>>712550372 (OP)
Kenshi easily has my favourite execution of unarmed gameplay in a video game. You just train like an autistic and get your ass kicked until you can shrug off sword slashes and one shot fully armored men with palm strikes.
>>712551051
Watch. You'd have to deal with literal fanfic passed as "translations" for a lot of early Baki. >>712552153
I don't man, threatening to rape someone and pissing on people don't really speak to me as a male.
>>712552513 >threatening to rape someone and pissing on people don't really speak to me as a male
it's called 'asserting dominance', though I suppose that wouldn't make sense to the uninitiated.
>>712552786
Yujiro is a special case, he literally doesn't see anyone but himself as male. but as you said, you can also beat them up to a pulp, which is how most men in Baki assert their dominance.
>>712551051
It's worth reading just figure out the right release order of the manga series and try finding high quality scans because there are some garbage tier translations out there
As far as the qualities of the manga go it has some actually hype fights but also some retarded goofy shit that will get a laugh out of you, although most of the manga's runtime is spend hyping up the characters and setting up scenarios for them to fight. If you enjoy that kind of stuff in your martial arts mangos it's totally worth checking out
>>712553087 >most of the manga's runtime is spend hyping up the characters and setting up scenarios for them to fight
it's incredible. Baki is the only manga that manages to get me hyped for a character I've known for hundreds of chapters every time he appears.
>>712551051
i only watched first 2 seasons of anime because the tournament-hen kinda bored me, it's fine if you treat it as over the top comedy anime
also second season opening is very memorable because it's probably the biggest downgrade in the history of anime
>>712551051
From what I see it looks like Gachimuchi extended universe manga for people who watch hours of Gachimuchi videos ("ironically", of course).
>>712551051
It's unironically the manliest manga. I don't mean that in some douchebag way, I mean the author has some of my favorite depictions of stuff like father/son relationships, proving yourself, the relationship between men and women, etc.
>>712550372 (OP)
currently doing a psi monk in underrail
use my psychic powers to double my punches then my purple shadowclone follows up so I throw like 30+ punches a turn
>>712551051
baki is great before the prisoners arc then it gets really dumb and the fights get worse, still worth reading but eh
kengan ashura is just better
>>712562580
I wish you could have a special interaction with him if you're also an unarmed build. Sparing him maybe and vowing to fight again later. Discovering his little swamp hideout in expedition was kino.
>>712553608
Yujiro has dozens of bastards out in the wild, he says so in one of the earlier manga iirc. Baki and Jack are the only two who went after him so far. We'll almost certainly get an arc about other Hanma kids at some point.
>>712551051
Every chapter is more retarded than the last. Baki starts out by drinking 2 liters of flat coca cola a day as part of his workout routine and it's all downhill from there. They're obsessed with a dinosaur man right now I think
>>712563531
Pickle was nearly a decade ago. Thats before Baki fights his dad with an imaginary dinner date, and before they clone miyamoto musashi and shove his soul into the clone and everyone fights him, then we watched the entire art of sumo get jobbed for a bit, right now Jack is biting everyone.
>>712553010
It was funny (and sorta appropriate) at the beginning, him being the maximum expression of manliness
But then he started throwing rape threats randomly, when the manga had centered on dominance through battle for its whole run
Finally Tokugawa doing the same thing without being able to back it up was just a straight 'fuck you' by Itagaki
>>712563907
Jack "fought" Pickle aka whipped on him and bit part of his face off and Pickle smiled and walked away Pickle also talks now but it's really a Jack arc.
Every Baki fight ever >Starts out with a dude getting utterly fucking smashed and maimed for life in one blow >Spits out blood, has a ruptured eyeball or similar horrific thing you'd never want >*he smiles* "heh, that was a really good hit! But you see my style and way-of-life is way more badass than yours!" >The guy who got his shit smashed in retaliates and deals three-times as much damage inflicted to him back on the guy who got the first hit in
This sort of thing just keeps happening over and over and over. When I was binge watching it, it became like a fever dream with all of these events blending together.
>>712551051
It's fucking ass and I have no idea how people tolerate it. Read the first couple of issues or watch a couple episodes, and if you don't like it, stop immediately because it stays exactly the fucking same forever.
What was the deal with the art style change? It seemed like there was a hard transition from some typical 80s Manga style to the hypermuscle thing it is now. Its not the same artist is it?
>>712564938
The art transformed in to a parody of itself, then in to a parody of that parody, then in to a parody of that parody, just getting more insane with every arc to the point that the characters barely resemble the anatomy of human beings any more
Wreren't they developing a baki fighting game or arena fighter or something
Did I imagine that
Yeah here it is, lmao it's a punchout clone, based https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=qkcFuAV9ZPY
So it really was drawn by the same guy? If thats the case, id first like to say that I prefer the OG style, and second that LOL at how Yujiro went from looking like a more western action movie star to a stereotypical Japanese strongman caricature.
