Emi Akezawa : is Baki's very wealthy mother. She and her former husband, Eiichi Akezawa, witnessed Yujiro fight while on vacation. Angered by her infatuation with Yujiro, Eiichi hit her. Having noticed that Emi loves the sight of blood and people in pain, Yujiro breaks into their house, breaks Eiichi's neck, and claims Emi will bear him a child. However, Yujiro does not love her, he simply tasks her with raising Baki to be a warrior like himself. Emi never acts lovingly toward her son, believing loyalty to Yujiro to be more important than a motherly bond. However, seeing Baki being beaten by Yujiro in their fight, Emi suddenly realizes her mistake and begins to fight Yujiro herself. Although Baki survives, Yujiro kills Emi, breaking her back with a bearhug; she spends her final moments cradling her son. Delusional, Baki later walks through the city carrying her body on his back acting as if she is alive, before leaving her in a field wreathed in flowers.
Hitoshi Kuriyagawa : is Emi Akizawa's personal assistant whose job is to keep an eye on young Baki and set up fights for him at her direction. Despite his age, he is a capable fighter himself. Despite working for Emi, he is still shocked at how she and Yujiro treat their son.
Kinuyo Matsumoto : is Kozue's mother and Baki's landlord. Her husband fought and died in the underground arena. For years she hid the truth from Kozue. Kinuyo admires Baki as he reminds her of her late husband.
Detective Kido : is a neighborhood detective who turns a blind eye to young Baki's street fights because he knows he can not subdue him. He is off struck by Baki's nature and usually hangs out by Baki's house smoking a cigarette. He eventually learns why Baki is the way he is and is shocked by this revelation. Like Kuriyagawa, he serves as a father figure to Baki.
Kitazawa : is a street thug from Baki's school, Kitazawa hates Baki because of his fighting skills. He even gathered 100 thugs to fight Baki, with 37 of them defeated before Kido broke it up. Hanayama threatens Kitazawa into telling him everything he knows about Baki. After Baki returns even stronger after training in the mountains, Kitazawa finally gives up. He even later helps Baki by hiring street fighters for training.
Kizaki : is Kaoru Hanayama's bodyguard and right-hand man, he does most of the talking for Hanayama. Kizaki was a friend of Kaoru's father and his sister adopted Kaoru after his father was killed. He's seen Kaoru's strength firsthand and has great confidence in him.
Reiichi Ando : Once a friend of Yujiro's, is a giant man who lives as a hermit secluding himself deep in the woods of the
Hida Mountains. In order to get strong enough to beat Yuri, Baki trains with Ando by eating a lot and chopping logs with his heavy ax. Ando is almost killed trying to save Baki from the Yasha Ape. He briefly reappears during Baki and Yujiro's fight, and four years later having brought Yasha Ape to the underground tournament. He appears in the second manga series, searching for a cure for Baki after he got poisoned by Yanagi, but fails and then Retsu brings Baki to the Dai Raitai Sai.
Yasha Ape : While training in the Hida Mountains, Baki encounters a 2-meter tall . Although he wanted to fight barehanded, Baki is forced to set the Yasha on fire to save Ando in their first fight. In the second three months later, Baki pokes its left eye, which the Yasha then pulls out and eats. Baki wins the fight, but the Yasha is able to walk away. As a sign of respect, Baki returns the skull of the Yasha's mate, who was previously killed by Yujiro, and likewise, the beast gives Baki one of his fangs. As Baki departs, it is revealed that he is raising three children on his own. Later, Yasha is decapitated by Yujiro, who then shows his head to Baki upon challenging him to a fight. Four years later, one of the Yasha's children is brought to the underground tournament where it injures several fighters including Kyosumi Kato, before being stopped by Katsumi Orochi.
Yuri Chakovsky : is a professional boxer and the first opponent to ever soundly defeat Baki. He is from a Mongolian tribe of fierce warriors. Yuri was a junior welterweight boxing champion when he beat Baki, before moving up to heavyweight. Due to Kuriyagawa bumping Yuri's rematch with Baki ahead of Hanayama's, Hanayama breaks Yuri's left arm. However, Yuri holds no grudge against Hanayama, and the two later help Baki train for his fight against Yujiro.
1st Airborne Brigade The of the
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. An elite team of five men able to defeat over 50 cars and tanks without firearms. In order to prepare to fight his father in a month, thirteen-year-old Baki goes to a forest in
Hokkaido to fight these soldiers at Strydom's suggestion. He first fights , an expert in knife combat. Sanada's name is only given in the anime, where he is voiced by
Dai Matsumoto. Baki's then immediately fights the grappler , from whom he learns how to fight "dirty." Kuraishi is voiced by
Tōru Ōkawa in the Japanese version of the anime, and voiced by Daniel Penz in the English dub of the anime. The identical twin fight Baki together. Chiba is a close combat and blade expert, while his brother, Sanada, is a wire and trap specialist. Their name is only revealed in the anime, where the older brother is voiced by
Tomohiro Nishimura and the younger by Shinichi Namiki. After the brigade is defeated, they bond with Baki.
