An AI Kaoru Hanayama passes 187,000 followers on Instagram

Findra started tracking Kaoru Hanayama on Instagram on October 27, when the account had 182,950 followers.^{Source 1} Later that morning Instagram showed 187,106 followers and 39 posts.^{Source 2} On October 24 a post on X said the account had gone from 38K to 63.7K followers in a few days, over 27 posts.^{Source 7}

The reel that carried it

The biggest clip went up on October 24 at 22:46 UTC.^{Source 3} Findra counted 13,959,175 views and 319,402 likes on it on October 27.^{Source 1} By the editor’s read that morning it had passed 14 million views.^{Source 2} Of its 12 most recent clips, ten are past 700,000 views.^{Source 2}

Who Kaoru Hanayama is

The account plays Kaoru Hanayama, a fighter from the Baki manga, and calls one of its clips a “live action edit”.^{Source 4} Its bio says “god made me in @higgsfield.ai”, and most captions add “made with @higgsfield.ai” and “Higgsfield Genjutsu”.^{Source 2}

On October 26 it shared a post with Renji Kuru captioned “HANAYAMA x BAKI x RENJI BIG COLLABORATION”.^{Source 5} The same evening it posted “HANAYAMA x DEREK MERCER” and tagged Derek Mercer.^{Source 6}