×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

News
Junichi Suwabe, Kousuke Toriumi Join Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji Anime's Cast

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Suwabe plays Shū, Toriumi plays Rei in gag anime premiering this fall

The official website for the television anime of Imōto Yukito, Yūshi Kawata, and Yukito's Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji (Fist of the North Star: Strawberry Flavor) manga revealed new cast members on Saturday and Sunday. The website is revealing a new cast member and character line art every day until August 25.

The new cast members include:


Junichi Suwabe (Fate/stay night's Archer, Space Dandy's Dandy) as Shū



Kōsuke Toriumi (Naruto's Kiba, Yowamushi Pedal's Imaizumi) as Rei


The website will reveal the voice and line art for Yuda on Monday.

The original anime announcement had teased in June that Banjō Ginga would return to play Souther. Ginga played Souther in the original Fist of the North Star television anime series.

The anime will premiere this fall.

Buronson and Tetsuo Hara — the creators of the original Fist of the North Star post-apocalyptic fighting manga — are credited with the original work for Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji. Kawata writes the manga's scenarios, Imōto Yukito draws the manga, and Yukito is credited with collaboration.

The gag manga centers on a fun version of the Holy Emperor Souther as he tries to find ways to become friends with Kenshirō, demonstrates his party techniques, and sometimes plays with the Gosha Sei.

Imōto Yukito, Yukito, and Kawata launched the manga on Tokuma Shoten's Web Comic Zenyon website in 2013, and the publisher shipped the fourth compiled volume (pictured at right) in June.

Kajio's DD Fist of the North Star, another Fist of the North Star spinoff gag manga, previously inspired a DD Hokuto no Ken short anime, a series of anime shorts that premiered in 2011, and another television anime series that premiered in 2013.

[Via Animate.tv]


discuss this in the forum (4 posts) |
bookmark/share with: short url

this article has been modified since it was originally posted; see change history

News homepage / archives