Baki Hanma the Strongest Eighteen Year Old
In the world of Baki Hanma, survival means being the strongest. But with so many fighters possessing unimaginable strength, how can anyone hope to reach the summit? With fighters who can punch at the speed of sound, prehistoric cavemen who ripped apart dinosaur jaws just to survive, and one man who makes all others look like nothing, Baki Hanma stands out. Known as “The Ogre,” he doesn’t just want to be the best—he wants to defeat his father, who happens to be the strongest.
Baki Hanma is a high school kid and the son of the world’s strongest creature. He watched his mother die in his father’s arms and made a promise to defeat him, training every single day to get stronger and stronger, and fighting against opponents whose strength is absolutely ridiculous. Baki’s pursuit of strength and martial arts excellence leads him to participate in numerous tournaments and battles against fighters from around the world.
Testing His Strength
He takes on Hanayama, the leader of the Yakuza, who is so strong that he jumps into the ocean and kills great white sharks the size of megalodons with his bare hands. He even took on Spec, a convicted criminal who was able to destroy the Statue of Liberty with his bare hands, which has been calculated to require small building levels of energy.
Baki's Fight Against the Best
Baki can create illusions that become real in his mind and even physically hurt him. When Baki imagined fighting his father, their fight caused an earthquake so destructive that it was calculated to be at city block level energy. He was also able to fight against Biscuit Oliva, or “Unchained,” the strongest man in America, who hit Guevara so hard that the satellite tracking his movements from space thought he shook the entire world.
Comparing Strengths: Baki vs. Other Fighters
Baki is stronger than the son of the Tiger Slayer, Katsumi, who mastered a technique that turns all of his bones into thousands of joints, allowing him to punch at Mach 5 speeds or faster than the speed of sound. Katsumi goes on to improve this technique, making it even faster, and it was stated that he can increase the speed of his punch to 1,000 meters per minute, making his speed high hypersonic.
The Hanma Bloodline: A Legacy of Power
Baki’s brother, Jack Hanma, wanted to get stronger by any means necessary. Jack took a drug called X4 to enhance his strength and broke his legs going through grueling surgeries to grow taller, increasing his height from 6’4″ to 8 feet tall. Jack mastered his own fighting style of biting and crushed his teeth, getting them replaced with titanium. But even with all these feats, they are still weaker than Baki.
Battle with Pickle
An ancient demon who was alive 10 million years ago and revived in the modern era is here to fight against the strongest. He was able to somewhat tank and survive the meteor that wiped the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth, turning all of them into ash and leaving nothing but bones. In order to survive in this world, you have to be the strongest, with this feat being estimated to be at multi-city levels of energy.
Overcoming the Strongest Opponents
But the things that this dude can lift—holy! Pickle is able to flip massive Triceratops over his head, with these dinosaurs weighing 26,000 pounds. He can rip apart a T-Rex’s jaws, with a T-Rex’s bite force being 35,000 Newtons, or 12,000 pounds of force, roughly equivalent to the T-Rex’s body weight. Pickle was even able to lift the foot of the largest dinosaur in history, the Argentinosaurus, with these dinosaurs weighing 273,000 pounds.
Baki's Final Battle: A Showdown with His Father
Pickle’s speed has been compared to that of lightning, and his body is literally built for fighting, with his neck so thick that it’s compared to an ox’s neck, making it impossible for him to be knocked out. This monster even had a direct strength comparison with Hanma and forced him to use a trick to finally put him down, and he even defeated all of the modern era’s strongest fighters.
However, once he takes on Baki, history is about to be rewritten. Baki is able to imitate the fighting styles of animals, so for Pickle, he imitates the strongest dinosaur he could imagine and ultimately proves that in terms of pure martial arts prowess, there’s only one person left to defeat.
Yujiro Hanma: The Strongest Creature on Earth
This fight becomes a spectacle for the entire world as both of these fighters are compared to two countries going to war, and this actually isn’t a stretch, as Baki’s father has agreements with the United States that they’ll leave him alone and not interfere with anything he wants to do. Yujiro’s strength is stated to be stronger than any weapon in the modern age, which could possibly include nuclear bombs that produce over 50 megatons of TNT.
Recognition from the Strongest
As Baki and Yujiro fight, all of the martial arts skills that Baki has learned over the years and the strength he’s gained come to the forefront as literally every fighter in history watches this fight. Baki is able to fight almost evenly against his father, and in the end, with his hearing gone, he believes that he’s lost. However, the world’s strongest creature proclaims that Baki is the strongest in the world.
Baki's Journey to the Top
Overall, Baki Hanma would scale to multi-city level with high hypersonic speed. In the end, this 18-year-old high school student has come a long way from having his strength rejected by his father, and now has the strength to fight against prehistoric monsters that can rip apart dinosaurs’ jaws. Because even though his father’s a demon, even the devil has a target on his back.
