Fist of the North Star, Vol. 4

Auteur

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.

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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!

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In the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled bysavage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior namedKen holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious martial art known as HokutoShinkenthe Divine Fist of the North Star!

In a postapocalypticworld, humanity has risen from the ashes of nuclear war to a nightmare ofendless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage maraudersand warlords rule the broken ruins of civilization, terrorizing and enslavingthe survivors. Life has become a brutal struggle for existence and death theonly release.

Ken is the wielder of the legendary Hokuto Shinken martialarts style and once trained with three other students of the technique. One ofthem, Jagi, could never accept their Master Ryuken's choice of Ken as thesuccessor. Now Jagi has become a murderous wasteland warlord who terrorizes theinnocent...in Ken's name! Ken must face off with Jagi to clear hisreputation and the honor of Hokuto Shinken. But Jagi is not the only one ofKen's former brothers who may be using the technique forevil...