I like Baki the Grappler, and if we try to derive politics from it besides Itagaki's awful attitude toward sex (except when it's dudes homoerotically beating each other up, I guess), I think it would be hard to conclude that it's anything other than bafflingly reactionary in a vaguely Nietzschean way, because there is basically never any notion of a common good that is taken seriously except as a vector for blood feuds, and instead everything is about the aesthetic-athletic existence of fighters who will throw away their lives and endanger others because . . . well, it's hard to say, but there's just sort of an agreement among the whole cast that death is preferable to not living up to a completely self-imposed warrior ethos.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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i bet that person pirates the episodes anyway, who care?
Sure.. escapism is escapism.