世界最強の男である、父「範馬勇次郎」を超えようと、ひたすら強くなるため己を鍛え続ける主人公「範馬刃牙」。そんな彼の元に世界中から最凶かつ最悪の死刑囚５人が同時に集結しようとしていた。彼らの目的は『敗北を知ること』…あまりに強すぎた死刑囚たちは生きることに倦み飽きており、自分たちを圧倒し、完膚なきまでに叩き潰してくれる者として、刃牙を闘いの相手に選んだのだ。この非常事態、刃牙一人に任してはおけないと戦友である花山薫、渋川剛気、烈海王、愚地独歩たち地下格闘技の闘士たちも加勢のために立ち上がる。今ここに最凶死刑囚と刃牙達の熾烈極まる闘いの幕があがる……！！
Bad writing at its best. It's enough to watch the 1st episode to see how lazy it is. But then I thought, ok, they didn't bother to give any meaningful backstory to any character, they didn't write any real speech that is not cringe-macho, maybe they went crazy in fights and animation? I'm up for some pulp. Answer is no. Every fight is more or less the same, one guy inflicts an incredible amount of damage on the other, seemingly winning the match, but the opponent just stands up and inflicts double the damage, only to have the 1st guy standing up and repeating. Repeat this formula once, twice or three times and you have EVERY fight in the anime. No techniques, no speed vs strength, no kung-fu vs karate, no height vs weight, NOTHING, JUST DAMAGE. Then random characters will keep appearing, the latest is obviously the strongest ever, until next episode where a new guy with no backstory is even stronger, or when another random guy beats him... The whole thing is pointless. Save some time and don't watch it. Maybe if I find an English dub I'll finish it while washing the dishes...
Hardly a martial arts series - most of it was wasted on pointless narrative. The storyline for each episode made no sense! At least Dragonball showed good fight scenes! This was the most rubbish Anime in Netflix - only good thin about this was showing tips on being a fighter!
