the manga is kick ass. maybe they’ll bring it back since MMA is huge now.
New baki raw is out over at raw paradise, we got some very nice color pages, two baki shirts are coming out(one based on pickle and the other based on the Son of Ogre logo).
Very good chapter even though I couldn’t read it, from the sheer amount of references to Yuujirou all throughout, I can only guess that Baki is comparing Pickle to full power Yuujirou, and with Baki being able to effortlessly dodge Pickle’s berserker swings, the old man’s most likely next.
I always wanted a Baki shirt, ever since I saw the PRIDE one.
^Yeah, there’s several of them, but they’re very rare, the earlier ones I’ve seen were from a company called IVY Fight wear, but I couldn’t find a site for them, all the shirts I found were on yahoo auction japan(but too small for me taking japanese sizing into account -_-)
I saw the movie back in 1999 and I was immediately drawn to the series after that. I watched Season 1 and 2 of Grappler Baki. The manga picks up after that (Jack Hanma)??? Damn, I never knew that. I will be getting the manga when I reach back into the States then!
Everything that is one that site I’m up to date on.
And where are the scans for everything between Pickle vs Katsumi and Pickle vs Baki?
^Still private, Ichido only released those volumes because Rigzag leaked them. :bluu:
EDIT: I’ll probably be paying for the weeklies soon, so I can get the scans+color pages translated, think it’s like $30 for 8 chapters >.>, but you do get them right away, and with how infrequent the raw paradise scans are getting(the guy who was giving us scans was only in japan studying abroad and had to come home this smmer), it’ll be the fastest way to stay up to date
Damn really? I was hoping the company that made them were gonna make some more, I would love to have a Baki vs Gomi shirt or even a Fedor vs Yuujirou shirt :lol:
I’ve found 5-6 scanlated Vols. of Holyland/Holy Land, gonna read them later on, were there any more scanlated?
@sarc- Check out Oyaji too, that is one of the manliest mangas I’ve read :nunchuck: Has Vol. 2 been fully scanlated yet? (Also thanks for introducing this series to me BEWD)
^Np tizoc, WFP WAS doing holyland, but I think that was dropped in light of another group picking it up and releasing regularily, no more oyaji yet, don’t know what’s gonna happen wiith scans going forward.
I started reading HolyLand today. Pretty nice. Really straight forward and deep.
Been reading it for a while it’s really good.
Might i recommend this as well.
http://www.onemanga.com/Teppu/
Female martial arts manga centered around MMA.
Very similar in style to holyland with the emphasis on going into technical explanations.
Teppu looks pretty interesting, surprised I hadn’t heard of that one, there’s also Kakuto Bijin/Fighting Beauty Wulong(though I don’t think there’s any scans yet but you can find subs of the anime) which predates this, and was actually modeled off of Pride FC, then there’s Air Master too which I’m sure some are familiar with, don’t know too many other ones with female protagonists. (Though Aiki might count, even though Joukyuu’s more at the forefront and is basically the main character at the current point in the story.)
Also two I’d recommend is Player Kill and Veritas, they’re Korean Manwha, Player Kill is based on MMA with the protagonist being introduced to style vs style match ups in an underground setting, the art’s pretty rough though, like what you’d see in news paper comic strip, but it has solid action and I like the characters. Now Veritas has absolutely stunning art, probably the best looking korean manwha I’ve seen so far, easily on par with Tenjou Tenge as far as art quality is concerned. But it’s also more fantastical like TenTen as well.
I read the 4 chapters of Teppu and its pretty interesting. Finally get to see some ground game in a manga. I’ll check out Player Kill as well.
^Dude, read the Tough chapters that made up the Kiibo vs Manji Shindou fight, that was more or less all grapples hahah(Stand Alone Scanlation translates Tough, which is the sequel series to Koko-Tekken Den Tough)
Are you talking about Teppu or Player Kill? Because OM only has 4 chapters of Teppu and no Player Kill
I’m currently reading Veritas. It’s pretty good.
I’ve seen Air Master which wasn’t bad at all.
Wow my vision is shitty as hell now that I didnt see Player Kill.
Or maybe it was because I was looking under the MA category.
Also hear Ultra Red is really good, but short and open ended
http://www.onemanga.com/Ultra_Red/
Starting it today, along with Noritaka(Muay Thai manga), no opinion yet, but we’ll see how it turns out. The author of Ultra Red really admires Grapplers, which led him to writing Ultra Red(he also had a previous manga about grapplers too, no idea what it’s called though)