Completed Anime
Baki the Grappler

“Baki Hanma trains relentlessly to surpass his father, the world's strongest fighter, seeking powerful opponents and forging bonds.”

Baki the Grappler

7.46
2,486 rank · 167,526 viewers · 908 favorites
Sports Combat Sports Gore Shounen
24 episodes · 25 min per ep min · Winter 2001 · Group TAC · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Synopsis

Baki Hanma trains relentlessly to surpass his father, the world's strongest fighter, seeking powerful opponents and forging bonds.

Ever since he was born, Baki Hanma has always known nothing but fighting—strengthening every single muscle and learning different techniques from various martial arts under the supervision of his mother, Emi Akezawa. He trains in order to prepare himself to face and eventually surpass his own father, Yuujirou Hanma, a man feared by the masses as the "Ogre" and deemed the strongest being in the world. However, when Baki realizes his mother's techniques are no longer enough, he sets out to become stronger in his own way. Seeking out powerful opponents and forming unbreakable bonds with them, he continues to grow both body and his soul, as the clock continues to tick closer toward the inevitable showdown against his father...

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Community consensus

Derived from 34 sampled reviews

7.6 /10

What 34 viewers settled on.

89% recommend
Score distribution
median 8 mode 9 σ 1.72
1510
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σ 1.72 · some divergence

mixed
The polarity gap

4.1 pts

Recommenders 8.4 · others 4.3

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↓ 2.44

Running avg · Aug 2007 → Apr 2026

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A Tv Production · Winter 2001

Group TAC.
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Free-Will

  • Format 24 × 25′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 10h 00m all episodes
  • Aired Jan 2001 – Jun 2001 Winter 2001
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
  • Ref. BS-0264 catalog

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