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New Fist of the North Star (OAV)

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[ sequel of Fist of the North Star 2 (TV) ]

Alternative title:
Ken il Guerriero - La Trilogia (Italian)
Shin Hokuto no Ken (Japanese)
新・北斗の拳 (Japanese)
新北斗神拳 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: In a post-apocalyptic Earth, the water has become entirely toxic, except for some kept safe in a reservoir. A fortified zone has been created by a man named Sanga, he calls it The Lastland. A group of villagers have discovered safe water, and Sanga wants it. He and his band of killers go to kill everyone and steal it. As they do a mysterious man apperes out of nowhere, instantly killing some of Sanga's men. His name is Kenshiro, and he can beat any man with his martial art, Hokuto Shin Ken. Sanga will do anything for the water, and Kenshiro will do anything to try and stop him.
User Ratings: 185 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 11 votes (dub:7, sub:4)
 Excellent: 14 votes (sub:9, dub:4, raw:1)
 Very good: 33 votes (sub:20, dub:11, Ita.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 49 votes (sub:32, dub:15, raw:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 33 votes (dub:20, sub:12, ?:1)
 So-so: 19 votes (sub:9, dub:8, Ger.dub:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Not really good: 10 votes (sub:7, dub:3)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:6, dub:4, Ita.dub:1)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (dub:2)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 387 users, rank: #1272
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.568 (Good-.43), std. dev.: 1.9444, rank: #2367
Weighted mean: 6.516 (Good-.48), rank: #2358 (seen all: 6.74 / seen some: 5.54 / won't finish: 3.79)
Bayesian estimate: 6.566 (Good-.43), rank: #2016
Running time: 58 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Episode titles: We have 3
Vintage:
2003-07-24
2006-11-08 to 2006-11-15 (USA - Showtime Beyond)
2007-09-01 to 2007-09-10 (Germany - Animax)
Releases: We have 8
Opening Theme:
"Lu:na" by Gackt
Ending Theme:
"Oasis" by Gackt
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Based upon the Novel "Hokuto no Ken - Jubaku no Machi", published in 1996.
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Related releases:
    Neo Tokyo/New Fist of the North Star Double Pack (DVD) 2009-10-13 (from $10.53)
    New Fist of the North Star - Collection (DVD) 2005-08-30 (from $17.99)
    New Fist of the North Star - The Cursed City (DVD 1) 2004-09-21 (from $2.00)
    New Fist of the North Star - The Cursed City + Artbox (DVD 1) 2004-09-21 (from $3.00)
    New Fist of the North Star - The Forbidden Fist (DVD 2) 2004-11-02
    New Fist of the North Star - When a Man Carries Sorrow (DVD 3) 2004-12-14 (from $18.36)
    New Fist of the North Star/Neo Tokyo DVD Double Pack (DVD) 2008-09-30 (from $11.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takashi Watanabe

Screenplay:
Hiroshi Toda
Nobuhiko Horie

Storyboard: Takashi Watanabe

Music: Yasuharu Takanashi

Original Manga:
Buronson
Tetsuo Hara

Character Design: Haruo Sotozaki

Art director: Satoru Kuwabara

Animation director: Haruo Sotozaki

Mechanical design: Tomohiro Kawahara

Art design: Tomoyuki Aoki

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Junichi Watanabe

Executive producer: Ren Usami

Producer:
Hidenori Taga
Kayo Fukuda
Manabu Takami
Nobuhiko Horie
Tomo Akamatsu

Animation:
Gwon Jang Won (White Line)
Han Kung Hee (White Line)
Ikuma Tobe (BUYU)
Jung Da I (Sung San)
Kang Myoung Suk (Sung San)
Kim Dong Suk (Sung San)
Kim Ji Hwan (White Line)
Kim Min Kyoung (White Line)
Kim Soo Jung (Sung San)
Kim Young Min (White Line)
Lee Min-A (White Line)
Lee Hyun Mi (White Line)
Lee Ja Eun (Sung San)
Lee Og Ja (Sung San)
Lee Si Eun (White Line)
Lee Sung Jae (Sung San)
Masumi Okimoto (BUYU)
Park Mi Hyen (Sung San)
Shin Mi Un (White Line)
Sun Lee (Sung San)
Yang Sung Jin (Sung San)

Animation Check: Kazuki Ito (BUYU)

Animation producer: Shojiro Abe

Assistant Animation Director:
Hideaki Yokoi
Hideki Hashimoto
Masahiro Sekiguchi

Assistant producer: Takeshi Baba

Background Art:
Atsuko Takigami (Studio TENJIN)
Kaname Iwata (Studio TENJIN)
Michiko Morokuma (Studio TENJIN)
Yuyu Kuwabara (Studio TENJIN)

