One of my favorite manga series from the Gutsoon! days (oh how I miss you) is lining up for a new anime adaptation with Fist of the Blue Sky. The manga comes from Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Testuo Hara that kicked off back in 2001 and has twenty-two volumes to date. There aren’t any details other than a mention in the Monthly Comic Zenon installment that’s coming out on Wednesday but it does reveal that a new manga in the franchise is coming with Fist of the Blue Sky: Genesis that comes from Hiroyuki Yatsu and Hideki Tsuji with Buronson and Hara getting credited for it as well.
A two-cour anime series was adapted back in 2006.
Plot Concept: It is just before WWII, Kasumi Kenshiro hides as a quiet, absent-minded professor teaching literature at a small women’s college in Tokyo. Once the 62nd Grand Master of Hokuto Shinken, “God Fist of the North Star,” and known has Yan Wang, or “the King of Death,” who preserved the peace in the “City of Devils.” A fighter of thugs and drug dealers, Kasumi seeks anonymity and a quiet life until the death of his lover, and former brothers, forces him to return to Shanghai to fulfill his destiny and avenge the deaths of his associates.
[Source: ANN]
