Itagaki’s original Baki The Grappler martial arts manga ran for 42 volumes in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1991 to 1999.
The first Baki-Dou manga, the overall fourth manga in the franchise, launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in March 2014 and ended in April 2018 with 22 volumes.
This year’s 24th issue of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine revealed on Thursday that Keisuke Itagaki’s Baki-Dou manga will take a two-issue break, and will return in the magazine’s 27th issue on June 3.
The new Baki-Dou manga uses different characters for “Baki” in the title from the previous Baki-Dou manga, although it retains the name “Baki-Dou.”