The golden championship belt that decorated the glory
of each successive pankration king in the ancient Roman Olympics...
After over 2000 years' time...
...it will once again be worn by the one most worthy...
It's time...
"Final"
"What's wrong with striving to be the world's strongest?!"
Every person...
Every man who is born aims to be the world's strongest at least once!
Someone who's never dreamed of being strongest, even for a second!
Not one such man exists in this world!
That is the truth!
One is hit by his father... Another loses to the strength of a bully...
Yet another is defeated by the strength of a world champion...
They each abandoned the dream and walked their own paths!
Doctors, politicians, businessmen,
cartoonists, novelists, pilots, teachers, office workers!
But tonight, we have two who never gave up the dream
of being world's strongest!
Two of the greatest lunkheads!
These two have longed to be the world's strongest more than anyone!
The final match!
Bring out the two fighters!
Is it all right for him to eat that much right before a fight?
Baki ain't normal. He was like that when he fought me, too...
He just kept eating like crazy before the fight...
--Oh, Kozue-chan... --Y-yes?!
Thanks...
Baki. Jack is... using drugs...
Then let him...
If he thinks it'll make him stronger, then he should do it.
He's... not like any of the others.
If it'll make him stronger today, he doesn't need tomorrow.
That's what he's constantly thought this whole time...
Jack's today... The today he's constantly thought that way about...
It's always serious!
I won't lose.
I've constantly thought, too...
Ever since I was born...
To get stronger today more than tomorrow!
And now... I've arrived at today...
Grow strong... Even stronger than your father...
Stronger! Stronger!
I have to get even stronger!
You sure about this? The final's about to start...
You're wrong...
If there is a match tonight that I consider a final...
...it's when I fight you, Ogre.
I want to win.
I want to beat a certain man. That's all.
To beat that man, I require hard training.
Jack!
Are you saying you'd do whatever it takes to beat this man?
Even if it means death, or selling your soul to the devil to win?!
You can continue to train as you have been.
These too.
Though, the first week could be a bit severe due to the pain that comes
with sudden bodily changes...
More! I need a body that can withstand even harder training!
B-but all the training and drugs has put your body at its critical point!
Any more of the drugs and-
I never once planned to live a long life!
I've long been ready to exchange the strongest body ever for death!
You're fine with becoming Frankenstein's Monster then?!
He's my ideal vision.
Please, God... Forgive me...
Professor... You gave me this body...
Thank you...
I will probably be joining you very soon...
You are not to blame...
My life... was cursed from the very start...
The goal you had hoped to achieve, I will now obtain...
I will put the period on my own horrendous past...
I will beat you...
There's only one, but I, too, have something that is irreplaceable...
--Man, it's hot... --Yeah...
The air conditioner off or something?
--No... --Eh?
It's not the air conditioning...
What's going on? It's almost like steam...
What the hell?! That ain't normal human body temperature!
Is he sick or somethin'?!
--It's all right. --Kureha...
When a person gets worked up, it is not only in the mental sense.
His cells know what this fight means...
Still, what a peaceful-looking sleeping face...
How funny!
I've only lived for 13 years, but I've always looked up to my dad
and done everything I could possibly do.
And then I realized something!
That my true reason for aiming to be the strongest is that bond...
And that Dad is completely different!
Maybe you'll recognize him!
Why?! Why won't he fall in love with me?!
Do I have no womanly charm?!
Mom...
Because you're weak! It's because you're so weak!
It's your fault! Why did I have such a weak child?!
If I beat him...
...will you... finally love me?
Madam!
Make your father happy!
I'll make someone happy!
You, that is!
Yujiro!
Now you fight me!
I'll return to Japan in two years. I'm-
I'm going to get strong enough to beat him bare-handed!
Dad...
You're close at hand now!
In the Seiryu corner... it's this face! Hanma Baki!
"Total Fighting Hanma Baki" In the Seiryu corner... it's this face! Hanma Baki!
In the Byakko corner... it's this man! Jack Hammer!
"Pit Fighting Jack Hammer" In the Byakko corner... it's this man! Jack Hammer!
They are true supermen!
Super-humans who far transcend the limits of human capacity!
Was it God who chose them?! Or was it the Devil?!
And who will be chosen in the end?!
The gods' verdict will be handed down in this underground arena!
W-what does this mean?!
"Hanma" On Jack's back are the characters that spell out the name "Hanma"!
The right to fight Hanma Yujiro is not yours alone.
Wouldn't have known without being told!
He has the right, alright!
Everyone's waitin' in the arena, you know...
Looking forward to your final match with Baki...
I won't hold back, no matter who you are.
Time to eat!
Why do you not dodge?
Your stepping points, the flow of your muscles, your combat spirit...
They were all fake...
There was no need to dodge whatsoever...
Once the match is over, I will return here.
After I defeat Hanma Baki...
It was all to surpass you...
I sold my life to the devil, in exchange for the strength to surpass you.
The next time I unleash my fist at you... I will not stop it.
Go fight with everything you got.
It's the world's greatest sibling quarrel!
He isn't Jack Hammer! He's Jack Hanma!
How exactly should one make sense of this revelation?!
Who exactly are you-
You did well to make it this far with that body...
Yeah...
Don't worry. I will crush you with everything I got.
We are both equal inheritors of the Hanma gift...
The Hanma... gift...
Alright. I'll beat you down with all my strength, too...
That is the duty of those who stand here, after all...
Did everyone hear that?
They said they're both equal inheritors of the Hanma gift!
What a twist of fate!
The gods have chosen the two super-humans borne from the Ogre!
For the first time, these brothers have met!
In this tournament, of all places! With these rules!
Brothers of shared blood, in the final match, of all places!
Just what will the gods bring forth next?!
A final gift?! A vicious tragedy?! Or perhaps a sublime ceremony?!
Begin!
The distant past. A faraway battlefield.
A revolution gives birth to madness.
In the ashes stand a man and a woman.
The veil of smoke now rises on the prologue enveloped in darkness...
Next Episode- "Secret War"