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The Hanma Family | Maximum Tournament Competitors | Shinshinkai Dojo Members

In General

• The Ace: The Hanma bloodline is noted to be ahead of the rest of the world at fighting, as soon as birth.
• Badass Family: The main members of the family are all one-man armies in their own right.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Yeah, this family is messed up to a great degree. Hard not to admit it when the father considers beating the shit out of his sons family bonding time, with the exception of Yuichiro.
• Bizarre Human Biology: Even by Baki's loose standards, the family has such peculiar physiology that at times they seem more like Starfish Aliens than superhumans. Yujiro's skull looks like it belongs to a lion, Jack somehow survives chucking up liters upon liters of body fluids and still gets right back up to fight, and Baki is somehow capable of flexing his brain into a specific shape.
• Blood Knight: In general, the Hanmas love a good fight.
• Humanoid Abomination: The level of strength they can reach is totally beyond anything else in the setting, and the story sometimes gives hints (such as the situation with the Demon Back) that their power might be demonic in nature.
• The Power of Lust: According to Yujiro, one of the ways Hanmas get stronger is through fornication. Baki is noted to not be as naïve and gentle as he once was after Kozue took his virginity.
• Superpowerful Genetics: The Hanma bloodline seems to be inherently stronger than the rest of humanity, simply due to their genetics.
  • The Hanayama bloodline is stated to be naturally strong and seemingly bestowed Kaoru Hanayama with an adult body at puberty, as well as endowed him with superhuman strength and durability without training a day in his life. Yet he is only the leader of the strongest Yakuza gang in Japan. The Hanma bloodline has threatened nations by existing (indeed even as a newborn Yujiro was The Dreaded and basically caused the world to panic upon birth) and have casually kidnapped heads of state and fought armies— things Baki, Yujiro, and Yuichiro have done multiple times.
  • Nomi no Sukune II is from a lineage of sumo wrestlers that stretch back 272 generations. They have done nothing but train in seclusion to be the strongest of fighters. Physically monstrous, and one of the strongest characters in the series, the only thing he has going over the Hanmas is... grip strength.
  • The only character who is arguably all-around physically more powerful than the Hanmas is not even human, but a prehistoric caveman that fought dinosaurs. Who may actually be related to them in the first place.... The Hanmas are just naturally that strong.

Baki Hanma

Baki Hanma

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (JP, anime), Kappei Yamaguchi (JP, OVA), Nobunaga Shimazaki (JP, Netflix ONA), Robert McCollum (EN, anime), Carter Cathcart (EN, OVA), Troy Baker (EN, Netflix ONA), Alfonso Herrera (LatAm, Netflix ONA)

The protagonist. Baki is a young fighting prodigy living in Japan. Following a traumatic childhood upbringing at the hands of his Abusive Parents, Baki vows to get revenge on his father Yujiro Hanma for killing his mother. There's only one problem with this- Yujiro is, quote, "the strongest creature on the planet", which means that Baki has a long road ahead of him if he ever wants to catch up with his beast of a father and defeat him.

While laid-back and easygoing, Baki is a fiendishly intelligent fighter, capable of adapting his style on the fly with snap decision making abilities and excellent reaction time. The series charters his personal growth into a true fighter, following him from a young 13-year-old boy into a grown adult.

