For all the praise this arc gets, anyone else thinks it's

what would you want instead

>>149480110
An proper fight instead of 20 chapters of Sirkosky being a punching bag? Or at least for him to be a punching bag for someone he actually interacted with.

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It was good that Doyle was worthless. That was the whole point of his character; you can't cheat to get to the top. And Motobe's reintroduction as the guy who beats Yanagi was perfect. There is nothing wrong with him reappearing like that at all.

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>>149480406
>implying Gaia isn't in every single chapter in heavy camouflage

Every character interacts with him on a daily basis and they don't even know it

>>149477732
baki is fun, and maybe you forgot what fun is after browsing 4chan too much

>Take the eye out of the Jujitsu grandmaster
>Humble him again after 20 years
>Hold your own against him and the current underground champion (manga protagonist), knock out said champion
>lose to him later after having your special skill performed on you and teaming up 2 on 1
> ruin your sword trying to kill another convict because...?
>Get wrecked by a meme character whose sole actual fight till then was losing to a sumo wrestler

Swing of a pendulum for Yanagi

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>>149481817
Yanagi's just lucky that Shibukawa didn't get there in time, or he would have actually died.

>>149482213
Is he even alive after getting backhanded by Yujiro?

Any new info about the OAD?

>>149482248
Well, Speck didn't die even when he died, so, more likely than not, yes.

>>149477732
Yeah, it's 100% no payoff since there's no "final boss" of this arc. It's just a collection of raw entertaining fights, which is honestly Baki's best part, especially when side characters are the ones fighting because honestly, Baki's a bit boring.

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>>149477732
What the hell are you saying? The payoff is huge and it's even better that it's not Baki and the usual gang hogging up all the shit at the end of the arc.
>Then Doyle turns out to be a huge chump who gets shit on by absolutely everyone
Doyle managed to not get instantly destroyed by Oliva, though it's arguably due to the fact that he was tired from all the shitposting.
Him getting wrecked was part of the character, like Strydum tells him, he's not even a grappler, just a lucky freak.
>while Sirkosky and Yanagi get finished off by characters reintroduced out of nowhere
Sikorsky got to fight against Baki twice, then he was stupid or unlucky enough to pick a fight with Jack, and whoever actively picks a fight with Jack gets stomped, but he did have a fair amount of screentime.
Yanagi was the one with the better score together with Dorian, but he was unlucky enough to stir a meme deity from his slumber, and it was a fitting end for him too, since he used a pretty OP technique which isn't orthodox fighting he got memed on by a weapon user.

And you have to remember that it wasn't a fight, it was an all out war with no rules, anyone could participate, anyone could attack anyone, anywhere, anyhow, anytime, and that's precisely what happened.

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>whoever actively picks a fight with Jack gets stomped