Check:
Emiko Kimura
Naoko Satou
Noriko Abe
Sakiko Ito

Design Production: Kozue Arai

Editing: Shinji Kobukata (Edit Puffin)

Insert Song Performance: Wakana Ootaki (Hikari no Yukue)

Key Animation:
Akira Inoue
Ayako Ishihara (St. Wan Pack)
Fumio Matsumoto
Haruo Sotozaki
Hideaki Yokoi
Hirofumi Kashihara (Anime R)
Hisashi Kagawa
Hitoshi Kagiyama
Ichiro Uno
Jun Shibakawa
Junichi Hayama
Kan Saito
Kazuaki Imoto (St. Wan Pack)
Kazuyuki Hirakawa (Anime R)
Kiyoshi Nohji (Anime R)
Kyota Washikita
Masahiro Sekiguchi
Masako Onozawa
Miho Azuma
Mitsuhiro Iwasaki (St. Wan Pack)
Miyuki Nakamura
Moriyasu Taniguchi (Anime R)
Nobuhiro Okazaki (St. Wan Pack)
Sachiko Oohashi
Shigeyuki Suga
Takaaki Fukuyo
Takafumi Hino (Anime R)
Takahiro Toyomasu
Takeshi Matsuura (St. Wan Pack)
Takuji Yoshimoto
Tatsuya Oka
Tetsuya Wakano (St. Wan Pack)
Tomohiro Kawahara
Tomomi Ikeda (St. Wan Pack)
Toru Yoshida (Anime R)
Yasuhiro Saiki

Mechanic Director: Tomohiro Kawahara

Painting:
An Sun Hee (Sung San)
Cho Sung Woo (White Line)
Choi Eun Ha (Sung San)
Eun Young Kim (White Line)
Hiroko Ueda (BUYU)
Joung Soo Joung (Sung San)
Kang Yoon Sug (Sung San)
Kim Soo Jin (White Line)
Kim Kyong Ui (Sung San)
Lee Byung Ae (Sung San)
Lee In Ju (White Line)
Lee Mi Seon (White Line)
Lee Suk Jin (White Line)
Lee Sun Joo (White Line)
Lee Yean Suk (Sung San)
Makiko Doi (BUYU)
Moon Soung Hey (White Line)
Nam Guoog Jin (White Line)
Shinobu Sato (BUYU)
Song You Ja (Sung San)
Tomomi Asawa (BUYU)
Yoo Ju Young (Sung San)
Yukiko Sato (BUYU)
Yumiko Mihara (BUYU)

Photography:
Masasnori Yasui (BUYU)
Masatoshi Noda (BUYU)
Yusuke Sasano (BUYU)

Production Assistant: Shingo Okada

Recording: Fujio Yamada

Recording Assistant: Yukari Tobase (Aoi Studio)

Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi (Sound Box)

Sound Production: Tomoko Nakashima (Techno Sound)

Theme Song Performance: Gackt

Titles: Shinji Kobukata (OP)

Unit Director: Kentaro Nakamura

 

Gackt as Seiji

Takehito Koyasu as Kenshiro

Unshou Ishizuka as Sanga

Yurika Hino as Sara

Akimitsu Takase as Tobi

Daisuke Kishio as Young Seiji

Fumihiko Tachiki as Narration

Hideyuki Tanaka as Toki

Keiji Hirai as young man

Kiyonobu Suzuki as Ches

Kouji Ishii as Rogue

Magnum Tokyo as Magnum

Masahiko Tanaka as Jinen

Reiko Suzuki as Yura

Romi Paku as Bista

Sanae Kobayashi as Sāra (young)

Seiji Sasaki as Giese

Takaya Hashi as Hokumon no Ken Master

Tomoe Hanba as Main

Hirakazu Shibayama

Tomohisa Asou

Tsuguo Mogami

Yugo Takahashi

Yuuji Kishi

Japanese companies 

Animation:
Buyu
Sung San Production
Toei Animation
White Line

Animation Check: Buyu

Backgrounds: Studio TENJIN

Key Animation:
Angle
Anime R
St. Wan Pack

Music Production: Nippon Crown

Painting:
Buyu
Sung San Production
White Line

Photography: Buyu

Production:
Coamix
eFrontier
Kitty Films
OB Planning
Sega

Sound Effects: Sound Box

Sound Production: Techno Sound

Sound Studio: Studio Aoi

English cast 
English staff 

Director:
Charles Campbell
Elena Carillo

Script:
Andrew Kent
Mike Yantosca

Translation: Masako Ollivier

Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams

Producer:
Charles Campbell
Elena Carillo

DVD Coordination: Janice Williams

Editing:
Neil O'Sullivan
Roberto Garcia

International Coordination: Toru Iwakami

Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas

Production Assistant:
Carole Pavlik
Maki Nagano
Marta Bechtol
Miyuki Kamiya
Paul Mericle

