Baki will return for another season of brutal hand-to-hand combat on Sept. 30.
Now titled Baki Hanma, the third season of the series will be 12 episodes long and will be available exclusively on Netflix. The full season will be available to stream on the premiere date. The new season will be directed by Toshiki Hirano, who directed Magic Knight Rayearth and worked as an animator on many classic anime titles from the '80s and '90s, including Macross: Do You Remember Love? Animation duties are once again being handled by TMS Entertainment, the highly respected Japanese studio responsible for anime shows such as The Rose of Versailles and Detective Conan, and which also helped to animate many classic American cartoons such as Tiny Toon Adventures and Batman: The Animated Series.
The new season is named after the Baki Hanma manga, which was the third series in Keisuke Itagaki's Baki the Grappler saga. The original Baki the Grappler debuted in 1991, and has continued through multiple sequel series until the present day. The long-running shonen manga has been praised for Itagaki's art and its over-the-top action. The series has over 85 million copies in circulation worldwide.
Keisuke Itagaki is the father of fellow manga author Paru Itagaki, who made a name for herself with the popular and critically acclaimed BEASTARS manga. As with her father's manga series, Itagaki's BEASTARS was adapted into a Netflix exclusive anime, which recently aired its second season and has a third season in production. Paru Itagaki also recently premiered her latest manga, Sanda, which tells the story of a society in which the birthrate has rapidly declined and most of humanity is now made up of the elderly.
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