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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 and completed in 2022.
Summary
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 all-out nuclear war to a nightmare of endless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage marauders rule the broken ruins of civilization, terrorizing and enslaving the survivors. Life has become a brutal struggle for existence and death the only release. Kenshiro and Ryu have reached the land of Sava, a kingdom nestled in a mountain valley. But Sava is under attack from barbarians, and even worse, its royal family is weakened by internal strife. King Asam is ill and dying, and his three sons now squabble for the throne. Kenshiro might be able to knock some sense into the competing brothers, but he’d better do it quickly. Something strange has happened in the neighboring kingdom of Blanca, and Sava has more to worry about than just the barbarians!
