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Netflix India Lists A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai, Baki-Dou Anime
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A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai debuted first streaming in Japan, with the stream on U-NEXT debuting on September 29. The series debuted on television in Japan on Tokyo MX and BS11 on October 6. Crunchyroll streamed the anime in India as it streamed in Japan and also streamed an English dub for it. Crunchyroll added the Hindi dub for the anime on December 1 and added the Tamil and Telugu dubs for the anime on December 15. Muse India began streaming the Tamil and Telugu dubs as a weekly upload on YouTube on January 20 and Muse Asia added all episodes of the anime as a single upload on January 24.
Yoshinori Odaka (40-Shūnen da yo! Coro Coro All-Star Shōgakkō directed the anime at the studios Tatsunoko Production and Synergy SP. Gigaemon Ichikawa (Chikasugi Idol Akae-chan, Black Torch) was in charge of the series scripts, and Mayumi Watanabe (Happy Seven, Taisho Otome Fairy Tale) designed the characters. GENCO produced the series. Hiroshi Takaki (Witchy Precure! and other Precure entries, AKB0048, Butt Detective) composed the music.
Nornis performed the opening theme song "Prologue," and rock duo NAKIGOTO performed the ending theme song "Mugen Trip."
Alpha Manga publishes the manga adaptation in English and describes the story:
Takeru Kamishiro is a normal guy with an ordinary office job, but finds himself summoned to another world. Takeru starts his new life in "Madeus", a world with swords and magic, fully equipped with multiple skills! Not only does he have enhanced physical and amazing magic abilities, but also the power to "search" for valuable items. With the cheat skills he's been provided, Takeru starts his new adventure in the new isekai!!
Kinoko launched the light novel series on the AlphaPolis platform in December 2017. AlphaPolis shipped the 17th volume on September 17. The series has 1.73 million copies in circulation (including digital copies), and it won both the grand prize and the readers' choice award in the 9th AlphaPolis Fantasy Novel Prizes.
Tomozo draws the manga adaptation of the story. AlphaPolis shipped the first compiled book volume in November 2018 and published the ninth volume on October 22.
Itagaki's original Baki The Grappler martial arts manga ran for 42 volumes in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1991 to 1999. Kodama Tales began publishing the manga worldwide in English in October.
The Baki sequel manga ran for 31 volumes from 1999 to 2005. Media Do releases the manga in English. After Baki, Itagaki published the 37-volume Hanma Baki manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion from 2005 to 2012. The first Baki-Dou manga, the overall fourth manga in the franchise, launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in March 2014 and ended in April 2018 with 22 volumes.
A new Baki-Dou manga launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in October 2018, and it ended in June 2023. (The new Baki-Dou manga uses different characters for "Baki" in the title from the previous Baki-Dou manga, although it retains the name "Baki-Dou.") The latest manga in the franchise, Baki Rahen, launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in August 2023.
The new anime of Itagaki's Baki (New Grappler Baki: In Search of Our Strongest Hero) manga debuted its first season on Netflix in June 2018 inside Japan, and it ran for 26 episodes ending in December 2018. Netflix posted the first 13 episodes outside of Japan in December 2018, followed by the second half of the first season in March 2019.
The Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen anime then debuted worldwide on Netflix with all episodes at once in June 2020. Baki Hanma is the third Baki series on Netflix, and a sequel to the Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen series. Baki Hanma debuted in India and worldwide on Netflix in September 2021 with all 12 episodes.
The second season of Baki Hanma debuted worldwide on Netflix in July 2023, with the "Tale of Pickle & The Pickle War Saga" story. The anime's "The Father VS Son Saga" story debuted in August 2023.
