BAKI-DOU: The Invincible SamuraiHow Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai Will Continue in a 'Very Scary' Part 2Director Toshiki Hirano teases characters, plot beats, and more.By Kayti BurtPosted: Apr 11, 2026 12:00pm UTC2 commentsThe first part of Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai only told half the story of Edo period swordsman Musashi Miyamoto’s (voiced by SungWon Cho in English and Naoya Uchida in Japanese) resurrection from the dead through an experimental cloning procedure.
When the Netflix series continues with Part 2 later this year, the samurai character – based on a real historical figure – will face off against some of the anime’s most resilient fighters, including prehistoric fighter Pickle, yakuza boss Kaoru Hanayama, and Baki himself.
But the slow-burn disorientation that dictated much of Musashi’s actions in Part 1 has now settled into a focused brutality borne of isolation.
“In the second part, Musashi Miyamoto is very scary, so you'll experience that fear from him,” Baki-Dou director Toshiki Hirano told IGN.Speaking more generally about what fans have to look forward to in Part 2, Hirano teased an action-packed second half.
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“We start with Pickle, and then you have Motobe, Hanayama, and lastly, Baki,” he said via an interpreter, fresh off a panel appearance at AnimeJapan.
“But then in between, there's a moment where you have this fight.
These policemen come in, and that's a very gory kind of criminal scene, but it's kind of like a horror-type of sequence.
And I think you get the impression of how scary this series could be.”Based on Keisuke Itagaki’s massively popular manga, Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai is the fourth series adaptation of the Baki story, following two seasons each of Baki the Grappler (2001), Baki (2018), and Baki Hanma (2021)
## Editor's Note
This announcement has sparked considerable discussion among gamers.
Source: [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/how-baki-dou-the-invincible-samurai-will-continue-in-a-very-scary-part-2)