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[exciting opening theme music plays]
[Rumina] Baki and I headed to his house.
It was so weird.
Even though we were walking through a residential area,
there was enough graffiti to put a public bathroom to shame.
But when I looked closer and actually read what was written,
I realized that most of it was insults directed at Baki.
BAKI, YOU BASTARD
There's so much graffiti on everything.
The guys who did this aren't actually able to fight against me,
so instead they fight me with their words.
[Rumina] None of it seemed to bother him at all.
They even tagged your house.
In his room, Baki began doing some stretches.
-[Baki grunts, inhales] -He's unbelievably flexible.
[Baki exhales]
So, uh, about what you said before…
-[Baki] Mm-hmm. -You know?
About your shadowboxing opponent from earlier?
Oh, yeah.
You said that Iron Michael was basically little more than just a warm-up.
[grunts]
You're going to fight your father, aren't you?
Well, it's all because my old man and I can't seem to get along.
He's really strong, isn't he? Your father?
[chuckles softly]
He's the undisputed openweight champion of all the creatures in the whole world.
Lions, tigers, elephants, killer whales…
Hell, even cancer doesn't stand a chance.
[Rumina] His father is going to be his enemy,
but Baki actually sounds kind of impressed when he's talking about him.
So, uh, if you're going to be fighting your father,
you'll need to spar against a really strong opponent.
What kind of monster could be even stronger than Iron Michael?
-[Baki] Hey. -Huh?
It's right down in here.
[gasps] What?!
[unsettling sting]
It's underground?
[clock ticking]
A drab, dingy, almost completely empty room.
The only furniture: a table sitting over by the wall.
Uh, Baki?
My old man has accepted me as his opponent.
Apparently, he took on an African elephant that was the size of a dinosaur.
[elephant trumpets]
[Baki] Stronger than a lion, tiger or bear,
the largest and strongest African elephant in the entire world.
[elephant growling]
[gasps]
So then, knowing that,
who do you suppose I oughta fight?
[both gasp]
-[whipcrack] -[groans]
[inhales sharply]
[exhales]
Rumina, there's an opponent
that's a whole lot stronger than any elephant.
And it's sitting right there on that table.
[grunts uncertainly]
[whimpers]
-[gasps] Seriously? -[hissing]
That is stronger than an elephant?
[hesitantly] Uh, but this is just…
Yeah, a praying mantis.
And that's your opponent?
It may sound unbelievable, but when it comes to fighting,
insects are actually the best of the best.
Animals have nothin' on 'em.
You're kidding?
Not even a little bit.
First off, their strength is in a different league.
[uncertainly] Uh, their strength?
Predators like tigers and lions are able to drag prey
that weighs nearly 2,000 pounds.
But since they weigh about 500 pounds,
their max is three or four times their weight.
Now, how does that compare to an insect?
Well, an insect can easily carry seven or eight times its weight,
all the way back to its nest without stopping.
You weigh about what, 65 pounds, Rumina?
You think you could carry a 450-pound man
from your school all the way back to your house?
Uh, no, there's no way that I could.
[whooshes]
It's not unusual for a deer to make a 30-foot leap.
They do it all the time.
But that's a total joke compared to a flea or a grasshopper.
If a flea were the size of a human,
it could easily hop over a ten-story building.
You can get a sense of it when you pick an insect up.
They weigh a thousandth of what a person weighs,
but despite that,
you could feel their power in your fingertips.
If they weighed the same as us, there's no way we would win.
If we were kicked by those legs,
or if we were held down by those powerful front limbs,
or if we were bitten by those mandibles,
it would not end well for us.
[gasps, gulps]
And then there's the praying mantis.
[praying mantis hissing]
[Baki] He's truly a pro fighter.
Also, the praying mantis hook is a well-known fighting form
that's been in Chinese martial arts for centuries.
-Striking, grappling, biting… -[crunching]
Pure ferocity.
They're top of their class no matter what they do.
They are perfect fighters,
with few weaknesses in their offense.
And if they they weighed 200 pounds,
then they'd almost certainly prey on African elephants.
But, it's… so small…
I'll make it bigger.
How are you gonna do that?
I'll use this and this.
I was able to summon Iron Michael all the way from America,
and have him appear right next to the Tama River
so I could spar against him.
[gasps]
[Baki] Iron Michael isn't even alive anymore.
-[dramatic sting] -I brought him back.
[whooshing, humming]
So it'll be easy to create a match with a 200-pound praying mantis.
[sounds fade]
[gasps]
[Baki grunts]
[hisses]
-[grunts] -[power whooshes]
That move!
That's the kick that defeated Iron Michael!
