Baki (グラップラー刃牙 Gurappurā Baki) is an anime television series based on the manga series by Keisuke Itagaki. It began streaming on Netflix on June 25, 2018 in Japan, and started streaming on December 18, 2018 outside Japan.
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Dubbing History
From December 2018 to June 2020, Netflix has released Baki with the English dub recorded at Studiopolis.
In February 2021, Sentai Filmworks acquired the home video licensing rights to Baki with plans of a new English dub recorded in Houston, TX. On April 23, 2021, Sentai announced it's voice cast for the home video release of the anime.
Cast
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor | Season | |
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| Main Characters | |||||
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Baki Hanma | Nobunaga Shimazaki | Troy Baker | Blake Jackson | 1-2 |
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Yujiro Hanma | Akio Ōtsuka | Kirk Thornton | TBA | 1-2 |
| Fighters | |||||
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Doppo Orochi | Takayuki Sugō | Steve Blum | Brian Mathis | 1-2 |
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Goki Shibukawa | Bin Shimada | Vic Mignogna | David Harbold | 1 |
| Kyle McCarley | 2 | ||||
 
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Retsu Kaioh | Rikiya Koyama | Kaiji Tang | Ty Mahany | 1-2 |
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Kaoru Hanayama | Takuya Eguchi | Greg Chun | Jay Hickman | 1 |
| Convicts | |||||
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Dorian Kaioh | Banjō Ginga | Aaron LaPlante | Josh Morrison | 1 |
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Hector Doyle | Takehito Koyasu | Johnny Yong Bosch | Scott Gibbs | 1 |
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Sikorsky | Kenjirō Tsuda | Grant George | Joe Daniels | 1 |
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Spec | Chafurin | Kyle Hebert | David Wald | 1 |
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Ryuukou Yanagi | Issei Futamata | Chris Edgerly | TBA | 1 |
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Oliver Biscuit | Hōchū Ōtsuka | James Mathis III | Jovan Jackson | 1 |
| Recurring Characters | |||||
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Mitsunari Tokugawa | Mugihito | Matthew Yang King | TBA | 1 |
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Kozue Matsumoto | Sora Amamiya | Cherami Leigh | Christina Kelly | 1-2 |
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Igari Kanji | Kiyoyuki Yanada | D.C. Douglas | Jack Ivy | 1-2 |
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Chiharu Shiba | Tatsuhisa Suzuki | Robbie Daymond | Blake Weir | 1 |
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Kinuyo Matsumoto | Miki Nagasawa | Colleen O'Shaughnessey | Sam Butler | 1 |
| Shinshinkai Dojo | |||||
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Katsumi Orochi | Yoshihisa Kawahara | Ray Chase | Andrew Love | 1 |
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Kiyosumi Katou | Takehiro Murozono | Robbie Daymond | TBA | 1 |
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Atsushi Suedo | Yosikazu Nagano | Liam O'Brien | Michael Wronski | 1 |
| Police Department of Japan | |||||
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Morio Sonoda | Kōji Ishii | John Eric Bentley | John Swasey | 1 |
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Tsuneo Katahira | Hiroyuki Amano | Robbie Daymond | TBA | 1 |
| Others | |||||
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Ryu Kaioh | Shōzō Iizuka | Darin De Paul | TBA | 1-2 |
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Jeff Markson | Yoshito Yasuhara | Chris Edgerly | Kregg Dailey | 1 |
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Tateoka | Takahiro Fujimoto | Andrew Kishino | Houston Hayes | 1 |
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Jack Hanma | Kenta Miyake | Christopher Swindle | Courtland Johnson | 1-2 |
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Kosho Shinogi | Takumi Yamazaki | Billy Kametz | Gabriel Regojo | 1 |
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Kureha Shinogi | Ken Narita | Matthew Yang King | James Marler | 1 |
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Gerry Strydum | Yoshisada Sakaguchi | Mick Wingert | Chris Hutchison | 1 |
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Mohammad Alai Jr. | Sōichirō Hoshi | Ogie Banks | Antonio Lasanta | 1-2 |
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Mohammad Alai | Hideyuki Tanaka | James Mathis III | Orlanders Jones | 1 |
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Gaia | Ayumu Murase | Billy Kametz | Gareth West | 1 |
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Izou Motobe | Minoru Inaba | Christopher Swindle | Rob Mungle | 1 |
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Reichi Ando | Ryūzaburō Ōtomo | Patrick Seitz | Michael Wronski | 1 |
