It’s been a few years now netflix decided to invest in anime, well aware of the true potential of this growing industry. Gradually, more and more cult franchises have come to fill the catalog of the streaming giant, but the platform has also started its own original productionssome of which have recently had their sequels confirmed.
the return of the fight!
Anime fans are over the moon with Netflix’s decision to add this additional category to their catalog. One can then find real monuments of the genre there, like Bleach, naruto or Demon Slayer. But the streaming platform has also produced many original animelike Beastars, Valkyrie Apocalypse but also Baki Hanmato recite nobody else but them.
And precisely, concerning Baki Hanmathe long-awaited second season from the Netflix anime has finally been confirmed. On the baki-anime.jp site as well as on the Netflix Anime Twitter account, several images from the next season came confirmed today the continuation of Baki’s adventures in his quest to become the strongest man alive. But they also seem to tease the arrival of a new character that fans of the manga will recognize, Pickle.
In the first seasonthe young Baki Hanma had voluntarily been locked up in an Arizona prison in order to compete with Biscuit Oliva, also known as Mr. Unchained, or “the freest man in the world”. These fights were also a way to address the issue of the notion of freedom, and how each character approached the concept. But in reality, all this is for Baki only a way to prepare for the confrontation against his father, Yujiro Hanma, aka the Ogre or current holder of the title of “the strongest creature on Earth”.
And for those who still crave bare-knuckle combat, rejoicebecause as they say, a train can hide another, or rather here, a straight left can hide a right hook.
always more brawl!
Enough with dubious metaphors, this other good news will satisfy fans of martial arts anime all the more, since the sequel to Kengan Ashuraanother Netflix original production adapted from the manga by Yabako Sandrovich and Daromeonand released in 2019 on the platform, has also just been confirmed!
Also on the Netflix Anime Twitter account, a post shared yesterday reveals that the second season of Kengan Ashura is in production, sharing for the occasion a poster in which we find the main fighters presented in the first season. To date, the first season of the anime is divided into two parts on the platform, each comprising twelve episodes.
This anime follows the adventures of Ohma Tokitaa fighter nicknamed Ashura, who will be accompanied by the modest employee Kazuo Yamashita on the orders of the CEO of his company, Hideki Nogi, with the aim of participating in Kengan fights. Because for centuries now, big business disagreements have been resolved in the shadowsin fights where each company has its fighter who represents them, and whose winner wins the dispute in question. Kazuo will then discover a dark, brutal and bloody world, where economic conflicts obey only one law. : that of the strongest!
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