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• Abusive Parents: Out of all of the parents in the world Baki just had to have Yujiro Hanma and Emi Akezawa as his parents.
• The Ace: Not to the level of his father, but he's considered one of the best fighters in the world, and he's only 18. It's been shown on several occasions that his father Yujiro passed on some of his awesomeness to Baki.
  • Baki has been shown to be close to his father in terms of ability, with Yujiro stating that he will soon be "a Hanma without a care in the world".
  • At the same time, Baki has suffered an intensely traumatic childhood and has many mental issues, making him more of a Broken Ace.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Subverted. When he was younger he showed a lot of enthusiasm when fighting and often got himself into many situations that end up with him almost getting killed, but who could blame him when his dad is the World's Strongest Man. As he grew older, however, and saw just how far the well goes when it comes to martial arts and life-or-death fights, he considerably mellows out, to the point that he's completely unrecognizable to the punk of chapter one while somehow being even more of a battle maniac and retained some snarkiness towards his foes.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Baki has been studying martial arts all of his life, and has mastered a version of shadow boxing that is so strong that the opponents he conjures up from his imagination can actually HURT HIM. He's also adept at studying, learning and copying his opponent's techniques and skills.
• Berserk Button: Unnecessary cruelty during a fight or in general. This leads Baki to go into an extraordinary rage due to the way his father Yujiro fights for pure domination. As well as others who disregard the pain they inflict on others as meaningless to them in pursuit of other goals.
  • Yujiro is a walking pillar of anger for Baki due to the history together and how they both have had conflicts to where Baki always has some sort of negative reaction upon seeing him or even hearing his name.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Baki generally is a good natured Nice Guy but he can become a dangerous force to be reckoned with whenever he is angered or if the people he cares about are in danger.
• Blood Knight: Baki has grown up training rigorously in order to reach the pinnacle of strength to face his father and during his childhood he would often get into random fights to prove his strength as a warrior. Even into his teenage years he is seen enjoying the thrill of fighting and shows off a small smirk whenever he's going up against strong opponents.
• Broken Pedestal: In his youth, his only wish was to live up to his father's legacy to please his mother. Once Yujiro kills his mother and shows his true brutality, Baki loses interest in impressing his father and becomes more interested in defeating him.
• Character Development: Initially began the series as an arrogant delinquent who loved fighting and wanted to earn his father's approval. But he gradually and severely grows out of these traits once he learns what a monster Yujiro is, and how big the world around them truly is. Now, Baki is one of the friendliest, most humble guys in the series. And while he still enjoys a good competition to some extent, later seasons don't really hide the fact that he'd give it up for a normal life if he could.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: It's the Baki universe so that goes without saying, but Baki is the son of the strongest creature in the world, Yujiro Hanma. Some of the superhuman things Baki has done are:
  • Super-Speed: Baki is considered one of the fastest fighters in the world, if not the fastest. He can move at 168MPH with a technique he calls the "Cockroach Tackle" which he used on his father, Yujiro, and pushed through multiple walls inside a hotel. Even without his tackle he can disappear from human sight at will and is capable of attacking combat ready fighters before they even have a chance to react. Indeed he has used that last one to knock some of the strongest fighters in the series unconscious.
  • Super-Strength: Holding a UFC Heavyweight champion's skull so hard that the fighter claimed that Baki's grip felt like a vice and that it was impossible to even budge his hands. His aforementioned Cockroach Tackle allows him to tackle people through several walls. Even his normal punches can break through concrete walls without issue.
  • Healing Factor: He has the ability to heal absurdly fast. The best example being when Baki was poisoned by Yanagi and during the great Raitai Tournament started to physically waste away. It should be noted that the poison was meant to kill most people immediately, and he lasted more than a week before being cured. Then, after eating the equivalent of all the weight he lost from wasting away, his body began to create steam and he regenerated back to his original, healthy, muscular self as if nothing happened.
  • Super-Reflexes: Having a super reflex from jumping off a cliff activating a near death reaction. Even his normal reflexes are fast enough to dodge bullets.
  • Super-Toughness: He can take absurd amounts of punishment. He has been hit through walls and has taken being tackled off a skyscraper and landing on a car just fine.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Baki doesn't fight out of malice, or because he actively wants to hurt people, although his Hanma blood inevitably means that he can get very heated in the moment, but he has a strict no-killing policy and maiming his opponent is only something he does if he has to. Baki's way of fighting is more of a dialogue between him and his opponent's admirable traits, skills and physical limits, many of Baki doesn't initially have and wants for himself, so he can pass them on and improve as an overall person. This makes him able to befriend anything from delinquent Yakuzas to political leaders, cryptid animals to a caveman, even his estranged Canadian brother Jack by fighting them.
• Defiant to the End: Even after losing his final fight with Yujiro, his fighting spirit manifests and tries to continue the battle. And after that, he gets one last laugh in by tricking Yujiro into genuinely going along with a make believe dinner.
• Dub Personality Change: Baki was originally portrayed as dreaming of being the strongest to take down his psychopathic father and for love of fighting. The dub portrays Baki as someone who was born into it, and while he likes fighting, he'd give it up for a nice, normal life.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His naivety has caused him to lose fights he should've been more than capable of winning on more than just a few occasions. It's severely downplayed after sleeping with Kozue, but every now and then it rears its ugly head.
  • Starting with Oliva, he's developed a bad habit of forgoing his techniques and strategies towards the end of certain fights and opting to try and finish off particularly strong enemies with nothing but brute strength instead. This works against Oliva, but it's what ultimately costs him his final fights against Pickle and Yujiro respectively.
• Fiery Redhead: Baki had orange hair and was always ready to fight even showing some Hot-Blooded qualities.
• The Gift: While not nearly as talented as his father (but really, who is?) the Hanma Blood already gives him physical advantages leagues above all other humans. On top of that, he has access to the Demon Back, not so much a technique as another inherent physical advantage of those blessed with the Hanma blood — and not so much a powerboost as is sign that the gloves are off and Baki is going to straight murder you.
• Good Is Not Soft: Blasé sometimes, but Baki is a nice person that will fight just as brutally as Jack or Yujiro if needed to.
• Greatness Mistaken for Failure: Baki is easily one of the most powerful people on the planet, and is recognized as such in the underground world of fighting. However, in New Grappler Baki (chapters 13—14), he is subjected to a standard school fitness test and nearly flunks it, as he fails to do it the standard way:
  • In the 100m dash, he takes off by using the full force of his muscles and promptly falls over because the ground of the school stadium isn't built to withstand such impact and breaks under him.
  • In the softball throw, he gets the worst mark in the class, because he tosses the ball sky-high instead of away from himself, so it falls down fairly close to him.
  • In the long jump, he leaps over the entire sandbox, so the teacher cannot measure his distance exactly.
  • In the chin-up test, he does fifteen chin-ups so fast that nobody even notices him doing it. When asked to repeat, he ends up breaking the bar with his sheer power, much to the teacher's fury.
  • Subverted in the end, however, as the teacher passes him after seeing Baki beat an 800m run world record.
• Humanoid Abomination: Verges on it at times, especially when his Hanma brain gets switched on by a thorough enough beating. The Narrator even describes Baki as having "An inhuman body, bestowed by God" when he rejuvenates from a poison meant to kill on the spot after it has emaciated him for a week after eating and drinking half his bodyweight in medicinal Chinese cuisine and 15 liters of glucose water.
• Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: As for Son of Ogre, in a byproduct of Characterization Marches On, Baki is Yujiro's own Tyke Bomb. Narration even goes through a long-winded analogy likening Yujiro to a glutton that, unable to satisfy his hunger anymore, gets forced to learn to cook and research his own recipes. While in the early installments Baki was just the victim of a jerkass father and an uncaring mother, Son of Ogre implies Yujiro willingly put his son through an hellish life just to create a second Strongest Creature able to give him the fight of their lives, and in the first series he was just disappointed because he thought he failed.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Baki believes he is nothing like his father and it's true for the most part. As he's very kind, caring, calm, and actually enjoys his normal life of spending time being a regular teenager. While he isn't completely unlike Yujiro, as he also loves fighting seeing it as something he enjoys doing since he's been training to fight ever was a child but finds the thrill of it exhilarating. He can also be very bloodthirsty when his Hanma blood boils and unleashing part of his Demon Back can make him very vicious not unlike his father. However he doesn't make a habit out of using it.
• Megaton Punch: One of his signature moves named Goutaijutsu where aligns his joints perfectly then unleashing a powerful Seiken punch throwing all of his weight into the blow.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Showing up at the Coliseum in a middle of a fight between Doppo and Yujiro, causes Yujiro to use his demon back in rage; not only did it give Doppo less of a fighting chance against his opponent, he'll suffer numerous of injuries such a ruptured eardrum, an eye being gouged out and suffer a near-death experience being struck to the chest.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Baki seems to be based off Japanese MMA fighter Taira Naoyuki, who is known for cross-training in Pro-Wrestling and Kickboxing in the early era of MMA where fighters didn't mix styles and just stuck to one. Like Baki, he was a baby face with a mole above his lip. Naoyuki's ring name? The Grappler. Interestingly, Taira made a cameo in the first Baki OVA as voice actor for a referee.
  • Baki's change to red hair is likely a reference to Kazushi Sakuraba, another early MMA fighter who dabbled in pro wrestling who rocked the same short red hairstyle for a time. Sakuraba was a fighter famous for his peerless grappling skills, defeating four of the famous Gracies in their prime, and a willingness to fight any fighter under any circumstances- including unlimited time rules or fighting well above weight class. He even expressed apathy to PED abuse in martial arts despite being natural himself, stating the bigger and stronger the foe, the more eager he is to fight.
• Out of Focus: After Son of Ogre, Baki rarely has much of an involvement in the fourth and fifth series and it's just there to fight off the main titular characters. Justified as he is gradually reaching Yujiro levels of superhuman, making fights against any but the strongest of opponents completely redundant.
• Razor-Sharp Hand: During the finals, he borrows Kosho's technique to blind Jack on his left side.
• Screaming Warrior: Baki barely goes through a battle without unleashing a scream.
• Skilled, but Naive: Baki is a very powerful and skilled fighter, but he tends to lack experience with fighters that have exotic styles and are able to counteract him. Also when his head is not in the right place he becomes very vulnerable to his opponent. The ending to his first fight with Yanagi says it all.
• Spirited Competitor: Unlike his father who is a Sadist and enjoys toying with his opponents before crushing them, Baki never tries to cause pain or seriously hurt his opponents (he takes their injuries as a given because it's a fight after all but his focus is the fight not trying to break them emotionally or physically) and will often compliment people on their skills and spirit even if they are weaker than him. He likes the challenge of a fight and testing himself not the bloodshed or violence associated with it. If given the choice to end a fight quickly by seriously or permanently crippling his opponent or using a bit more effort so that after he beats them the most they need is some hospital time while recovering to 100%, he's going to choose the second.
• Strong and Skilled: Baki is a very skilled martial artist as well as having the pure brute strength to back it up. As he is able to completely master multiple arts of fighting and incorporate it into his style by taking them from other fighters then making it into his own style. He also can utilize and mold his strength in order to overpower his opponents to match them blow for blow. When combining them both he becomes a terrifying force to be reckoned with and earning himself the title of champion amongst the underground league as he's able to counteract against fighters who only use one form of fighting which he switches his style into matching theirs.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Like his father Yujiro he has the ogre demon back muscles. Also he seems to have inherited Yujiro's hair color and style. But Baki has his mother's facial structure with his dad's eyes and ears. As he gets older he starts to look more like Yujiro.
• Super Powerful Genetics: He's a Hanma. It's a given that he comes from a long line of bad-asses.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Though he put up an impressive fight, Baki simply proved unable to finally beat Yujiro in their final climactic fight at the end of Son Of Ogre. The real problem with this is that while Baki may be Yujiro's son and a prodigy, he's still just an inexperienced teenager compared to Yujiro. Expecting a high-schooler to go up against a guy with years of experience, and who's hailed as the strongest creature alive to boot is basically a fool's errand, and no amount of Training from Hell or daily near-death experiences will just magically close that gap over night, even if Baki has been explicitly fighting and training his whole life just for that very purpose. He has accomplished a lot, it just still wasn't enough to face someone of Yujiro's level.
  • However, that's NOT to say that Baki can't still surpass his father later. Even if he lost, Baki still managed to give Yujiro enough of a fight to where he gladly just gave Baki the title of "World's Strongest." If Baki were to keep training and improving the way he has been all series, then he eventually Would finally overtake Yujiro in the next ten-twenty years. He just doesn't want to anymore. Baki has spent so much of his life training, fighting, and chasing after Yujiro, that now, he's honestly grown rather tired of it. Even by the end of the Ali Jr arc, Baki outright admits that even if he couldn't defeat Yujiro, he just wanted to finally settle their feud, so that he could finally move on with his life. And even if he lost, he still more than proved to Yujiro that he's his own man, and more than capable of carrying the mantle of the Hanma bloodline.
• To Be a Master: An interesting inversion. Baki isn't interested in usurping his father's place as the strongest creature alive or any of the fame that comes with it; he just wants to surpass his father specifically. Problem is, Yujiro is so strong Baki will ultimately have to become one of the best fighters on the planet to even stand a chance.
• Unstoppable Rage: Seriously, you "DO NOT" want to make Baki angry. He won't kill you, but he'll make you wish you were dead.
• Victory Through Intimidation: Baki managed to get some delinquents to give up on fighting him through sheer force of will.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He wanted to be the strongest in order to receive the approval of Yujiro, that is before realizing what a massive Jerkass he is. Now he wants to become the strongest in order to be able to defeat him.
• Willfully Weak: Baki would be near untouchable if he was seriously fighting from the start, as he can hit someone faster than the human eye can register movement, but after winning the Maximum Tournament he usually prefers turning things in a slugfest and wants to be hit by some of the move used by others. Best shown during matches with his title of champion on the line like Ali jr. or Sukune where it appeared they were even early in the story only for Baki to go for a quick knock-out.
• World's Strongest Man: Baki is one of the top contenders for this title due to how far he's come in terms of his abilities as a fighter to where he can go toe-to-toe with the best of the best and even defeating them in combat, though this subverted when it comes to his father. During the time of his final fight with Yujiro ends with his father thoroughly winning throughout their entire match, but due to Baki's warrior spirit not being tarnished in the slightest through his strength and determination, he just gave up the title to him after realizing he couldn't dominate him completely.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: One of Baki's most dangerous qualities is his ability to create mental scenarios to act out in his head. He's able to convince himself that these scenarios are so real that they can actually affect him in the real world, allowing him to train.

Yujiro Hanma

Yujiro Hanma

Voiced by: Kenji Nomura (JP, anime), Akio Ōtsuka (JP, ONA), Matthew Tompkins (EN, anime), Kirk Thornton (EN, ONA), Carlos Segundo (LatAm, Netflix ONA)

The self-titled (after trying his luck against anything in the modern-ish day that could stand in the way of claiming it) 'Strongest Being on Planet Earth', Yujiro is more of an amoral force of nature than a human. He's impossibly strong, unimaginably tough, more flexible and agile than an Olympic ice skater in their prime and extremely skilled, pushing far beyond the physical and mental limits of the human body into a nigh-invincible juggernaut that only has surfical resemblances to the rest of humanity. Normal standards of morality do not apply to him, because no-one can force him to comply to them.

His one goal in life is to conceive a progeny strong enough to defeat him, with Baki being The Chosen One in his eyes. The methods he does this with are questionable at best, and as a result, he is the closest thing there is to a Big Bad in the series. Baki's ultimate goal is to defeat him.

