Netflix’s BAKI-DOU Official Trailer Hails The Biggest Battle To See Who’s The Strongest
Netflix Anime is touting the official trailer for Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai as of Wednesday. The series is the latest succession to the Baki The Grappler manga saga which launched its treatment on the streamer back in 2018.
Based on Keisuke Itagaki’s “BAKI-DOU,” which was published in Weekly Shonen Champion from 2014 to 2018, this new series picks up after the biggest father-son fight on earth. With no worthy opponents left, Baki and the other battle-hardened fighters grow miserably bored — until a plan is enacted to resurrect Musashi Miyamoto, the greatest swordsman in Japanese history. The unprecedented clash between a legendary samurai revived in the modern times and the strongest underground fighter will be brought to life with stunning animation.
Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai is produced by TMS ENTERTAINMENT, and features voice performances by Troy Baker (Baki), and SungWon Cho (Musashi Miyamoto). The show also boasts new cameos like The Miz, Nolan Hansen, Matt Mercer, Charles White Jr. aka Cr1tikal, and Lena Lemon, as well as a new opening theme from WANIMA titled “FURUBOKO,” and accompanying closer, “Mountain Top” by Novel Core.
KENTA (WANIMA) shares: “I grew up reading and watching BAKI from a young age, captivated by its world beyond common sense and its many iconic scenes, often reenacting them with my friends.
For the Musashi Miyamoto arc, I wrote this song by overlapping the idea that ‘one’s way of life itself is a battle’ with the feeling of continuing to stand up, even after being completely beaten down. I’m truly happy and grateful to be involved in this work.”
Novel Core says, “I am truly honored to be entrusted with the ending theme for BAKI-DOU: The Invincible Samurai. Yujiro is the strongest—and therefore the loneliest. Writing from Baki’s perspective as he seeks the source of that strength, I titled the song ‘Mountain Top’ to reflect the cost of strength, like how the air grows thinner the closer you get to the summit. The philosophy of strength that Baki has long portrayed is woven into the lyrics. I believe it resonates with the drama and intensity of the fierce battles against Musashi. I hope viewers enjoy discovering the many musical details and hidden elements throughout the track, alongside the anime itself.”
I was new to the IP back in 2018 when I finally got to watch Baki. This show is by far one of the most insane, mainly in that with a franchise bolstered by its heavy-handed focus on meaty tough guys battling one another in a world where martial arts is literally life (or death), with interwoven stitches of martial philosophy in between the broken bones and bonkers action, the creators here know exactly who their audience is. Even better, they know they’re watching – a fact that won’t likely change as the show’s 13-episode strand kicks off on Netflix on February 26.
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