14 Kaiou In Baki Series

Kaiou is an honorable title given to those who have displayed great martial skills worthy enough to be recognized either by the Chinese Martial Arts Association or by a living Kaiou. It is hinted that there are at least thirteen or twelve official Kaiou's per one-hundred years or every generation but since Kaiou Kaku granted Yuujiro Hanma the title, there is fourteen in total.

Kaiou Kaku

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Kaku is the greatest and renowned Supreme Grandmaster of Chinese Kenpo, the Kaiou of Kaious and current champion of the Raitai Tournament over the last century. He was also captain of the Chinese Team representing China in the Raitai Tournament. Kaku Kaiou is a father of Shunsei Kaku. He is roughly 146 years old when first seen in Anime. The full extent of his power at this time, however, was never stated. His primary technique is called Xiaoli that produces hypoesthesia, which allows Kaku Kaiou to absorb the whole body weight of his attacker. The ultimate hypostenia can absorb, contain and release the ultimate punch.

Techniques

• Defensive Xiaoli: A relaxation technique that allows the user to absorb powerful attacks and not take damage.
• Offensive Xiaoli: A relaxation technique that allows the user to put great power into their attacks.

Kaiou Ryuu

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Ryuu is the head of the temple in Heilong-Jiang, China and mentor of Kaiou Retsu. He is an aged warrior, though not as old as Kaiou Kaku. He has displayed to be very strict, disciplined and unaccepting of failure as shown when his disciples take the test so he can pass on the name of Kaiou, believing that the next Kaiou should be strong and skillful. He has also shown to have a very strong sense of strength orientated meaning that only those who are strong can participate in the Raitai tournament. Being able to earn the title of Kaiou it is implied that Ryuu is very strong and skillful enough to be given the name.

Kaiou Retsu

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Retsu was a very accomplished fighter of Chinese Kenpo and a friend of Katsumi Orochi. His real name is Eishuu Retsu. Born in Bailin temple in China, he was trained to be the heir to their Chinese Kenpo style. A man of great discipline and skill, he was sworn to uphold the honor and pride of the ancient art of Chinese Kenpo. Ever since the first season, he has been striving to become more and more powerful, even practicing non-Chinese martial arts. Later, he thrived as China's second strongest, right after Kaiou Kaku, until his death.

Techniques

• Spinning Lotus: An unusual yet deadly technique in which the user wraps their arms and legs around the opponent's head before snapping their neck.
• Sunkei: A powerful one-inch punch capable of sending a grown man flying nearly a dozen meters away.
• Invisible Blinding: The user takes a deep breath to the point their upper body inflates and spits out all the inhaled air, which is compressed and narrowed using their hand, to form a kind of bullet.
• Headbutt: The user attacks his opponent face with a head or just causing their heads to collide.
• Shocking Footwork: The fighter uses his big toe to strike directly into the opponent's vital points. He also uses his toe to grab his opponent's hair or beard and use it to attack.
• Rounding Punch: The user just recklessly swings his arms like a windmill and attacks the opponent with all his strength.
• Crushing Fist: The fighter uses his fist to make a strong punch when the opponent is moving with high speed.
• Mach Punch: Katsumi aligns his joints perfectly to deliver a punch or punches that break the sound barrier. It has stated that the Mach Punch can travel at the minimum speed of mach 78.
• Musunkei: It is an improved version of Sunkei. The Musunkei is a full-power blow at range of 0mm.
• Ippon Ken: A karate striking technique that uses the extended knuckle of the middle finger in order to strike a target.
• Defensive Xiaoli: It is a form of bodily control that allows the user to completely relax their body to a feather-like state, allowing them to present zero resistance to oncoming blows.
• Roll Kick: It consists of taking a leap to stand on the enemy, then the body is turned to drop a strong spin kick against the opponent.

