Baki

Baki is a Manga of Keisuke Itagaki ().
Titrate original: バキ ( baki ).
Published in French with the editions Delcourt. Ten volumes translated into France, thirty-one volumes published in Japan, the series is terminée.
Baki is the continuation of Grappler Baki, completed series of 42 volumes, and the préquelle one of Hanma Baki ~ its off Ogre currently in hand in Japan.

Short summary of the history

Baki, gaining of a secret tournament of martial arts, must deal with five large criminals condemned to dead who simultaneously escape from five prisons surprotégées from various corners of the sphere, by leaving all the same message behind them, saying that they want to know the defeat. With this intention, they move towards Tōkyō to the meeting of Baki and others partipants finalist, semi-finalists and quarter of finalists of the preceding tournament.

List volumes

  1. 1st volume
  2. : * Chapter 1: The synchronicity
  3. : * Chapter 2: Dorian/the
  4. United States: * Chapter 3: Doyle/Great Britain
  5. : * Chapter 4: Sikorsky/Russia
  6. : * Chapter 5: Speck/the
  7. United States: * Chapter 6: Ryūkō Yanagi/Japan
  8. : * Chapter 7: The martial art of the shade
  9. 2nd volume
  10. : * Chapter 8: You will deal with us!
  11. : * Chapter 9: It is a monster
  12. : * Chapter 10: A good handshake
  13. : * Chapter 11: It resembles to him
  14. : * Chapter 12: Softened!
  15. : * Chapter 13: Chinese brioches
  16. : * Chapter 14: Karate shinshin-kaï
  17. : * Chapter 15: An intruder with the dōjō
  18. : * Chapter 16: Retsu vs Dorian
  19. 3rd volume
  20. : * Chapter 17: School test of physical capacity
  21. : * Chapter 18: World records
  22. : * Chapter 19: To sound the gong
  23. : * Chapter 20: Premonition
  24. : * Chapter 21: They arrived!!
  25. : * Chapter 22: Rules of the confrontations
  26. : * Chapter 23: That begins
  27. : * Chapter 24: To find the honor lost
  28. : * Chapter 25: Karate against science
  29. 4th volume
  30. : * Chapter 26: The simulator
  31. : * Chapter 27: The liar uncovered
  32. : * Chapter 28: Date
  33. : * Chapter 29: Second once?!
  34. : * Chapter 30: Beautiful!
  35. : * Chapter 31: Pride
  36. : * Chapter 32: Iconoclast
  37. : * Chapter 33: The " rush in apnée"
  38. : * Chapter 34: Fingers in the nose
  39. 5th volume
  40. : * Chapter 35: Still want you?!
  41. : * Chapter 36: Detonators?
  42. : * Chapter 37: Like a pancake
  43. : * Chapter 38: Tameshi-wari
  44. : * Chapter 39: End of the combat Hanayama vs Speck!!
  45. : * Chapter 40: Intelligence of the men
  46. : * Chapter 41: The guest surprised
  47. : * Chapter 42: Swirl of sickles
  48. : * Chapter 43: The molars
  49. 6th volume
  50. : * Chapter 44: Cowardice
  51. : * Chapter 45: A frightening duet!!
  52. : * Chapter 46: Pollutant gas
  53. : * Chapter 47: 6%
  54. : * Chapter 48: The true way of martial arts
  55. : * Chapter 49: True combat against simple match
  56. : * Chapter 50: Esthetics
  57. : * Chapter 51: Elder the
  58. : * Chapter 52: Chinese hand with the empty handed

List characters

Principal

  • Baki Hanma , hero 17 year old, victorious of the last secret tournament. It started again a life of normal high-school pupil when the five escape condemned to death come to know a first defeat. It is a combatant except par which has natural predispositions for martial arts. It seldom loses its coolness and its phlegm, even in the middle of a combat. Its apparent nonchalance hiding place a dark and painful past…
  • Mitsunari Tokugawa , thirteenth heir to old the Tokugawa Empire three hundred years, and organizer of the known as tournament of the shade.

Participants in the tournament

  • Gōki Shibukawa , 70 years one-eyed man, founder of a school of aïki-ju-jitsu. At the time of the tournament of the arena of the basement, it creates the surprise while arriving until in semi-finals in spite of its weak breadth. Its very thorough techniques, consisting in mainly using the force of the adversary against itself, technique of the aiki of which it is the first to control it at this points, enable him to come to end from frightening combatants of which Kosho Shinogi in 16èmes of finale and especially Doppo Orochi in quarterfinals. It nevertheless is overcome by the extreme rough force of Hammer Jack to the following turn. In the new series, he is confronted with Yanagi, the man who burst the left eye to him several years ago.

