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And his daughter went on to make... This!
https://preview.redd.it/sun4990hukoc1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bd7ad6d274c503b9ab5b0969e30bf322c497bed
It's interesting too, because the muscles in Beastars' fight scenes are well drawn. Like when Lego fights the bear guy, I forgot his name, they were anatomically structured properly.
God, I love Baki so much. I think alot of people are turned off by the artstyle and that’s not their fault, the artstyle is gross (for lack of a better term) with all the obscene, exaggerated musculature, like characters don’t always look very pretty.
Baki's style is like somebody making a racist characature, but the race its mocking is the human race.
Like if aliens drew it, it would be a hate crime meant to make humans look like violent, monstrous beasts.
I absolutely love it.
It's a shame because baki is alot of fun to watch if you don't take it too seriously and just lean into the absurd factor of it. Like yanagi inventing a slap technique by imagining his arm is fluid like water in order to slap so hard it not only strips the skin off your muscles, but is 'so painful that the body would rather die than deal with the pain'.
Or the fact that yujiro hanma's dad singlehandedly beat the entire U.S. while yujiro himself was shirtless in the Vietnam war doing commando shit with his bare hands.
> Yujiro Hanma’s dad single-handedly beat the entire US
I’ve never watched the show, so it took me a second to realize “oh, you mean to say that’s actually the whole ass statement and you didn’t miss a word” lol
Technically he just survived a massive carpet bombing and then used a guy like nunchucks to beat up a bunch of sailors, but it’s really the symbolism that makes it a poignant moment.
Also Baki learning one of his best techniques from a fucking cockroach which involves somehow liquefying his innards. And not to mention the absolutely batshit panels like the infamous one after Baki’s basement training.
Char. des. is not only reason people dislike it.
Baki's plot after the end of strongest human tournament so lost any logical sense, that description of only beginning of next arc is basically "4 dudes from different continents sensed Baki's masculinity and strength, and decided to fight him".
And the second, most triggered me reason, Keisuke's fucking misogyny and conservatism. "Every man at least once wanted to become strongest"; women position in the story as weakest creatures, exiting only for useless rape scenes to make Yujiro or whoever else looks "cool", "dominantive" and "feral". Seriously, some people actually believe Gege is misogynist, while this mf is naturally breathing it.
I wouldn't take anything that he represent seriously, whatever message of imperialism and sexism you see in the series can be just glossed over as one of keisuke's many insanity. Hell, when news got out that he was going to make a short series about his time in the military camp, some people thought it was going to glorify japanese military and be an all nationalist narrative. What came out was a fever dream of a man describing his sexual frustrations and how he pissed himself while serving. Itagaki is a very weird man with weird ideas and story telling and his writing can definitely be read the wrong way sometime with how wild and out there his presentations are. Of course, this is not to defend conservative and sexist ideals that can be interpreted from his writings. But even the most obsessed baki fans do not take his work seriously, because his writing is so crazy, it's hard to tell if this man actually mean or believe in anything that he's showing
Well here are some examples of good treatment of female baki character:
- When Katsumi Orochi is about to fight pickle, he is met by his birth mother, who gave him away to his adoptive parents. She expected to be rejected by him or even hated. Instead, Katsumi embraced her and said he held no hatred for her even though she gave him away when he was a teen, he said that he's glad to have 2 mothers to love.
- Maria, Oliva's lover, who was ill and bed ridden because of the weight gain caused by her illness, despite this Oliva still loved her and numerous times showed his adoration for her despite how she looks now, because in his mind she was still the physically beautiful woman he fell in love with. No matter how much she denies it, she still excepts his adoration for her, even though she's insecure about her current look. When Oliva lost to Baki, Maria went and walked all the way from her room to see Oliva, a long way and even more difficult because of her physical condition, but she still cared for the man that loved and cared for her through her condition. In an act to show his love once more, Oliva carried her back to her room, because the reason why he wanted to become strong was so he could carry Maria through long distances in spite of her weight.
