The staff of the short anime adaptation of Hiroshi Kurao’s Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh’s Army Grunts spin-off manga revealed multiple new cast members. The anime’s cast includes Hiro Shimono as Nobu, Shinnosuke Ogami as Zaku, Masaaki Yano as Buzz, and Shinya Takahashi as the narrator.
Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh’s Army Grunts will premiere first in January 2026, followed by the main new Hokuto no Ken -Fist of the North Star- anime sometime that same year. More details about broadcasting and streaming will be announced at a later date.
The cast of Hokuto no Ken -Fist of the North Star- includes:
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kenshiro
- Daiki Yamashita as Bat
- M.A.O as Rin
- Wataru Takagi as Jagi
- Tsuguo Mogami as Toki
- Taiten Kusunoki as Raoh
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara’s Fist of the North Star manga was serialized from 1983 to 1988 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. In 1984, a TV anime adaptation began and popularized the franchise. Undoubtedly, Fist of the North Star influenced and inspired many popular anime and manga works over the many decades.
The Fist of the North Star manga is available to purchase both physically and digitally at VIZ Media. Lastly, here’s an overview of the prolific series, via VIZ Media:
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!