Recording engineer: Charles Campbell

Senior Translator: Shoko Oono

Sound Design: Paul Killam

Adam Dudley as Seiji

John Paul Shephard as Sanga

Robert Kraft as Kenshiro

Katie Gillette as Sara

Christopher Loveless as Tobi

Jose Brown as Giese

Korey Simeone as Lord Doha/Bista

Lainie Fraiser as Yura

Lowell Bartholomee as Ches

Samantha Inoue-Harte as village girl

Scot Friedman as Jinen

Travis Dean as Roushi

Aaron Vyvial

Arlishia Neville

Bill Dawson

Brad Graeber

Charles Campbell

Christopher Tureson

Christopher Wertman

David Henkin

Dena Taylor

Elena Carrillo

Elizabeth Wilder

Frank Gabriel

Galen Menzel

Heath Steiner

Inoue Harte

Jason McMaster

Jeff Montondon

Jim Damm

Justin Whitney

Michael Oye

Monika Kappe

Rehan Malick

Rick Hankins

Robert S. Fisher

Ron Berry

Samantha

Shannon Grounds

Tony Salvaggio

Tye Casas

Zachary McMakin

English companies 

ADR Recording: Monster Island

Broadcaster:
Showtime Beyond
The Anime Network

Distributor: ADV Films (UK) (UK)

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.

Licensed by: ADV Films

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: David Macaluso

 

Arnaud Léonard as Kenshiro

Erwin Grunspan as Seiji

Alexandra Correa as Sarah

David Manet as Toby

Alain Louis as Sanga

David Joppart as Sanga (OAV 3)

David Macaluso as Seiji (young)

Lionel Bourguet as Jinen

Marielle Ostrowski as Vista

Martin Spinhayer as Rogue

Mathieu Moreau as Toki

Michel Hinderickx as Chess

Nicole Shirer as Yura

Bruno Mullenaerts

Renaud Cagna

French companies 

Distributor: Mabell

Dubbing: NDE Production

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Dubbing Director: Serena Verdirosi

Translation: Laura Valentini

Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

Dialogues: Alessandro Trombetta

Dubbing Assistant: Corrado Russo

 

Chiara Colizzi as Sara

Massimo De Ambrosis as Kenshiro

Michele Gammino as Sanga

Massimo Lodolo as Seiji

Cesare Barbetti as narrator

Claudio Fattoretto as Giese

Davide Perino as
Bista
Doha

Franco Mannella as Tobi

Lucrezia Marricchi as Myne

Pierluigi Astore as Jinen

Roberto Draghetti as Loag

Romano Malaspina as Maestro

Vittorio De Angelis as Toki

Vladimiro Grana as Ches

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: MTV

Distributor: Shin Vision

Dubbing: SEFIT-CDC

German staff 
German cast 

Animation/DVD Layout: Holger Paetznick

Authoring/Conception: Tobias Löffler

Casting: Nina Marschke

Conception/organization: Matthias Heer

Coordination: Tobias Trummer

Dialogue Direction/audio Technology: Sascha Kaufmann

Editing: Christian Schmidt

Management: Johannes Bauer

Post Production: Johannes Luff

Sound Editor/Cutter: Jusuf Ismaili

Special Effects/Compositing: Gerhard Buchner

Subtiteling: Johann Heidinger

 

Thomas Rauscher as Sanga

Torsten Münchow as Kenshiro

Walter von Hauff as Seiji

Anke Kortemeier as Sara

Claus-Peter Damitz as Tobi

Gerhard Acktun as
Sanga's Untergebener #2 (ep 1)
Sklave (ep 1)

Gert Rigauer as Sanga's Untergebener # 4 (ep 1)

Jörg Stuttmann as
Dorfbewohner (ep 1)
Sanga's Untergebener #1 (ep 1)

Ulf Söhmisch as Dorfbewohner (ep 1)

Ulf-Jürgen Wagner as
D.d.F Dorfbewohner
L.L Dorfbewohner

Ulrich Frank as Sanga's Untergebener #3 (ep 1)

Willi Röbke as Erzähler (Narrator)

German companies 

Broadcaster: Animax Germany (2007-09-01 to 2007-09-10)

Distributor:
ACOG
OVA Films

Dubbing: Circle of Arts

DVD Authoring & Encoding: Aaron-Films

Dutch staff 
Dutch companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Manga DVD

Dutch cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: MC Entertainment

Russian cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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