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• Above Good and Evil: Yujiro doesn't adhere to conventional definitions of morality and states that strength is everything. From his perspective, weakness is evil and sinful while strength is virtue. Of course, as he's the strongest man in the world, everyone else is dirt under his bootheel.
• Abusive Parents: Beats his son black and blue, his son's friends, kills his mom and then insults his skills...and that's just Baki himself. He outright disowns Jack, saying that his blood is impure and only sees him as a stepping stone for Baki to potentially murder and get stronger.
• The Ace: Yujiro is this to absurd levels. Not only is he considered the strongest creature on earth, he is flat out superhuman. Yujiro is so powerful that the only people who even have a fraction of a chance against him are his sons (who carries his special blood), a 146-year old Chinese Old Master, the reincarnation of Musashi Miyamoto and a literal prehistoric caveman who regularly killed dinosaurs with his bare hands for food. There is a small circle of fighters that are roughly in the same league as Yujiro and the above-mentioned fighters, but nobody is truly on his level. Granted, This is gradually becoming more subverted as the series goes on, but he is still by far the most insurmountable of obstacles that the protagonists must face.
  • The only person so far who seems to be around his level is Miyamoto freakin' Musashi himself, but their credos are too different for there to be a proper comparison. And even Pickle still proved he IS without a doubt stronger than Yujiro during their brief test of strength with each other, where Yujiro needed to use Aiki of all things to get the caveman off of him. And day by day, Baki himself is still gradually closing the gap in power and skill level (even after their final fight has already ended).
• Actually Pretty Funny: He was greatly amused by Kaku Kaioh tricking him via Faux Death and then asking Yujiro to run their fade back in 100 years.
  • General Strydum tells Yujiro about Baki’s training with a human-sized imaginary praying mantis. Yujiro’s reaction? Probably the biggest laugh he’s had in years.
• Archnemesis Dad: He became one to Baki thanks to him killing the latter's mother. Same goes with Jack, only that Jack already hated him at the very beginning.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: One of the biggest examples in the shonen genre, believing all other martial artists, including his own sons, as pathetic amateurs despite their best efforts and feats, and only worthy as punching bags for him to occasionally amuse himself with.
• Ax-Crazy: Despite being (barely) stoic and calm most of the time, Yujiro at heart lives and breathes for senseless ultraviolence. He thoroughly enjoys crushing his opponents to oblivion in the most brutal fashion along with the emotional and physical trauma he'll inflicted upon them. He's even more homicidal when he activates his Demon Back, which reflects his violent nature.
• Baritone of Strength: In the Japanese and first English versions of both adaptations, Yujiro is cast with a deep, gravely, menacing voice that goes hand-in-hand with his status as a strong fighter in the series, and helps his image as a villain.
• Berserk Button:
  • Weakness and mercy. This goes against Yujiro's ideals about strength and how only through hate and rage will one ascend and achieve ultimate power. Being merciful to your enemies and showing signs of compassion utterly disgusts him to no end. Which is why he disappointed in Baki simply because he doesn't use violence to solve everything.
  • He despises those who do not accept their losses and are unable to move on from it.
  • Worried about or protected. Not once in his life has he needed help because he is the strongest creature on earth, and he knows this; so this is the same as being insulted by someone lesser than him. When Ali Jr. arrogantly insinuates that he was glad Yujiro wasn't hurt, it was enough to turn him into a raging maniac tearing down door to door searching for Ali Jr., who luckily waltzed out of a hotel unscathed. In the Musashi Arc, Motobe tells Yujiro he would protect him before throwing a smokebomb disappearing to escape Yujiro's wrath.
  • Do not ever say or imply that he’s getting “soft”. He threatened to rape Tokugawa for it.
• Beware the Superman: He is powerful enough to hold the entire military hostage and use the U.S. President as a limo driver. The man can punch an earthquake into submission for crying out loud.
• Big Bad: Or at least the closest thing the series has for one, being the archenemy of his son Baki and being his main motivate for becoming the best martial artist in the world. As Baki puts it, he doesn't want to be the World's Strongest Man, but he'll have to be to be able to give his father a piece of his mind.
• Big Eater: And drinker, and smoker for that matter. Going by what Baki asks the maitre d' at Yujiro's usual eating spot, he eats a lot of everything but has a special preference for game meats like duck and venison. When he kills a Kaiju-sized elephant at the beginning of Son of Ogre, he's shown eating some chunks of that too, occasionally after grilling it over a fire like a caveman.
• Blood Knight: His "strength is everything" mentality causes him to roam across the world searching for an opponent that'll give him a decent challenge as he has become incredibly bored with his overwhelming power. This is a major part of why he decided to create his sons, Baki and Jack, because he figured the only person who'd give him a good fight would be one of his own bloodline.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Strength isn't the be-all and end all for Yujiro. He does have a life outside of fighting and he isn't simply the beast he constantly refers to himself as. Outside of fighting, he can have respect for people and even get along with others. While Yujiro won't hold back against anyone who challenges him, he generally leaves most of his malice and cruelty inside the "ring" so to speak. In public, he usually carries himself as a stoic gentleman. He has refined tastes and excellent manners not to mention being very erudite about various subjects. While Yujiro is an extreme Social Darwinist he isn't a crazy lunatic destroying and killing for the fun of it. However, he definitely was that early on in the manga; see below.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: One of his biggest problems in life is that strength and victory comes as naturally to him as air, meaning he's forced to be lazy because otherwise he would be a threat to military superpowers. Never being able to perform to his limits except a select few who rarely leave such an encounter alive, never getting to show off all the hard effort he's put into his martial arts and body to not disrupt the power structure of the world and effortlessly defeating anyone he comes across means he's incredibly, depressingly bored. The Narrator outright refers to him as a "fighting junkie who can't get his fix" at one point.
• Characterization Marches On: In the beginning of the Baki the Grappler series, Yujiro was little more than a Ax-Crazy, Blood Knight, Sociopath, Villain Sue (even acknowledged In-Universe — entire countries refused to deal with him) Psychopathic Manchild who believed that the weak need to be crushed. By the time of the 4th series Way of Baki, Yujiro is more subdued with his blood thirsty tendencies and is shown to be erudite, sophisticated, and insightful. While he will still destroy anyone who gets in his way or crosses him, he has shown many shades of being a Noble Demon and can be downright hospitable to his (few) friends, acquaintances, and is even capable of chatting casually with people he has previously brutalized.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Subverted. While Yujiro HAS been shown to constantly do training that would straight up kill anyone else who attempted it, his mindbogglingly stupid amounts of strength, endurance, agility and his insensitivity to pain all seem to be genetic. In flashbacks, it's shown that he was already scary as a newborn baby, and he was already slaughtering entire platoons of US Special Forces in Vietnam while still a teenager. Pretty much only his children seem to have any hope of approaching his level of monstrosity simply cause they share the same genes. Everybody else he faces is doomed to getting beaten to within an inch of their lives if they're lucky.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: This is the best anyone can manage against him, which is naturally pretty rare.
• Dads Can't Cook: As a part of the requests before his final fight with Baki, Baki asks him to spend some time with him and cook a meal. Yujiro obliges only after the fight, offering his son a pretend Miso Soup. When Baki actually eats it and claim it tastes off Yujiro claims to know he's unable to cook, and just wanted to humor his son before accepting him as the Strongest Creature in the World.
• Death Glare: The only times he doesn't perpetually have one on his face is when he's eating. The most human his eyes have looked was a brief, single panel before several tranquilizers made for rhinos knock him out... for about twenty minutes.
• Depraved Bisexual: Due to his overwhelming testosterone levels he sees no difference between other men and women. As such he forces himself on both.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Yujiro does not hold back ever and what's more, he will not stand to be slighted, taunted, or mocked in any way. Interestingly, it's not due to ego or narcissism exactly. While Yujiro is arrogant and cocky, it's absolutely justified in that he and the world knows that he's the strongest. Aside from strength, Yujiro respects competence in whatever one's field is, intelligence, common sense and truly unbreakable willpower that won't break even when faced with death. So when Yujiro punishes people for trash talking him, it's less "How dare you! I am the strongest! Know your place!" and more like "Really? Are you that stupid? Now I've got to kick your ass because you challenged me and also on principle. What kind of dumb-ass provokes a crazy strong guy like me. I'm doing the world a favor by removing you from the gene pool". A few examples are:
  • A muay-thai fighter tried to attack Yujiro because Yujiro made fun of his embarrassing loss. Yujiro let him off easy and knocked him out and even exclaimed that, "Well, your reaction wasn't wrong. If I were you, I'd have probably done the same. Although, I would have succeeded".
  • Yujiro told Yanagi that he lost to Motobe. Yanagi tells Yujiro that it isn't his place to decide the victor. Yujiro agrees, and then promptly kills him by surgically removing half of Yanagi's jawline with a spinning back-fist. He wasn't mad Yanagi disagreed with him, but as Yujiro puts it, if Yanagi hasn't lost, then he was by default up for Yujiro's challenge.
  • His response to Kureha Shinogi trying to Trash Talk him says it all.
  "Surely you don't mean to challenge me. Stupidity of this magnitude can't possibly exist."
• The Dreaded: Yujiro is hated and feared by nearly everyone who knows him, to the point where whole countries would rather not risk their whole forces dealing with him. It's further invoked that he is noted for having a talent for intimidation and is willing to flaunt it to get his point across whenever someone questions his way of doing things.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In the manga's humble beginnings the scope of Yujiro's strength was way more grounded than what it eventually became as the series went, Yujiro was feared as a very strong fighter, many martial artists labeled him as a monster early on but he wasn't the absolutely untouchable strongest creature on the planet back then; one event even became a meme in Japan due this discrepancy, the fact Yujiro actually got locked out of opening a door because someone was holding the handle on the other side looks ridiculous compared to what Yujiro can do later in the series.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: From the beginning, all he really wanted was a worthy rival who could actually make him fight for real for once in his life. And as cruel as his treatment of Baki was for so long, all he wanted was for Baki to get stronger, as he believed beyond a doubt that Baki would be that rival for him. And Baki did just that. Even though Baki lost, he still gave Yujiro a good enough fight to not only was Yujioro able to walk away completely satisfied, but he even decided to just give Baki the title of World's Strongest". Now Yujiro is as about as chill as they come in the new series Baki-Dou.
  • And even without Baki, Yujiro still got to face other rivals that actually made him take their battles seriously. It really says a lot that he treats Doppo, Kaku, Pickle, and especially Musashi with noticeably greater respect than he does other fighters out there.
    • Special mention goes to Musashi (who appeared after Yujiro's final fight with Baki), who easily had the best showing against the Ogre. Not only did he rival Yujiro's raw strength (to where he could actually Throw Yujiro with his sword) and survive a full power kick from him to the family jewels, but he was able to have a FAR easier time damaging the Ogre than anyone else, as he was able to effortlessly cut and draw very visible blood from Yujiro (and this After Yujiro already awakened his demon back in the fight, by the way) on three separate parts of his body. To say Yujiro was pleased by this would be an understatement.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: His first voice in the English dub gave him a deep and graveling voice with a menacing tone.
• Extreme Omnisexual: He raped Diane Neil, Jack's mother, and Joe William, an adventurer whom he mistook for a woman. He also threatens to rape Hillary Clinton as well as Tokugawa after the latter accidentally insulted him.
• Fangs Are Evil: His canine teeth are long and sharp.