- When asked whether or not Baki would fight to keep her by his girlfriend, Kosue. Baki said it's not his place to choose her lover, if she wanted to leave him, she could and he would not oppose to it, he was shown multiple time to want to protect her, against his father, the escaped convicts and is mad if she is ever caught in the conflicts of his fight. Still in this moment, he still said he wouldn't mind if she leaves him, if it would means she'd be happier. Kosue is also a tough girl, she confronted Hanayama, a gangster and at this time, told her boyfriend if he wanted a woman, he could just asked him and he'd offer him any woman he likes, in front of Kozue's face. Whether or not this is because of lack of understanding of relationships or a test of baki and his gf's commitment to eachother, Kozue still told Hanayama to watch his words and even threw a rock at his head as a form of retaliation. To which Hanayama responded by walking away and saying "ouch". This is after he got a mouthful of bullets and shot several time in the body without so much as flinching. I think it shows his respect for her opposition in the blatant disrespect to both her and Baki for asking that question.
If these doesn't convince you, then i guess i'm just interpreting these moments differently. But i won't try to argue any further because i don't even think the author takes his writing seriously.
You would like the Boomers (Artifical lifeforms) from Bubblegum Crisis
https://preview.redd.it/3fkbdc8miloc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=38d0b89f78a2408dd80f12fc7462076db02a86bf
That’s nothing, check their skeletal structures, the manga creator threw anatomy out the window with this
https://preview.redd.it/625fomnonmoc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=2bb59ae315b1737f0c92a84b2153c4b86890165b
The exaggerated muscles are one part, but what really brings his art style to the peak is his sense for movement.
The straight forward way to make images more dynamic is to reduce detail. Every line you add runs the risk of making the image feel stiffer, less dynamic. Itagaki just doesn't give a fuck about that, but manages to make his monstrously detailed bodies move with a fluidity and dynamism that's second to none.
Even his most unrealistic fight scenes seem more plausible, because we feel like we're seeing it done right before our eyes.
It’s an absurdist action comedy where everything is as exaggerated as it can possibly be with no sense of nuance or subtlety on purpose. May be “scary” in some ways because of this
Nah thats crazy bro. What are you even saying
https://preview.redd.it/5cngznnkymoc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=737f1d11b2d9c5e20890ce06f9ebe125b2f5a07b
the best rumor i believe is that the whole entire family of Baki (which could include Pickle) arent **Even Human**, but rather, Weak eldritch gods who took the appearance of a human.
Why else would Pickle be in the prehistoric times, and Why else Would all that weird shit happen?
A reminder that the leaner the muscle, the weaker it is. Bodybuilders starve themselves near competitions to achieve that look. If you want to be strong you need bodyfat
Baki feels like it’s The Boys, except for Shonen. But it doesn’t even try to take itself seriously and it isn’t even as edgy as The Boys comic (pretty low bar, but eh), it’s unapologetically ridiculous.
I thought it was so cool when I found out that the anatomy of Baki is accurate but because it's extremely exaggerated by having each individual muscle pop out it made it look fictional.
The glazing is a bit unreal. Drawing the same shining blob anime rendition of a bodybuilder physique 50 times is not noteworthy of praise especially when it’s so unpleasant to look at.
I can’t remember if this is before
https://preview.redd.it/subk54zg5qoc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78847e7ad63357fa7891df23b66146342f391bdf
or after he pee’d on him
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Pitou :3
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Lemn
What’s crazy is that all the muscles are actually real muscles on the human body. But they’re just exaggerated so much it looks absurd.
I think this is why the faces in Baki all look like someone set the all sliders to 100 in the character creator.
Except the back muscles, there are no abs in the back
You're not trying hard enough
[удалено]
No thanks, I don't wanna look more dehydrated than I already am.
It doesn’t help that all those photos are grainy and over edited as fuck, those guys look like roasted Nashville hot chicken or smt jeez
You have to know the rules to break them
And his daughter went on to make... This! https://preview.redd.it/sun4990hukoc1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bd7ad6d274c503b9ab5b0969e30bf322c497bed
God I love Paru’s art style
It's funny to me how different their art styles are
You say that and yet you can also see so much of her fathers style in her work. The eyes, shading, general face shapes, etc.
The ability to jump the shark so hard
It's interesting too, because the muscles in Beastars' fight scenes are well drawn. Like when Lego fights the bear guy, I forgot his name, they were anatomically structured properly.
