BAKI
Martial arts champion Baki Hanma relentlessly trains to surpass his legendary father, as five brutal death-row inmates descend on Tokyo to challenge him.
Director(s)
Toshiki Hirano
Where to watch
Netflix
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Reviews
hobowarz
Bad writing at its best. It's enough to watch the 1st episode to see how lazy it is. But then I thought, ok, they didn't bother to give any meaningful backstory to any character, they didn't write any real speech that is not cringe-macho, maybe they went crazy in fights and animation? I'm up for some pulp. Answer is no. Every fight is more or less the same, one guy inflicts an incredible amount of damage on the other, seemingly winning the match, but the opponent just stands up and inflicts double the damage, only to have the 1st guy standing up and repeating. Repeat this formula once, twice or three times and you have EVERY fight in the anime. No techniques, no speed vs strength, no kung-fu vs karate, no height vs weight, NOTHING, JUST DAMAGE. Then random characters will keep appearing, the latest is obviously the strongest ever, until next episode where a new guy with no backstory is even stronger, or when another random guy beats him... The whole thing is pointless. Save some time and don't watch it. Maybe if I find an English dub I'll finish it while washing the dishes...
Peter89Spencer
Hardly a martial arts series - most of it was wasted on pointless narrative. The storyline for each episode made no sense! At least Dragonball showed good fight scenes! This was the most rubbish Anime in Netflix - only good thin about this was showing tips on being a fighter!
BAKI FAQs
Toshiki Hirano is the director of BAKI.
The cast of BAKI includes Takehito Koyasu as Doyle (voice), Sora Amamiya as Kozue Matsumoto (voice), Akio Otsuka as Yūjirō Hanma (voice), Rikiya Koyama as Kaiō Retsu (voice), Banjo Ginga as Dorian (voice), Toru Furuya as Narrator (voice), Kenjiro Tsuda as Sikorsky (voice), Mugihito as Mitsunari Tokugawa (voice), Yoshihisa Kawahara as Katsumi Orochi (voice), Nobunaga Shimazaki as Baki Hanma (voice), Takuya Eguchi as Kaoru Hanayama (voice), Bin Shimada as Gōki Shibukawa (voice), and more.
You can watch BAKI on Netflix (Subscription). Check this Fanbiz page for the latest platforms.
BAKI was released in 2018.
BAKI is listed under Animation, Action & Adventure, Crime, and Drama on Fanbiz.
BAKI has 2 reviews on Fanziz, with an average rating of 3.5/10. One reviewer wrote: "Bad writing at its best. It's enough to watch the 1st episode to see how lazy it is. But then I thought, ok, they didn't bother to give any meaningful backstory to any char..."
BAKI has 2 seasons and 39 episodes on Fanbiz.
