Tetsuo Hara / Takemi Budo / NSP 2001, © Fist of Souten 2018
The spring and fall 2018 anime series Fist of the Blue Sky has its home video releases being handled by NBC Universal Japan and they’ve set a solid schedule for it. We’re catching up on a recent release that hit during the holidays with the third volume back on December 21st, 2018 as the cover artwork for that has a good sense of power and appealing color about it. The twenty-four episode series is getting four box sets of six episodes each that are priced at 18,500 yen which began on June 27th, 2018. Check out the schedule below!
Yoshio Shikazumi directed it based on the series composition and scripts by Satoshi Ozaki. Kazuma Teshigahara and Hiromi Satou worked on the character designs and Polygon Pictures handled 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.
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 06/27/18 | |
| 2 | 07/27/18 | |
| 3 | 12/21/18 | |
| 4 | 01/30/19 |
[Source: Fist of the Blue Sky -REGENESIS-]
