This year’s 44th issue of Akita Shoten‘s Shōnen Weekly Champion announced Thursday that Baku Yumemakura‘s YÅ«enchi: Baki Gaiden (Amusement park: Baki Side Story) the light novel series will get a manga adaptation by Yuria Fujita, who provides the art of the novels. More information on the manga’s launch will be revealed at a later date.

Yumemakura launched the YÅ«enchi: Baki Gaiden series of light novels based on Keisuke Itagaki‘s Baki manga franchise in Shōnen Weekly Champion in May 2018. Akita Shoten published the third volume of the compiled book on May 7.

Keisuke Itagakiis original Baki the grappling hook (Grappling Baki) martial arts manga ran in Akita Shoten‘s Shōnen Weekly Champion magazine from 1991 to 1999, and the 42 volumes of books compiled from Akita Shoten have over 63 million copies in circulation. The series received two seasons of television anime and one original video anime (OAV) volume.

The simply titled Baki manga the sequel is the second main installment of the Itagaki set franchise. The manga also ran in Shōnen Weekly Champion from 1999 to 2005 with 31 volumes published. The manga inspired the two previous animated series on Netflix, and a Original animation DVD (DAO) adaptation which depicts the arc “Worst Condemned on Death Row”. The DAO came with a limited edition of Itagaki’s 14th Baki-Dou tome manga in December 2016.

After the Baki manga sequel ended in 2005, Hanma baki then appeared in the same magazine from 2005 to 2012. The Baki-Dou series of suites launched in Shōnen Weekly Champion in March 2014 as the third main sequel to the original Baki the grappling hook manga, and it ended in April 2018. The fifth main part of the manga, the same titled Bakidou, launched in 2018.

TMS Entertainment‘s Baki hanma debut in the anime Netflix Thursday with the 12 episodes. Baki hanma will be the third Baki series on Netflix, and a sequel to the recent Baki: Dai Raitaisai-hen series.

Netflix describes the anime:

The story finally takes place in a cold-blooded clash between Baki Hanma and his father, Yujiro Hanma, who is known as the “strongest creature on earth”. The highlight of the Baki the universe, which portrayed the “strongest parent-child brawl in world history” in the original manga, has been adapted into the long-awaited anime!

Yukinao yamauchi (Baki Gaiden – Scarface) spear Baki Gaiden: Kizuzura, a Baki the grappling hook spin-off, in the first issue of Champion Bessatsu Shōnen magazine in 2012. Yet another spin-off, Baki Gaiden: Kenjin, made his debut in RED Champion revised in 2013.

Source: Shōnen Weekly Champion number 44