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Yasha-Zaru Jr. | Eiji Yanagisawa | TBA | Andrew Love | 1 |
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Kunimatsu | Shigeru Chiba | Greg Chun | Benjamin McLaughlin | 1 |
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Sho | Kōzō Mito | TBA | TBA | 1 |
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Tawaraya | Kenji Kitamura | Mick Wingert | TBA | 1 |
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Ryo | TBA | Todd Haberkorn | Walter Bubble | 1 |
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Headband Delinquent | TBA | TBA | TBA | 1 |
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Tall Delinquent | TBA | TBA | TBA | 1 |
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Narrator | Tōru Furuya | Kirk Thornton | Matthew Henderson | 1 |
| Michael Sorich | 2 | ||||
Episodic Characters
| Image | Character | Seiyū | Dub Actor | Episode | |
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| Netflix Dub | Sentai Dub | ||||
| First Season (Part 1) | |||||
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Executioner | TBA | TBA | TBA | 01 |
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Lawyer | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
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Spec's Guard | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
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Rob Robinson | Masato Funaki | Chris Edgerly | TBA | 02 |
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Harashima | Hiroki Takahashi | Greg Chun | TBA | |
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Man with Weights | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
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Man with Knife | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
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Nakamura | Shigeru Shibuya | Mick Wingert | TBA | 03 |
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Director del hospital | Jin Urayama | TBA | TBA | 06 |
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Teacher | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
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Mitsuomi Hasegawa | Nobuaki Fukuda | Greg Chun | Carl Masterson | 07 |
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Cab Driver | Takeharu Onishi | Liam O'Brien | TBA | 09 |
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Ashida | Yasuhiro Takato | Andrew Kishino | TBA | 10 |
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Doctor Umezawa | Bon Ishihara | Mick Wingert | TBA | 11 |
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Gray-Haired Doctor | Takuma Suzuki | Andrew Kishino | TBA | 12 |
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Valentin Sokolov | Ikkyū Juku | Liam O'Brien | Mark Mendelsohn | 13 |
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Bart Allen | Hisao Egawa | Darin De Paul | TBA | |
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Michael Halls | Hajime Iijima | Grant George | TBA | |
| First Season (Part 2) | |||||
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Terada | Kōji Takeda | Christopher Corey Smith | TBA | 19 |
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Alexander Gallen | Eiji Yanagisawa | Darin De Paul | TBA | 21 |
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Kihei Mikoshiba | Takashi Matsuyama | Carl Masterson | 23 | |
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Dave | Kōsuke Gotō | Xander Mobus | TBA | 24 |
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Yōō Chō | Kazuki Ogawa | Patrick Seitz | Luis Galindo | 26 |
Additional Voices
Netflix
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Sentai
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Notes
- Troy Baker's first anime dubbing role since 2016.
- Also Troy's first new anime role in 6 years since his reprisal as Kanji in Persona 4: The Animation.
- First Netflix original anime series dubbed at Studiopolis.
- Chris Edgerly's first anime series outside of Naruto Shippūden.
Transmission via Streaming
| Company | Date | Category | Format | Content | Classification | Country | ||
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December 18, 2018 (Season 1; 1st Part) |
Anime / Netflix Original Series |
Digital | 13 eps | 16+ | United States | 
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| April 30, 2019 (Season 1; 2nd Part) |
13 eps | |||||||
| June 4, 2020 (Season 2) |
13 eps | |||||||
Video Releases
| Distributor | Year | Format | Contents | Dub | Region | Country | |
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| Sentai Filmworks | 2021 | 
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Episodes 1-26 | Sentai Filmworks | A DVB-T |
United States |
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| 1 Volume | |||||||
See Also
- Baki the Grappler
- Grappler Baki: The Ultimate Fighter
