Jack Hanma

Jack Hanma's History

Jack Hanma is the major recurring character of the martial arts anime and manga series, Baki the Grappler. He is the first son of Yuujiro Hanma, the legendary Strongest Creature on Earth and the half-older brother of Baki Hanma.

In the anime, he is voiced by Kouichi Sakaguchi (seasons 1-2), Kenta Miyake (season 3) in Japanese and in English, he is voiced by Christopher Swindle (season 3).

Overview:

Jack is the older half-brother of Baki hailing from Canada. His story being not too dissimilar to his brothers: Yujiro Hanma raped Jack’s mother during the Vietnam war after she tricked him. Yujiro, unlike with Baki’s mother, did not kill her and Jack’s mom decided to keep the kid. Originally a hopeless, scrawny “failure” whose only goal is, like his half brother, to defeat his father for what he did to his mother and life. This goal was originally woefully unsuccessful no matter how hard he trained and worked out due to a body that was simply unable to get stronger. That all changed when mad scientist, Dr. John, offered him special steroids that could overcome his inability to grow stronger in a bid to create someone stronger than Jack’s father, Yuijro. The steroids worked, making Jack insanely strong and freakishly unstable to a point Dr. John committed suicide, along with the steroids have the tiny side effect of destroying his body and reducing his lifespan.

Appearance:

Jack is an extremely tall and muscular man. His initial height was 6'4 (193 cm), which changed to 7'0 (213 cm) after the Maximum Tournament thanks to Shinogi Kureha's limb-lengthening surgery, and finally to 8'0 (243 cm) after Jack's fight with Pickle, which was once again achieved by the limb-lengthening surgery. After Izou Motobe had shattered all of his teeth, Jack possess now titanium-made teeth.

And of course, now his height reaches 3 meters.