Itagaki’s original Baki The Grappler (Grappler Baki) martial arts manga ran in Akita Publishing’s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 1991 to 1999, and the 42 compiled book volumes from Akita Publishing have more than 63 million copies in circulation.
The Baki-Dou sequel series launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in March 2014 as the third main sequel to the original Baki The Grappler manga, and it ended on April 5, 2018.
Writer Baku Yumemakura commented in this year’s ninth issue of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine on Thursday that a “martial arts novel” of his will have an anime adaptation.
The magazine serializes his Yūenchi: Baki Gaiden manga, a side story to the martial arts manga Baki by Keisuke Itagaki.