Gaia : is the leader of the 1st Airborne Brigade, who has multiple personality disorder. Once a reckless mercenary called who loved killing, after facing the "ultimate fear" when faced with a firing squad during the
Ugandan Civil War, he lost his hair and gained supersensory ability. However, when it comes to jungle warfare, he is considered to be the king and is often called . As Nomura he is best described as a weakling, but when the situation is right and his adrenaline starts pumping, the Gaia personality will manifest itself to fight. Said to be Yujiro's equal in combat, Gaia utterly despises Yujiro, stating he is nothing but a thrill seeker that fights for pleasure. He fights Baki in a brutal and unique fight, but ultimately loses. Before Baki's fight with his father, Gaia decides to fight Yujiro first, but is badly beaten. Gaia returns in the second manga series, replacing Jack during his fight with the Russian convict Sikorsky. He proceeds to defeat Sikorsky with ease, and terrorizes Sikorsky into admitting defeat. His three philosophies when fighting are one, take care of your body and give it rest; two, free your body from the control of your mind; and finally, use every part of your surroundings as a weapon. In the fourth series, Gaia no longer works for the JGSDF, and is seen working as a bodyguard for the new American president. He is the star of the spinoff manga
Baki Gaiden: Gaia.
Shumei Kano : is the chief of security at the Tokugawa residence and a fighter in the underground arena. Kano has no particular style, but imitates his opponent's stance to anticipate their movements. He's a defensive fighter who rarely attacks, and thus his offense is not very strong. Kano is easily defeated by Baki after landing only a single punch. After defeating Kano and all of the other security, Tokugawa grants Baki's request to start fighting in underground arena from the lowest level.
Natsue Orochi : is Doppo's wife and Katsumi's adoptive mother. She is very timid and, like Kozue, she always fears for her loved ones' safety. Unlike Kozue, however, she supports Doppo's violent lifestyle and always cheers for him calling him her Superman, it is unknown if she ever directly knew that Doppo had been killed by Yujiro or whether it was just that part of her knew something was terribly wrong. She appears frequently throughout the series, showing up to watch Doppo fight in the tournament vs The Bouncer and Yu Amanai (during this match Doppo completely ignored Amanai's opening monologue and yelled into the stands proclaiming his love for Natsuki and that he was going to win it for her). She was thought to be killed by Dorian during the escaped convict story but in fact, he left her unharmed. Later in Baki Son Of Ogre when Katsumi prepares to face off against Pickle, she appears before him saying she had contacted Katsumi's real mother to wish him luck before the fight, Katsumi embraced his adoptive mother thanking her for raising him and always supporting him at which point Natsuki bursts into tears of confusion saying she wasn't his real mother, in his head Katsumi says to himself he doesn't care what she says and that she has always been the best mother anyone could want being supportive and loving.
Dr. John : was a doctor who tried to create a serum that could exponentially increase human strength. However, no one wanted to test it. The idea came from a chance encounter with Yujiro, whom he saw kill a polar bear with his bare hands. He developed a serum and then found Jack Hammer saying he was perhaps the hardest working but weakest fighter in the world given Jack's frail physique at the time, however due to Jack's immense tolerance for pain the Doctor thought Jack would be the only test subject that could withstand the transformation the super steroid provides, after Jack takes the drugs Buren monitors Jacks training and abilities with Jack reaching higher and higher peaks of athletic performance, sprinting great distances within 10 seconds, lifting near literal tons of weight with one arm and obliterating the best sparring partners that any fighting gym could offer. The serum proved to bequite successful in increasing his strength, but he took too much and it turned him into a ruthless monster of a fighter. Dr. Buren's idea was good and his intentions pure, but Jack took things way too far. In the anime, Buren is last seen typing a document of his sighting of Yujiro and his experience with Jack. Once finished, he shoots himself in the head.
Diane Neil : is the mother of Jack Hammer. She posed as "Jane" and acted as if she was attracted to Yujiro's fighting skills and traveled with him during the Vietnam War. It was part of a ploy to capture and kill him. When it is later revealed that her real name was actually Diane Neil and that she was working for the United Nations, Yujiro raped her. She reappears very briefly at the end of
Grappler Baki.