• Fiery Redhead: His hair is bright crimson red and he's a brutal warrior with a gleeful urge to cause carnage.
• Finger Poke of Doom: Exploited. He likes to show off how strong he is by defeating enemies just by slapping them, which is enough to instantly defeat them due to his immense strength.
• Genius Bruiser: Yujiro is known as the single most dangerous being on the planet, mastering virtually every martial art known to man including ones only passed down through noble blood and single-handedly defeating the entire U.S. Army during the Vietnam War with nothing but his bare fists. He is extremely analytical, being able to decipher and fully utilize virtually any technique after seeing it once and knows over twenty languages. Yujiro also has an extremely in-depth knowledge of human anatomy, even more than skilled surgeons, high tech x-ray machines or talented medicine men. He's able to use this knowledge to exploit his foes' weaknesses and make fights last longer. He has extensive knowledge in many fields, such as biomechanics, biology, chemistry, arithmetic, zoology, and more.
• The Gift: He is talented in practically everything.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: There have been many times where Yujiro has actually had casual and even lighthearted company with the people he had previously hurt or insulted. It seems that in spite of what he's done Yujiro doesn't keep any personal grudges and the others simply know that trying to get revenge would either be useless or suicide.
  • Doppo Orochi asked Yujiro out for a drink at a local bar to ask Yujiro's opinion about his son Katsumi's progress as a fighter. Not only did Yujiro agree, but he even complimented Katsumi's improvement. Orochi even thanked Yujiro for shaming his son Katsumi, and forcing Katsumi to change and reach his full potential. Keep in mind that a while back Yujiro kicked Doppo's ass, took his eye, and technically killed him for a few minutes before he was revived.
  • His dinner with Baki seems to qualify as one when he's been invited over; he really has perfect table manners and very insightful about the food Baki made when they're having a conversation, as Baki stated, he may be terrifying but he isn't a monster.
  • He entertains Hanayama challenging him to a casual scrap in the streets to try and relieve his boredom, and fully recognizes Hanayama's bravery for daring to issue him a challenge so nonchalantly, when the outcome for Hanayama when he last fought Yujiro could have been a lifelong trauma for a lesser man.
  • He and Musashi literally walk to the bar together right after their deathmatch and chat like buddies. We see gems like Yujiro introducing the ancient samurai to foreign alcohols and even refilling his glass for him.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In the final battle in Son of Ogre Yujiro grabs Baki on every different limb and uses him like Nunchaku, hitting every part of his body against a car.
• Ground Punch: Appeared to have stopped an earthquake with one, and caused an earthquake with another.
• Guest Fighter: He's a playable character in Garouden Breakblow: Fist or Twist, a Playstation 2 game adaptation of another manga illustrated by Keisuke Itagaki.
• The Hedonist: He has fine tastes in food, drink and other vices like cigars, and usually describes the pleasure he gets from fighting in culinary terms. The Narrator compares him to a gourmand who, having gotten bored with the tastes of fine food around the world, now has to begin cooking himself to try and satisfy his needs.
• Hidden Depths:
  • While at first glance Yujiro seems very shallow, arrogant, and vain, the truth is a bit more complicated. In his youth, he completely believed in survival of the fittest and might makes right. For most of his life he was obsessed with strength and being the strongest. When he did finally become the undisputed "strongest creature on earth", he quickly realized that he had nothing to strive for and that ultimately his strength was meaningless, as it cut him off from everyone and everything; Just being strong won't make him able to go to space or fight a dinosaur. While he still does genuinely love fighting and brutalizing people, it's implied that a good portion of his attitude and viciousness now stems from his bitterness and isolation at being the strongest in the world.
    Yujiro's thoughts: Five death row inmates from all over. They had a good look to them. What was it they said? 'I want to know defeat'? One of them was slaughtered by me. I know what it's like, I feel your pain. I'm not sure when it was that I realized where I was standing. At the top, a place where there is nothing to aim for, there's no path to take. But that doesn't mean I still can't walk. So I started to walk, seeking a path. You don't get it, do you? There was never anything that troubled me, I've never known tragedy. You don't get it, do you? Too much strength will rob you of your dreams. When you're too strong, your life will be deprived of light. Riches, status, fame, it's all within the grasp of this strong arm of mine.
  • It's noteworthy that despite being considered a threat to world peace by sheer physical might, Yujiro's violence these days don't escalate beyond him and his opponent and he rarely picks fights unless it's a Worthy Opponent or he's about to Pay Evil unto Evil.
  • If his reaction to the enormous crowd and television broadcast of his and Baki's grand showdown, it's implied Yujiro might have stage fright, as his first reaction was to immediately leave and continue another day until Baki said he'd just hit him while his back was turned then. He also never meets up with the US Presidents with a crowd, instead doing so in a hotel or otherwise inaccessible place, and he occasionally takes the time to Troll them. When he had Trump swearing the usual oath, he showed up in a cheetah-print speedo with Cool Shades smoking a cigarette and still had the President-elect pissing himself in fear while Trump reflexively recited the oath he'd made sure to practice.
• Human Hammer-Throw: Like Yuichiro, he uses Baki like a towel.
• Humanoid Abomination: "Ogre" isn't just his title because he's absurdly strong, Yujiro's sheer musculature and features are so perfectly defined that he looks straight-up inhuman, with arms wider than his waist, a body-fat percentage that looks like it's in the negatives and a jawline you could sharpen a knife on. When struck by a lightning bolt while out for a walk, his skeletal structure reveals him to have wide, curved eyesockets like a lion and disproportionately massive leg bones. Nomi no Sukune II compares Yujiro to a Habu snake in how inherent the ferocity shows in his face.
• Hunk: Total physical perfection has its advantages. When he's not doing something weird and monstrous (which, admittedly, is extremely often), he's got rugged, feral good looks that have acquired him a significant number of in-universe admirers.
• Inexplicably Awesome: It's never, ever fully explained just what made Yujiro so strong in both body and mind, just that he was intense even as a newborn, to the point where the doctor who delivered him was scared of him, and his birth was so ominous that it caused a worldwide hysteria of panic for a few seconds. A few explanations attempt to give context to his prowess (Perfect control over every muscle down to the facial ones, ten times a normal man's testosterone production, Kaku describing his body as one 'born to fight', etc), but none of them have captured the full essence of Yujiro.
• In Love with Your Carnage: His former lover Emi was fascinated by his strength and general brutality.
• Instant Expert: With his body he can master any martial art with little effort, using his opponent's own fighting style against them just to piss them off.
• Invincible Villain: He is such a superhuman fighter that it goes past the pseudo-realism the rest of the setting tries to have and flies straight into the fact of the immensely ridiculous. He hunted down and pummeled entire battalions of United States Army soldiers during the Vietnam War (to the point where even many decades later and with a hefty amount of improvement in weapons technology, the standard procedure for when said military finds out he's around is to get the hell out of his way) and stops earthquakes with a single punch. The amount of fighters that can so much as make him break a sweat can be counted with one hand and he's defeated them all by the end of the manga. Baki's series-long goal to take him down ends up being All for Nothing — he can't beat him, but he gives him a good enough fight before going down that Yujiro decides to just hand him the "World's Strongest Human" title and walk away into the sunset. And with his endless list of crimes unavenged.
  • Until he met Kaioh Kaku who turned the Ogre's own power against him and actually fought him to a draw, Pickle, who Yujiro actually failed to overcome with raw strength alone, and later Miyamoto Musashi, who made Yujiro visibly bleed.
• Jerkass: Yujiro is massive dick to just about everyone around him, and shows no hesitance in brutalizing anyone in whatever way he sees fit, even his own sons.
• The Juggernaut: He can destroy steel doors, bulletproof glass and push away a large number of riot policemen together. It's his preferred method of fighting, as he just loves powering through opposition and showing them nothing they can do will hurt him.
• Just Toying with Them: Most of the time, Yujiro can't fight seriously as he would kill anyone in under a few seconds. Only a few enemies have proven strong enough to make him work for it, such as Kaku (who used Yujiro's own power against him and even spooked him a little), Pickle (whose raw strength actually forced Yujiro to use aiki to get him off), Baki (who trained all series just to fight him), and Musashi (who was able to keep up with the ogre and even was able to easily cut him three times after Yujiro already activated his demon back).
• Laser-Guided Karma: After using his strength to push people around and get away with whatever he wanted, seeing Kaioh Kaku turn his own strength against him is something he very much deserved. And later when Myamoto Musashi becomes the first person to actually cut him with a blade.
• Lightning Bruiser: At 190cm and about 122 kilos of pure horsepower muscle, Yujiro really has no right bouncing around with the kind of flexibility and agility that would make an Olympic ice-skater blush. He also has literally no business being as strong as he is to where he can maul a gargantuan sized elephant accompanied by said speed.
• Necessarily Evil: As far as the United States are concerned, their treaty with Yujiro is this. A government could possibly kill him at the cost of millions of soldier and civilian lives but they will have to deal with the United States for attacking an "ally". Yujiro might make a mockery of the United States' army force and mock their presidents but he consolidates their power by siding with them instead of another country.
• Never Gets Drunk: While he was in a bar with Doppo, he orders an entire bottle of 10 year old whiskey that consists 70 percent of alcohol. This could've knocked out anyone who couldn't hold their liquor within minutes, but in Yujiro's case; he downs the entire bottle in a matter of seconds after pouring it into a large mug, and washes it down by one-dragging a cigarette.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: This is the full description of what Baki feels he's hitting when he lands the first "real" attack in his fight with Yujiro. It tells you everything you'd ever need to know about how tough Yujiro is compared to a normal man.
  A boulder that had weathered the forces of nature for centuries. It's corners had smoothed and its skin had been glazed by the tempering. And to top it off it was covered with centimeter of thick rubber, and he had struck that huge boulder with his open palm. All this information was packed into a single moment, the large amount of images and it's impact in one moment. It's contents were really serious and fearful.
• Noble Demon:
  • Surprisingly during his younger years, where he has nothing but absolute respect and admiration for Muhammad Ali Sr. as a person and soul even though he is weaker than he is. He also respects the fight that Ali Sr. had to put up when he fought for the weak and unprivileged African-American during the civil rights movement, against racial discrimination, the draft of war, and the entire nation and government without backing down no matter how big the odds he stood against. For all of Yujiro's contempt for the weak and tendencies for provoking attacks, insulting, and savagely brutalizing his opponents along with anyone else who gets in his way, he's still able to shake Ali Sr.'s hand and proclaim such respect and sincerity for him.
  • In his climactic fight with Baki, a great number of people from impoverished or war-torn countries turn up in the crowd and begin to pray for Yujiro's victory because he fought on their side during civil conflicts, not for their sake but to provide them with a role model to strive towards. While Yujiro enjoys stomping on the pride of people who consider themselves strong, he seems to detest fighting those who are downtrodden.
• Not So Above It All: His fight with Kaioh Kaku marks the one time in the series where we EVER see the normally arrogant Ogre show visible Fear. Where Yujiro is actually shown visibly DODGING AND BLOCKING some of the old master's attacks, with Yujiro even briefly running away for a bit.
• Not So Invincible After All: Downplayed, some of the strongest fighters are able to make Yujiro take the fight seriously but he never loses to them. Musashi being able to cut him skin deep is considered the swordsman's greatest accomplishment because drawing Yujiro's blood even when he let himself be hit full force is unheard of.
• Oh, Crap!: Was completely prepared to take Kaku Kaioh's punch like he has done against so many fighters before him, before he saw the punch actually being thrown at him, whereupon Yujiro immediately dodges it and scurries away from Kaku, visibly spooked.