-[thud] -[grunts]
[groans, gasps]
[heavy metal music plays]
Baki looks so tense.
But why?
He's fighting a praying mantis that only exists in his mind.
Something he created himself.
[Baki gasps]
Hang on, he's tipping back and looking farther up.
[gasping]
-What kind of monster did he manifest? -[hissing]
[loud crash]
[grunting]
[gasps]
[grunts uncertainly]
It's just like he said.
A 200-pound praying mantis
is way stronger than a 450-pound tiger or lion.
-[exciting heavy metal plays] -[grunts]
[gasps] Huh?
[straining]
[gasps]
[Baki straining]
[Rumina] Is it-- Is it possible?
Can it be?
-[straining] -But did he?
Did he actually get caught by his own manifestation?
[straining]
-[grunts] -[Rumina] He connected!
He landed a clean hit to its chin.
-[whooshing] -[screams]
[grunts]
-[rubble clatters] -[gasps]
[Baki groans] Ow.
[Rimuna] If he just made the mantis smaller,
then he'd be able to win, no problem.
I mean, he could've just stomped on it by now.
He's so strict with himself.
[groaning]
-[gasps] -[thud]
[Rumina] No ordinary martial art will work against a giant praying mantis.
So Baki's movements began to turn into something
unlike any fighting technique.
[hands whooshing]
He kept on fighting in that dingy, little room.
[exhales sharply]
He kept attacking and defending
against an enemy that didn't even exist.
And I kept watching,
so I wouldn't miss a single thing.
-[whooshing] -I followed Baki's movements.
But it was hard to know what was really going on.
I watched…
But then…
[loud ding]
Just like when you see a phone holster
and instinctively know what it's supposed to hold,
or when you see a book cover
and right away know what size book it's for.
Or when you see half of a pendant
and can immediately imagine what its other half looks like.
I could see it.
-[grunting] -[strikes landing]
[Rumina] Little by little,
-down there in that dingy, empty room… -[exciting music playing]
…something that wasn't there
slowly, but surely…
[hissing]
eventually…
[gasps] I could see it!
[whooshing]
What Baki had created was an insect that weighed over 200 pounds!
After finally seeing it,
I almost wanted to cry
out of sheer despair for what he'd been fighting.
But Baki kept facing off against it,
confronting it head-on.
[elephant trumpets]
[Rumina] Baki's father, said to be the strongest man in the world,
had apparently defeated
an African elephant the size of a dinosaur.
[growling]
But still, no matter how strong an African elephant might be,
its only real advantage is in its size.
But if it were as small as an insect,
its strength would be no better than…
[dramatic sting]
…a caterpillar's.
Then practically out of nowhere…
-[whooshing] -[Baki grunts]
…came Baki's finely honed kick.
The speed, the timing,
it connected perfectly!
I expected a knockout.
-[whoosh] -[Baki grunts]
[groans]
[Baki] Of course.
-[gasps] -[rubble clatters]
[Baki] I had a bad feeling and I was right.
It's as if there's no brain inside the praying mantis's head at all.
[whoosh, thud]
So where a human would get a concussion, nothing happens to the mantis.
Attacking its head won't do anything.
[strike whooshes]
[Baki grunts]
[Rumina] You got it!
Whatever you do, don't let go!
[Baki] What the…
Wait.
It sees me.
It can see me even when I'm behind it!
[groans] Oh!
Plus, it is, like, super agile.
[straining]
[grunts] It's trying to eat me!
[Baki grunts]
[ominous heavy metal music playing]
[straining] It's stronger than I thought.
[grunts loudly]
[Rumina] Trying to overpower an insect with strength alone
is completely pointless.
-[Baki straining] -[praying mantis hissing]
-[grunts] -[loud thud]
[Baki] It doesn't matter… who my opponent is.
Whether I'm facing a human, a beast, or an insect…
[spits]
…the approach is the same.
I know what I'm capable of.
[grunts]
I'll stay focused.
And fight like I always do!
[grunts]
This thing is hard as metal!
But I can bend metal.
Whoa!
Baki, look out!
[grunts] It doesn't have a weakness.
But I know my strengths.
It's super agile,
but so am I!
[crunching thud]
[Rumina] He managed to grab it.
He's pinned the praying mantis's legs in a hold.
Break it!
-[strains, yells] -[leg crunches]
[Baki yelps]
[yelling] Whoa!
[yells]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[Baki coughs, groans]
[groaning] Okay, that didn't work.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Rumina] This is ridiculous.
I don't get why he has to take it this far.
No matter how effective a training exercise might be
to imagine your strongest opponent,
the truth is you're not actually fighting anything.
