Baki

I'd rate it higher, but the season ending just feels extremely unprofessional, I might alter my rating once the second season is out, but regardless, it's a sloppy ending for an otherwise rather good series. I'd highly recommend waiting until March for the second season before watching this.

The plot/direction is garbage, the characters are unrealistic, and show refuses to follow even the slightest bit of medical science or even the basic laws of physics. But who cares? It's just fun to watch hyper muscular men beat the tar out of each other for little to no reason whatsoever.

Watch Baki if you find violence attractive and when you really enjoy being presented with something that doesn't make sense. Avoid this if you need good production values and need to think hard about the experience before you. You may end up liking Baki, but respecting his rationality is not something I see happen to any viewer. Baki can be intriguing as long as you choose to watch what's going on instead of thinking about what's going on. It was designed as an experience for you to enjoy.

The Raitai tournament arc is easily one of my favorite arcs in all of Baki, the level of detail and animation made me enjoy it much more than I enjoyed reading the manga, and when there was a good fight, the fight was always top level, this arc has some of the best action in the entire series, but what held it back were some disappointing fights.

Really Boring. But a little bit nice for free time

"Baki" had the potential to be a very good anime.

The story of a boy training to one day beat his own father could have been brought up really well.

Unfortunately, this potential was not used.

"Baki" somehow can't decide whether it wants to be a pure fighting anime or a deep anime.

Sometimes you have the feeling that you can't get out of the exaggerated fights and sometimes you have the feeling of falling asleep because nothing is happening.

The main character also just seems stupid and testerone controlled.

That's why I couldn't watch the anime to the end.

If you're looking for good fighting animes, I think you'd definitely be better off with "Kengan Ashura" or "Megalo Box.