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If the sound of fists hitting bodies, kicks, fighting in general and some side of humor is part of your ideal entertainment and you happen to like anime then Grappler Baki is a story that you will more than likely find enjoyable.

Baki is somewhat a deserted child; his father is the strongest man in the world. No. Literally, the man can kill a polar bear with his bare hands. Baki's only ambition is to be accepted from his father, meanwhile his overdramatized mother which doesn't really love him, instead is trapped in a one-sided love with the neglectful father and husband.

The story develops around Baki; he dreams to become strong. Stronger than his father. As he will be challenged to fight him for his life at some point. So he trains harshly for years until he finds that conventional methods are not something that will get him to where he needs to be to actually fight against his father.

At the early anime the story is more silly; there's even a monster that knows martial arts and most of the characters revolve around some sort of stereotype and exaggerated personality. Yet towards the end the story slowly switches tone and allows the second season to kick in.

During the second season a more mature, and a less silly Baki fights martial artists of different kinds. The techniques are loyal to real life ones, and the viewer gets to enjoy fights that would actually never take place in legitimate tournaments; indeed, in the second season all the fights take place in an underground tournament which declares the legitimate strongest man in the world.

It's not the greatest anime about fights out there; but it is one that follows its story, and to an extent understands its own setting without going out of its bounds to become something more in a negative or positive way. What the viewer at the end gets is a story about a neglected kid who strives to become the strongest man in the world, and ends up losing everything but the strive to fight to achieve that goal.