Baki-dou

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Synonyms: Baki-dou 2, Baki-dou (2018), Baki's Path II

Japanese: バキ道

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 17

Chapters: 154

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 4, 2018 to Jun 15, 2023

Genre: Action

Theme: Martial Arts

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Champion (Weekly)

Authors: Itagaki, Keisuke (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.30¹ (scored by 4,915 users)

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Ranked: #4755²

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Popularity: #1814

Members: 11,490

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Ranked #4755Popularity #1814Members 11,490

MangaShounen Champion (Weekly)Itagaki, Keisuke (Story & Art)

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After more than 2,000 years, Nomi no Sukune's successor is born. This time, Baki will challenge the god of sumo.

(Source: MangaDex)

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Apr 2, 2020

Cloneable

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (57/154 eps)

Baki Dou (2018) is still relatively early in its run (60ish chapters in what will likely end up being a couple hundred) but I thought I'd write this review to encapsulate some of my problems with the early parts of the series, how it continues some of the biggest flaws of the previous series and why so far this has been more or less the nadir of the long Baki series.

First, the good. Baki still has great art. The art is detailed and has a sense of weight that feels very rare in modern manga. Everything Itagaki draws has a sense of momentum and vitality ... to it, and it makes the fight scenes feel very meaningful and impactful. Secondly, Baki is still weird, and this gives it a surreal sense of charm that makes it hard not to love. Whether its Conor McGregor lookalikes or sumo wrestlers participating in rock climbing, it is still consistently memorable. There are very few series that seem to have the earnest sense of passion that Baki has, and this remains true over 130 volumes into this long, LONG, series.

Now for where things go wrong (spoilers forthcoming). Baki Dou (2014) managed to annoy people with how it seemingly overwrote the original ending of the series, where Baki fights Yujiro and everyone goes home fairly happy. It opted to introduce an entirely new character, who was far stronger than the established main cast, while also being less interesting and likeable. In a bid to make this new character threatening, he came in and kicked the crap out of characters who fans actually did like, hogged the spotlight as far as storytelling, and more or less seemed designed to artificially extend a series that had reached its natural conclusion.

Why am I rehashing this? Because this series HAS THE EXACT SAME FORMULA. A new character, never previously mentioned, who is a famous martial artist from a prior era of Japanese history, shows up, hands established beloved characters their own ass (sorry Oliva) and then gets a bunch more chapters to stress how great and undefinable they are. This could get better from here, but what I've described is basically the story up till this point. And it all just feels so unnatural and uninteresting after I've been invested in the story up till this point.

So, in conclusion, Baki remains a very weird and very well drawn martial arts series with alot of unique appeal, but the story has been pushed beyond its original scope repeatedly and new, uninteresting characters are being pushed over the ones people actually wanted to see. I hope it gets better from here, but so far it just doesnt have the sheer awesomeness of the earlier parts of the series.

Thanks to Spinybackteam for making the series readable in english.

Story: 5
Art: 9
Character: 6
Enjoyment: 6
Overall: 6

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Mar 24, 2024

PapaAeon

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (151/154 eps)

Baki Dou (2018) or Sumo-Dou as it came to be known, could generously be called inventive and more realistically could be called "controversial". The fifth Baki series by Keisuke Itagaki, this series is no stranger to mixed opinions by the general public, with many people being turned off by the artstyle of the series, which really couldn't be called pretty by any stretch of the imagination. But Sumo-Dou feels unique in that it's the first of Itagaki's series that seemed intensely polarizing to people who were already fans of the manga. I feel this reason is the management of expectations. To be 100% clear, this ...

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Sep 20, 2023

Wolfgang_B

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On the one hand, I think this portion of the manga gets a lot more hate than it deserves, on the other hand, I also have my own fair share of criticisms, which kept me from enjoying it as much as any of the other 4 main manga series before it.

Like the prior installments of Baki before this, Baki Dou (2018) has many great fights and cool moments. I liked seeing many of the regular mainstays of the series return and have some cool victories. The fights and the great artwork are really what Itagaki Keisuke excels at the most. Although, I don't think ...

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