Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura: The Crossover Between Netflix’s Two Most Beloved Anime Arrives
The dream becomes reality for martial arts enthusiasts, the most anticipated anime crossover of the year arrives on Netflix, the one between Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura in an event film that will see the characters of Keisuke Itagaki and Yabako Sandrovich taken from their respective manga of the same name fight against each other. This is one of the biggest martial arts crossovers since the battle between Bruce Lee and Chick Norris and we are sure that fans of these two beloved Netflix anime can’t wait to see this exciting challenge. The special episode will be directed by Toshiki Hirano and written by Atsuo Ishino. TMS Entertainment is the animation studio that will produce this special episode. But let’s find out when the crossover episode between Baki Hanma and Kengan Ashura will be released and take a look at the first trailer.
Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura: Everything About Netflix’s Two Flagship Anime
The Baki series, published in Akita Shoten’s “Weekly Shonen Champion”, is a hugely successful martial arts manga that has sold over 85 million copies. Baki tells the stories of various fighters and revolves around the epic fight to the death between the protagonist Baki Hanma, the youngest underground fighting champion, and his father Yujiro Hanma, the “strongest creature on earth”. The manga inspired the Netflix anime series Baki Hanma. The Kengan Ashura manga is extremely popular and undoubtedly remains the most popular comic among users of the Ura Sunday website and the MangaONE app. The humble employee Kazuo Yamashita meets the mysterious martial arts fighter Ohma Tokita and becomes involved in “Kengan” matches, through which some corporations settle accounts by betting large sums of money on expert fighters. Netflix also adapted this manga into a highly successful anime series of the same name.
Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura: The Plot
At the moment we have no details on the specific plot of this special episode, but we know that at the center of the story, there will be a martial arts competition between the two fighters. The Shonen manga entitled Baki the Grappler written and illustrated by Keisuke Itagaki was published from 1991 to 1999 in the Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Champion. Five sequels were subsequently created, including Baki Hanma which was serialized from 2005 to 2012 in the same magazine. The manga has also had anime transpositions including the adaptation of Baki Hanma distributed in 2021 with a first season of 12 episodes and followed by a second of 27. The story of Baki Hanma focuses on the young protagonist from whom the manga takes its title series, who through extreme challenges and opponents of all kinds strives to become a skilled martial arts expert.
Kengan Ashura is a manga always aimed at shonen and at the same time spokon like Baki. Written by Yabako Sandrovich and illustrated by Daromeon, Kengan Ashura was serialized in the Japanese magazine Ura Sunday from 2012 to 2018. The anime adaptation of the same name was released in 2019 with a two-part first season consisting of 24 episodes each. While the first part of the second season, again consisting of 12 episodes, was distributed in September 2023. The plot of Kengan Ashura also focuses on martial arts-related combat, with clandestine fights and betting rings. A reckless adventure in which the protagonist Ohma Tokita alias Kengan Ashura also finds himself involved, through the dangerous Kengan tournament from which his battle nickname derives. While waiting to see the anime film Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura, in the meantime the TV series Baki and Kengan Ashura are available for streaming on Netflix. Here is also the first poster of Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura.
Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura: When it Comes Out on Netflix
The film Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura arrives on Netflix on June 6, 2024.
