Tetsuo Hara / Takemi Budo / NSP 2001, © Fist of Souten 2018
We last got to talk about the Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis property back in 2018 when the new anime adaptation arrived. The manga comes from Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Tetsuo Hara which kicked off back in 2017 and has been on hiatus for a few years now. But things change as they do and now the property has nabbed the upcoming 1/2025 marked cover of Comic Zenon where it’s serialized with some new artwork below.
The staff was revealed with Yoshio Shikazumi as the director working from 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 Nobuyuki Hiyama as Yè, Akeno Watanabe as Yè Zi-Yīng, Kouichi Yamadera as Kenshiro, Takehito Koyasu as Liú Fēi-Yàn, Sumire Uesaka as Erika Arendt, Setsuji Satoh as Yasaka, and Yumi Touma as Pān Yù-Líng.
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.