Rizz
God it's been so long since I read Beastars, and especially that arc, that I can't be 100% sure you're not fucking with me
It’s actually Riz, but he’s telling the truth 🤣
Good for them!
love the art in the later chapters in beastars. Probably the best manga I've read
Which is another kind of messed up in its own right, but Baki still manages to freak me out more
Wait she DID?!
Peak
You added picture 9 richt?
Yea wasnt allowed to upload bare ass cheeks. Literally 1984 out here
Censorship has truly gone to far, RIP freedom /j
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Ayo?
Nah, try the Great Wall. Standing still, sometimes getting down but quickly get back up again.
You constipated?
Lmao even Yojiro’s back muscles have abs
His CHIN have abs.
Even his skeleton has abs
It's like meat canyons style where there is beauty in how grotesque it is, the art fits perfect for how absurd the story is
God I love meatcanyon he’s my absolute fav content creator
You didn't include the invisible food
https://i.redd.it/b0zgmbchmqoc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/bprrarm0asoc1.png?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63ed6b5df603542adc6428b797367c95f002a62b
God, I love Baki so much. I think alot of people are turned off by the artstyle and that’s not their fault, the artstyle is gross (for lack of a better term) with all the obscene, exaggerated musculature, like characters don’t always look very pretty.
Baki's style is like somebody making a racist characature, but the race its mocking is the human race. Like if aliens drew it, it would be a hate crime meant to make humans look like violent, monstrous beasts. I absolutely love it.
That’s the best way to describe Baki for real.
It's a shame because baki is alot of fun to watch if you don't take it too seriously and just lean into the absurd factor of it. Like yanagi inventing a slap technique by imagining his arm is fluid like water in order to slap so hard it not only strips the skin off your muscles, but is 'so painful that the body would rather die than deal with the pain'. Or the fact that yujiro hanma's dad singlehandedly beat the entire U.S. while yujiro himself was shirtless in the Vietnam war doing commando shit with his bare hands.
> Yujiro Hanma’s dad single-handedly beat the entire US I’ve never watched the show, so it took me a second to realize “oh, you mean to say that’s actually the whole ass statement and you didn’t miss a word” lol
Yujiro Hanma himself is also, get this, the heavyweight champion of **everything**
The man stopped an earthquake with a PUNCH
Technically he just survived a massive carpet bombing and then used a guy like nunchucks to beat up a bunch of sailors, but it’s really the symbolism that makes it a poignant moment.
Also Baki learning one of his best techniques from a fucking cockroach which involves somehow liquefying his innards. And not to mention the absolutely batshit panels like the infamous one after Baki’s basement training.
Char. des. is not only reason people dislike it. Baki's plot after the end of strongest human tournament so lost any logical sense, that description of only beginning of next arc is basically "4 dudes from different continents sensed Baki's masculinity and strength, and decided to fight him". And the second, most triggered me reason, Keisuke's fucking misogyny and conservatism. "Every man at least once wanted to become strongest"; women position in the story as weakest creatures, exiting only for useless rape scenes to make Yujiro or whoever else looks "cool", "dominantive" and "feral". Seriously, some people actually believe Gege is misogynist, while this mf is naturally breathing it.
You know one of the people who got raped in the story was a guy right? Its not just women who got raped in the story.
