Grappler Baki: The Ultimate Fighter (1994)
August 21, 1994Release Date
Grappler Baki: The Ultimate Fighter (1994)
August 21, 1994Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Kappei Yamaguchi
Baki Hanma
Kaneto Shiozawa
Kosho Shinogi
Kazumi Tanaka
Kiyosumi Kato
Koji Totani
Atsushi Suedo
Michio Nakao
Kohei Kuzumi
Naoki Tatsuta
Mitsunari Tokugawa
Sanae Takagi
Kinuyo Matsumoto
Shozo Iizuka
Doppo Orochi
Yasuhiko Kawazu
Kongo Ryu
Bin Shimada
Narrator
Kazunari Tanaka
Bodyguard
Keisuke Itagaki
Contestant A / Author
Masaaki Satake
Trainer
Naoyuki Taira
Referee
Tomohisa Aso
Assistant
Hideo Ishikawa
Fighter
Takahiro Saitō
Composer
Yumi Touma
Kosue Matsumoto (voice)
Yuji Asada
Director / Storyboard Artist
Hitoshi Nagao
Art Direction
Yoshihiko Umakoshi
Animation Director
Nobuhiro Kobayashi
Sound Director
Genro Ito
Executive Producer
Seiichi Nishino
Executive Producer
Chiaki Yasuda
Producer
Tsuneo Seto
Producer
Shiwa Yokoyama
Sound Effects Editor
Yoshihisa Araki
Screenplay
Takahiro Saito
Original Music Composer
Yosuke Moriguchi
Director of Photography
Masahiro Kimura
Special Effects
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 21, 1994
Original Nameグラップラー刃牙
StatusReleased
Running Time45m
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Wiki.
Baki the Grappler (Japanese: グラップラー刃牙, Hepburn: Gurappurā Baki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keisuke Itagaki. It was originally serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from 1991 to 1999 and collected into 42 tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. The story follows teenager Baki Hanma as he trains and tests his fighting skills against a variety of different opponents in deadly, no-rules hand-to-hand combat.
The series was followed by five sequels in the same magazine; Baki (バキ, officially romanized as New Grappler Baki: In Search of Our Strongest Hero), which was serialized from 1999 to 2005 and collected into 31 volumes, Baki Hanma (範馬刃牙, Hanma Baki, officially romanized as Baki: Son of Ogre), which was serialized from 2005 to 2012 and collected into 37 volumes, Baki-Dou (刃牙道, Baki Dō, lit. "Baki's Style"), which was serialized from 2014 to 2018 and collected into 22 volumes, a fifth series, also named Bakidou (バキ道) but with Baki's name written in katakana instead of kanji, serialized from 2018 to 2023 and collected into 17 volumes, and Baki Rahen (刃牙らへん, Baki Rahen, lit. "Baki and Others"), serialized from 2023.
A 45-minute original video animation (OVA) was released in 1994. A 24-episode anime aired on TV Tokyo between January 8 and June 25, 2001, and was quickly followed by a second 24-episode series from July 22 to December 24, 2001. An original net animation (ONA) was released on Netflix between June 25 and September 24, 2018, followed by a second season that was released on June 4, 2020. A third series was released from September 30, 2021 to August 24, 2023, and anime adaptation of Baki-Dou has been announced. The OVA was the first to be licensed and released in North America, in 1998 by Central Park Media, followed by the original manga series in 2002 by Gutsoon! Entertainment (incomplete), and finally both anime series in 2005 by Funimation Entertainment. Media Do International began releasing the second manga series digitally in August 2018.
The Baki series is one of the best-selling manga series of all time, with over 100 million copies in circulation.