Kaoru Hanayama

Kaoru Hanayama is a major recurring character from the Baki the Grappler series and star of his spin-off series Baki Gaiden Scarface and Baki Gaiden Kizuzura.
== Overview ==
Hanayama is considered the toughest Yakuza in Japan. Likewise he is a silent, stoic type who is famed for never being felled by a single strike.
== Appearance ==
Kaoru is incredibly large for his age and very muscular. He has black hair and many scars across his face. Kaoru also has a full back tattoo named the "Standing Man", that is given to each member of the Hanayama family in honor of the man who saved their great ancestor.
Kaoru usually wears glasses when he is not fighting and is almost always in his white suit. He also wears a blue undershirt and purple (later white) tie. He had an infamous showdown with the convict Spec, who manages to place a handful of bullets into Hanayama's mouth and slam it shut, causing them to explode his cheeks which creates two large holes on Hanayama's face and exposing a part of his jaw muscles. Although Hanayama won the battle, he wears a facemask for most of the series. His appearance has almost not changed in the five-year gap.
==Skills==
Hanayama is an immensely powerful gangster of Yakuza who relies on his raw physical power and his grip. His grip is so strong that he can not damage his blood and Yuri Chakovsky does not. When he was a child, Hanayama could and was able to break a bottle, change the shape of the handle and a cap with his hand only with his hands. Hanayama has learned to rip a piece from a deck of cards.
He is also a street fighter and is unknown if he has trained in martial arts styles. He proved to be very hard on that when a bunch of thugs shot him with the guns they left him. He was able to take punches from the condemned. His back muscles are strong enough to resist. The attacks with the sword of Miyamoto. Later in the series, he was also able to give Yujiro a bloody nose, even though the damage was almost insignificant for the latter.
With a test of strength with the pickle character, Hanayama's strength has been compared to that of a Triceratops dinosaur that can weigh between 6-12 tons. He also took a great white shark.
In the Baki Gaiden Kizuzura series it is not known how he did in Vol.1 to do.
== Personality ==
Hanayama is shown to be genuinely benevolent and well-meaning teenager who made a point to never get into fights, always respect his teachers, and follow all of the rules of school down to a tee, but any teen who runs a Yakuza Family and even does one-man raids on other Yakuza groups just because he wasn't satisfied with how his tattoo looks clearly isn't a law-abiding citizen, even if they are a genuinely good and moral person. In fact, his response to Oozeki Raiou in the Kizudra Gaiden trying to surprise attack him out of fear of his strength is to non-violently throw the latter over himself in a way that made it look like Raiou did a side somersault, complete with clapping afterwards to maintain the illusion so that the Oozeki could retain his dignity in the eyes of the students in the gymnasium they were in. Originally sought to fight Baki as a way to get Yujiro's attention, and only after being beaten by him do they become good friends. This is best shown during the Death Row Inmates arc, wherein Hanayama ruthlessly grabs Speck by the face and forces him away from Kozue and Baki, who were having a nice romantic date.
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