Kaiou Dorian

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Dorian is a legendary American fighter who mastered Chinese Kempo. He escaped from Algardos prison by faking his death after being hung for 10 minutes, writing in blood of his intentions of reaching Japan. He uses multiple means to win fights and the first Western man in history to attain the Kaiou title. He is calm and relaxed most of the time. Despite being a great Chinese Kenpo fighter and achieving the Kaiou title, Dorian somehow lost his faith in martial arts, or just abandoned them because of his own ego. In battle, he usually counts on his gadgets and dirty tactics to win, most notable for using a wide variety of tools during fights, such as flammable materials and lightweight wire.

Techniques

• Rear Naked Choke: It is a chokehold in martial arts applied from an opponent's back.
• Hypnosis: He has the ability to hypnotize opponents by simply clapping his hands together. Afterwards the victim's mind is trapped in a vivid hallucination where they imagine the fight going completely in their favor. In reality, they're just attacking empty air, leaving them completely vulnerable to any oncoming attacks.
• Nukite: The fighter uses his hand which the user then thrust into the opponent's body like a spear.
• Axe Kick: The user raises their leg higher than the opponent's head and pulls it down quickly. It is mainly used to strike the enemy's head, shoulders and also the nose.

Kaiou Jaku

Fighting Style: Nippon Kenpo (Kukendo)
Description: Kaiou Jaku is a martial artist whom competed in the Chinese Challenge Tournament in China. He is known to be a famous martial arts instructor for young people within his home country of Japan. He is an eccentric but kind-hearted individual. His offers to his opponents of working alongside him as a martial arts instructors can be seen as either a genuine request or a misdirection to confuse his opponents, exploiting that opportunity to attack, or possibly a mix of both. He specialises in Kukendo, an eclectic Japanese martial art very similar to MMA with emphasis on striking, grappling and ground combat.

Techniques

• Submission: The user grabs the opponent's arm, and then he slams him into the ground. With this move, the user can easly break his opponent's arm.
• Backhand Blow: A technique to destroy jaw and knocking out opponent's teeth.
• Saninko Attsu: The user grabs the victims lower leg and squeezes a pressure point located 10 centimeters above the ankle.
• Headbutt: The user attacks his opponent face with a head or just causing their heads to collide.

Kaiou Han

Fighting Style: Chinsese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Han is the older brother of Kaiou Ri and part of the Chinese team during the Raitai Tournament. He is a skilled fighter who earned Kaiou rank. He can cut a apple with his kick. He could fight Mohammad Alai Jr for a short amount of time.

Kaiou Ri

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Ri is a brother of Kaiou Han and master of poisons. He took part in the Raitai Tournament and uses a fighting style which is a similar to Yanagi's Poison Hand technique. Unknowingly cures Baki's poison with another poison during the fight in the Chinese Challenge tournament which puts Baki back into fighting shape.

Techniques

• Poison Hand: It affects the opponent's nerves. A small amount can cause blindness. If it reaches the blood stream, it kills the person by making them rot from the inside out, right down to the bone.
• Nukite: The fighter uses his hand which the user then thrust into the opponent's body like a spear.

Kaiou Samwan

Fighting Style: Muay Thai & Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Samwan is a Thai-born Muay Thai user with the Kaiou title. He is 25 at the time of the Raitai Tournament. Samwan is also a skilled fighter who earned Kaiou rank. He could play with a cobra when he was child. He is almost strong enough to destroy a stone column with a kick.

Kaiou You

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou You is a Chinese fighter specifically trained into having a diamond body. He took part in the Raitai Tournament. He is primarily shown to be very ruthless and shown to be very arrogant. He also claims to primarily practice Kongoken, a form of strength and endurance training used in many martial arts. You claims to have a diamond body, which he trained to withstand strikes from wooden swords, chains, being run over by a heavy loaded truck and being shot by an old fashion cannon ball. His strongest feat is staying conscious after standing under a waterfall in the midst of a typhoon.

Kaiou Jo

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Jo is a tall Kaiou who took part in the Raitai Tournament. He is a strong fighter who earned the Kaiou title. He is really tall and big, which makes him physically strong. Jo has a high pain tolerance. Mohammad Alai Jr punched him in the crotch and he could still get up and fight for a short time. But despite of that, he was unable to land a single strike to Mohammad Alai Jr.

