Japanese: バキ

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Type: ONA

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jun 4, 2020

Producers: Akita Shoten

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Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Manga

Genre: Sports

Themes: Combat Sports, Gore

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.54¹ (scored by 104,938 users)

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Ranked: #1591²

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Popularity: #1251

Members: 172,591

Favorites: 441

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Weakened by the poison from his last battle, Baki Hanma finds himself on the verge of death with no salvation in sight. However, after Baki's friend, Retsu Kaiou, brings him to China, he learns about the centurial Raitai Tournament, where the fiercest warriors fight to be crowned as the strongest martial artist in all of China.

As it is now allowing entry to foreigners, Baki is informed that he will have to compete in the tournament as it holds the cure to his illness. Unfortunately, Baki's father, deemed the "Strongest Creature on Earth," is participating too. Baki 2nd Season details the events of the grand Chinese tournament, as well as Baki's encounter with the eccentric yet powerful Mohammad Alai Jr.

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Hanma, Baki

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Shimazaki, Nobunaga
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Kaiou, Retsu

Main

Koyama, Rikiya
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Hanma, Yuujirou

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Ootsuka, Akio
Japanese

Hanayama, Kaoru

Supporting

Eguchi, Takuya
Japanese

Hanma, Jack

Supporting

Miyake, Kenta
Japanese

Biscuit, Oliva

Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu
Japanese

Orochi, Doppo

Supporting

Sugou, Takayuki
Japanese

Doyle, Hector

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Dorian

Supporting

Ginga, Banjou
Japanese

Shibukawa, Gouki

Supporting

Shimada, Bin
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Hirano, Toshiki

Director

Urakami, Keiko

Sound Director

Saitou, Keiya

Episode Director, Storyboard

Hakada, Masatoshi

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Opening Theme

"Jounetsu wa Oboeteiru (情熱は覚えている)" by GRANRODEO

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Ending Theme

"DEAD STROKE" by Ena Fujita (藤田恵名)

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Jun 4, 2020

dragon97king

Recommended

Baki new season just dropped and like always its a wild journey

Story
Baki takes place right after season 1 with baki going to china to enter the Raitai tournament to cure the poisoned. It's differently one hell of a way to end and start a season but with over the top fights and characters it's such a fun bloody journey.
Art
They really went all out on this season no butt ugly cg and each impact of the fights looked painful it's a fun to watch.
Sound
The sound in this anime is great as I said in my art part the fights look painful ...

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Jun 4, 2020

Yurg

Mixed Feelings

So this will include a spoiler or two so there is that. The last season left us off with Baki going to this tournament to help him recover his fighting spirit. And we continue with the tournament starting and finishing after around 7 episodes.
(Small Spoiler so small it doesn’t matter) when its Baki’s turn to fight he fights against Mr. poison hand man, Baki negates the poison and somehow this helps him in the long run.

This is great an all. An by all means if you like hearing about fighting instead of seeing it then this season/show is definitely for you. During the final fight ... between Yujiro and Kako in the tournament it was about 7 to 5 minutes of fighting And 30 minutes of explanations of fighting, techniques and classic “this guy is not as strong as he looks.

Muhammad Ali Jr. was in this, oh did I mention Muhammad Ali Jr. was in this.
I bet you didn’t know Muhammad Ali Jr. was in this. They go beyond to signify that both Muhammad Ali Jr. and Muhammad Ali are in this. But to the point where there are around 4 episodes surrounding only Muhammad Ali Jr. during those episodes, there were fights so it was entertaining in that sense. But besides that it was lacking. As well as Muhammad Ali Jr. hits on and tries to marry Baki’s girlfriend.

The ending song was probably the best part about the sound, and the only credit I can give to it. In one episode when Baki is jogging, the sound of him stepping isn’t synched to the animation, and made me physically cringe hearing it.

The characters are the typical ones you could expect from a fighting anime, they fight and explain things that happen. Most of them are from previous seasons too so they are already known. Does that mean they are the best characters created, no it does not.

I didn’t like this, I got bored after the tournament and on the 12th episode I got excited again because it hints at Baki fighting his father, finally. And in the episodes prior it was Baki fighting none other than Muhammad Ali Jr. which was not exciting like it was hyped up to be.

The art is the typical style for Baki, a fast blur to make it seem like it was inhuman. It’s not necessarily bad I like it for this kinda style, but it makes some of the characters look as if they don’t know what’s happening, and or have a dumb look on their face when they don’t mean too.

Also the tournament takes place over the span of one day.

I wrote notes as I was watching and I stopped after the tournament because there was nothing else to take note of. If you like surprises and interesting fighting styles then hey this might be for you. If you like long drawn out explanations about those fighting styles and the people using them then again this is for you. But I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone and wouldn’t tell people openly I watched it even though I am.

I will say this to defend Baki, the fights were entertaining no matter how dumb or slow they took. Each was unique to an extent where it didn’t seem old and already used. The techniques introduced are new and interesting they are just talked about a lot.

Ok that’s it, overall I gave this anime a 5.

If you liked Baki before you will probably still like this one to get ready to see the next season.

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Jun 4, 2020

Broombroom27

Recommended

The team that made baki 2018 really learn from there mistakes from the convicts arc and showed it in this season of baki, the art, animation and sound is 100x better than it was in the first season with no cgi at all and an amazing op, Ed and and ost with even more songs than before, this season was amazing with the amount of improvment from the last season, but let me actually tell you what I think of each arc

Raitai tournament arc: 8.5/10
This arc is easily one of my favourite arcs in all of baki, i won't deny the fact that some of ... the kaioh's that were hyped up so much and then proceed to get battered was very annoying, the level of detail and animation made me enjoy it a lot more than i did reading the manga, and when there was a good fight, the fight was always top tier, and kaku vs yujiro is easily God tier and a contender for anime fight of the year, the characters if I have to be honest, aren't that good, kaku, jyaku and the guy that fought Oliva in the 2nd round (sorry forgot his name) were probably the most likeable new characters, nobody else was really that likeable, in short this arc has the best action in the whole series yet what was holding it back was some disappointing fights

Muhammad Ali Jr arc: 5/10
In my opinion the arc isn't good, it was a lot more enjoyable than it was in the manga, Muhammad Ali Jr is just a crazy simp and itagaki took the piss considering how his dad is one of the best characters he could have been an even better character but itagaki wasted the opportunity to do so and never used him in the story again, weirdly even though I don't like his character I would have loved for him to come back again as long as he gets a polnareff level character development, the fight scenes are decent and the last one was very disappointing, but what I loved the most was the ending, yujiro finally decides to take baki seriously and both baki and yujiro get ready to battle it out. Overall this arc wasn't good but the anime done it a lot better than the manga which saved me from giving it a lower score

Tokyo revenge episode: 6/10, not much to say about the episode, personally I think it was pretty good special, it isn't the best thing ever but it was good, unfortunately I doubt any of the convicts will come back since the Tokyo revenge arc hasn't came out in the manga or been confirmed to be coming out

Overall it was a good season and I can see the guys who made this animating an anime for koukou tekkenden tough or fist of the North star, the amount of improvement from season 1 to this season is insane and I 100% recommend watching this season, now i am really excited for son of ogre/hanma baki to be animated

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