  • Retsu Kaiō , genious combatant. It incarnates the 4000 years quintessence of Chinese martial arts. With the first turn of the underground tournament, he faces a Russian fighter with the frightening capacities. But it makes only one mouthful of it. With the second round he is confronted with Mount Toba, the all-in wrestler with impressive measurements, which formerly faced Baki. Toba still did not recover a its wound with the knee, also Retsu employs it the trick, and is satisfied to burst the knee of Toba, which under the constraint is forced to give up. With the third turn, it beats Katsumi Orochi in only one blow, because this last still did not recover from its combat against Hanayama. Retsu is néanmois overcome in semi-final against the impressive rage of Baki, which sounds the birth of the ogre who will live baki.

  • Doppo Orochi , the god of the war, founder of the school of Shinshin-kai karate, former champion of the arena of the basement. In spite of its cuisante demolished against Hanma Yujiro in the arena of the basement, it takes part in the tournament and beats with the first turn a bouncer of bar without using of technique of Karate. He faces with the second round Amanai Yu, the man recommended by Hanma Yujiro, and manages to overcome it without great difficulties. But it is overcome by the perfect techniques of Shibukawa to the following turn. Following this defeat, he banishes itself of the school which founded.

  • Katsumi Orochi , wire adoptive of Doppo. Called " the ultimate weapon of Karaté". Its combat against Hanayama at the time it tournament is being harder than envisaged, and it is constrained to use the most frightening techniques of Karate to come to end. But it can nothing make against the powerful techniques of Retsu Kaïo to the following turn and will be literally made humiliate while being eliminated thanks to only one blow.

  • Kanji Igari , former all-in wrestler reconverted as a trainer. Before its combat against Baki it terrace a professional sumo. It will lose then against Baki at the time of its combat in quarterfinal of the secret tournament by using a multitude of trick for disturbed Baki. Quarter of finalist.

  • Kaoru Hanayama , regarded as the most frightening henchman of Japan. At 15 years, it is with the orders of the one of the largest clans of Japan. They is at that time that it is at the head put to face Hanma Yujiro, the man most extremely of the world. Baki (13 years at the time) defies it and for the first time of its life, Hanayama knows the defeat vis-a-vis both Hanma (father and wire). In spite of its total inexperience of martial arts, its frightening physical capacities make it overcome with the first turn of the tournament a specialist in the Japanese Kempo. Eighth of finalist.

  • Shiharu Shiba , which is a true burned head. Contrary to the other combatants of the underground tournament, it does not know itself there in martial art, but belonging to a gang of motorcyclists it is familiar of the street battles. It will gain its matches more thanks to its enormous will that by its physical prowesses. He is also a large admiror of Hanayama. Eighth of finalist.

  • Shinogi Kureha , brilliant doctor and athlete of first order. He claims to have the power of a boxer, the flexibility of a fighter and the speed of a sprinter. Persuaded to be an individual of exception, it defied Baki with an aim of drawing the attention of Yujirô. It will be however overcome by our hero. Thereafter it will be incrira with the Tournament of the Basement where it will ask to meet his younger brother, Kôshô. Estimating that this last finally exceeded it gives up the combat and leaves the free field to his brother, putting thus fine at their conflict. It thus lost with the first turn.

  • Shinogi Kôshô , expert in Karate, it is known under the name of " Himokiri" or " Cutter of cordes". Its technique of combat consists in making use of its fingers like knife to slice the nerves and the muscles of its adversaries. It was beaten by Baki at the time of a duel baited in the Arena of the Basement. At the time of the first turn of the Tournament it regulated its accounts with his Kureha brother before falling vis-a-vis Shibukawa in Eighth from finale.

  • Izo Motobe , Budoka highly skilled and expert in many disciplines, it has, like many others, a certain number of accounts to be regulated with Yujiro Hanma. It is in this spirit that it appears for the first time at Baki, with the firm intention to evaluate its potential. It is then a severe lesson for our hero who makes several voyage to the carpet without being able to retort. Thereafter, Izo met Yujiro but essuya again a defeat cuisante.
At the time of the Tournament of the Basement it is beaten as of the first tower with the general surpise. For the remainder of the tournament, it will have just a role of commentator of luxury and support for the other candidates.
  • Jack Hammer (Hanma Jack) : Half brother of Baki and oldest son of Yujiro Hanma, Jack is the fruit of the union of this last with a soldier Canadian during the war of Vietnam. Jack Hanma is in fact born in prison following the rape of his/her mother by Yujiro.
Thereafter, it will dedicate its life with only one and single goal: to be avenged for its terrible parent by all the possible ways, even if it means to misuse dangerous substances. During the tournament it beats successively: one partiquant that Brazilian Jû jutsu, Kenpoka, a Russian fighter and Gôki Shibukawa to reach finally.