Kaiou Son

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Son is a Kaiou focusing on a style with fingers. Kaiou Son took part in the Raitai Tournament. He is a skilled fighter who earned the Kaiou title. His fingers are strong enough to break 10 iron rings just by flexing them. But Kaiou Retsu stated that Son's skill is still weaker than the grip power of Kaoru Hanayama. In the end, Son was defeated by Retsu in the arm wrestling match.

Kaiou Chin

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo (Kongo-Ken)
Description: Kaiou Chin is one of the Kaiou fighters. Kaiou Chin took part in the Raitai Tournament. He is a strong fighter with the Kaiou title. He uses a fighting style that combines of will, strength and earth power. He completely dominated Kaiou Jaku during their fight. But in the end, Chin was tricked and defeated by Jaku Kaiou.

Kaiou Mou

Fighting Style: Chinese Kenpo
Description: Kaiou Mou is a fat Kaiou fighter who was chosen to take part in the Raitai Tournament. Little is seen about Kaiou Mou, though he seemed to have a fair amount of pride in both his country and skills, immediately concerned about his match in the tournament being cancelled. However, he was also shown to be rather naive, unable to figure out that Kaiou Kaku essentially saw him as dead weight and thus was easily rendered unconscious by the Grand Kaiou.

Kaiou Hanma

Fighting Style: Various Martial Arts
Description: Yuujirou Hanma is Baki and Jack Hanma's father. He is the primary antagonist of the entire Baki series. Yuujirou is the son of Yuuichirou Hanma and the strongest character in the series thus far. Yuujirou works as a highly-paid freelance mercenary and assassin for various governments and organizations. It is unknown how much people or organizations pay him to do his mercenary job, but it is extremely high, judging from his expensive taste. He is often called the Strongest Creature on Earth or the Ogre. Yuujiro is also known to have mastered all forms of unarmed combat includes all fighting styles (such as karate, boxing, taekwondo, juujutsu, wrestling, street-fighting, and so on) as well as some more esoteric ones (such as the Udonde art, an actual system used in the ancient karate).

Techniques

• Axe Kick: The user raises their leg higher than the opponent's head and pulls it down quickly. It is mainly used to strike the enemy's head, shoulders and also the nose.
• Roll Kick: It consists of taking a leap to stand on the enemy, then the body is turned to drop a strong spin kick against the opponent.
• Death Concentration: The skill is a special ability to boost body reflexes and speed.
• Udonde: The user takes a stance and walk toward his opponent. By the time the opponent performs an attack, the user uses his reflexes to instantly attack his opponent.
• Finger-Grab: The user grabs one of the opponent's finger and throws him.
• Demon Face: The user very forcefully flexes the back muscles to form the face of a demon. The user becomes many times stronger to their level prior to activation in every aspect, experiencing an increase in physical strength, speed, endurance, stamina, etc.
• Bite: The user uses his teeth to tear a flesh and skin of the opponent's body.
• Nukite: The fighter uses his hand which the user then thrust into the opponent's body like a spear.
• Vietnam Whip: It is a fighting technique of Yuujirou Hanma
• Backhand Blow: A technique to destroy jaw and knocking out opponent's teeth.
• Defensive Xiaoli: It is a form of bodily control that allows the user to completely relax their body to a feather-like state, allowing them to present zero resistance to oncoming blows.
• Aiki: It is a Japanese martial arts principle or tactic in which redirecting the force back at an opponent.
• Pinch: It is a simple technique that requires the use of only a few fingers to squeeze a piece of the opponent's body.
• Whip Strike: The user loosens up the whole body and treats it like a whip
• Hand Pocket: The user must hide their hands in their pockets. Then they make a surprise attack using one hand with quick precision.
• 0.5 Second Unconscious: It is an act of performing an incredibly fast move before the opponent's brain has time to send a signal to defend himself.
• Dress: Grabbing the opponent by their ankles or wrists before spinning the victim around rapidly as if they were a pair of nunchaku.