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Baki Hanma Anime Adds 6 Cast Members

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Tesshō Genda, Kensho Ono, Ryoichi Tanaka, more join anime debuting in 2 weeks

The official website for TMS Entertainment's Baki Hanma anime revealed more cast members on Thursday. The new cast includes:

Tesshō Genda as Saman

Kenshō Ono as Chamomile Lessen

Ryōichi Tanaka as Prison Warden

Tomohisa Asō as Old Prisoner

Taiten Kusonoki as Deputy Warden Samuel

Tōru Ohkawa as George Bosch

The anime will debut on Netflix on September 30 with all 12 episodes.

Baki Hanma will be the third Baki series on Netflix, and a sequel to the recent Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen series.

Netflix describes the anime:

The story finally unfolds into a full-blooded clash between Baki Hanma and his father, Yujiro Hanma, who is known as the "strongest creature on earth." The climax of the Baki universe, which depicted the "strongest parent-child brawl in history of the world" in the original manga, has been adapted into the long-awaited anime!

Nobunaga Shimazaki is returning to play lead character Baki Hanma.

GRANRODEO will perform the opening theme song "Treasure Pleasure." GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE will perform the anime's ending theme song "Unchained World."

Keisuke Itagaki's original Baki the Grappler (Grappler Baki) martial arts manga ran in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1991 to 1999, and the 42 compiled book volumes from Akita Shoten have more than 63 million copies in circulation. The series received two television anime seasons and an original video anime (OVA) volume.

The simply titled Baki manga sequel is the second main installment in Itagaki's overall franchise. The manga also ran in Weekly Shōnen Champion from 1999 to 2005 with 31 volumes published. The manga inspired the two previous anime series on Netflix, as well as an original anime DVD (OAD) adaptation that depicts the "Most Evil Death Row Convicts" arc. The OAD was bundled with a limited edition of Itagaki's 14th Baki-Dou manga volume in December 2016.

After the Baki sequel manga finished in 2005, Hanma Baki then ran in the same magazine from 2005 to 2012. The Baki-Dou sequel series launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in March 2014 as the third main sequel to the original Baki the Grappler manga, and it ended in April 2018. The manga's fifth main part, the similarly titled Bakidou, launched in 2018.

Sources: Baki Hanma anime's website, Comic Natalie


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