Originally posted by krisblaze
Without spoiling I would say that's why a lot of people like Kengan.
Baki, too, of course is brilliant.
Damn shame Baki-dou 2 has been trash though...aside from the memes at least.I wonder why we get so few comics that are more oriented around fighting and such.
At the second episode of season 2.
I am also reading the manga side by side. Some of the differences are striking.
In visual design, of course, but I'm used to that. But also in narrative choices. The 5 year old Shogun, for example, the manga makes one mention of his suggestion of merchants holding fist fights to settle disputes to be a child like suggestion, and then goes on to suggest how abandoning all out war in favor of a contained tournament is a better alternative, and something adults set in their ways could never think of.
Meanwhile, the anime calls his suggestion childISH, and stresses several times that it's a ridiculous idea, but that the Shogun has absolute authority.
Maybe they figured a westernized audience wouldn't be able to identify with the reverence Japan has for its history. Or maybe the translators themselves inserted their own biases.
Personally, I prefer the non westernized version.