Description
Keisuke Itagaki's genre-defining fighting manga is finally being released in English with a new Perfect Edition!
Featuring professional translations and lettering approved by the original Japanese publisher, as well as a premium slip cover and all of the full-color insert pages that were featured in the manga's original serialization, the Baki the Grappler Perfect Edition is the definitive way to experience the martial arts saga that has sold over 100-million copies worldwide!
The first print run of this volume will feature an exclusive foil-stamped cover, only available while supplies last!
Baki takes on more opponents, including a top-tier boxer and a legendary cryptid! While Baki tests his limits, another teenager earns a reputation as the yakuza's deadliest brawler. Are these two young fighters destined to face each other?
Available officially for the first time in English, experience Keisuke Itagaki's best-selling and highly influential BAKI saga from the start!
Author: Keisuke Itagaki
Publisher: Kodama
Published: 12/01/2025
Pages: 338
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781966523086
ISBN10: 1966523084
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | East Asian Style | Manga | General
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Action & Adventure
About the Author
Keisuke Itagaki is a manga artist and writer who is best known for creating the Baki the Grappler series. He is a practitioner of both boxing and Shorinji Kempo, Itagaki channeled his life-long passion for the martial arts into Baki, which is widely regarded as one of the most influential fighting manga ever made. Itagaki's works have made him into one of Japan's best-selling and most respected creators, with Baki being frequently cited as the direct inspiration for countless movies, anime and video games that followed it.