Tournament fighters ; : :A veteran, giant professional wrestler known all over the world. When fellow wrestler and Baki's upcoming opponent, Junichi Hanada, causes a locker-room incident, Toba badly beats him for disrespect and takes his place against Baki. It looks as if he is about to defeat Baki, but after 30 years of wrestling, Toba's right leg gives out. Baki lets Toba lose with honor by smashing his leg so he can not stand. He later fights in the underground tournament as a replacement when Yasha Ape Jr. injures two fighters. Toba goes up against Retsu and submits when Retsu nullifies an attack and causes him to hurt his own damaged leg. Like Antonio Igari, he also fights dirty; throwing his shirt over Retsu to bind him and kicking sand into his face. He later provides commentary for Igari's matches in the tournament. He is one of the stars of the
Grappler Baki Gaiden manga, where he has a wrestling match with Igari. He dies after the match, with a grand funeral held in his honor after his death. His appearance and name are based on Japanese professional wrestler
Giant Baba. ; : :An old pro wrestler known all over the world by his
ring name . In the tournament, he fights and defeats American kickboxer Rob Robinson in the third fight, and sumo wrestler Kinryuzan in the second, before losing to Baki in the third. Before the third match, he realizes he could lose and goes so far to kneel and cry, begging Baki to let him win but this is simply one of his means of psychological warfare to make Baki underestimate him. He is well known for fighting dirty; kicking Baki in the testicles, pretending to give up so he could sneak attack Baki, and even going so far as to hire an actress who looks enough like Baki's mother to try and psych Baki out further. He is one of the stars of the
Grappler Baki Gaiden manga, where he has a wrestling match with Mount Toba. In the second manga series, Antonio is defeated two times and left for dead by Sikorsky who scars his face badly in the shape of a star. However he survives and reappears in helping transport Sikorsky to the Korakuen arena. At the end, he witnesses the shadow boxing fight that Baki visualizes against Yujiro. His appearance and name are based on Japanese professional wrestler
Antonio Inoki. ; : :A professional wrestler of immense size, he is 2.4 meters tall and weighs over 310 kilos. He is easily the biggest man in the tournament, second only to Andreanov Garland, and makes Mount Toba look small. Andreas easily loses to Baki in the first match of the tournament. Baki convinces him to use all of his might which surprises him because no one has ever asked him to use all his power. ; : :More of a beast than a man, Zulu is a buff fighter from Brazil that uses
Vale Tudo and never speaks. He beats
Muay Thai kickboxer Dentoranee Jitpika in the second match, before fighting Baki. Zulu attacks before the match is officially begun and knocks Baki unconscious. He is declared the winner, with Tokugawa citing the 1991 match between
Andy Hug and
Francisco Filho as a comparable precedent. However, due to his animalistic nature, Zulu attacks Baki again as he sees the latter walking away. This time, Baki crushes one of Zulu's testicles and is officially declared the winner. Baki helps Zulu back to his feet to finish their trilogy, which Baki ultimately wins with another groin strike. ; : :A
yokozuna in professional
sumo wrestling. He beats Izo Motobe in the fourth match of the tournament, before accidentally breaking his own shoulder in the fight with Kanji Igari in round two, which results in his father/
oyakata throwing in the towel. Kinryuzan's
oyakata later notes that the position Igari had put the yokozuna in prior to his arm breaking would have resulted in a loss had the fight been a sumo match. Afterwards, Kinryuzan rips off his own
topknot as a sign of disgrace and vows to start over from square one. This impresses Igari, who vows to win the tournament for him. Later, Kinryuzan almost has his back broken by Yujiro. ; :A
sambo fighter from Russia. Sergei breaks Andreas Regan's arm before his match with Retsu as a show of strength. He is easily beaten by Retsu in the fifth match when his neck is broken. He is brutally beaten again, but this time by Andreanov Garland because he failed Russia. ; :. :A
Nihon Kempo fighter, who faces Kaoru Hanayama in the first round. Before the match begins, he taunts Hanayama by offering him a face guard, which Hanayama promptly crushes and rolls into a ball. In turn, Inagi is offered a katana by Kaoru, which he breaks with his fist. During the match Inagi breaks his own leg blocking an uppercut from Hanayama, before breaking both arms and his spine attempting to block a single punch. He passes out from the back pain while trying to put Hanayama in a submission. ; : :A
catch wrestler trained by
Bill Riley, who once fought Doppo Orochi to a draw. Known as the , Istaz has had a compulsion to dismantle anything he sees connected since childhood, be it electronics or human joints. After surpassing his master, he flew to Africa and successfully wrestled a lion, before Riley intervened. Istaz faces Doppo's son Katsumi in round one, where he loses despite managing to dislocate two of Katsumi's joints. He later fights and is choked out by Yujiro. Roland is modeled after
