Warner Bros. Japan Unveils Anime Series Celebrating Fist of the North Star Manga’s 40th Anniversary.
A new anime series based on the classic manga Fist of the North Star has been revealed by Warner Bros. Japan.
The reboot, titled Fist of the North Star: Hokuto no Ken, will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the franchise, which started as a manga in 1983.
The announcement was made on Wednesday, September 13, exactly 40 years after the first chapter of the manga was published.
First of the North Star is one of the most popular & influential manga of all time
The new series will feature a new array cast and staff, and a logo and a key visual have been released to tease the fans. Fist of the North Star is one of the most popular and influential manga of all time, with over 100 million sales worldwide. It was created by Buronson (story) and Tetsuo Hara (art) and serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine for 27 volumes from 1983 to 1988. It spawned a spin-off series by Hiroshi Kurao called Fist of the North Star Apocalypse Drama Filming Arc, which ran for one volume on the Comic Zenon website in 2021.
The reboot, titled Fist of the North Star: Hokuto no Ken, will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the franchise, which started as a manga in 1983.
The announcement was made on Wednesday, September 13, exactly 40 years after the first chapter of the manga was published.
More about Fist of the North Star
Fist of the North Star is set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, in the mysterious year of 199X. The protagonist is Kenshiro, the heir to a deadly martial art called Hokuto Shinken, who travels the wasteland to rescue his fianceé Yuria from his rival Shin. Along the way, he encounters various enemies, allies, and people from his past, and uses his martial art to protect the weak from the tyranny of warlords and bandits.
Fist of the North Star is part of the legendary “Golden Age” of Shonen Jump magazine, and has inspired many other manga such as Berserk by Kentaro Miura and Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the franchise, an exhibition is being held in Hokuto City, Hokkaido, from August to October.
The new anime series will be a tribute to this iconic manga and its legacy.
The original Fist of the North Star anime series can be watched on Crunchyroll.
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