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A big fan of Kaku's art since Fantasma in Jump Square, Hideaki Sakakibara enthusiastically volunteered to take on the series and became its second editor with chapters two and three. He believed that Hell's Paradise was the "mainstream battle fantasy" series that Shōnen Jump+ was still lacking and could become a best-seller in print. [13] Sakakibara was initially concerned with the "multi-protagonist story" of the prisoners, executioners, and the island's creatures. Although he thought having the Battle Royale-style story in a manga would be interesting, he worried it would cause a badly paced story where they would have to split up the pages between characters and be unable to show the main characters' actions as much. However, he credits Kaku's genius at quickly and simply introducing characters and his drawing talent for making it all work. [13] Kaku and Sakakibara planned out what was going to happen in sets of 10 chapters, or a whole volume. [13] At first, Kaku
wrote the story with Gabimaru as the protagonist and with a focus on his growth. But while writing, he realized the themes had shifted towards the Middle Way, paradoxes, and conflict and felt it should be Sagiri who deals with those, "so for me, Sagiri became the protagonist of the latter half". [12] The editor gave Kaku free rein as far as illustrations were concerned. Sakakibara
said that from the first chapter the series has had "extreme" illustrations, which has resulted in
popularity among readers, but made it hard for new readers to get into. Towards the end of 2019, he and Kaku were trying to earn more female readers.
In December 2016, it was announced that the "Most Evil Death Row Convicts" arc of the second manga series would be receiving an anime television adaptation. [25] Titled Baki, like the second manga series, the 26-episode series is directed by Toshiki
Hirano at TMS Entertainment with character designs handled by Fujio Suzuki and scripts overseen by Tatsuhiko Urahata. [31] It began streaming on Netflix on June 25, 2018, in Japan, and started streaming on December 18, 2018, outside Japan. [32][33][34] The series then started airing on several Japanese television channels beginning with Tokyo MX1 on July 1. [35] Its opening theme song is "Beastful" by Granrodeo and its ending theme "Resolve" is performed by Azusa Tadokoro with lyrics by Miho Karasawa. [36] Sentai Filmworks released it on Blu-ray on May 25, 2021, with a new
English dub.
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