Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Hara Tetsuo’s best known work, Fist of the North Star, its prequel Fist of the Blue Sky is to get a new anime adaptation. Set in ‘30s Shanghai, the series follows Kasumi Kenshiro (AKA Yan Wang) – the secret successor to the Hokuto Shinken martial art, as he travels to China to help a friend in trouble with Triads.
Fist of the Blue Sky ran in Weekly Comic Punch from 2001 to 2010 and a manga sequel, Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis, began publication in the December 2017 issue of the magazine released on Oct. 25.
Supervised by Hara himself, Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis will air on Tokyo MX from April 2018.
(C) Hara Tetsuo, Buronson / NSP 2001, (C) Yatsu Hiroyuki, Hideki Tsuji
Adapted with permission from Anime!Anime!