  Kaku: "Oh? Are you gonna run away from this weak old man's punch? And to think they called a coward like you the "World's Strongest Creature"."
• One-Man Army:
  • He took on the American military and the Vietcong during the Vietnam War when he was a teenager and was able to push away 100 riot policemen trying to hold him back.
  • During the Maximum Tournaments, he dishes out these to 9 of the quarterfinalists in a row in their respective disciplines in a glorious display of martial arts ultraviolence. To wit: He flying axe kicks a Taekwando instructor for the Korean military in the head, knocks Iron Michael out with a one-two, knocks a Sambo master out with a hook, breaks Richard Filth's hand with a headbutt and kicks him so hard in the nuts that he goes flying, holds a Judo Olympian like a child before snapping his neck with a throw, pushes a Yokozuna out until he broke the poor guy's back against the stands, low-kicks a kickboxer's knee out and chokes a wrestler out while he frantically tries to tap. All of this happens in the span of 35 seconds.
• Pet the Dog: Yujiro is such a powerful person that the rare times he shows mercy can be counted as this.
  • For example, right before his bout with Pickle, Katsumi insults Yujiro and demands his attention. Rather than brutalize him like he's done to so many people before, he merely plays a prank on Katsumi by untying his shoelaces and wrapping them around the boys head. It's likely this is done because Katsumi doesn't fully understand the "consequences" of seriously challenging Yujiro- something that not even his own father has walked away from safely.
  • It's implied that Yujiro, in an extremely roundabout way is kiiiind of a Papa Wolf at heart, and always gets involved against the menace du jour when his son is seriously hurt or those around him are in danger. It should be noted that the moment Sikorsky involved Baki's girlfriend in the whole Death Row Inmate goings-on by kidnapping her to provoke Baki, Yujiro got involved, immediately found Sikorsky's hideout and sat down across from him with a face that reeked of Tranquil Fury as if daring the Inmate to actually make good on his threats. While he didn't move to rescue her directly (leaving that to his son), no further harm came to her.
  • He tries to give Tokugawa a roundabout suggestion to get a medical check since trying to explain his Super-Senses' ability to see that he was about to cough up blood would have been very weird. When Tokugawa dismisses him rudely, he still goes out of the way to get an ambulance called for the old man when Yujiro's prediction comes true.
  • In an absolutely stupifying gesture of nobility, Yujiro saved the lives of 7000 people standing on a bridge to watch a fireworks show at a good angle by somehow managing to turn himself into an Improvised Lightning Rod and No-Sell a freak lightning strike happening right as a bronze statue on the other end of the bridge was struck by lightning at the same moment.
• Power Copying: It's eventually revealed that he's such a good martial artist that he can replicate martial arts styles and special moves from seeing them done once (example: the Sea King). He just absolutely refuses to use it because he finds it more pleasing to just shrug off their techniques and then tear them apart with as little effort as he deems necessary specifically to show them that all of their efforts are worthless.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He ruthlessly raped Diane Neil (Jack's mother) in his teens, then later sexually assaulted Joe William, an adventurer that he initially mistook for a woman. He has also expressed no remorse for his actions.
• Really Gets Around: He himself has admitted that he has children all over the world.
• Red Baron: Known as "The King" amongst the world of fighting. His other one is "The Ogre".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Part of his full ogre mode is his eyes turning red while he flexes his back into a demon face.
• The Rival: Defeating him is Baki's life-long goal.
  • He and Doppo were shown to have some previous animosity with each other before the series even began.
  • He more than serves as this to Kaku, due to their conflicting beliefs in what's most important for winning a fight (pure strength for Yujiro and pure technique for Kaku).
• Sadist: Unlike his son Baki, Yujiro loves to fight and enjoys a good challenge but there are times when he goes too far and he either psychologically tortures somebody or brutally cripples them while he laughs madly at the destruction he caused. He does this mostly when he's around Baki as he seems to enjoy toying around with his son. This seems to have been toned down more as the series progressed. As Yujiro became more fleshed out, he went from brutalizing people and mocking them with implications that hurting people gives him a literal hard on to finding pleasure simply in combat and violence. In the recent series, Yujiro doesn't really take pleasure in the pain of his opponents or torturing them so much as he likes to nock them down a few pegs. It's more that he likes to show his opponents how weak they are and show off how strong he is. Since this characterization was the most consistent for the majority of the series starting with New Grappler Baki, the version of him that loved the feeling of breaking bones or the sound of screaming might have been Early-Installment Weirdness.
• Shipper on Deck: When Baki and Kozue were about to have sex, he barges in before they do the deed to tell her to not just fuck him, but fuck his everloving lights out, then leaves wishing them the best.
• Slasher Smile: He frequently shows one.
• Smoking Is Cool: Cigars, cigarettes, pipes, he partakes in all of them and even the way he smokes is intense. An off-handed comment to Baki about needing a little unhealthy food to keep the immune system strong implies that Yujiro basically started smoking to train his lungs.
• Smug Super: And unfortunately, there’s almost nothing anyone can do about it.
• So Proud of You: He confesses as much in his climactic brawl with Baki in Son of Ogre, where Baki has reached such a point that he can actually put Yujiro on his ass several times in a row.
  "On every continent to the top of the north pole, even if I played with a martial artist, a pro athlete, a true predator, a massive beast, weaponry, the dark side of society, the complete power of the state, military forces, I still wasn't able to find it; A toy that could take away my boredom. I have wandered so long like a bluebird looking for something, and after a long search I finally found it, and not only that, it came from me... My son Baki, and both of his fists are sharper than any blade, faster than any bullet, heavier than any great beast, more cunning than any thug, more unpredictable than any sniper..."
  Baki: "And gentle like an angel and sweet as a lovely day."
  Yujiro, chuckling to himself: You're right, that's the undeniable truth too, isn't it?"
• Strong and Skilled: The problem with Yujiro is that he is not some dumb brute who solely relies on strength, but is actually quite knowledgeable in martial arts and is also very adaptable. In fact, he enjoys humiliating fighters by one shotting them with their own styles, and only restrains himself from using techniques due to how boring fights would become otherwise. Once in a blue moon, when a fighter is actually able to pull one over Yujiro, he will instantly adopt a method to counter their techniques either with knowledge or sheer intuition. Special mention goes to Pickle, who actually rivaled the Hanma so much in a test of strength, that Yujiro was actually forced to use a technique to get the caveman off of him.
• Super Mode: Yujiro uses the Ogre/Demon Back as this. He flexes his back muscles to the point where they form the face of a demon and it increases his strength speed and power.
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: Yujiro's idea of an aquatic workout? Swimming up a waterfall so intense it is used for hydraulic power generation. His lung capacity is so stupidly large that he can go through a cigarette or a cigar in a single drag, effectively smothering whoever's in front of him in one big cloud of tobacco smoke.
• Super-Senses: Yujiro mentioned during his fight with Ali Sr. that he honed both his body and senses to be the most powerful man on Earth. At this point his senses are so incredibly refined that he subconsciously find weakpoints on everyone around him, including things like nascent diseases in their body and the full effects of old scars and new wounds on someone's body.
• Super-Speed: He can dodge bullets point blank and stop an arrow the moment it’s released from the bow, and jump the length of a long escalator in just two steps.
• Super-Strength: If the other tropes didn't tell you. He can stop and cause small earthquakes by punching or stomping the ground or even just from shaking in anger. His tantrums over someone pulling a fast one on him in his penthouse hotel suite are frequently mistaken for terror attacks or earthquakes. He is quite literally unable to exit or enter a scene without flexing on whoever's present with his insane muscular strength; Like balling up a coin like it was paper in his hand, taking apart a katana by snapping hand-sized chunks of it off with his thumb until he reached the hilt, beating up a professional fighter with two fingers and knocking him out by flicking him on the nose, or slapping forty roof tiles perfectly in half to enter the Raitai Tournament because chopping them would've been too easy.
• Super-Toughness: Absolutely nothing fazes him. Even the strongest of blows aren’t able to put a dent in Yujiro. Only Baki, Pickle, Doppo, Hanayama and Musashi have hit him with attacks that he could actually feel, but they'll still barely barely make him flinch. That said, he isn't quite invincible; Yujiro backsteps Kaku's One Inch Punch because his instincts told him he'd get grievously hurt by it, and sure enough, Kaku is shown able to send Yujiro flying even with his guard up and heels dug into the ground.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He has ten time more male hormone than the norm. A doctor come to the conclusion that Yujiro sees himself as the only male human on Earth while everyone is a woman.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Yujiro starting in Baki-Dou, after the Father-Son fight, has mellowed out significantly, humoring a young child's autograph by tearing the paper into neat quarters with his finger, something the old Yujiro would have never done. He gives Motobe a few chances when he comes to declare his intention of protection instead of immediately flying into a rage. Also, he shows uncharacteristic respect for the restored Miyamoto Musashi, taking him out for a drink and even personally refilling his glass, which would have been completely unthinkable for the old Yujiro Hanma.
• Troll: He gets a kick out of humiliating other fighters, either by using their own fighting styles against them to show how inferior they are or goad them into fighting him through insults.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Yujiro mostly uses this style as he one shots everybody due to his immense strength. He purposefully plays this role against Kaku Kaioh who is pure Weak, but Skilled.
• Unstoppable Rage: Ali Jr should never had arrogantly boasted about how he was glad Yujiro wasn't hurt.
• Use Your Head: During his rampage in the Maximum Tournament, he breaks Richard's hand with a headbutt.
• Vein-o-Vision: Hanma Yuujiro can see, or feel, or just perceive the flaws in everyone's body. So he is able to predict diseases and attack the weak points of any living being.
• World's Best Warrior: He is easily the best fighter in the franchise and will not hesitate to show off his strength or kill someone brutally if they challenge the pecking order he stands at the top of.
• World's Strongest Man: He's known in-universe as the strongest creature on the planet. Not human, creature. Very few fighters come even remotely close to Yujiro's skill or raw power, and even they are no match for him.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • He wants Baki to become one just so he could be thrilled to challenge him. During his climactic battle in-and outside a hotel with Baki, in the briefest of moments of weakness for the Ogre, he outright pleads his son to please be this for him when it seems Baki is on the ropes.
    • And by the end of their fight, he more than gets his wish.
  • Comes to view Kaioh Kaku as one after the old man turns his strength against him with Shaori and actually spooked him for real. He gives a hearty laugh at Kaku's offer afterwards to fight one-another again in a hundred years.
  • Pickle too for rivaling (and even overpowering) his raw strength.
  • He definitely sees Musashi as this. Not only does the swordsman make Yujiro treat him with respect from the start, but he also makes Yujiro activate his Demon Back far quicker than Yujiro ever did in any of his other fights, and even becomes the third person after Kaku and Baki to easily injure him in this state.
• Would Hit a Girl: Women are not exempt from his brutality, but he won't harm a woman that he feels hasn't deeply offended him or been outright out to kill him... Besides that one time where he visits Baki and his girlfriend Kozue, in which he was nothing but cordial, if ham-handed and intimidating, towards her and tells her she's doing a fantastic job helping his son grow as a man. During the last stretches of his fight with Baki, he takes a moment alongside Baki to apologize for beating the shit out of her boyfriend for sport, and assuring her he means her no harm but she had best not get in the way of their father-son squabbling.
• Wrestler of Beasts: To show off his status as the World's Strongest Creature, he often wrestles animals into the ground as well. He brutalized a polar bear and killed a massive elephant.

