Baki

Wtf was the point of this character, they hyped him up for the latter half of the season and then made him job in his last 4 battles only to cry like a bitch afterwards.

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he didn't have the will of a warrior
this guy thinks he can show up & cuck baki? not a chance. utterly decimated, just severely savaged beyond repair. retired
it kicks so much ass

To contrast show fighters like him with true fighters like Baki, who've endured every form of life and death fight imaginable. He vrumbled the second his fights got real.

>they hyped him up for the latter half of the season and then made him job
that's 99% of baki characters

>Itagaki gets to the part where Ali Jr. has to fight Jack
>Plan is to have Ali Jr. win as a way of signifying that he's read to take on Baki (since Jack was second only to Baki and Yujiro at that point)
>As he starts writing the fight, he realises that he just can't picture Ali Jr. winning.
>Decides to go with his instinct and have Jack smack the black out of the boy.
>Everything after that is just a result from that one decision.

Itagaki writes very organically. It's the same reason why Retsu died - Itagaki started writing the fight and realised there was no way Retsu was making it out alive. Sometimes this means that he's perfectly willing to lose the war to win the battle.

>Looks like a gigachad
>Son of the most famous boxer ever
>Can probably surpass his dad if he went into boxing
>Instead chooses to simp over a mediocre girl that's already taken by fucking Baki of all people
>Constantly jobs and embarrass himself

Just another character with terrible judgement.

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>end season on Baki getting poisoned and becoming weaker than ever
>Just get punched weird and drink 12 water bottles, suddenly you are stronger than ever before and immune to all poisons

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Katsumi gets hyped up and then instantly BTFO by Retsu

Was memetobe beating mushashi organic?

Showing the difference between people who fight for sport and people who fight for the fight.

The arc did last much longer than it should have though.

If Itagaki does one thing right, it's how he handles power levels.

Yeah but Katsumi at least recovered his reputation after that embarassment

Itagaki is incapable of viewing the human body as anything but a hyper-efficient machine

He is literally me.

Not really. Hanayama lost to kid Baki and later was strong enough to stop Pickle’s charge

He destroyed everybody until roided Jack injured him. He wasn’t healthy in those fights so what are you retards even talking about?

Retsu was 2000 years ahead

Hanayama is Itagaki's self-insert so it makes sense

"lost"
it was more of a draw, no matter what he said

>two weeks back yujiro is itagaki's self insert
>last week it's baki
>now it is hanayama
make up your mind eh

and katsumi lost to retsu only to surpass the 4000 year legacy of chinese martial arts. whats your point? characters improving their fighting skills to catch up to the pinnacle of strength, be it baki yujiro or pickle, is literally the entire series.

>Baki: anyone who fights for sport is weak!
>Any other martial arts manga: people who fight for sport are pretty strong!

I know strength levels don’t equal (fighting) power level but actual strength fluctuates fucking wildly lol
Oliva is pictured as being able to block shotgun pellets with his muscles, other superhuman feats of strength, but also deadlifts below the world record.

Itagaki has 3 daughters, no one in Baki is his self-insert

Itagaki probably learned shortly after introducing him that the real life Ali Jr is sorta shitty so he decided to have him get fucked up
That melodrama with Kozue was genuinely terrible though, who the fuck reads Baki for plots like that

I didn't write those other things but you're kind of right, if anything Hanayama is a personification of Itagaki's Japanese nationalism

Making japanese characters winning sometime against foreigners isn't nationalism

This Look at the convicts. Look at Sumo.

I never said it was? Hanayama embodies a lot of traditional Japanese values and ideals, like his strong sense of honor and the fact that he rebounds stronger after every defeat

Diversity is not a strength

Katsumi feels like one of those american comic sidekicks who've existed for 80 years and are now just shittier versions of the actual hero.