There's only one of him, boys...
Right on!
But he's no ordinary kid.
And he'll see no mercy today!
Yeah!
It looks like the rumors were true, kido.
Yep.
But what's going on? Why would one kid just walk into that? It's suicide.
Try zipping it up, rookie.
Let's give this kid a beating his grandkid's will feel!
Yeah!!
kitazawa...
Naito, it's you!
Now, that you're here, we're unbeatable!
What's the deal with the big turnout? All these fellas to fight one measly kid?
Naito, I thank you for coming, but please just don't ask any questions, okay...
I beg you.
What are you so scared of?
Please, Naito, no!
Get up! He's here!
There... There he is!
He's alone...
That punk must think he's something special.
Baki!!!
You afraid to bring it over that fence?!
Look at him... He's nothing but a runt.
Naito!
You'll pay for that!
You think you're so hot? Let's see how you stand against my blade! Punk!
Just kidding!
kitazawa!
He's fast... He took down the group leaders like they were nothing.
Mentally, he's got more going on than those who'd resort to things
Iike knives and swords...
And here's the kicker...
Half of those chumps are ready to split, but the other half aren't sure.
You don't scare us, carrot-top! If you hadn't noticed, there's a hundred of us.
Against just little old you.
Why are you laughing at me?!
Four.
Speak up if you're talking to me!!
You're only as tough as four men.
Four? What?
Four men? What does he mean?
The idiot's gonna fight all of them!
Man, he's tough!
Then let's hit him all at once!
Morons.
You animal!
I think you broke my nose!
He knows that only four people can come at him at once... Smart kid there.
There's a hundred of 'em. That twenty five separate fights. He can't--
Uh, excuse me...
Now we got him!
He's getting away! After him!
kido, shouldn't we try to stop them?
I got enough false teeth, but thanks.
Aww, come on!
Time to shut this party down.
Alright, ladies... This party's over.
I'm outta here!
It's past your bedtime, kid. Get home before your momma starts worrying.
You're just going to let them go?
Wake up, Baki.
Oh, it's just you.
kido!
Don't move! You're under arrest for assaulting an officer!
Another dentist appointment.
I'm sick of dishing out money to that bloodsucker.
kido, are you okay?
I'll be fine... Better than these guys.
Well, Baki, out of a hundred, it looks like you laid out about...
Thirty-seven of them... Yes...
Out of an estimated one hundred, but there could've been more...
Well... Yes, until the police interviened.
Good work. Now, go find the next one.
A loss is still a loss, Baki.
Man, only thirty-seven?
I was really pulling for fifty.
I thought I was doing them over pretty good up until the end.
You sure you wanna let him go? He did knock out one of your teeth.
Maybe you wanna lose some teeth, too?
Just trying to help.
You guys wanna stop following me?
No can do. Some of those guys might still be lurking around in some of these shadows.
Besides, Sly here just joined up with the Juvenile Division.
Trying to show him the ropes.
Learning about you and your kind is part of the job.
Yeah, whatever.
You know, you're a really tough kid.
Yeah, thanks for noticing.
Baki here is feared by every low-life punk in this town. He's somewhat of a legend...
Don't take my word for it, you'll see.
""You're dead, Baki!""
""Die, Baki!""
What is all this?
They know they can't beat him, so they have to resort to vandalism.
It's really the only place they can hit him.
All this graffiti everywhere.
Isn't this kind of thing a problem for the neighborhood, or his parents?
He's here alone. Nobody lives out here. Not even his parents.
He's doesn't have parents?
He does, they just don't live anywhere around here.
Do you ever stop talking?
Sorry, kid.
And pick up your cigarette butts.
You see what I mean? That's Baki Hanma.
""Die, Baki!""
If you ever hear of any kind of fighting in this town,
""Die, Baki!"" you can be sure Baki is a part of it somehow.
Nastiest thugs in town are after him,
the kind of guys that can break a man in half...
and Baki's just thirteen years old.
--Thirteen!? --Yep.
Today wouldn't have taken my dad one minute.
Like that one time, a long time ago.
I can't do it.
I can't ever hope to be as good as my father.
We've been expecting you.
It looks like you've been hurt.
Just let it go.
I hate to tell you this, but you shouldn't be fighting while you're still training.
If you want to be a high-caliber fighter then you--
Just shut up.
You're not in the mood... I see.
Well then, let's just move right into today's program.
This boy... is amazing!
Stronger. I have to get stronger. If I don't increase my abilities...
then I'll never be as powerful as my dad.
Alright... That's enough.
