A new Baki the Grappler anime is coming as an adaptation of 2014's Baki-Dou is green-lit
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Fans are getting more Baki in their lives as another of Keisuke Itagaki’s iconic fighting manga is getting an anime adaptation. The first of the Baki-Dou manga has been green-lit for an anime, though specific details about a release date or where it will be available are more elusive than an ounce of body fat on the characters in the show.
There might be a bit of confusion about which manga is getting adapted thanks to some unusual naming conventions in the original Japanese. There are two Baki-Dou manga – one that began in 2014 and the other which started in 2018 – by Keisuke Itagaki. While their names translate the same way, the 2018 Baki-Dou manga used katakana characters rather than kanji for Baki to differentiate it – something that is lost in the English translation.
It is the 2014 Baki-Dou manga that is getting an anime adaptation, which was revealed at a screening for the final episode of the Baki Hanma season two anime in Tokyo in March 2024. The story takes place directly after the Strongest Parent/Child Quarrel arc in the Baki Hanma manga and involves a legendary swordsman being resurrected in the modern day through cloning and necromancy to become the new opponent that Baki and his fellow fighters must overcome.
There are no further details available for the Baki-Dou anime adaptation. TMS Anime released a promotional video that consists solely of still images from the manga with ominous music. We don’t know when the Baki-Dou anime will come out or where it will stream, though it will probably find a home on Netflix, which has carried most of the Baki anime series so far.
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