Fist of the North Star, Vol. 1

by Buronson, Tetsuo Hara (Illustrator)

Overview

In the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken—the Divine Fist of the North Star!

In a postapocalyptic world, humanity has risen from the ashes of nuclear war to a nightmare of endless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage marauders and warlords rule the broken ruins of civilization, terrorizing and enslaving the survivors. Life has become a brutal struggle for existence and death the only release.

One day, a wanderer appears out of the wasteland to bring justice to the guilty and hope to the people—a warrior named Ken, a man who bears seven scars upon his chest and holds the secret of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken, the Divine Fist of the North Star!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974721566
Publisher:	VIZ Media LLC
Publication date:	06/15/2021
Series:	Fist of the North Star Series , #1
Pages:	306
Sales rank:	74,995
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Buronson started his career as a manga writer for Weekly Shonen Jump in 1972. He gained popularity with the hard-boiled action series Doberman Cop (with art by Shinji Hiramatsu). In 1983, he coauthored the massively successful Fist of the North Star. He has also written numerous hits under the pen name Sho Fumimura, including Phantom Burai and Sanctuary.

Tetsuo Hara began his career with The Iron Don Quixote for Weekly Shonen Jump in 1982. Fist of the North Star, which began serialization in 1983, drew wide acclaim. In the 1990s, he released the historical period pieces Hana no Keiji and Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Shadow Warrior. Fist of the Blue Sky, published in 2001, ran for nine years in Weekly Comic Bunch. His most recent series, Ikusa no Ko: Oda Saburou Nobunaga-den, began in Monthly Comic Zenon in 2010.

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2021

In a postapocalyptic landscape where gangs and religious zealots prey on the weak, Kenshiro is an affectless, heavily scarred drifter whose mastery of the assassination technique Hokuto Shinken enables him to target vital spots on his enemies' bodies and destroy them. After helping some starving villagers fend off a motorcycle gang, Kenshiro and his companions—a boy called Bat and an orphaned girl named Rin—travel to the city of Southern Cross. There they run afoul of a merciless warlord eventually revealed to be Kenshiro's onetime friend Shin, whose brutal betrayal of Kenshiro years earlier set him on his gloriously gory, action-packed path. VERDICT Originally published in Japan between 1983 and 1988, this is one of the most beloved and bestselling manga of all time. Long out of print in English translation, this first volume of the reissued manga is sure to create legions of new fans

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