Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre

The mauling of a vicious, prehistoric-sized African elephant makes international headlines. Featured in reports of the aftermath, the sole survivor of one of the animal's rampages attributes its death to a lone, unarmed man—unknowingly describing Yuujirou Hanma, nicknamed the "Ogre" and often labeled as the "strongest creature on Earth." Elsewhere, Yuujirou's 18-year-old son Baki spars with an equally formidable beast: a praying mantis.

Content with his training and determined to overtake his father, Baki abducts American President George Bosch to begin his plans. This leads to his deliberate imprisonment at the infamous Arizona State Prison where Oliva Biscuit resides—the strongest man in the United States and an inmate allowed to leave of his own volition. Hoping to gauge his abilities, Baki challenges Oliva to a fight; but Oliva is preoccupied with his eccentric rival, Jun Guevaru. Known as the "Second," he is the only other prisoner to receive special treatment from the guards.

Bewildered yet intrigued, Baki learns about his fellow inmates and tolerates the hellish conditions of prison life while waiting for an opportunity to present itself.

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Hanma, Baki Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Hanma, Yuujirou Supporting

Ootsuka, Akio Japanese

Biscuit, Oliva Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Guevaru, Jun Supporting

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Iron Michael Supporting

Mamiya, Yasuhiro Japanese

Kennedy, John F. Supporting

Maria Supporting

Koyama, Mami Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Furuya, Toru Japanese

McCarthy, Bob Supporting

Ebara, Masashi Japanese

Kent Supporting

Saitou, Jirou Japanese

Hirano, Toshiki Director

Urakami, Keiko Sound Director

Urakami, Yasuyuki Sound Director

Matsui, Hitoyuki Episode Director

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May 7, 2024

JJMFREAP

Recommended

BIG MEN DOING MAN SHIT is a mantra by which you should live and die. Baki is the pinnacle of that and I've loved every second of it's muscular macho bullshit thus far. However, this season is where business REALLY picks up!

Firstly, the animation quality has gone even higher than before and the CGI is nowhere to be seen. Nice! The music and voice acting hit as hard as the grapplers themselves, as usual, and the pacing is awesome. Despite being only 12 episodes, this felt a lot more full and eventful compared to even the first new Baki anime! This season has probably the ... best opening so far too!

Storywise, this is some of the most badass stuff we've seen in this series so far. Baki himself is back in the MC driver's seat, which is great, love that! And now, the final showdown approaches. Baki has grown massive balls befitting of a Hanma and it's time to get to work. What unfolds is a long tirade of manly ridiculousness that needs to be seen to be believed. The tension has never been higher. Just know, all pretense of realism is long dead now and macho nonsense will live forever. Rest assured, the fights deliver hard and each episode will keep you glued to your seat, and also yearning to lift weights the moment it's over.

To go into more details would mean to go into spoilers, so I'm not gonna do that. All I'm gonna say is START BAKI NOW! Go back to the old anime and work your way up to here. Every season is worth it and is tons of fun. All the events have been (body)building to these moments and you can feel the big crescendos approaching. Even beyond that though, on a purely superficial level, this is just an amazingly fun action anime that delivers exactly on what you'd expect. You will grow a second penis from this experience.

TLDR: What if Stone Ocean but with big men and violence against communists. 11/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 30, 2022

Resting_Bonfire

Mixed Feelings

Baki: Son of Ogre


By now I have almost no idea what to put in my Baki reviews, thanks to the relatively thin content of the seasons. Although this one has probably been the best season of Baki so far, it possessed the same problems as any other. It's just another oversized training arc for Baki with no real buildup. Honestly, I found Olivia far more interesting than anything else that happened in this arc.

The animations are again reasonably improved, but not enough to call them above average. Further, a big heavy problem is the slow pacing. This season could have easily been shortened by ... 2-3 episodes without losing any content. And the fights are extremely monotonous. In the meantime, this show is just a freeze-frame battle where everyone pretends to be superior until suddenly one of them flies over. Before this season came out, I've seen better manga animations on Youtube that make the fight between Baki and Olivia look much better than in the anime.
Among other things, the narrators are pure poison to the anime. While Olivia and Baki are fighting, you seriously hear several minutes of the guardians babbling? Good grief, the pacing was already sinking into the ground anyway.

At least this season was again pretty badass and showed everything Baki is known for, from the positive to the negative.

Enjoyment 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Oct 9, 2021

CataOrShane

Not Recommended

I watched the original Baki the Grappler (2001) back in 2015 and I've watched everything this series has to offer. Before I proceed with this review, I want to give you an overview of the scores I gave to each title so you can understand better if my review will resonate with you or not.

Baki the Grappler (TV) - 7/10
Baki the Grappler (OVA) - 7/10
Grappler Baki: Saidai Tournament-hen - 6/10
Baki: Most Evil Death Row Convicts Special - 6/10
Baki - 6/10
Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen - 5/10


So, as you can see the enjoyment I've been getting from Baki animes as time goes on is decreasing and ... in my opinion Netflix continues to drag Baki through the mud.

Visuals:
1) the animation is very inconsistent, specially noticeable when throws stupid CGI in the mix.
2) anatomically incorrect body designs which shatter my immersion


Sound: without being a masterpiece it's the best aspect of this season

Characters and story:
1) This season seems to be one of those shows made by incredibly insecure dudes featuring themselves trying to be as macho as they can and failing miserably at it but without being aware of how pathetic they are. I'm so masculine, I'd rather spend time rolling around with half naked dudes all the time and come up with ridiculous excuses to do it more often. I'm so masculine I love golden showers between men. Even the script is cringe.
2) No character development whatsoever
3) you'll see plenty of references to real life events and real life people (Che Guevara, George Bush, JFK's assassination, Mike Tyson, etc.) to try and bring immersion and realism to this season but everything is so over the top ridiculous that it's laughable in a bad way. You'll see someone get physically injured because their shadowboxing became too realistic (shadowboxing is fighting air while imagining there's someone fighting you), someone else shooting a few strands of hair at someone and ripping their eardrums with it and plenty of other stupid BS while a random (yes, random because it changes every few moments) temporary character narrates what's going on, sometimes giving science trivia as if whatever's going on could be plausible.
4) Most fights, which should be the main focus of this season as there's literally no character development as I've said previously, don't happen in real time. What I mean is that these actions sequences are constantly interrupted by unnamed temporary and random characters narrating whatever is happening when we're not watching the actual fights. Imagine you're watching a movie and every couple of seconds you get a close up of a random person telling you about the movie you're trying to watch in the 1st place.


My expectations were already low because in my opinion Netflix hasn't done anything remotely good for the Baki franchise but they managed to surprise me. However, I can compliment Netflix for one thing: subtitles. For the 1st time the official subtitles were accurate, except for one small occasion where the characters said 100,000 calories and the subtitle read 10,000 calories instead.


All things considered, I hated watching this. It gets a 3/10 from me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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