Tetsuo Hara / Takemi Budo / NSP 2001, © Fist of Souten 2018
The spring 2018 anime season just got a bit more intense as Crunchyroll will be streaming the Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis anime adaptation that’s set for an April 2nd, 2018 debut in Japan, which we previously saw listed as getting Amazon Video distribution. The series is set to premiere at the same time as the Amazon streaming while the Japanese broadcast is set for April 9th. Crunchyroll has not confirmed dates or times yet as Pony Canyon USA made the announcement.
Yoshio Shikazumi is directing it based on the series composition and scripts by Satoshi Ozaki. Kazuma Teshigahara and Hiromi Satou are handling the character designs and Polygon Pictures is handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Kouichi Yamadera as Kenshiro, Takehito Koyasu as Liú Fēi-Yàn, Sumire Uesaka as Erika Arendt, Setsuji Satoh as Yasaka, Yumi Touma as Pān Yù-Líng, Nobuyuki Hiyama as Yè, and Akeno Watanabe as Yè Zi-Yīng.
The manga comes from Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Testuo Hara that kicked off back in 2001 and has twenty-two volumes to date. A new manga in the franchise is coming at the same time 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 as 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.