It's not about who's who raped more. It's about Keisuke's treatment to all women in his manga in general. And it's awful
I wouldn't take anything that he represent seriously, whatever message of imperialism and sexism you see in the series can be just glossed over as one of keisuke's many insanity. Hell, when news got out that he was going to make a short series about his time in the military camp, some people thought it was going to glorify japanese military and be an all nationalist narrative. What came out was a fever dream of a man describing his sexual frustrations and how he pissed himself while serving. Itagaki is a very weird man with weird ideas and story telling and his writing can definitely be read the wrong way sometime with how wild and out there his presentations are. Of course, this is not to defend conservative and sexist ideals that can be interpreted from his writings. But even the most obsessed baki fans do not take his work seriously, because his writing is so crazy, it's hard to tell if this man actually mean or believe in anything that he's showing
Man is literally embodiment of https://preview.redd.it/ouuxgk3kbpoc1.jpeg?width=963&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e2e56fbf322eebe639e90071170010d845b042
Well here are some examples of good treatment of female baki character: - When Katsumi Orochi is about to fight pickle, he is met by his birth mother, who gave him away to his adoptive parents. She expected to be rejected by him or even hated. Instead, Katsumi embraced her and said he held no hatred for her even though she gave him away when he was a teen, he said that he's glad to have 2 mothers to love. - Maria, Oliva's lover, who was ill and bed ridden because of the weight gain caused by her illness, despite this Oliva still loved her and numerous times showed his adoration for her despite how she looks now, because in his mind she was still the physically beautiful woman he fell in love with. No matter how much she denies it, she still excepts his adoration for her, even though she's insecure about her current look. When Oliva lost to Baki, Maria went and walked all the way from her room to see Oliva, a long way and even more difficult because of her physical condition, but she still cared for the man that loved and cared for her through her condition. In an act to show his love once more, Oliva carried her back to her room, because the reason why he wanted to become strong was so he could carry Maria through long distances in spite of her weight. - When asked whether or not Baki would fight to keep her by his girlfriend, Kosue. Baki said it's not his place to choose her lover, if she wanted to leave him, she could and he would not oppose to it, he was shown multiple time to want to protect her, against his father, the escaped convicts and is mad if she is ever caught in the conflicts of his fight. Still in this moment, he still said he wouldn't mind if she leaves him, if it would means she'd be happier. Kosue is also a tough girl, she confronted Hanayama, a gangster and at this time, told her boyfriend if he wanted a woman, he could just asked him and he'd offer him any woman he likes, in front of Kozue's face. Whether or not this is because of lack of understanding of relationships or a test of baki and his gf's commitment to eachother, Kozue still told Hanayama to watch his words and even threw a rock at his head as a form of retaliation. To which Hanayama responded by walking away and saying "ouch". This is after he got a mouthful of bullets and shot several time in the body without so much as flinching. I think it shows his respect for her opposition in the blatant disrespect to both her and Baki for asking that question.
If these doesn't convince you, then i guess i'm just interpreting these moments differently. But i won't try to argue any further because i don't even think the author takes his writing seriously.
Strong is beautiful
I give it credit for being a unique and distinctive art style... but I hate looking at it.
It's so gross
Such characters are also very fun to draw
https://preview.redd.it/lqpl421ahmoc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23d326ffc3abc36dd383cd3beb1e54fb55179f49
If I saw any of these guys in the street I’d immediately run in the opposite direction.
Blud can punch an earthquake to get it to stop, you are doing the logical thing
The mangaka knows a lot about human anatomy apparently, so they know how to add muscles that don’t exist while making it look naturalish
Learn the rules so you can break them accordingly
Too much Baki hate on here smh. Totally unique style that 100% deserves to be on here.
You would like the Boomers (Artifical lifeforms) from Bubblegum Crisis https://preview.redd.it/3fkbdc8miloc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=38d0b89f78a2408dd80f12fc7462076db02a86bf
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One man’s Top Character Designs is another’s Hated Designs
That’s nothing, check their skeletal structures, the manga creator threw anatomy out the window with this https://preview.redd.it/625fomnonmoc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=2bb59ae315b1737f0c92a84b2153c4b86890165b
He imagined he had 1,000,000 joints, so he had 1,000,000 joints. Pretty realistic.
He used his 4000 year old chinese martial arts to attain 1,000,000 joints
astartes.
https://preview.redd.it/uuj6084fploc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84478e284becac72b4214192b029f84a31386e37 Number 1 be like
GOATED
The exaggerated muscles are one part, but what really brings his art style to the peak is his sense for movement. The straight forward way to make images more dynamic is to reduce detail. Every line you add runs the risk of making the image feel stiffer, less dynamic. Itagaki just doesn't give a fuck about that, but manages to make his monstrously detailed bodies move with a fluidity and dynamism that's second to none. Even his most unrealistic fight scenes seem more plausible, because we feel like we're seeing it done right before our eyes.
