I don’t think you’ll be hearing “You are already dead” as much this time.
Earlier today, the official Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis anime website updated with a new trailer and visual. The first cast and crew attached to the project, as well as première details were also unveiled. We break everything out below.
Trailer
The 50-second promo shows off several action-packed scenes from the show, while confirming the core crew and lead cast member. The trailer ends with details on the show’s April 8 première and Amazon exclusivity.
Key Visual
The new image features Kenshiro standing before a colorful emblem, emblazoned with the emblem of a dragon. Kenshiro’s shirt is open, offering just a peek at the now-iconic scars that are engraved upon his chest.
Staff
Yoshio Kazumi will direct the show at Polygon Pictures, with Kazuma Teshigahara (Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind) and Hiromi Satō providing character designs. Satoshi Ozaki is in charge of series composition for the project.
Cast
Kouichi Yamadera, who played Kenshiro in the 2006 Fist of the Blue Sky anime, will reprise his role in the new series.
Premiere
Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis will air on Tokyo MX in April 2018. Amazon stream the series exclusively via their Amazon Prime video service.
Fist of the Blue Sky is a prequel to fan-favorite manga Fist of the North Star. The series, which was written by Buronson and Nobuhiko Horie, launched in the pages of Shinchosha’s Weekly Comic Bunch magazine in May 2001. The magazine continued through August 2010, when Weekly Comic Bunch published its final issue. A total of 22 compiled volumes were released to retailers.
Defunct publisher Gutsoon! Entertainment acquired the license for Fist of the Blue Sky, which they ran in manga magazine Raijin Comics. The company published four volumes before they closed up shop.
Gutsoon! described Fist of the Blue Sky as:
It is just before WWII, Kasumi Kenshiro hides as a quiet, absent-minded professor teaching literature at a small women’s college in Tokyo. Once the 62nd Grand Master of Hokuto Shinken, “God Fist of the North Star,” and known has Yan Wang, or “the King of Death,” who preserved the peace in the “City of Devils.” A fighter of thugs and drug dealers, Kasumi seeks anonymity and a quiet life until the death of his lover, and former brothers, forces him to return to Shanghai to fulfill his destiny and avenge the deaths of his associates.
Fist of the Blue Sky inspired a 26-episode television anime adaptation in 2006.
A 26-episode TV series based on Fist of the Blue Sky hit Japanese TV in the Fall 2006 broadcast season. Mihiro Yamaguchi (The Heroic Legend of Arslan OVA II) directed the project at Studio A.P.P.P., with Yoshiaki Tsubata (Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~, The Silver Guardian) providing character designs. Yasuhiro Imagawa (Berserk, Pet Shop of Horrors) was in charge of series composition.
Source: MoCa News
