Baki Hanma (TV Series 2021–2023) Poster

(2021–2023)

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7/10
Retcon Reimagining of Original Baki and originals Netflix sequel series
sthomp151 October 2021
Before I give my review of this, I'll have to say something that many people are thinking: The original 90s "prequel" Baki was a fun time, when Netflix came out with a sequel continuation of the series, it actually made people appreciate the original series more and respect Netflix for continuing the Baki storyline on screen, regardless if they watched the prequel series. Many would have liked to see another continuation or spin-off of this franchise but Netflix decided to do a "What If..." reboot instead of giving old and new viewers what they want. Netflix thinks that their quality of production makes up for their lack of insight. Stop coming out with new shows and reboots and focus on what people actually want. People would rather watch 5 shows that they like and are invested in than 500 1 season shows.

Whether you're a Baki fan or not, it's a decent watch and interesting time. Watch it and take it for what it is. It still has the spirit of Baki, just not the story of Baki. It's a distraction piece that no one asked for but they will still watch. I'd love to give this a 1 star, just to tell Netflix to stop coming out with new horse****, but it's a quick and easy watch while you do other things around the house because the story doesn't actually matter and standalone it's alright.

Oh, and never trust what people say when they use exclamation points online....
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6/10
Script is all over the place and why the history rewrite??
rstySp00n27 August 2023
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I really liked the Baki show before this one, and I was really excited when this came out, but it turned out to be not that great.

I get it, the show has a lot of fanboys/grils/they/thems but even hardcore fans must admit that this one wasn't so great...

It started with some prehistoric dude pulled from the ice, for some reason he's still alive and even before he's settled in this new world all kind of martial arts experts want to beat him up???

Imagine, you come out of a coma after 150.000.000 years and everybody want to fight you!?!??!

In the second part of the season he is suddenly gone to re-apear in the last episode only to get a tooth knocked out...

In the second part there's a lot of talking and for some reason they try to alter the history of Japan during the second world war??!?!

America is suddenly bad and weak and they surrenderred to Juujiro Hanmas dad ?!?!

Retsu goes to the USA and becomes the boxing champion because Kung Fu is older than boxing??? I've seen mixed martial art fights and the boxen/kickboxer allways beats the kungfu/karate dude...

The final father-son fight between Baki and Juujiro lasts 3 episodes and is boring as hell but in the end they both learn a lesson and all is well....

It's a messy season with a lot of boring talking and some political bs..
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6/10
Too many loose ends and a cop-out ending
mncmjtszf27 August 2023
Great animation and awesome fight scenes. I love the style, and how the narrator will take you aside, going into detailed explanations of technique and style using all types of comparisons and analogies. The first half of season 2 is interesting, but ultimately ruins the whole series. The second half of season 2 is straight cheeks. The Ogre and Baki showdown is the worst of all the confrontations in the series, and is precluded by filler episodes where Baki and Ogre both engage in the most uncharacteristic behavior per everything we know about them. The finale will leave you extremely disappointed.
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6/10
9 episodes in and I've seen 2 fights...
beanslegit3 October 2021
This iteration of Baki contains George Lucas levels of people standing around and talking. Where's the constant badass fights from the first run of the show? It's clear this was written by an entirely different and more boring team than before.

There were times I could barely make myself stay awake as everyone just keeps talking and talking. Some of the writing is ridiculously bad too. "He's not just pushing me back... HES PUSHING AMERICA BACK!" ?????????

As if we needed this show about ridiculously muscly dudes fighting each other to finally inform everyone that US capitalism is bad... Keep the simple minded politics out of my dumb epic fight show please.

Just a disappointment compared to the original BAKI show on netflix.

