December 6th, 2025 A new trailer for the upcoming Fist of the North Star animated series has been released. Reaction to this trailer has been a bit more positive than the trailer released earlier this year. The new series is due to start airing at some point in 2026.
Kineko Video have done the impossible: found and released uncensored scenes from the 1986 movie! These are in much higher quality than what's previously been seen on the Italian video release of the film.
A trailer has been released for the new Fist of the North Star animated series. Reaction to it has been mixed at best, with absolutely tons of complaints about the quality of the animation. The show will be airing next year.
Updated the Viz page, adding more of their recent Fist of the North Star manga releases. They've almost done it -they're very close to releasing the entire thing now, just two more volumes to go!
40 years ago today, the first episode of Fist of the North Star aired in Japan. To celebrate, the episode recaps have been overhauled, with new trivia, errors and the bane of my existence: animation differences! When footage from one episode got used in the next episode's recap, minor things often got changed. There's far too much to list here, so check it out.
Added more of Viz's manga releases to their page. Look, I really have got something planned for this part of the site, but it's not going to be ready until late on next year.
Updated the Viz page to include details on their recent manga releases. Yeah, I know this update sucks compared to the rest of the site, but something had to give. I have got something big planned for Fist of the North Star, but it's going to take some time to do -give me a couple of years. I've re-done the section about the live action movie, featuring new, larger screenshots and added some stuff about a deleted scene.
Updated the Viz page with their new manga release, and also updated the Discotek page with info about their newest DVDs and Blu-rays.
Something new for the misc database -a complete set of scans of the official Hokuto no Ken coloring book!
I finally added a page about Hokuto Ga Gotoku to the video games section. Of more interest is a new page about a unreleased Hokuto no Ken arcade game, which there is very little information about -thanks to Gaming Hell for bringing it to my attention.
SEGA have announced plans to release Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise in America! Click here to see the trailer.
The Hokuto no Ken anime series turns 30 years old today -the first episode aired in Japan on this day in 1984. To sort of celebrate I've written about the first episode of DD Hokuto no Ken, which you can read here. I might do more in the near future, but I haven't got a set schedule for writing the other episodes up yet.
R.I.P. James Avery, best known for playing the role of Uncle Phil in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but also the voice of King Fang in the English dub of the 1986 Hokuto no Ken movie. Kenji Utsumi -who voiced Raoh in Hokuto no Ken and Kaioh in Hokuto no Ken 2 -has died from cancer. He was 75 years old.
I've gone through nearly every page of this site and have fixed as many typos as possible. There are still probably going to be some around, but the main thing is that the writing is nowhere near as awful as it used to be, especially for the pages about the original anime series. I've also added a new page here, and a page for Shin Hokuto Musou.
A little late with this, but a new Hokuto no Ken TV series has recently been announced! "DD Hokuto no Ken"...doesn't that sound familiar? Well, this new DD Hokuto no Ken is apparently a different series to the previous one. The new DD Hokuto no Ken is due to start airing in Japan this Spring. Thanks to DeadSoldier for this news.
A new trailer for Ken's Rage 2 has been released, showing new characters and new scenery -there are going to be stages set before the nuclear war, by the looks of it? The trailer also demonstrates moves for all of the characters, and I have to say how RIDICULOUS Juuza's handstand kick special looks. The game is out in Japan next month, but will be out in February next year for other countries. There have been a few updates for Ken's Rage 2 recently. At the moment, the known playable characters are: Kenshiro, Shin, Rei, Mamiya, Jagi, Toki, Raoh, Yuda, Shuu, Souther, Ryuuga, Fudo, Juuza, Bat, Ein, Falco and Shachi. Characters rumored to be playable include Kaioh, Hyo, Han and Lin. Heart will no longer be playable. He was in the first game (as a DLC character) but at the moment he won't be playable in the sequel.
The Ten no Haoh section has been re-done -all of the episodes now feature images from Sentai Filmwork's DVDs, rather than the bootleg I originally had to use first time round. The pages don't have manga differences in them yet simply because I haven't been able to read the manga, but to make up for it, check out the DVD differences pages instead!
A new trailer for Ken's Rage 2 has been released, watch it here. There is also a gameplay video here, which shows that the sequel is going to be much faster paced than the original, among other things. As well as being available on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, a Wii U version has also been announced.
More new screens of Ken's Rage 2 are out, featuring Falco (who will be a playable character), Jackal, Colonel and Devil Rebirth. Thanks to Koei Warriors for the link. Hokuto Destiny have reported that a new addition to Ken's Rage 2 will be online multiplayer -the first game had offline co-op, but from what's been said, the sequel will have online co-op also. It isn't known how many players it will support yet.
Some new screens of Ken's Rage 2 have been released, showing Shachi for the first time. Some other info from Famitsu mentions that the likes of Yuda, Shuu and Juuza will all be playable.
Some information abot Ken's Rage 2 has been leaked out. The Japanese title of the game is going to be Shin Hokuto Musou, and by the looks of it the game will not only contain characters and settings from Hokuto no Ken 2, but will also include things from the original Hokuto no Ken. This will include some things that never made it into the first game, such as the fight against Devil Rebirth.
Tecmo Koei have announced Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (working title) at the E3. The teaser doesn't reveal much (and most contains clips from the first game) but does briefly feature Kaioh near the end, so it pretty much means the game is going to feature characters from Hokuto no Ken 2.
Introducing the Misc Database!
Added Ten no Haoh back to the site, with one new page and some minor edits to technique names. This section isn't as in-depth as the others, simply because I still only have a bootleg set of it so there wasn't much point re-doing it. I will try and get the official DVD imported at some point. I also finished off the manga exclusive chapters section.
Slightly updated versions of the Legends of the True Savior movies are up. Pages looking at chapter 25 of the original manga are also available. |