Fist of the Blue Sky

Fist of the Blue Sky
	Cover of volume 22, featuring most of the main characters
蒼天の拳; (Sōten no Ken)
Manga
Written by	Tetsuo Hara; Supervision:; Buronson;
Illustrated by	Tetsuo Hara
Published by	Shinchosha
English publisher	NA: Gutsoon! Entertainment (canceled);
Magazine	Weekly Comic Bunch
English magazine	NA: Raijin Comics;
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	May 2001 – August 2010
Volumes	22 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Yoshihiro Yamaguchi; Supervision:; Buronson;
Produced by	Naomi Nishiguchi; Kazuhiko Hidano; Masanobu Watanabe;
Written by	Yasuhiro Imagawa
Music by	Marco d'Ambrosio
Studio	A.P.P.P.
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	October 4, 2006 – March 14, 2007
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Manga
Sōten no Ken: Re:Genesis
Written by	Hiroyuki Yatsu
Illustrated by	Hideki Tsuji
Published by	Coamix
Magazine	Comic Zenon
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	October 25, 2017 – present
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis
Directed by	Yoshio Kazumi; Supervision:; Buronson;
Produced by	Tomonari Katō; Ken Kawakita;
Written by	Satoshi Ozaki
Music by	Masatoshi Nishimura
Studio	Polygon Pictures
Original network	Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, BS Fuji
Original run	April 2, 2018 – December 17, 2018
Episodes	24 (List of episodes)

Fist of the Blue Sky (Japanese: 蒼天の拳, Hepburn: Sōten no Ken) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuo Hara, with plot supervision by Buronson. It was serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch from 2001 to 2010, with the chapters collected into 22 tankōbon volumes by Shinchosha. It is a prequel to the popular 1980s manga Fist of the North Star, which Hara originally illustrated with Buronson writing. Set primarily in Shanghai during the 1930s, the series centers on the 62nd successor of the Hokuto Shinken martial arts style, Kenshiro Kasumi, the namesake and predecessor of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star. The manga was adapted into a 26-episode anime series that aired on TV Asahi from 2006 to 2007.

A continuation of the manga, titled Sōten no Ken: Re:Genesis (蒼天の拳 RE:GENESIS), began serialization in the December 2017 issue of Comic Zenon. It is written by Hiroyuki Yatsu and illustrated by Hideki Tsuji with the additional involvement of Tetsuo Hara. An anime series of the same name began airing from April 2 to December 17, 2018 with oversight by Tetsuo Hara.
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