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New Baki Anime Casts Akio Ohtsuka as Baki's Father
posted on by Egan Loo
A talk show segment at an immersive MX4D screening for the Akio Ohtsuka plays the character Yūjirō Hanma. Yūjirō, nicknamed "the strongest creature in the world," is the father of the story's titular character Baki.
Masami Kikuchi voiced the character in previous Baki anime.
The other cast include:
Takehito Koyasu as Doyle
Yanagi Ryūkō
Banjō Ginga as Dorian
Chafūrin as Speck
Bin Shimada as Gōki Shibukawa, the master of the Shibukawa fighting style of aikidō
Rikiya Koyama as Kaiō Retsu, a grappler who attained the title "Kaiō" with Chinese martial arts
Takuya Eguchi as Kaoru Hanayama, "Japan's top brawler" who became the second head of Hanayama group at the age of 15
Yoshihisa Kawahara as Katsumi Orochi, the adopted son of Karate Shinshinkai founder Doppo Orochi
Sora Amamiya as Kozue Matsumoto, Baki's schoolmate and the daughter of Baki's landlady
Tohru Furuya provides the narration.
premiering the anime this summer inside Japan, and this fall outside of Japan. The series will have 26 episodes, and will also air on television.
Netflix describes the story:
The protagonist, Baki Hanma, trains with an intense focus to become strong enough to sur his father, Yujiro Hanma, the strongest fighter in the world. Five of the world's most violent and brutal death row inmates are gathering to face Baki. Their objective is to taste defeat -- their unmatched strength and skill have led them to grow bored of life itself, and they now seek out Baki in the hopes that he can overwhelm and utterly crush them. In this crisis, other underground martial art warriors gather to fight by Baki's side: Kaoru Hanayama, Gouki Shibukawa, Retsu Kaioh, and Doppo Orochi. An epic showdown between violent death row inmates and Baki and his friends begins!
The anime features the "Most Evil Death Row Convicts" arc from the manga, which features underground ring fighters in the no-rules combat environment of death row convicts.
Tsuredure Children) is in charge of series composition.
Azusa Tadokoro performs the ending theme song "Resolve."
In addition to the Netflix premiere screenings, the anime will run on the Hokkaido TV channels. The anime will start running on Tokyo MX1 on July 1, about one week after it started running on Netflix on June 25.
Baki is the second installment in Itagaki's overall series. The manga ran for 31 volumes in Baki-Dou manga volume in December 2016.
Itagaki's original original animation video.
After the Baki sequel manga finished in 2005, part is in the works.
Source: Baki anime's official website, Comic Natalie