Jack Hanma/Hammer

Jack Hanma

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (JP, ONA), Christopher Swindle (EN, ONA), Dafnis Fernández (LatAm, Netflix ONA)

The older half-brother of Baki, a champion pitfighter hailing from Canada. His circumstances are not too dissimilar to Baki himself: Yujiro Hanma raped Jack’s mother Diane, a UN agent sent to assassinate Yujiro during the Vietnam War. However, Yujiro spared her life and Diane decided to keep the child. Like his half-brother, his only goal in life is to defeat Yujiro and avenge his mother. Unfortunately, this goal was wholly unsuccessful no matter how hard he tried due to his obsessive quest for strength leading to him doing a number of extreme, borderline lethal training regimes that destroyed his body from overwork, which his doggedly determined mindset only made worse by trying to overcome it with willpower alone.

This all changed when an ambitious scientist, Dr. John offered him X-4, an experimental steroid that could bypass his inability to grow stronger in a bid to create someone as strong as Yujiro, after witnessing the Ogre kill a mutant polar bear with pathetic ease. The drug worked wonders, allowing Jack's body to keep up with the exhaustive training he puts it through and Jack quickly became superhumanly strong and durable, albeit at the cost of his mental stability. The deleterious side effects of the steroids ultimately come to a head at climax of the Maximum Tournament, thus paving the way to his defeat at Baki's hands.

Following the aftermath of the Maximum Tournament, Jack learned from his mistakes and improved upon his flaws, trained even harder and after recovering from his dependence on the experimental steroids, began enhancing himself via surgery to make himself even bigger than he already was, weaponizing his teeth, honing his biting skills and wash it all down with copious amounts of performance drugs to ultimately make good on his bid to one day kill his hated father.