Baki is in an empty basement
fighting against an illusion
that was conjured up by his own imagination.
This isn't a real match or competition.
He doesn't have to do this.
Baki, look, that's enough! You've done enough, you hear?
-[Baki wheezing] -You don't need to take it this far!
Stop it, Baki! This is insane.
[grunts]
[Rumina] He's not listening anymore.
-What I'm saying doesn't matter. -[high-pitched ding]
He's lost in the illusion of the praying mantis.
[praying mantis hissing]
[Rumina] It's to the point where he can even feel its body heat.
[grunts]
[Baki] Okay.
With eyes like that,
it doesn't have a blind spot that I can exploit.
So it doesn't really matter what direction it might be facing.
Because it always has the whole room in its field of view.
And that means
there's absolutely no place in here for me to run.
[dramatic sting]
Wait a minute.
I'm not gonna run away when I fight that bastard.
So there's no way I'm gonna run in here.
[chuckles] No.
No way in hell!
[whooshes, thuds]
[praying mantis snarling]
[Rumina gasps]
[gasps]
Hey, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, just-- just think.
I felt something soft under its neck just now.
It was when I used the praying mantis hook.
Hmm.
[dramatic sting]
All right then, let's give it another try.
[hissing]
[narrator] Once upon a time in China…
[traditional Chinese music playing]
…there was a monk who was named Shuu Amon.
[bird chirping]
[gasps] What's that?
[narrator] One day, in the forest, he saw something incredible.
[gasps]
A fight between a bird and an insect?
[narrator] It was a sparrow versus a praying mantis.
Any way you look at this, the sparrow is going to win this fight.
-[sparrow chirping frantically] -Huh?
What?
What's this? But how?
Against all Amon's expectations,
it was the praying mantis that won the battle.
To think that this insect would win against a bird.
This?
Or maybe this?
[narrator] Amon, struck to his core by the mantis's strength,
completely dedicated himself to the study of the praying mantis's way of fighting.
And eventually,
he managed to create a style of martial art
that came to be called "praying mantis hook."
PRAYING MANTIS HOOK
[Rumina] Baki's stance has changed.
Rather than taking on a more traditional fighting stance,
it looks like he's actually imitating the praying mantis's movements.
The world of martial arts is savage.
It revolves around a special way of thinking
and poses a question that is not often asked in any other sport.
And that question is,
"Whose technique is stronger?"
I mean, you'd never see a baseball player going up against a basketball player.
But it's different in martial arts.
Not only can you fight people who practice the same martial art,
you can also fight those who practice a different one.
You might even fight other kinds of creatures.
There's no end to what fighters do
in order to seek the limits of human strength.
They'll not only fight any living being, but even imaginary ones too.
Baki tried every different fighting style against the praying mantis,
but in the end,
he realized he should simply use the same one as his opponent.
-[hisses] -[Baki grunts]
[thuds, crunches]
[oozing]
-[Baki grunts] -[thuds]
[gasps]
[whooshes]
-[thuds] -[Baki grunts]
-[trilling] -[whimpering]
Huh?
It's getting tired.
You see that, Rumina?
These guys have no natural enemies in the insect world.
[Rumina] It's getting closer to the end now.
So they've never experienced an attack like that one before.
Their offense may be powerful,
but their defense is completely inadequate.
-Now get out of the way. -[intense music building]
[Rumina gasping]
Baki's gonna win.
[crashes]
[Rumina] That move…
[Baki grunts]
[exhales] I can see it now.
This isn't a perfect fighter with an impenetrable defense.
Just like with every fighter, there are weaknesses.
And those weaknesses I can take advantage of.
My body…
[grunts]
…has acclimated to this fight.
[grunts]
I've got this!
[exciting music playing]
I'm learning all the ways to squash this bug.
[kicks landing]
[Rumina] Something's changed in Baki.
I can see it in his face. It's way more relaxed.
[thuds]
His movements are somehow more certain than they were before.
This is no longer a fight between a praying mantis and mantis style.
It's become something entirely different.
[Baki grunts]
[dramatic sting]
It's like watching a bird hunting its prey.
The praying mantis that had been so aggressive
is now running away.
While Baki looks more and more composed.
And his face, which had been looking upward full of fear,
is instead now looking down with confidence.
[Baki] So, you see,
if you're able to find the weak spots,
200 pounds makes no difference at all.
[wings fluttering]
[Rumina gasps]
[high-pitched whine fading]
[Rumina] It disappeared!
-[exciting music playing] -And the real one oughta be…
Ah, there you are.
-[Baki grunting] -[fingers whooshing]
You got it?
[Rumina] That was…
a stunning victory for Baki!
[closing theme music plays]
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