Condemned to death

  • Dorian , American who should have been hung but which escaped there by killing totality from the guards. It is extremely distinguished from the others condemned by its spirit crafty one and twisted.
Indeed, Dorian does not hesitate to call upon a whole arsenal of gadgets and easy ways during its engagements. In addition to its intelligence and its field crop, Dorian is also expert in Chinese martial arts and seems to have a particular relation with Retsu Kaio. Indeed, it divides with this last the title of " Kaiô" , the most prestigious title in the hierarchy of Chinese Kempo. However contrary to the other protagonists of Baki, it seems, despite everything, not to have private interest for martial arts. The latter seem to be for him a means among so much of others appeasing its thirst for murder. Dorian is the second condemned to death to know the defeat. Initially, Doppo Orochi the met seriously with evil with its talent and its phenomenal karate. Then, Retsu Kaio completes it of a punch. Vis-a-vis the vacuum and to the nonsense of its life, Dorian succumbs to the infantile regression, rather than to sink in the mental derangement.
  • Doyle , English who survived in the passing on the electric chair.
Although one does not know large thing of him, one can notice that it seems to appreciate the sharp objects. Apparently, it hiding place a weapon in its left elbow. Volume 13 learns some to us more on qualities of Doyle. Following the example Hanayama or of Oliver, it does not have any particular technique nor drive with a specific martial art (of itself, it is not regarded as a warrior). Also Doyle compensates for this fact by a battery inpressionnante of implants and weapons hidden in its body and its clothing. one counts inter alia: razor blades de in the collar, the explosives on the chest, the springs in the members, the retractile blades in the articulations…

Grièvevement wounded following its combat against Retsu Kaio, Doyle is illustrated by saving this last of a band of hooligans. Retsu returns at once the courtesy to him by leading it to be made look after with the seat of Shinshinkai.On believes even a moment in a beginning of friendship between the two men. However the trève is of short duration because hardly left his bed, the criminal puts fire at the dojo with all his practitioners. The continuation of the course will be much less happy for Doyle because it will have consecutively to undergo the revenge on Doppo then of Katsumi Orochi, before succumbing with the hand of Oliver. The character of Doyle has the effect of having an attaching side and a certain direction of honesty, in spite of his statute of criminal without pity. He will maintain a relation deep respect with Kasumi Orochi and Retsu Kaio.

  • Ryūkō Yanagi , Japanese of small size (contrary to the others sought, which are giants) who uses the properties of the air to fight. It is called " Empoisonneur". It seems very well to know Gôki Shibukawa…
Yanagi is really the incarnation of the Japanese killer: determined, radical and rigorous. It controls a great active number of techniques mortals of poisoning to the use of weapons in any kind. It will pose large problems with our heroes, succeeding in even poisoning Baki by twice. However he will know a less glorious end since he will be estropié by Izo Motobé before being completed by Yujiro in person.
  • Sikorsky , Russian locked up in a missile silo of more than 100 meters of depth. It makes use of its fingers to slice the flesh of its adversaries.
After its exit, it will embank a great number of combatants of which Kanji Igari, that it will leave with half dead. It is a particularly frightening combatant. Baki, follow-up of Oliver, put temporarily fine at its freedom during a spectacular body-with-body. But let us guarantee that Sikorsky did not say its last mot.
  • Speck , American who escaped of a under-sailor-prison was locked up in the middle of the ocean.
Of a naturalness enough player, it most colossal of is condemned to death. In spite of its omnipresent smile, it is a sanguinary killer. Its style of combat is characterized by the recourse to the rough force, even if it uses sometimes artifices to take the advantage in a combat. After having met the participants of the Tournament of the Basement, it defies Hanayama in singular combat. It is the first of the assassins to being overcome.

Others

  • Yūjirō Hanma , called " the strongest creature of the monde" , he is the father of Baki. Very fears in the world of the combat, it is supposed to be the most powerful man of the world. It is also named " Ogre" because of the diabolic face which seems to appear on its dorsal muscles developed with the extreme. Yujiro controls very many style of combat such as Ju-Jitsu, the Judo, Kenpo etc and developed its techniques of combat on various battle fields of which Vietnam, killing American and Vietnamese just with an aim of improving.
  • Kozue Matsumoto , 18 years, girl of the owner of the housing of Baki. She was invited to the tournament of the arena of the basement, and attended the combat opposing Baki to Jack, it is on this occasion that Baki embraced it for the first time.
  • Oriba (Oliver) , American of cuban origin, he is a person living with the margin of the law, also called " Unchained" , that is to say to untie of any chain. He lives in a prison but has these apartments, library and storeroom. He is the person who deals with recovering the prisoner escaped which enjoys a too great freedom. Solid mass and muscular to the extreme, it has a power and a musculature defying the imagination which enables him to compensate for its thin technique and to endure without sourciller the blows which are carried to him.

External bond

  • Site of information on all the series of Baki like on the author

  • card of the editor Delcourt
  • official site of Akata

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