Summary

• Baki's absurdity is showcased with hilarious moments like imitating dinosaurs and imaginary animal training.
• Yujiro's antics, like using Baki as nunchuks, or making guards fight themselves, add to the series' humor.
• The show's randomness, like Yuichiro's ghost appearing, makes Baki stand out from other fighting anime.

Baki is one of the most absurdly ridiculous animes out there. The story is centered around the titular Baki as he seeks to avenge his mother and defeat his father in combat. While that may seem straightforward, the story is anything but. Baki takes logic and throws it out of the window whenever it wants to, usually to great comedic effect. Some of the moments in the show are so utterly comical, that they're downright hilarious, which is surprising for an anime that features some of the best fights anyone can watch.

Baki is the perfect show to watch if you want to turn your brain off. It features great fighting, well-written side characters, and some of the most unintentionally funny moments in anime. While other fighting anime might be concerned with realism, or making sure the tone is serious, Baki can make anyone laugh from the sheer ridiculousness.

10 Baki Imitates Dinosaurs

The Newest Fighting Style Isn't New After All

One of Baki's more straightforward arcs involves Pickle, a man from the time when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Pickle was revived back into modern times, creating a new power dynamic between him and the rest of the world's strongest fighters. Baki, in order to take down the ancient man, learned the fighting style of Pickle's opponents from his time: dinosaur style. Instead of using karate, Muay Thai, or another fighting style, Baki bears down on his back legs and imitates a Triceratops.

Baki Hanma is voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki in the Japanese version while Troy Baker and Blake Jackson have both voiced Baki for the English dub.

It works. Baki lept at Pickle with the force of a dinosaur and gave the primitive fighter something new to chew on. Baki imitating a dinosaur when he fights is hilarious considering the fact that most of his friends teach legitimate martial arts at a masterful level. There's no point in learning how to punch if you can just imitate a T. rex, apparently.

9 Yuichiro's Ghost Emerges

Baki Meets His Grandpa for the First Time

Baki and his father Yujiro Hanma are destined to fight each other. In what should be their final confrontation, Yujiro was beating Baki badly. Baki was only 17 at the time but was putting up a very good fight against his father, the strongest man in the world. In the middle of their fight, out of nowhere, Yuichiro Hanma's ghost appears. Yuichiro is Yujiro's father and widely regarded as the former strongest man in the world.

Yujiro was beating Baki badly. Baki was only 17 at the time but was putting up a very good fight against his father

This moment is hilarious because it came out of nowhere, as the character was not even mentioned before. Yuichiro appears, tells Yujiro he's a punk for having such a hard time with a child, and encourages Baki to beat him. He then disappears as quickly as he appeared. While Baki might be odd, it doesn't have any supernatural elements, making this moment even funnier for its randomness.

8 Alai Jr. Cries All Over Kozue

Even Tears Can't Be Taken Seriously

Alai Jr. is a complicated character in Baki. He's supposed to be the best boxer in the world, and while that might be true, boxing doesn't hold a candle to whatever Baki does. Not only does Alai Jr. act arrogant like he's going to defeat Baki, but he even hits on Baki's girlfriend, Kozue. Kozue declined, but not before Alai Jr. promised to beat Baki and earn her hand. Baki beats Alai Jr. so quickly he doesn't even what happened, making his earlier arrogance funny.

After the fight, Alai Jr. is so torn apart he's weeping outside the stadium. Kozue finds him and holds him, looking at him like a mother looks at a child. Alai Jr.'s tears then fly all over Kozue's face like someone's spraying her with a hose, taking all the sincerity out of the moment and replacing it with jaw-dropping humor.

7 Retsu Follows a Guard

Putting a New Meaning into the Word "Shadowing"

When Pickle's existence is unveiled to the world, the world's best fighters are ecstatic. They want to see and meet the man who can supposedly defeat them all in battle. He's being kept hidden on a secret military base though, and there's no way any of the fighters will get to just walk in and meet him. Retsu, however, has a solution. He sneaks onto the base, walking mere inches behind a guard to shadow him.

While he's walking behind a guard, the guard meets one of his compatriots. The two guards have an entire conversation, with flashlights in their hand, and never once notice Retsu. While most of Baki is absurd, this moment takes the cake. It's one of the funniest moments in the series because the show plays it completely seriously, as if this could ever happen.

6 Baki Trains With Imaginary Animals

He Got Beat up by a Fake Praying Mantis

Baki just wants to get stronger, that's it. He doesn't really care how he does it either, meaning he's willing to find new ways to train. One of the most absurd training regiments Baki begins includes fighting imaginary animals. He realizes that the strongest beings aren't just the ones that he can fight right now. He finds a praying mantis and decides that it will be his next training partner. In one of the most ridiculously funny moments of the series, Baki pretends to fight a huge, imaginary version of the praying mantis.