Karl Gotch, whose real name was "Charles Istaz". In the anime, his surname is . ; : :The
taekwondo instructor of the Korean marines. He fights Iron Michael in round one. Although Li appears to be winning by kicking Michael's legs from outside of the boxer's danger zone, he is knocked out in one punch when Michael uses the arena wall as Li goes in for the finishing blow. Li later fights and is knocked out in one axe kick by Yujiro. ; : :Michael is a heavyweight boxing champion. He knocks out Moko Li in the first round and fights Chiharu Shiba in the second. In the fight against Shiba, one of Michael's hands is broken and his trainer throws in the towel in order to protect his boxing career. However, Michael chooses to keep fighting and eventually breaks the other hand, causing his trainer to run into the ring and restrain him. As a result, his decision is overruled and he loses. He is later knocked out by Yujiro with an uppercut. Baki encounters Michael inside the Arizona Prison. Michael had been trying to become the strongest convict - a dream he gives up on. Before he is released, he is beaten by Mouth, only to be rescued by Guevara. In the anime, his name is in Japanese, and "Olam McGregor" in the English dub. ; : :Captain of the
bōsōzoku motorcycle racing gang. Although an untrained street fighter, he possesses an extreme level of guts and willpower, which seems to allow him to be unable to feel pain. Chiharu fights Kohei Hatanaka in round one, where his arm is quickly broken. He then proceeds to severely break it even further as a form of intimidation, before beating Hatanaka. In round two, he fights Iron Michael and wins by breaking both of Michael's hands with his rock hard skull. However, against his wishes, Chiharu is declared medically unable to continue and is replaced by Andreanov Garland. Later, he is struck in the throat by Jack Hammer and knocked out. He is last shown (still injured), riding with his gang. Shiba makes a surprise return in the third manga series. At the request of Kaoru Hanayama, Shiba is to be Baki's training partner for the upcoming fight with Yujiro. Kaoru says Shiba must be Baki's partner because Shiba is weak. Baki is reluctant to fight Shiba at first, but finds a reason of his own when Shiba keeps on attacking him at various times throughout the day. ; : :An
All-Japan judo practitioner who breaks Chiharu's left arm before being beaten senseless by him. He later fights Yujiro who destroys him again by using his own style of judo against him and throwing into the ground. ; : :A
Shorinji Kempo user who beats American professional wrestler Mike Quinn in round one with an armlock, before having his wrist and ankle bitten into by Jack Hammer and getting knocked out in round two. ; : :A
bouncer from America who is undefeated in 2,000 fights. His style sees him intentionally take every attack thrown at him. Filth wears a tuxedo to the ring and Doppo Orochi complies by wearing a nice suit of his own. Doppo also imitates the bouncer's style in their fight, intentionally taking Filth's attacks. However, Doppo is forced to use a defensive stance before delivering the winning blow to defeat Filth. Filth later fights and loses to Yujiro after breaking his hand punching Yujiro in the head, and a groin kick that makes him fly away. In the English dub of the anime, his surname is changed to "Phyllis". ; :An American Olympic wrestler who quickly loses to Goki Shibukawa in round one. He is also one of the many people Yujiro beats on his rampage by giving him a powerful
belly-to-belly suplex. Harlon is shown to be a big fan of Andreanov Garland. ; : :Yujiro's apprentice, whom he met in America, where Amanai was serving as a bodyguard to the US president. Yujiro took him under his wing after he kidnapped the president. Amanai is able to enter the tournament after Yujiro incapacitates bare-nuckle Muay Thai fighter Jagatta Sherman. In contrast to Yujiro's style which is aggressive and based on rage, Amanai's style is based on love. He defeats
shoot wrestler Minoru Yamamoto in the first round, before losing to Doppo. After the fight, he begs Tokugawa to end his match for Doppo's safety, and Yujiro nearly kills him and calls him weak. ; : :A giant
Greco-Roman wrestler who has over 6,000 wins and no losses. He replaces the injured Chiharu and is beaten by Jack Hammer who almost bites off his hand leaving it dangling by a piece of skin and stabs his ribs into his heart. He is later nearly killed by the Russian convict Sikorsky. He requested himself to be chained with specialized titanium shackles because he could not control his strength, but vowed to unlock himself if "Mother Russia" was in danger; thus given the nickname by his peers, "The Chained Patriot", what is most remarkable about him is that he does not possess any formal training apart from the basic rules of any combat sport he competes in and relies heavily on his own natural strength, which enabled him to cut down a tree with a single swing of his axe, rip the full roots of it from the ground and dig not any mere hole but a near meteor sized crater. In the English dub his name is pronounced "Zeigan/Zargan". This character is based on the real life Russian wrestler
Alexander Karelin. ==
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