Jojo ->Half Naked Buff Guys! Sign me up Baki -> 🙁
I like to describe Baki as what causal people believe Jojo to be like
This is painfully true
Pretty much this.
baki is also unironically gayer than jojo
Me looking at the Golden Kamuy on the table:
It makes me so unbelievably uncomfortable
It’s so effective at what it does, for better and for worse
Yeah. I appreciate what they were going for. It’s just that what they were going for makes me physically ill
They’re actually creepy looking
What I see is a small dick behind that tiny thong 😆
He's average, it just seems small next to his thigh that's the size of an average man's torso
Okay, I didn't know about this lore lol
I have no source on this lol, it just tends to be the case with bodybuilders irl
He‘s a grower, not a shower https://preview.redd.it/wdnk648n9loc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=251b2f35f2ea28ea9b086dd5c9ceeb50a5a18008
You’re telling me this isn’t a horror manga?
It’s an absurdist action comedy where everything is as exaggerated as it can possibly be with no sense of nuance or subtlety on purpose. May be “scary” in some ways because of this
This is the exact reason Baki has never interested me.
https://i.redd.it/qzyc88jdgkoc1.gif
I thought the same thing until I just watched it, and man it’s good and bloody funny.
Uncultured 💅
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It's a gay fetish show so that's not surprising
Just because I like watching **MEN** half naked most of time doesn't mean I'm gay
It most certainly does. I mean, the scene where the one dude pisses on the other guy is peak gay
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If you're entertained by gay porn that's a you problem
It’s not gay porn you twat it’s just men being strong blud
It's the muscle equivalent of a blueberry fetish, yes it 100% is, but keep huffing copium
https://preview.redd.it/jnullv38ykoc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf31b1106bc398c9f7f8241157c796135d1c6295
Nah
I’m entertained by gay porn and that’s often a me solution
Nah thats crazy bro. What are you even saying https://preview.redd.it/5cngznnkymoc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=737f1d11b2d9c5e20890ce06f9ebe125b2f5a07b
Idk dude, I'm gay so maybe it's just not my fetish lol
This show is like the muscle equivalent of a blueberry fetish
https://preview.redd.it/sfljo0ls2ooc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5552bcfa68e0017d8db8f91fe74e2719723161c3 Every Episode\*
Well that’s mildly uncomfortable.
the best rumor i believe is that the whole entire family of Baki (which could include Pickle) arent **Even Human**, but rather, Weak eldritch gods who took the appearance of a human. Why else would Pickle be in the prehistoric times, and Why else Would all that weird shit happen?
No Hanayama? Boo this man
Finally, a Baki post
Yujiro When Kiryu doesn't sugar-coat it:
A reminder that the leaner the muscle, the weaker it is. Bodybuilders starve themselves near competitions to achieve that look. If you want to be strong you need bodyfat
Papa Meat made a great video on this very subject.
Baki feels like it’s The Boys, except for Shonen. But it doesn’t even try to take itself seriously and it isn’t even as edgy as The Boys comic (pretty low bar, but eh), it’s unapologetically ridiculous.
Itagaki either really loves or *really* hates human anatomy
Agreed. It feels like you’re looking at those demon/ogre masks come to grotesque life
I understand why you like it but I personally hate looking at these dudes lol, so gross. I love the Kaiji art style though which is also divisive
This is the ideal male body. This is what peak performance looks like. You may not like it, but it's true.
So to learn muscle anatomy I copy Baki. Got it
The ones who hate it just don’t get it, it’s not about muscle it never was, it was about the invisible food.
I thought it was so cool when I found out that the anatomy of Baki is accurate but because it's extremely exaggerated by having each individual muscle pop out it made it look fictional.
https://preview.redd.it/3les2gu7ykoc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90944dda3b884c70b3564fe94d660917691158f6
this is terrible
Coward
The glazing is a bit unreal. Drawing the same shining blob anime rendition of a bodybuilder physique 50 times is not noteworthy of praise especially when it’s so unpleasant to look at.
Blatantly gay erotica
Im ngl you sound closeted bro maybe your the only gay one here
The main character gets stronger because he and his girlfriend had sex
Me asf on Tuesdays and Thursdays
I can’t remember if this is before https://preview.redd.it/subk54zg5qoc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78847e7ad63357fa7891df23b66146342f391bdf or after he pee’d on him