Hanma Baki vs. Kengan Ashura Episode 1 Discussion (2024)

ryzxgum

otakuweek

it was like expected between the 2, a draw

I had a great time so i will not complain for the little things...

7/10

Chi_JMD_23

Dustin1280

• They teased a pickle fight, but then it got stopped.
  
• They introduced Yujiro and Kuroki only to have them leave right away. Also Kuroki Gensai doesn't hold a candle to Yujiro, but they made it seem like they would have a decent match. I feel like Kuroki is more comparable to Doppo...
  
• The entire show was basically built around the Ohma/Baki fight, though we knew that would end up a draw.
  
• The only even semi-interesting fight was Ohma vs Baki, everything else was just the spectators telling us how amazing these people are without actually showing anything very interesting in the first place.
  

I mean, I knew I couldn't expect something amazing from this, but it ended up being even less interesting then I thought it would have been originally.

I still kinda liked it because we got to see characters from the two best fighting anime's interact with each other, but overall it was a disappointment :(

paveljanik

phantomfandom

This feels like a one-hour commercial for the upcoming Kengan Ashura Season 2 Part 2 and Baki-dou so please don't think too much about this, just turn your brain off.

With that said, after watching this, I realized that using 3DCG model for Kengan anime is the RIGHT method. Handdrawn may work well with Baki, but definitely it's not for Kengan. But since in this anime, Baki is "home team" while Kengan is "away team", Kengan must rendered in the same method as Baki.

jas-samaaa

nandao

nandao

ST63LTH

ST63LTH

I don't get how some people are thinking this is a masterpiece with that kind of development lol.

Green_Giorno

Baki is and always will be my goat of goats, the greatest of all time, he would have totally won if the battle wasn't interrupted there is no doubt in my mind. I kinda knew it would end in a draw, kinda strange. They seem to set it up for more installments possibly in the future, idk what was going on with the Death Row Convicts and that one guy but whatever.

Overall decent, extremely slow at the beginning, lack of OST during a lot and a lot of talking made a lot of it very boring, but the fights were a f*cking spectacle, I was hopping out of my seat cheering Baki on. I'd like to see a continuation of their battle one day!!

The minor characters doing their own little things was so f*cking funny. The post credits scene of the two guys trying not to piss themselves was insane. Also, that f*cking guy has "DAMN" written across his teeth. Wtf lol.

GakutoDeathGlare

Ronninn

Brunilde

Ranxomare

6/10

kekeke

BiggKab

nandao

Luthandorius

Showed a lot of the chars I liked and paired them up well. Like ... with the both doctors. The musculous guys (Julius Reinhold and Oliva). And of course the official matches.

Now I want a Baki vs. Dance Dance Danseur. :D (With sexy muscuolus fighter guys doing ballet lol. Would be fun to see Oliva.)

And tbh I rarely watch these kind of specials. (I usually even skip some normal 1-2 episode OVAs of anime - with just fan service and beach episodes.) Usually I don't even know most series. (Like with the Isekai Quarthet thing where I have only really watched two of the four anime they used for that crossover.) Lucky that I liked Baki and Kengan Ashura and that it was just about these two - while usually not watching that many shounen. (And never really got interested in JoJo.)

Skydis

Stickers

PrimeX

6

Nemo_Niemand