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Post by onepenguin0 on Jun 7, 2016 5:59:14 GMT
Ah! I just checked the folders and realized that I somehow left out volumes 16-20 from the second series ('Baki'). I've just uploaded it now and placed it in the appropriate folder, so if you're missing it, it is now where it should have been. My humblest apology.
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Post by jedah on Jun 8, 2016 17:32:29 GMT
hello, this is christyu, I've translated the korean version of baki dou chapter to english for the readers back in dynamite forum before it was shut down, good to see y'all. I hope we can get the old community back  Awesome! Nice to see you, christyu! I agree, let's try to get some of the band back together. And thank you to Shenlong for creating the new Baki thread! Good times. |
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Post by onepenguin0 on Jun 10, 2016 12:20:46 GMT
I should point out that Wild Fang publicly released volume 20 of Grappler Baki on batoto, which bridges the gap between chapter 170 and our latest GB release; 181. Apparently this is their last public release of GB, which is a load off my mind. We'll continue with our v21 scanlations, which is where Maximum Tournament begins. It's gonna be great for those of you who didn't watch the anime or look at the raws!
Any questions about our Baki stuff, PM me. I'll always get back within a few hours.
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Post by dannythm on Jun 10, 2016 15:12:42 GMT
Well It's great to see the gap closed so soon, but I have to say, WFP scanlations are... to say it not so bluntly... lacking.
Edit: Even though, Yujiro is fucking great.
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Post by jedah on Jun 10, 2016 22:37:17 GMT
onepenguin0, a huge thanks for your continued hard work on the series.
I guess we already talked extensively about Motobe vs. Jack on the old forums. The consensus seems to be that Motobe has been granted superpowers for the current arc, in order to measure up with Musashi. Still, though, I don't think it'll be enough.
Musashi "killed" Gaia multiple times before he could even do anything. Is Motobe's approach truly going to be that much different? Unless Motobe has somehow mastered the "0.5 second rule" (where you can "react" instantly without any brain signal delay whatsoever) which Baki and Yujiro have mastered, I just don't see him being fast enough.
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Post by onepenguin0 on Jun 13, 2016 13:36:21 GMT
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Post by onepenguin0 on Jun 13, 2016 14:12:19 GMT
Musashi "killed" Gaia multiple times before he could even do anything. Is Motobe's approach truly going to be that much different? Unless Motobe has somehow mastered the "0.5 second rule" (where you can "react" instantly without any brain signal delay whatsoever) which Baki and Yujiro have mastered, I just don't see him being fast enough. I think you've misunderstood the brain thing, or at least have it misplaced. Baki and Yuujiro can't act within that 0.5 second time-frame; they can only try to predict when their opponent is going to strike and activate their trigger half a second before they *themselves* want to strike. That's why it made a balancing act in the father-son fight: each was trying to bait the other into a predictable trigger. Musashi on the other hand has a unique ability that no other fighter in the series has displayed: he can literally read their brain signals instantaneously, so unlike Baki or Yuujiro, he does not need to predict movement; he needs to predict thoughts at the most. All Musashi needs to do is activate his trigger when he either reads or predicts someone's thought/intent, which is why he's "surprising" all the fighters by acting instantly. Nobody (except Baki, I think?) knows that he can do this, so they don't understand how he's reading their moves before they make them. Take a look at pages 2 and 3 here: spinybackmanga.com/?manga=Baki+Dou&chapter=Chapter+077+Indeed#page=2Musashi has initiated his trigger in the first panel of page 2. Shibukawa moves for 0.5 seconds before Musashi's body moves to exactly where he predicted Shibukawa would be. So I have no idea what Motobe will do. We don't actually know what Motobe knows, which is key to the story here, I think. He might know about the mind-reading ability; he might not, but what we can say pretty much for sure is that he knows about Musashi's imagination slashes by now. If he doesn't, he will once he talks to Gaia. It's quite possible (imo probable) that he's mentally prepared to ignore them, as a practitioner of the old arts. The imagination slash may well just be an old technique that nobody save Motobe bothered to preserve because it doesn't actually 'do' anything. Regardless of all of that, I'm with you on the speed thing: I don't think Motobe is fast enough to match Musashi. That being said, he's distinctively aware of that fact - he knows and acknowledges that he can't move like Retsu, Baki or Jack in a fair fight. I'm thinking that he's going to have a ridiculously complicated plan that involves a huge amount of prep time, which would explain why he didn't just go fight Musashi as soon as he learned that the man was alive. |
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Post by cowboychamploo on Jun 17, 2016 17:35:07 GMT
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Post by cowboychamploo on Jun 18, 2016 16:01:40 GMT
Is Pickle not eating because of Musashi?
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Post by onepenguin0 on Jun 19, 2016 0:39:35 GMT
Pickle isn't eating because he realized (I guess after the fact) that Musashi is edible. He doesn't want to eat his normal food - T-Rex meat - because it's not a challenge. He's not "refusing to eat", he's simply "not eating". Baki says that Pickle doesn't want to eat 'food', he wants to eat a 'banquet'. Tokugawa is concerned that Pickle is going to be too weak to fight Musashi in the first place: he hasn't eaten in four days (they brought him back to Korakuen four days ago). Baki reassures Tokugawa by relating an idea that Doppo explained to him earlier: in the wilderness, starvation is/puts you in the best condition possible. Baki then expresses an interesting sentiment, which I think is meant to finally begin grounding this arc: he says he's been constantly thinking about whether or not a T-Rex's fangs could really be "lesser than" Musashi's blades.
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Post by cowboychamploo on Jun 20, 2016 15:44:59 GMT
Thanks soo much, getting translations and explanations of these newer chapters is hell. Still can't figure out why this series has such a small following in the US.
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Post by onepenguin0 on Jun 22, 2016 0:26:29 GMT
The small following is presumably because the first series isn't fully translated into English. Even Wild Fang hasn't finished it yet, somehow.
Also, some time ago, the series was hard to piece-together because volumes of every series were missing, so readers couldn't have the sort of vested-interest in the continuity that we now have today.
I've been discussing means of getting attention for the series in the US with a few people, and it's difficult stuff. Overall consensus is that it's best-marketed towards actual athletes (lifters, runners, WWE people) and martial artists, which gives us a venue, but no means. Perhaps the best pragmatic bet to expand the fanbase would be to trick Crunchyroll into picking up the series but again, I dunno how we could accomplish that. Baki has 132 volumes out; it'd be hard to convince *any* publisher, physical or digital, to even think about touching that.
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Post by cowboychamploo on Jun 22, 2016 22:48:57 GMT
 A little something i started on yesterday from one of the chapter covers, I think mine looks a little too buff compared to the original lol. Itagaki has some of the best artwork in the business |
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Post by dannythm on Jul 5, 2016 18:56:31 GMT
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Post by shenlong on Jul 5, 2016 19:45:14 GMT
Well, hasn't really been the case so far. Musashi's punked everyone bar Yujiro against who he had an even fight. You might be right, but if "real" strength is hanma strength, then, nobody in the world is really strong except the Yujiro and Baki. I mean, it'd be kind of a useless point, it'd be like saying "yeah, a gun causes less damage than a black hole."
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