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Baki Hanma (範馬刃牙 SON OF OGRE)

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After numerous deadly fights against strong opponents, Baki has finally reached the level to challenge his father Yuujirou, The Strongest Creature on Earth. Before his fight against Yuujirou, Baki chooses the "just right" sparring opponent in Mr. Unchained, a.k.a. Biscuit Oliva, who is considered to be as strong as Yuujirou. Baki intends to become one step stronger by defeating Oliva. However, Oliva is now at the "Black Pentagon": the prison complex in Arizona, USA exclusively used to contain extremely dangerous criminals. In order to fight Oliva, Baki decides to be imprisoned at the Black Pentagon, but other extraordinary fighters are waiting for him. The only rule in this prison is power!!

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Baki Hanma

Baki Hanma is the main character and son of Yuujirou Hanma. He has been training in martial arts since the age of three, and has trained under various teachers and coaches throughout his life. At the age of thirteen, he decided to take his training into his own hands and left the coaches to perform more intense training "in his father's footsteps." He later meets with his father and becomes disillusioned as to his father's true character, and afterwards, aims to defeat and kill him. His fighting style is called "Total Fighting" and includes techniques from many different martial arts. He fights Arudi Regan in round 1, Zool in round 2, Igari Kanji in round 3, and Retsu Kaioh in round 4 before facing his brother in round 5 which are the finals of the tournament. He eventually develops the ogre/demon face on his back when fighting his brother, but manages to suppress it. Unlike Yuujirou, he chooses to control his killing intent and fight his battles fair and honorably no matter what the outcome. Many of Baki's unusual training methods often earn him the admiration of many of the fighters of the underground arena for example Shadowboxing, or visualizing fighting an opponent, is a big part of Baki's regimen sometimes his visions take an almost corporeal form and given he can easily remember and replicate any technique he sees this gives him a huge edge over his opponents as he can fight them and learn their weakness' before actually fighting them. Baki has encounters with all the escaped convicts in the 'Search of Our Strongest Hero' series, has just defeated Biscuit Oliva, and is now faced with a new challenge against the prehistoric man Pickle. He is currently waiting for his fight with Pickle after Retsu and Katsumi are defeated. He had a shadow boxing visualization fight with a T-Rex prior to the Katsumi/Pickle fight. He has been recently defeated by Pickle in the Korakuen area.

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Yuujirou Hanma

The father of Baki and Jack Hanma. He is the strongest creature in the world, and is known to have mastered all styles of unarmed combat. His repertoire apparently includes all of the well-known fighting styles (such as karate, boxing, taekwondo, judo, jujutsu, wrestling, street-fighting, and so on) as well as some more esoteric ones (such as the udonde or uzunde style, an actual system used in the Motobu style of karate). He has been fighting on the battlefields, using only his bare hands, since the age of sixteen, when he fought against both American and Vietcong in the Vietnam War. Since then, it appears that he has obtained respect from the American forces, and has begun fighting as a kind of mercenary for them. It is said that when he stopped fighting for survival but for pleasure, the image of the demon's face appeared on his back.

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Oliva Biscuit

Oliva Biscuit is an assassin working for the US. He possesses an iron body and is almost invulnerable to anything. He and Yujiro crossed paths while he was sent to assassinate a drug cartel leader. He also has one bizarre technique in which he curls into a perfect sphere of muscle in which he is impervious to attacks, but can uncurl and seize his opponents, "eating" them "like Pac-Man." He then crushes them with his muscles. His appearance and name are based on former Mr. Universe and three-time Mr. Olympia Sergio Oliva.

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