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Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh's Army Grunts Anime Announces Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the short anime of Hiroshi Kurao's Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh's Army Grunts (Hokuto no Ken: Ken'ō-gun Zako-tachi no Banka) spinoff manga announces the cast for the anime on Friday.
🔥ショートアニメ「北斗の拳 拳王軍ザコたちの挽歌」🔥
— ショートアニメ「北斗の拳 拳王軍ザコたちの挽歌」公式 (@hokuto_zakoban) October 24, 2025
キャスト情報公開！
ノブ：#下野紘 さん
ザク：#拝真之介 さん
バーズ：#矢野正明 さん
ナレーション：#高橋伸也 さん
公式サイト：https://t.co/UfZG2Y8t3T
キャスト発表記念！フォロー＆リポストで拳王軍に入隊しよう💪… pic.twitter.com/c6mhMzLGpP
The cast includes Hiro Shimono as Nobu (center left column in image above), Shinnosuke Ogami as Zaku (center right column), Masaaki Yano as Buzz (leftmost column), and Shinya Takahashi (rightmost) as the narrator.
The comedy has a tagline, "Three daily meals included, company room and board, no experience necessary!" In the year 199X after the nuclear apocalypse, our protagonist Nobu finds work as just another grunt in Ken-Oh's army. Nobu learns how long he can last in a workplace where deaths outnumber even the job applicants.
The manga launched on Coamix's Manga Hot app in November 2017, and ended in February 2020. The manga's third and final compiled book volume shipped in March 2020.
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's original landmark manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) is also inspiring a new anime next year.
Sources: Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh's Army Grunts anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
