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Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh's Army Grunts Anime Unveils Staff, January 5 Debut
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Takuma Hase and Yūma Saitō are serving as technical directors on the anime at Do-Raku, and are also credited as the editors. Daisuke Miura is the animation director. Mirai Iwai is the art director and the color key artist. Sayoko Itō is the compositing director of photography. Seiji Miura is composing the music.
The anime will premiere on the AT-X and Tokyo MX channels on January 5.
The cast includes Hiro Shimono as Nobu, Shinnosuke Ogami as Zaku, Masaaki Yano as Buzz, and Shinya Takahashi 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 website, Comic Natalie
