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