Catch your breath, Baki,
and then we'll move on to the next activity in today's program.
No, we won't.
And just what do you mean by that?
I'm finished with all of you loud-mouth coaches!
You're not thinking straight... If you continue to follow our instructions,
you're strength could be immeasurable!
Immeasurable strength?
Baki, stop that!
Same junk fifty times a day...
None of it is making me any stronger!
Hold him tight!
I am!
Hold him tighter!!
This is a waste!
And so is this!
It's all worthless!
Worthless!
Every second of training is worthless if I can't beat a measly hundred guys!
I'm done... Done with you guys once and for all... Got it!?
From here on out, I'm gonna do things my way!
Akezawa residence. How can I help you? Oh, hello, Coach. Baki did what!?
Sounds like my boy is outgrowing himself.
Here is the one million as promised. Please accept our thanks.
Sorry, but I just don't think one million is gonna be nearly enough, kuriyagawa.
Almost half of us were left unconscious and bleeding.
kitazawa, you were hired to beat Baki, not to get caught during the process...
As compensation, I have paid you the price you agreed upon before you lifted a finger.
I want more.
Need I remind you, any physical damage you may have received
is irrelevant to our previous agreement.
Oh, yeah? Then maybe I should take this up with your bosses at the company.
How about that?
See what they say when I tell them that you hired me to beat up a 13 year old kid.
Well, speak up! I can't hear you!
Sir, please keep it down!
Mind your own business!
You're dead old man! Come here!
It's rude to point a blade.
I apologize!
Well, now, we all make mistakes.
I want so desperately to get stronger.
I wanna be the strongest Grappler in the world, just like my father.
But I'm never gonna get there if I keep doing the same things.
Aw, man... What am I gonna do? I don't have the brain power to handle this.
That's the--
The strongest gangster around?
Now why would the great Akezawa Group need to know something like that?
Do you have any idea just how many of them there are out there?
Really, I realize how absurd this must sound to you,
especially given that you're retired.
But I was hoping that you could be giving enough
to provide me with at least some assistance.
Times may have changed, but if all is working properly,
this is still a business of aggression.
We cannot afford a moment of weakness.
In all the trades of our world,
there are always one or two who are considered truly gifted.
The fighting world is no exception.
If you want a bare-knuckles fighter...
You want kaoru.
kaoru it is.
What the--?
Good one, Dinoy! Show him what the knee is made of!
Dinoy! Get up!
You come here to watch? 'Cause you're a bit young.
Muay Thai, huh? What's that all about?
You know? That's cool.
That's Yuri Chakovsky, the international welterweight champ.
Yuri Chakovsky...
He might just be a welter, but his goal is to be the undisputed world champion.
Only he's so strong, no one will spar with him anymore...
so he had to bring Thailand's Muay Thai style champ over to practice.
However, it doesn't look like much of a challenge out there.
--However, it doesn't look like much of a challenge out there. --Let's go!
--However, it doesn't look like much of a challenge out there. --You got him! He's all yours, baby!
That's it, Dinoy! Don't forget to use your legs!
kaoru Hanayama is the current boss of the Hanayama gang...
He inheirited the leadership of the group when his father, the previous leader,
died under questionable circumstances.
Upon his ascension, kaoru started a vengeance war
with kobe's vicious Tomizawa Group.
He began this war by using only his bare hands
to destroy the Tomizawa Group's armed faction of over fifty men.
Impressive.
Thirty minutes was all it took for this fifteen year old boy
to obliterate an entire gang of men with decades more fighting experience.
He's fifteen?
kaoru visited here two years ago and left that behind as a souvenir for me.
He is truly a gifted young man.
Bring on the pain!!
What an uppercut! I didn't even see that one coming.
He's quick.
That had to hurt.
It's over.
Dinoy! Wake up! Dinoy!
Nice job, Yuri... Now, on to the next program, I think.
Now, who is that young lad?
He's not bad...
Yuri Chakovsky, if I'm not mistaken.
Think you can go a few more rounds?
The hazy afternoon in the winter sun
hangs onto love in one corner of the pavement
When I blew on my cold hands
a tiny bit of courage swelled up.
Today will certainly be wonderful,
gently enveloped in love
There are some strange feelings too,
but they will be reborn
Today will certainly be wonderful;
they will be reborn as even more love.
To fulfill the ideology of such classic ideals as these,
Baki himself has drawn battle lines that he has had to cross.
But this inner awakening has also set free a surrounding darkness in the world.
And it is this ferocious fang that Baki the Grappler will have to face, alone.
On the next episode.