EDIT: Updated to 6 stars because season 2 was a major improvement, and the ending is actually super satisfying! Nice work on that!
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7/10
Slow History burns
taru_massey1 October 2021
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More of history lesson's than fighting and moving on with the story. Expected to fight Yujiro Hanma but guess what???...it doesn't happen as one expects and another long wait..so here we go!!
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9/10
Manga accurate
dylanstaxes2 October 2021
Baki is still the best fighting anime. Yea it's different than the tournament parts and there are a couple political messages. But it's manga accurate.
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6/10
Slow
muhammad-gholami5 October 2021
This season is very slow and barley you can see fight scenes.
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9/10
WATCH IT ..... Especially for Baki Fans
sahilghale1 October 2021
Finished watched yesterday and really it was a great experience.....Awesome visuals, awesome animation, epic fights .... a special treat for Baki Fans.....
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6/10
Out of no where
rudymartinez-971136 October 2021
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I didn't hear about the next Baki show I thought they were going to keep adding seasons to the original Netflix series baki's girlfriend disappears Oliver turns into a softy for a women who looks like queen from one piece and I get that Baki wants to fight Oliver before he fights his father but it's out of no where we went from watching the tournament to Baki wanting to go to America just to fight Oliver and go to prison and why is George bush in here😂
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3/10
Earlier was exciting now boring
guptachiranjivi27 July 2023
Hello, When i saw "baki the grappler(2001-2007)" series for the first time i was always excited to watch all it's coming shows. Its was fighting, martial art, exciting story and lot of fun to watch.

Now rest of baki is on netflix and all the series and season are less about fighting and more about history lessons. They are too slow, the fighting is of just 10seconds not more than that, and in between fight is again too much history lesson, which the whole series and damn boring to watch. Now in every episode i dont feel excitement rather i feel sleepy.

Very disappointed by the maker for making such exciting and fun anime series just boring boring and boring.
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10/10
Awesome
bryan-lima2 October 2021
REALLY GOOD

I really appreciate the entire season.

10/10.
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7/10
Alright, I jumped the gun on my last review
sthomp152 October 2021
Somehow this series is still a continuation of the last one? But....still doesn't make sense but still holds true to the manga. And Netflix doesn't do a good job of making it make sense though... So I guess I gotta go read the damn manga to make sense of it all. ...sooooo yea, aside from all the anti-american stuff, it's alright.
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2/10
Hard to watch
silverkirby-314537 August 2023
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It's baffling how everything that is going on (not much for that matter) is described and things are repeated over an over as if the viewer is dumb. Too much blabbing and not enough fighting. There are many cringe moments and when it affects the main character, Baki, the anime is even less enjoyable. He is also spends too much time in a backseat instead of fighting. Just + one star for the Pickle x Jack fight. The scene were they locked their mouth together until jack had his skin ripped off was so absurd that I couldn't stop laughing. His whole mouth should have been ripped off just so he would stop talking !
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7/10
Lack of attention
gspence-8916728 July 2023
I loved this series since I watched Baki on Netflix; then found my way to the previous products such as Bali: The Grappler. What I found was a rushed product was small inconsistencies in this new season that came to Netflix. Such as, calling the Colonel a captain in S02E01, and again in S02E10 calling Jack Hanma-Jack HAMMER. These are minor things but from the shows I keep trying to watch on Netflix it seems they are trying to run them out without editing. Some of us are fans of these shows and will notice.

Netflix is under attack naturally because they keep raising their prices, restricting accounts to make as much as they can. But this not the world of free spending, it's debt consuming. That is why so many people are leaving Netflix. What is the response from Netflix after all of that? Releasing half seasons; here lately it's been "Lincoln Lawyer" and "The Witcher".
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7/10
Netflix.
noamp-4565027 August 2023
This show seemed kinda rushed like they just wanted to get some hype, but cmon this thing is here since 2001 don't ruin this.

The first season basically had no really a point, they kinda tried to develop some side characters but they truly abandoned them. The grappler baki and baki are such better shows just because you can genuinely see that the people there actually wrote womething. I have a feeling like the writers of this series got that base and story, i guess they had a short period of time to finish that show, and these are the results. Netflix has this thing. They prefer a short time hype over an actual good series.
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10/10
Chad energy.
Syncroniam4 October 2021
No real man will give this series a rating below 10.
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7/10
Unserious yet Enlightening
astrofoxhole26 July 2023
If I had wrote this review a year or so ago, this would be a 1-star review but after revisiting it on a fighting anime binge I have a new appreciation for the series.