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• Animal Motifs: Hyenas, after developing his biting-based martial arts. Jack drives the point home by biting through a bull's spine to feed on the marrow, something Tokugawa points out can't be done with a lion's jaw but a hyena's can. Contrasting with Yujiro's leonine power and pride, Jack had to go through scrap to be strong and doesn't care if he embarrasses himself.
• Artistic License – Martial Arts: Combat sports is well known for its heavy use of performance-enhancing drugs, where competitors simply go "off-cycle" shortly before their match as to not get caught by a PED test before a fight, if there even is testing. Jack is somehow the only fighter in the series acknowledged as taking PEDs (though they are discussed at length by narration at various points in the story) and his dosages border on absurdity, yet after the Maximum Tournament they have no negative consequences for him at all.
• Artistic License – Pharmacology: To put it very, very mildly, Jack's freakishly huge dosages of steroids goes as far as him having sausage links full of the stuff tied to a string in his mouth so he can pop them right before he fights Shibukawa in the Maximum Tournament, should have either killed him by overdose or perpetually left him with a heart rate of above 300 BPM, crippling liver and kidney damage and many other consequences of juicing to such an extreme degree. This is seemingly explained away by him being a Hanma, but still.
• Ax-Crazy: Subverted. Jack is quite relaxed, soft-spoken and serene outside of battle but he prefers to fight like a rabid beast rather than a true martial artist. There have been many times when Jack was an outright savage in terms of brutalizing his opponents and was bent on biting chunks out of whomever he fights as a side affect of X-4.
• The Berserker: Jack has the inhuman, feverish tenacity of an untameable animal, being very brutal and downright ruthless in his assault and leaving whoever is unlucky enough to face him barely a chance to breathe. He even bites his opponents during their fights, making him even more animalistic than what he already was, and willing to continue fighting even if he ends up dying or crippled. He often took advantage of this when he utilized his super steroids, losing control over his bodily functions and becoming a mindless beast during his fight with his half-brother Baki. Even after he mellows out, he's still ruthless enough to make sure that his opponents can no longer stand up by keep on beating his opponents until either of them passes out. During his fight with Motobe, Jack keeps on pummeling the man even though there are flashbangs and fireworks going off right in front of his face.
• Big Eater: Whether as a side-effect of his steroid use or just a natural result of his size, Jack is shown to have quite a hearty appetite. Retsu once observed him finish off an entire roast pig in only ten seconds. Thanks to his impressive jaw strength, he'll even eat the bones of his meals for the marrow.
• Blood Knight: Jack loves fighting just as much as the rest of the cast and during his match against Baki he urged him to utilize his abilities to his fullest in order to also prove his worth as a fighter. He's also very eager to challenge many of the new foes in his path that seem strong enough to give him even the slightest bit of trouble. Even when heavily wounded and backed into a corner, he refuses to give up and rather enjoys a challenge.
• Body Horror: The effects X-4 has on his body back in the Maximum Tournament can be rather grotesque to look at, with it coming to a head at the climax of his fight with Baki where Jack begins contorting and twisting as if he is about to explode. It gets worse when he fights Pickle, where the aftermath of engaging in a mouth-to-mouth biting contest with the caveman results in all the skin on the lower half of his face ripped clean off, exposing gums, teeth and bloody muscles.
• Can't Catch Up: While still easily one of the strongest characters in the series with many big names acknowledging his prowess, Jack always had a hard time catching up to Baki or Yujiro. It is notable that, even after surgically enhancing himself to become a nearly eight-feet tall behemoth, Jack is the only Hanma not to get a chance to fight Musashi. Instead he gets beaten decisively by Motobe in a no-holds-barred fight, something Motobe would never be able to do against a serious Baki or Yujiro. But to be fair, Motobe had a lot of time to prepare himself for Jack's antics.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Gives one to Sikorsky when his dirty tactics doesn't faze him one bit in the underground arena by quite literally throwing the convict around like a ragdoll and shrugging off all his blows. Later, he gives a very brutal one to Ali Jr., completely dominating the fight and ending with a massive haymaker that that nearly severs the boxer's tongue.
• Death Seeker: At first he has a death wish to finally die during the Maximum Tournament, knowing that the experimental drug was slowly killing him so it was his last chance to face Yujiro by besting Baki. Thankfully, he had managed to push his body to such an insane degree that he reached a level where his body was able to reject the lethal effects of the super steroids he had been taking.
• Determinator: Even amongst a cast full of this, Jack stands out: the man simply will not quit once he sets his mind on something unless you outright kill him. He trained his body so much that it actually loses muscles instead of gaining due to never allowing himself to recuperate, and if not for a mad scientist's steroid cocktails being part of his regimen, his overtraining would have been suicide. He's had his skeleton surgically restructured multiple times to get bigger. Even when having half his face bitten off by Pickle, his jaw smashed to pieces thanks to the same caveman and waking up in the hospital twice, the second time from a coma, he still gets up and goes right back to it, to the point that Baki has to step in to convince him to stop. Jack would even disgrace himself for victory in ways Yujiro wouldn't.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Following his defeat at the hands of Baki, he became much more humble and amicable towards his half-brother and everybody else as a whole.
• Final Boss: Of the original series. He is the other finalist in the Maximum Tournament, and Baki must defeat him for the champion title.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was once a scrawny husk of a man who only wished to become strong for the impossible task of defeating Yujiro, but could never do so in spite of the grueling training he puts himself through. Then he was given the super steroids by a mad scientist and transformed into a musclebound monster that simply plowed through anything and anyone placed before him without mercy. After his defeat at Baki's hands, however, he has learned to calm down and becomes quite the affable fellow around others.
• Functional Addict: After the Maximum Tournament, his body seems to have acclimated to his insane and regular dosage of steroids, and while he still has the tendencies of The Berserker, it is much more focused and nowhere near as extreme as before where he absolutely mutilated his foes.
• Gentle Giant: He stands at a towering 7 feet 11 inches (243 cm) and weighs 443 pounds (201 kg), and while this might not seem like the case at first given his brutal fighting style and merciless nature, Jack is actually very well-mannered, has perfect dining etiquette and gets along well with old Tokugawa.
• Graceful Loser:
  • Upon being defeated by Baki in the Maximum Tournament, Jack helps him lift up the prize belt when Baki is too weak to hold it due to exhaustion and blood loss, all while declaring how his brother is worthy of being the champion.
  • In Baki-Dou (2018), Jack reveals that he has long since come to terms with his lost in the fights against Baki and Motobe. He even attributes the creation of his new martial art of Goudou to the latter man after his fight against Sukune, saying that the only thing he landed clean on Motobe was a bite.
• High Hopes, Zero Talent: By any sane metric he wouldn't be this as despite his lack of raw power, he has a thorough education in Kickboxing, Judo and several other martial arts, but for a Hanma he's this. He doesn't share his half-brother's prodigious fighting talent, nor does he inherit his father's ungodly physical abilities. Instead, he compensates with constant, vigorous training, unbreakable willpower, extreme bodily modification and enough steroids and drugs to kill an average person several times over.
• Horrifying the Horror: Frightened Pickle, who killed dinosaurs with his bare hands, into running away after Jack shows up again after losing to him, because there is nothing in the wild that prepared the caveman for the sight of a prey seemingly coming back from the dead for round two.
• Lightning Bruiser: Jack is pretty much a tank on jetplanes, being incredibly strong and hits like a steam locomotive while also being extremely fast, enough so that he appeared right in front of Ali Jr. without the latter even noticing that he moved.
• Lost in Translation: A minor variant. His alias of Jack Hammer, with the revelation in the Maximum Tournament that he's actually a Hanma, is lost in the English translation, as the only difference between Jack Hammer and Jack Hanma in the original Japanese script is that, as Jack Hammer, his named is spelled entirely in Katakana, and his real name, Jack Hanma, has the "Hanma" part spelled with Kanji.
• Made of Iron: How the hell he's still alive or has any higher functions in his brain left after surviving Garland's suplexes that literally shakes the entire arena, having his throat bitten out by Yujiro, Pickle turning his jaw to dust twice in one day and suffered a haymaker to the face from the same caveman strong enough to literally cause him to spin around like a pinwheel, as well as a number of other horrible injuries that would have killed a man is anyone's guess. He's on his fourth set of teeth in the story at the time of this writing.
• Man Bites Man: His signature fighting style, with jaws strong enough to bite clean through a coconut as if munching an apple. At one point he's seen casually biting through bones like they're cookies! He decides to start a martial art, Goudou, based around biting after his tenure in Taiwan. The martial arts part comes in from the fact that biting is something everyone, even the weak like women and children can use to cause pain and defend themselves against violence with.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Jack may be the weakest of the living Hanmas, but he is by far the most serious and dedicated of them when it comes to fighting. Yujiro mostly takes his time to taunt his opponents and Baki has a bad habit of getting too cocky for his own good, but Jack can and will mercilessly brutalize his foes into submission until either he or his opponent can no longer move. Yujiro will mess with you, Baki will (usually) give you a fair fight, but Jack will not hesitate from biting your arteries out, tearing the skin off your flesh and pummeling you into a coma if it meant a victory.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Jack is easily one of the most powerful fighters in the series and most named characters have a healthy level of respect and fear for him, but he has occasionally gotten himself into fights with people far above his weight class like Yujiro and Pickle, or Motobe with access to his weapons and preparation where his dogged Determinator nature has brought him a lot more grief (and horrible injuries) than any good.
• Real Men Love Jesus: Jack had once begged God to let him win his fight against Pickle. This small implication that Jack is a Christian is compounded in Baki Rahen, where Jack in his childhood once watched over a statue of Jesus at Jack's local church to "protect" it for so long that he'd pissed himself when the priest came in in the morning, in hopes that He would grant Jack his wish of becoming the world's strongest man.
• Strong Family Resemblance: His face is almost a dead ringer for Yujiro and his physique looks quite similar to his grandfather Yuichiro. The only thing he has from his mother is her hair color.
• Super-Strength: He has some incredible feats of strength when he was on the experimental steroids but it only grows even further when he weans himself off of it. Some of these include punching a Brazilian jiu-jutsu fighter hard enough to send him flying several dozen loops in the air, deadlifting a 400-kilo barbell with his jaw, launching the massive Pickle airborne with a punch and hitting Sikorsky with an uppercut so powerful that it sends both of them, a civilian and the phone booth that they are all standing in flying several meters upwards. And he does the latter a second time.
• Super Serum: The steroids Dr. John gave Jack induced a physical transformation that was nothing short of dramatic. He went from nothing but skin and bones to surpassing all known athletic records, defeating trained fighters with zero effort and killing a gigantic polar bear with his bare hands. Though the steroids were so potent they bordered on Psycho Serum — the transformation was so painful Jack nearly died (in fact, he was supposed to eventually die from the steroids taking a toll on his body regardless), and unleashed all of Jack's repressed anger and hatred. The only reason his steroid concoction isn't considered Psycho Serum is that he somehow survived and has been relatively mentally stable after the Maximum Tournament. Ever since then, a common sight with Jack is him taking the medicine by munching down mouthfuls of mystery pills and washing them down with bottles and ampules full of equally mysterious liquids, and he does so as if it were a mundane everyday thing.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Make no mistake, he will beat the absolute daylights out of his opponents and give them potentially life-threatening injuries in the process, but he won't kill a man who is already down even if they goad him into doing so. Not even an egotistical criminal like Sikorsky or Ali Jr. who kept taunting Jack even sticking his halfway-severed tongue out at him while cratered in a wall. This is especially jarring because his fighting style is one of the most lethal in the series.
• Took a Level in Badass: When he comes back from creating Goudou, his own school of martial art whose fundamentals involve biting, he is able to finally break his losing streak by defeating Nomi no Sukune II, a sumo wrestler that has a grip strength superior to even Yujiro and soundly handed Biscuit Oliva a straight loss, with only mild injuries at worst.
• The Tooth Hurts: In the climax of his fight with Baki, he clenches his jaws so hard that most of his teeth end up breaking. He later gets them replaced with crowns, but then has his jaw horrifically broken twice in one day by Pickle. Then he loses a third set to Motobe by biting into his aramid fiber jacket, and finally has what appears to be a set of titanium teeth.
• Training from Hell: Even when compared to the rest of the main cast, his training regime is grueling beyond reason. He isn't quite as blessed with the Hanma blood's genetic gifts, so his body wasted away from overtraining. To compensate he took experimental super steroids that were supposed to kill him. Supposed to. He sleeps while suspending his massive body from a tree by biting onto a towel wrapped around a branch, and his training includes clamping his jaws shut with a 400-kilo barbell trying to stop him and stretching out a high-strength rubber tire by stepping on and pulling a hook attached to it with his lower jaw.
• The Unfettered: A defining trait of his; Jack will go through just about anything to become stronger or to attain victory, no matter how much it ruins his body or how disgusting the fight looks. He actually looks down on other fighters who don't go to the same lengths, seeing them as being negligent and vainglorious.
  Jack: "You want to win beautifully, elegantly, gloriously or spectacularly. That's your problem. That's your biggest weakness. I WOULD SHOW MY ASSHOLE IF IT MEANT WINNING!"
• Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed, as he is actually quite observant and is level-headed and analytical enough to realize his opponent's strengths and weaknesses, as well as copying and using Gouki's Aiki without much difficulty, but he falls to Baki and Yujiro in terms of technical prowess. Considering that he lost to Motobe who would never win against a fight against Baki and Yujiro if they get serious.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Yujiro considers his blood to be 'impure', on the basis that he has had slightly worse results than Baki. Jack is nearly bawling when he sees Baki acknowledged by their father in a way that Jack has never been.
• Worthy Opponent: He is this to Pickle, as he matched the dinosaur-killing caveman in terms of ferocity and savagery and even manages to overwhelm him for a moment, to the point where the latter comes to see him as a wasp, the only creature he fears.

