11-13-2003, 06:19 AM
I just finished Grappler Baki season 1 and 2 about a month ago. If you like fighting anime then this is for you. It's about Baki, a 13 year old boy who's father is the most powerfull and evil fighter in the world (no seriously, he is). The basic story is simple: he wants to beat his father.
The first season starts in ep.1 with Baki picking a fight with a hundred high school students and he gets knocked out after beating 37 of them (still room for improvement). The coolest opening ep. I have ever seen. Then in the rest of the series he trains and gets into fights to become stronger. The great thing about this series is the choreagrafie (sp?) of the very realistic fights. Every fighter has his own fighting style and you get to know a little about there past and motivation to fight. This is done so good that you feel like you know how the charracter thinks after a few minutes in the fight and because Baki actually loses sometimes you never know if he's going to win or lose.
The fight scenes are animated great with cool moves you have never seen before and there is a new fight in almost every episode.
The second season is my favorite. Baki is 18 now. After getting very pissed with his father over something that happened in the first season he wants to become the strongest fighter in the world and enters a tournament with the greatest fighters in the world. 32 Fighters enter the tournament and every fight is fully shown (16 fights in the first round, 8 in the second etc.). This season is full of cool charrecters who could deserve their own show and ofcourse Long (Baki's father) shows up a couple of times. This season is 85% fighting with charrecters who box/wrestle/karate/kung-fu/grapple... well every technique you can think of. There's no energy ball fireing is this show, just knuckles and feet, so don't expect another dragonballz.
This is available on HKDVD but the subtitles for the first season are VERY bad. It's still very much worth it though because you'll get the main theme which is get stronger than dad and you won't find fights like this anywhere else. The rest of the set (video/audio) are excelent dvd quality which is the most important in this kind of show. No pixelation in the fight scenes.
I haven't been this excited about an anime sinds Dragonballz and it's on the top of my list. If you like fighting, GET THIS NOW!!!
The first season starts in ep.1 with Baki picking a fight with a hundred high school students and he gets knocked out after beating 37 of them (still room for improvement). The coolest opening ep. I have ever seen. Then in the rest of the series he trains and gets into fights to become stronger. The great thing about this series is the choreagrafie (sp?) of the very realistic fights. Every fighter has his own fighting style and you get to know a little about there past and motivation to fight. This is done so good that you feel like you know how the charracter thinks after a few minutes in the fight and because Baki actually loses sometimes you never know if he's going to win or lose.
The fight scenes are animated great with cool moves you have never seen before and there is a new fight in almost every episode.
The second season is my favorite. Baki is 18 now. After getting very pissed with his father over something that happened in the first season he wants to become the strongest fighter in the world and enters a tournament with the greatest fighters in the world. 32 Fighters enter the tournament and every fight is fully shown (16 fights in the first round, 8 in the second etc.). This season is full of cool charrecters who could deserve their own show and ofcourse Long (Baki's father) shows up a couple of times. This season is 85% fighting with charrecters who box/wrestle/karate/kung-fu/grapple... well every technique you can think of. There's no energy ball fireing is this show, just knuckles and feet, so don't expect another dragonballz.
This is available on HKDVD but the subtitles for the first season are VERY bad. It's still very much worth it though because you'll get the main theme which is get stronger than dad and you won't find fights like this anywhere else. The rest of the set (video/audio) are excelent dvd quality which is the most important in this kind of show. No pixelation in the fight scenes.
I haven't been this excited about an anime sinds Dragonballz and it's on the top of my list. If you like fighting, GET THIS NOW!!!