This is not an anime you should take at face value; a few other reviewers mention its hyperbolical (read unserious) nature so it's worth repeating. It feels more like a satirical take on a fighting anime in which Baki, and by proximity his dad, acts more like a symbolic plot device than the story of a young man. I can't say that I dislike this format of storytelling although I do wish there was more fighting. The creators seem to be creating a more of mythical, philosophical interpretation rather than a direct reimagining of the source material.
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8/10
What's more ridiculous than the show is the reviewers
cdelta-9033019 October 2021
The whole point of the show was characters performing ridiculous feats. The same way you don't complain when the characters in JOJO act unrealistically.

Secondly, it was obvious from the start that this series was never JUST about Baki. The previous seasons already made this clear. Plus it doesn't even matter how many fights were there as long as they are developed with proper build-up. And sorry to make you all butthurt but Baki does exactly that.

So what's next? Baki fights too much?
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1/10
Laughably stupid
wesleytyre7 August 2023
Pointless and boring. There's nothing more to say. Just in case I can save someone from wasting their time, I have 485 more characters to use to post this review. There is nothing to see here. Pick ANY other anime to watch. I promise it will be better than this. I made it to episode 10. The prison looks like a city in Attack on Titan, go watch that if you haven't. Great story. Canonbusters on Netflix was better than this. If this is all it takes to get a deal with Netflix, sign me up. I'm not saying I could do better but with 1 tenth of the budget, I'm sure I could hire someone ro do better lol.
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10/10
Great follow up
alistairmclean8112 October 2021
So many miserable reviews from people who haven't followed Baki from the start which would make it difficult to watch.

This is one of the best anime out there. You just need to start from baki the grappler, then baki and then this.
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1/10
Oh my...
sanelezwane-5502218 August 2022
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I wanted to like this show. The one before it I couldn't look away it was so interesting and fun. Now, we have this garbage. A disappointment. I came for the fights not an explanation of every move. Don't get me started on the flashbacks, absolute nonsense. They don't add anything to the story. Too much talking during the fights makes them dull and boring, I mean the fights weren't interesting in the first place. What a waste of time.
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9/10
Very interesting anime
timoliver-519678 October 2021
For me personally, I love MMA based films/series so this was a complete masterpiece as it gives background to each fighting style used. It is easy to follow and has intriguing characters which make you slightly confused with who exactly it is you're rooting for. Great fight scenes. The only reason why it's not 10/10 in my books is that it sometimes drags on and the same fight can go up to 3 episodes long. Apart from that is is an incredible show to watch and I would definitely recommend.
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10/10
Very good.
glenn_cool_adam15 November 2021
Netflix Baki is only the continuation of Grappler Baki season 1 and 2. Most people haven't watched Grappler Baki and so they don't know the whole story of Baki. After watching Grappler Baki and the Netflix Baki, it all makes sense. This season didn't have much fights. But it was good. But the next season is going to be epic!!!!!!!
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5/10
Ideas aren't that deep, pacing is awful
jmckenna-3410927 August 2023
The writer thinks he's writing hunter x hunter but the fights aren't even that sophisticated. The artist is also a bit overly fascinated with male anatomy and it's kind of awkward to watch. I'm also very confused with the connection to the previous series which left off in a contradictory place. The pacing is the absolute worst part, since the narrator will start raving about something stupid, obvious, or not that special, and you'll have to listen to a 10 minute repeated rant about natural order, honor, or made up bs about the human body, and that's pretty much the whole show. They also spend a ridiculous amount of time animating very short seasons, which is a little pointless since there's so little action.
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10/10
LOVE IT! Really informative
taker-4024015 October 2021
I love these baki series! Can't get enough of them. I also read the manga and the animation in the series is wel animated. The best part is that i learn a lot in the Baki series. For example the Sonny Liston story and why people used to drink with their pinky finger up haha!

10/10!

Can't wait for Pickle!
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