Baki Hanma

What if JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure was less about buff dudes duking it out with powerful ghosts in increasingly asinine battles and instead focused on buff dudes duking it out with their gross yet intriguingly muscular bodies in increasingly asinine battles? Enter Baki Hanma

Baki Hanma, by TMS Entertainment, is an action anime about world-renowned fighter Baki as he battles against the world’s toughest martial artists. In this sequel series, the 18-year-old finds himself in an Arizona state prison after kidnapping the president. Turns out Baki’s act of domestic terrorism was all for the sake of battling the world’s strongest man and Arizona prison inmate, Biscuit Oliver

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Alongside the anime’s bizarre yet detailed depiction of the human anatomy in motion, Baki Hanma is also hilarious as hell. This feat is thanks to the serie’s universe taking place in our own. Baki and Oliver aren’t the only fighters in this prison, it just so happens that Mike Tyson (named “Iron” Michael) and Che Guevara (named Jun Guevaru) also throw down in the Arizona prison tournament.

Baki Hanma stands among Netflix’s catalog of anime as one of the smartest battle anime out there. While its character’s impossible physics take some getting used to, the anime perfectly accentuates the artistry and brutality of martial arts while occasionally embellishing its character’s superhuman feats.