hajime no ippo saison 1 manga academy's genius swordmaster chapter 13
Baki notices him and gives Spec death glare that scares even a monster like him. Spec still tries to attack, but Kaoru Hanayama appears and drags Spec away without making a sound. Baki during his fight with Yanagi. One day, Baki is attacked during a school lesson by Hector Doyle, a criminal from England. However, after a while, Baki runs away from the scene, because he doesn't want to endanger the students in the classroom and expose his status as an underground arena fighter. But literally a moment later, he's assaulted by another killer. This time it's Ryuukou Yanagi, the Japanese known as the "poisoner". At first, Yanagi attacks Baki with his sickles. Soon Shibukawa joins the duel and forms a duo against Yanagi, who pulls out the Indian claws. However, eventually, Yanagi starts to fight bare hand and defeats Baki with his Vacuum Palm. This is Baki's first defeat since he was a child.Eventually, it would happen five times per episode for each side character. It lost its effect right away and became forced. There are numerous more ways to convey the character's thoughts without recycling this mindless visual effect. It just made me roll my eyes. Before it felt personal like I intimately knew who these people were. But then it happened again. Then again. And before I knew it, every irrelevant character had their little introspective moment and I realized I didn't know these people at all. By the end I still had big questions, even about the main characters, for one—why does Miyamura continue to date Hori even though she's a toxic asshole?
Nearly everyone has said Horimiya is a masterclass romance, that it is the anime of the season. All I saw was a subpar, run-of-the-mill anime weighed down by superfluous characters, annoying misunderstandings, rushed pacing, and a viscerally unlikable heroine. After sprinting past over a hundred chapters, the story screeches to a halt at the thirteenth episode with a tearjerker ending.