BARACK
OZMA

Season two of Baki Hanma opens its third episode on something the franchise had never attempted with a straight face before: a diplomatic meeting. A character credited as Barack Ozma — modeled directly on, and voiced as an impression of, the real Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States — arrives to formalize a peace treaty with Yujiro Hanma, the series' antagonist and self-declared strongest creature on earth.

The treaty itself is a formality. What the audience remembers is what comes after it. Ozma asks Yujiro for a demonstration of the strength the world has heard about secondhand. Yujiro obliges, comparing the request to one made by a previous fictional president, then crushes a raw piece of coal into a polished diamond with his bare hand — no preparation, no theatrics, delivered to the table like a receipt.

Ozma's reaction, voiced by Bill Butts in a dub performance fans immediately flagged as uncannily accurate, became the clip: “Oh damn. Yes, you could.” — a direct callback to the 2008 campaign line that put the real Obama in office. Butts later wrote that playing the role was, in his words, something he found personally significant. The scene spread fast, not because the anime needed another viral moment, but because nobody expected the most absurd franchise in modern anime to land a political cameo this precisely.

Baki Hanma has a history of folding real-world political figures into its universe — a fictional Bush-era president appears earlier in the franchise, and later seasons introduce stand-ins for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, "Tramp" and "Hinary." Ozma is the cameo that stuck.