Grappler Baki

Description

A seventeen-year-old boy with a white belt enters a karate tournament and shakes the foundations of Japan’s martial arts scene. As he effortlessly defeats his opponents, the world’s top fighters are left to ask: just who is this bizarrely strong young man, and what is he trying to achieve?

Source: Kodama

There are 6 series of Baki. This is the first one.

1-Baki the Grappler (1991 - 1999) 42 Volumes
2-New Grappler Baki (1999 - 2005) 31 Volumes
3-Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre (2005 - 2012) 37 Volumes
4-Baki-Dou (2014 - 2018) 22 Volumes
5-Baki-Dou (2018 - 2023) 17 Volumes
6-Baki Rahen (2023 -)

Type

Manga

Related Series

Baki: New Grappler Baki (Sequel)

Baki the Grappler Gaiden (Side Story)

Baki 30th Anniversary: The Artwork of Baki (Other)

Associated Names

Baki the Grappler

Baki: The Grappler

บากิ จอมประจัญบาน (VBK)

グラップラー刃牙

刃牙

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.1 Remake by The SpinyBack Team & Project Ryoko 3 months ago

v.42 c.370 by Project Ryoko 5 months ago

v.4 c.28-32 by Project Ryoko & Morgan 6 months ago

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Status in Country of Origin

42 Volumes (Complete)
24 Kanzenban (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1) / Vol 21, Chap 181 (S2)

Ends at Vol 20, Chap 180 (S1) 1994 OVA set between EP 16&17 / Vol 42, Chap 370 (S2) Both seasons abridged

User Reviews

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Forum

3 topics, 13 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.1 / 10.0 (143 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.96 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 10th, 2025 7:21am PST - 1 month ago

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Genre

Action Drama Martial Arts Mature Shounen Sports
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Recommendations

Baki: New Grappler Baki

Author(s)

ITAGAKI Keisuke

Artist(s)

ITAGAKI Keisuke

Year

1991

Original Publisher

Akita Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Shounen Champion (Akita Shoten)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Gutsoon! Entertainment (45 Chapters - Defunct)

Kodama (2 Omnibuses [based on kanzenban]; Ongoing)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #568

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Monthly Pos #1247

(-350)

3 Month Pos #2754

(-351)

6 Month Pos #3174

(-747)

Year Pos #3953

(-772)

List Stats

On 663 reading lists

On 382 wish lists

On 288 completed lists

On 38 unfinished lists

On 160 custom lists

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About Grappler Baki

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new grappler baki

18 years ago

Scanlate please

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User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Great action shounen

by expectations___
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This series conveys movement beautifully, so the fighting is actually interesting and exciting to read, you wont find characters standing around shouting "blah blah fist of blah blah" smoke/fire/lighting shoots out of their hands, the fights are SEMI realistic, early on they are somewhat grounded on reality, as the series goes on it basically turns into superhuman fighting WITHOUT "ki/chi/energy" bullshit, just a lot of broscience and incredible resilience. This series is centered around the titular character and his journey, which basically consits of becoming stronger by fighting stronger oponents and training very hard, however, even fights against what would be faceless shallow jobbers in your standard shounen action, FEEL tense, and the outcome seems undecided. The story is full of great tense and hype moments, and features 2 memorable characters, the MC, who, despite having a very basic shounen MC goal, you actually get to like him and cheer him on when you hear his story (at least I did) and come to appreciate his training and perseverance. The second character a very special man (I dont want to spoil anyone so I won't go into details) who makes every page he appears in, pure unadulterated HYPE and comedy, after you read it, you will know who I'm talking about. 100% reccommend this, even if you HATE action shounen/martial arts stories, I think you'll love this.

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hurm

by TaoPaiPai
11 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

overall a nice "tournament" manga
i really prefer the mangakas more raw drawings in the earlier parts of this manga to later series he have made

we have a godlike being who runs around the world and rape woman [and sometimes he "love" these woman]
for the sake of them giving birth to a fighter worthy of fighting/killing him
that is what most of these 42 volumes are about
and it works
you mostly read this hoping that this man [yujiro] shows up and starts killing ppl
and he does

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Best fighting manga

by super_manga_fan
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

If you are a fan of martial arts or fighting in any sense, do yourself a favour and check out baki. The first manga series here is very similar to the anime, and while the anime does cover the whole storyline, these volumes are worth it for some stories and characters that aren't included in the anime.

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