###New Fist of the North Star/Shin Hokuto no Ken
Genres: action, science fiction
Themes: martial arts, post-apocalyptic
Objectionable content: Intense
Number of episodes: 3
Vintage: 2003-07-24
Plot Summary: In a post-apocalyptic Earth, the water has become entirely toxic, except for some kept safe in a reservoir. A fortified zone has been created by a man named Sanga, he calls it The Lastland. A group of villagers have discovered safe water, and Sanga wants it. He and his band of killers go to kill everyone and steal it. As they do a mysterious man apperes out of nowhere, instantly killing some of Sanga’s men. His name is Kenshiro, and he can beat any man with his martial art, Hokuto Shin Ken. Sanga will do anything for the water, and Kenshiro will do anything to try and stop him.
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I enjoyed this OVA, and it’s not bad, but it’s just not quite as enjoyable as the TV series or Fist of the Blue Sky. I personally was fine with Takehito Koyasu voicing Kenshiro in the Japanese audio; yeah, he certainly wasn’t Akira Kamiya, but he wasn’t bad at all.
I probably have to give this another view one day to be able to give it a proper overall view, as right now I’m not quite sure how to feel about this OVA. From what I hear this is a case where the English dub is actually better then the original Japanese audio…
The DVD collection for this recently went out of print, so if anyone is planning on tracking it down, you should probably do it quickly.
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The DVD collection for this recently went out of print, so if anyone is planning on tracking it down, you should probably do it quickly.[/quote]
I got the Double collection that came with Neo Tokyo so I’m very happy.
I have the original 3 DVD’s with the paper artbox. It’s not a bad show ,but as FOTNS shows go its not as good as it could have been. The English dub does add something to it the Japanese audio feels lacking in. ADV had a pretty good record of doing that for a lot of shows. For most classes of Anime fans I’m putting this in worth at least one watch category .
posted on 2017-10-23 04:15 EDT
New Souten no Ken Re: Genesis manga launches on Wednesday
posted on 2017-10-24 19:30 EDT
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posted on 2017-12-24 11:05 EST
Kouichi Yamadera reprises Kenshiro for Polygon Pictures production
posted on 2018-01-24 05:00 EST
Takehito Koyasu, Sumire Uesaka, Setsuji Satoh, Yumi Touma join cast
posted on 2018-02-09 15:20 EST
Anime announces cast for Yè, Yè Zi-Yīng
posted on 2018-02-23 11:00 EST
posted on 2018-02-23 12:30 EST
TV series premieres on April 9
FIST OF THE BLUE SKY: REGENESIS, PV (with ENG subtitle)
posted on 2018-03-30 03:00 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Show’s trailer streamed with English subtitles
posted on 2018-03-31 17:38 EDT by Karen Ressler
posted on 2018-04-02 06:15 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Series listed with 24 episodes
April 02, 2018 11:30am CDT
Dive into the world of the prequel today at 10:30am Pacific Time