Another anime voice acting veteran is gone, sadly, with the passing of Kenji Utsumi on June 13. Utsumi was 75, and best known as the voice behind Fist of the North Star villain Raoh. Utsumi passed at 3:01 pm at a hospital in Shinjuku Ward, …Read more »
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's Fist of the North Star manga, a new version of the super-deformed DD Hokuto no Ken anime is preparing to air in Japan this spring. The series adapts the Comic Zenon gag manga by Kajio, …Read more »
You're excited, I'm excited, we're ALL excited for Hokuto Musou . And who could blame us for wanting the power to beat up countless punks as the roving badass Kenshiro? We've talked about the game here before, and even featured a little piece about it …Read more »
I was chomping at the bit to post about this, but wanted to wait until better screens surfaced. Well, thanks to Koei, we can stop squinting at magazine scans and start fully anticipating getting our hands on Hokuto Musou , yet another mash-up of anime …Read more »
As I mentioned in Otaku USA Issue 13, which i’ll just assume you read first because it saves me from having to re-explain the premise of the show, the 1986 theatrical movie for Fist of the North Star aka Hokuto no Ken is the primary …Read more »
With the dismal performance of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , I'm betting there are those of you out there who ran straight to the local rental shop or Netflix and demanded a copy of the 1994 animated Street Fighter film as if your …Read more »
Raoh punches through a building just because it's in his way and he doesn't feel like walking around it. Then he has a heartfelt conversation/intense staredown with a horse. Then he punches a boulder from out of a catapult so that he can instead launch …Read more »
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