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tintor2
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I only watched the Netflix series so I'm really lost about how the story began. I didn't mind the art as the fights seemed at least fun especially with the cast's personalities which contrasted its rival series Kengan that has one of the most inactive leads in a while. What I always found strange though is whatever is Baki's dad. I don't know exactly what chaos did he make but the fans glorify him a lot
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Akcoll99
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I was a big fan of Gutsoon's output back in the mid-2000's so I'm thrilled at this mini-revival of many of the titles they published or were going to publish, like City Hunter, Cat's Eye, Fist Of The North Star, Legend Of Keiji, and now Baki. (Hoping Fist Of The Blue Sky will be next.) Of all of them, I was sure we would never see Baki again. But then Netflix made a hit of it, and the publisher releasing it here is putting it out in a super-aggressive release schedule that I approve of.
Something else from back in the Gutsoon days was a review of Baki I remember that pointed out the oddly (to America eyes) feminine nature of the fighters in the series. The high cheekbones, pouty lips, and even beauty marks on some are so different from the way "macho-ness" is portrayed in the U.S. I don't care one way or the other, but I found that observation fascinating and here it is, still rattling around in my brain 20 years later. |
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Lord Geo
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That's because Netflix started with the second manga (New Grappler Baki, or simply "Baki"), as there was already a prior Baki the Grappler anime in the early 00s that adapted the original series, which is what Kodama is putting out now. There was also a 45-minute OVA from the mid-90s based on the early part of the first series, which CPM released in English back in the day. FUNimation released the first Baki TV anime back in the 00s, but it's been long out of print (even in Japan) & could very well be caught up in licensing limbo since its main producer was music record label Free-Will. |
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MFrontier
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I'm glad we live in a world where so many classic manga is being released in print again.
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jr240483
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but the real question is whether or not this manga is related to the others. OR, is it a completely different baki the grappler manga! then of course there is the 2000 anime in which die hard fans have declared that it is an anime only tv series and not canon to the baki lore. though it is pretty clear that netflix used it has a base for their TV series for it follows the same plot point. and that is the real goal of baki is too spoiler[ defeat his demon father yujiro hanma who was responsible for the death of his mother when he was 14 yrs old! ] whether or not this manga is connected remains to be seen cause from the looks of tje manga, it has zero connection to the other baki series so it is possible that this baki the grappler manga might be another spinoff series |
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Lord Geo
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Everything you have just stated is pure bollocks. Kodama is releasing the OG Baki the Grappler manga that ran in the 90s, the same one that Gutsoon serialized in Raijin Comics back in the 00s. The 2000 anime (& the 90s OVA that CPM released in English) was an adaptation of this original run from start to finish, and everything Netflix has co-produced (Baki, Baki Hanma, & now Baki-Dou) adapt the various sequel manga that happen after this original manga. That's it. Anyone who tries to argue that Kodama is releasing a non-canon spinoff (or even that the 2000 anime isn't "canon" at all) has absolutely no idea what they're talking about & shouldn't be listened to at all. |
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