Yuichiro Hanma

Yuichiro Hanma

Voiced by: Hidekatsu Shibata (JP, Netflix ONA), Alejandro Saab (EN, Netflix ONA)

The father of Yujiro and grandfather of Baki and Jack. Even though he is long dead by the time the main series took place, snippets of his past are revealed as the story went on revealing that he is, predictably, just as big of a badass as the rest of his family.

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• Always Someone Better:
  • While it's never outright stated, confirmed, or denied by the story itself, it is implied that he was the one man Yujiro could never beat while he was alive.
  • He's also this to Pickle, the only other person Yujiro can't beat with pure strength. When his ghost showed up, all Pickle can do is shake like a leaf at the sight of him.
• Foil: From the little it has been shown Yuichiro seems to be completely removed from his son Yujiro personality wise, the man doesn't seem to carry himself as a fighter, or a force of nature, with a physical need to ensure everyone around him trembles in his presence, to know beforehand he is absurdly strong and that they should treat him with absolute subservience; quite the contrary, Yuichiro seems to only fight with a clear purpose, such as in World War II, beyond that he is so detached from having any pride that Yuichiro has actually stepped so low as to delve in fixed fighting just so he could win money to provide for his family, something that Yujiro would never resort to under any circumstance. If anything Yuichiro seems to be even more of a laid back version of his grandson Baki, who ironically has grown to take some of Yujiro's posture as a fighter, as such Yuichiro's spirit favors Baki in his fight against Yujiro at the end of Son of Ogre.
• Friendly Ghost: He shows up as a ghost near the end of Baki’s climactic fight against his father, with the sole purpose of cheering on his grandson and taunting Yujiro for having so much difficulty fighting against a kid less than half his age. His temporary visit is particularly jarring due to the series otherwise containing very few explicitly super or semi-supernatural elements.
• Gentle Giant: He is a very large man, easily as wide and tall as Yujiro himself, but is also very caring, laidback and selfless, willingly throwing fights that he could easily win in return for big payouts in order to support his family and himself. Having been an actual One-Man Army killing hundreds of soldiers during World War II with his bare hands might have turned him off of violence and fighting in general.
• The Giant: He's wider than Oliva and Yujiro, with a massive set of muscles just like his son and grandsons; The U.S Marine veteran who survived their encounter with him describe him as unnaturally wide, and yet he still has a bodybuilder's V-taper waistline.
  Baki: "His shoulders are... really wide..."
  • Oddly enough, official material lists his height as 180 cm which isn't actually that tall. The fact that he seems so huge might either be him being Weight Taller, or because he was really huge for a time where the world lived on rations and thus appearing as a Pint-Sized Powerhouse in the modern day, making him seem larger-than-life.
• Human Hammer-Throw: Yuichiro’s signature move and as far as Yujiro is concerned, his only real technique: Guise. He manages to take the premise of the technique even further by using his opponents themselves as weapons in otherwise Judo-like^note Judo throws throw the grabbed victim downwards, while Yuichiro throws his victims away, but otherwise the motions he goes through are about the same you'd use for throws in grappling sports like Judo or Wrestling. Yuichiro is furthermore introduced as a Judo master in the "Fight of the Century" against Rikigouzan. throws, turning them into a human version of either nunchaku or a bullet (Depending on the distance to his next target). The power behind his throws is such that he is able to kill just about anyone he hits instantly, including the one being thrown. What’s more, he can perform his variation of the technique so blindingly fast that entire squadrons of soldiers can’t turn their guns fast enough to defend themselves against this truly gruesome move, especially not without risking Friendly Fire.
• Humble Hero:
  • In sharp contrast to his egotistical son, Yuichiro is a very modest man who prefers living a quiet, peaceful life. His takeaway from a younger Doppo confronting him in the streets after Yuichiro purposefully threw a pro-wrestling match titled "The Fight of the Century"? Just being happy knowing someone recognized how strong he truly was and then walking off with a satisfied smile, making no attempts to save his public reputation.
  • This is directly invoked by his martial art of choice when compared to his son and grandsons who are all Master of All with a dash of The Berserker; Judo, a grapple-focused martial art whose name literally translates as "The Gentle Way", focused on taking down an opponent as painlessly as possible through throws and submission holds, though he still put those to devastating and lethal use in a warzone.
• Long-Dead Badass: Temporarily returns as a specter to the 21st century, his presence is so intimidating that even the self-assured Yujiro loses his cool the moment he saw his father, and the inhumanly strong caveman Pickle begins violently shaking in fear at the sight of him.
• Mellow Fellow: He constantly wears a big, relaxed smile even when going to war against the U.S marines, to the point where he looks perpetually high. Yujiro, Baki and Jack all set absurd goals for themselves in life, but Yuichiro appears to be the only one in the family to truly be at peace with himself.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His likeness and events in his life such as the "Fight of The Century" against Rikigouzan are directly inspired by old-school champion Judo fighter Masahiko Kimura.
• Noodle Incident: The Son of Ogre saga where Yuichiro makes his debut doesn't explain the exact reason why Yujiro dislikes him, nor any following saga as of Rahen; there are bits and pieces where assumptions could be made, such as Yuichiro and Yujiro's opposing personalities and how they carry themselves around, one seem to be a laid back man who only shows his immense strength when it is needed, the other makes certain he is always feared and pointed as the strongest man around, always. That could be one of the reasons for their rift, still, nothing is explained.
• Not Drawn to Scale: He's depicted as being larger than his son, however official material state that Yuichiro is only 180 cm (5'11") tall whereas Yujiro is 190 cm (6'3'') tall, meaning that the latter should actually be noticeably taller than him.
• Old Soldier: Became one with time given he fought in and survived the Pacific Campaign, and several weeks of U.S skirmishing in the following weeks just to try and kill him. They didn't even get close to succeeding.
• One-Man Army: Father of Yujiro and Grandfather of Baki and Jack, and inflicted the same kind of terror Yujiro did against the U.S Army in Vietnam by fighting off the Navy and the USS Iowa with his bare hands. They dumped enough explosives to flatten a small city on the 5 square kilometer island he was hiding out on at the time, to the point where General Macarthur, the man in charge of the operation against Yuichiro requested for the use of a nuclear bomb just to kill one man. Unfortunately his request is denied due to the war already being technically over, and he ends up being impaled into the top deck of the battleship Iowa for his trouble.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He brutally killed the commander-in-charge on the post-war operation against him for attempting to acquire permission to drop a nuclear bomb on one man.
• Posthumous Character: He's already dead by the beginning of the first series, but we never learn how. Given his Hanma bloodline and that Yujiro doesn't give an account of fighting him when Yuichiro's ghost shows up, it is most likely that he passed away from old age.
• Strong as They Need to Be: In the spinoff Baki Gaiden - Kenjin, Doppo calls him out for throwing away his pride and dignity that just for a massive payoff, even though he could've easily won the fight by blocking and dodging obvious attacks against the pro-wrestler Rikigouzan and struck back. Yuichiro was surprised at Doppo for recognizing his capability, then grabbed Doppo by the clothes. Doppo swiftly got out of the hold before leaping up, landing tiptoe on Yuichiro's wrist, and kicked him in the jaw, showcasing true strength. Doppo then left to set things right and win back Yuichiro Hanma's pride by mutilating and humiliating the pro-wrestler he purposely lost to, and prove that the so-called "Fight Of the Century" was fake.
• Super-Strength: The incident that made him famous? Fighting off the American Navy by throwing Marines at each other like they were baseballs, killing both the victim unlucky enough to be thrown and whoever unlucky enough to get in his way. It helps that he is a huge man to the point where even Yujiro gets dwarfed by him.
• World's Strongest Man: He defeated the USA just like Yujiro by making the Navy withdraw from the Okinawan island he was defending after he killed or made a majority of the crew of the USS Iowa surrender. Unlike Yujiro, he didn't go out of his way to prove his strength, meaning that while he was likely this in his lifetime, he does not care about holding onto the title the same way Yujiro does.