Review of Baki the Grappler

Baki the grappler: Overall Rating 9/10 Have you ever dreamed about becoming the world's strongest? Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be defeated by someone a hell of alot stronger than you? Have you ever trained your hardest, but you could never win against your father? That's what Baki the grappler is all about. It starts off with the main character Hanma Baki a fearless 13 year old delinquent who is hot headed and isn't afraid to pick fights with anyone, just to test his fighting skills. Baki would charge his way through the crowded street gang of a 100 young punksbut in baki's eye's he only see's 4 people all together, ready to fight he charges.

Secretly Baki was being watched by his mother's employee, to see how he was progressing. Baki goes back to the gym and his hot headed attitude kicks in. The boy goes completely insane for the lust for strength and power. His lust for power has been growing for quite sometime. His mother gets wind of it and knows her son is becoming a man. The way Baki was presented in the story is intriguing to me. His goal is to be the strongest fighter on the planet. Doing this will take more than just a hot headed attitude, rigorous training, a few broken bones, and bloody fists. Does he have what it takes?

Eventually during his encounters with other fighters he makes new friends, even if they had fought each other. It's all about respect for a martial artists. Along the way you'll notice that most of the fighters Baki encounters have backstories, getting to know a little more about them personally. Character development has done well to explain itself. I thought the way they handled there reasoning for fighting was good enough. While watching this I could see Baki growing, training, fighting many challenging foes in the near future.

Opponents that fought the youngster were reasonable enough to keep me from turning away from my screen. The different fighting styles made the fighting scenes more enjoyable because all the fighters had different strengths and weaknesses. It took me only a day to watch this, but none the less it was really fun to see some action done right most of the time.

Baki the grappler is definitely fast and tends to skip most of the boring moments, the anime got me all hyped up. While I was watching this, my head was filled with many unanswered questions. Could a 13 year old with execeptional fighting skills actually exists in this world? Could I be this strong when I become 13 years old? Many questions have gone through my head and till this very day I still wonder about it.

What awaits this young fighter is a tough and rigorous journay. Through many hardships Baki must fight bigger and even stronger opponents that rival his level. He must become stronger than he is now, because his father is waiting for his son to improve himself. Baki the grappler is filled with action, a ton of fighting scenes and a story of a young boy training to become the strongest man alive.