The moment is made even better by Rumina, a local kid curious as to what Baki is up to. Rumina sees the praying mantis just as well as Baki does, which is hilarious considering it doesn't exist. Baki even gets thrown into a wall by his fake enemy, creating one of the most laughable images in the series. After this, Baki's "power of imagination" becomes one of his prominent skills, that allows him even to alter his body to produce impressive techniques.

5 Yujiro Uses Baki as Nunchuks

He Did It on Display for Everyone

Just because Yujiro is Baki's dad doesn't mean he's going to take it easy on him. In fact, the opposite is true. Yujiro constantly pushes Baki to his limits because he realizes Baki is the only person that could ever give him a challenge. Yujiro pushes Baki to his limits during their street fight where Yujiro uses the legendary "Dress" move on Baki. The move is called "Dress" because it involves Yujiro using Baki as a human nunchuk, spinning him around his own body so quickly it looks like he's wearing him.

What makes this even more absurd is that this move was invented by Yujiro's father, Yuichiro, and used to "defeat the United States" during the Second World War. Yuichiro assaulted a US battleship alone, dressed only in his loincloth, and unleashed the move on the soldiers, who were so terrified by it that they flung themselves into the sea.

However, the craziness doesn't even end there. While Yujiuro is using the move to literally smash Baki into a car repeatedly, the boy is not only protecting his vitals, but also collects small pieces and bits from the car to assemble a doll, which he then presents to his father. It doesn't get more Baki than this.

Akio Otsuka voiced Yujiro Hanma in the Japanese version while Kirk Thornton did it in the English version.

4 Evil Inmates Break Out To Fight

The Most Absurd Premise in Anime

Baki isn't just absurdly funny in small moments. Entire arcs can be based on some of the funniest premises in anime, and no arc in Baki is funnier than the "Most Evil Death Row Convicts Saga". The entire arc is based on five of the world's most dangerous criminals all breaking out of their maximum security prisons simultaneously. They don't know each other, and yet they all have the same goal in mind: to know defeat.

To say the arc doesn't make any sense would be an understatement. The prisoners, who have no connection whatsoever, all break out at the same time with the same goal. They all travel to Japan to fight Baki, who isn't even the strongest person in the world at that point. They all eventually get defeated by Baki or one of his friends and no reasoning is given for their struggle. They just break out of super jail, show up to Japan, and get knocked out. It's Baki in a nutshell.

3 Yujiro Wants Baki To Become a Man

He Breaks in To Encourage His Son

Yujiro created Baki so that one day he might have someone worth fighting. While he is Baki's mortal enemy, he also acts as a trainer, giving him vital tips to encourage his growth. While a normal dad might tell his son to work harder or eat healthily in order to get stronger, Yujiro takes a different approach. One night, while Baki and his girlfriend Kozue are sharing an intimate moment, Yujiro breaks in and demands that Baki loses his virginity.

He says that if Baki wants to get stronger, he has to throw celibacy out of the window. With an entirely straight face, in the middle of his son's intimate moment, Yujiro tells Baki to have at it. It's so absurd, it's hilarious. Yujiro acting like this is a normal thing to tell his son is the ridiculousness that makes Baki great.

2 Yujiro Walks Through Glass

A Ridiculous Display of Strength

Yujiro is the strongest person on the planet by some distance. He's actively looking for someone strong enough to fight against, so when he hears about Pickle, he can't help but investigate. He finds Pickle and the rest of the world's strongest fighters in Pickle's cage on a military base. They're behind "unbreakable" glass, so as a display of strength, Yujiro simply walks through it. After some insane face-pushing, Yujiro smashes through the glass wall like it's made of paper.

Yujiro is the strongest person on the planet by some distance. He's actively looking for someone strong enough to fight against

The glass shreds his shirt but doesn't leave a mark on his body. Everyone, Pickle included, is incredibly impressed by this feat. Yujiro then tests Pickle's strength and is happily surprised by what he finds. Yujiro deciding to walk through the glass instead of opening a door is a perfectly absurd way to show off Baki in its totality.

1 Yujiro Makes Soldiers Fight Themselves

Anything Is Better Than Fighting the Ogre

Yujiro is the strongest person around, and he's not the only person to know it. His sheer presence commands people to do things they might not normally do, like when he made guards fight each other. While Retsu snuck around the prison base to find Pickle stealthily, Yujiro walked right up to the front door. At first, the guards were willing to defy Yujiro and tell him off. One look at his aura, however, had them thinking otherwise.

Out of nowhere, two of the guards started beating each other. The third guard started punching himself in the face. Yujiro then monologues, explaining that the men instinctively realized that fighting themselves was the only way he wouldn't kill them all. It's easily the most ridiculously hilarious moment in all of Baki, but it also made sense because the series established earlier that Yujiro is one of the few men in the world who is stronger than firearms. Good for the soldiers to catch on to that.