The Fist of the North Star franchise additionally consists of numerous different manga and novels by various authors, some more recent Hentai Anime adaptations, and literally dozens of video games for nearly every system from the original NES by means of the PS3 and Xbox 360 (including one of the worst Street Fighter-style brawlers ever released for the original GameBoy). Based (loosely) on the epic Tv series that ran from 1984 to 1988, which was in turn based mostly on a protracted-working manga series from about the identical interval by Buronson, with art by Tetsuo Hara.

Buronson has an inventory of manga to his name stretching from the early '70s to right this moment, of which Fist of the North Star might be probably the most well-known. To sum up Fist of the North Star, take all the basics for a severe put up-apocalyptic action movie, throw in some beefy guys duking it out, season with more exploding heads than you may shake a stick at, and high with a cheesy dub, and you get a film so dangerous it's a basic. Available in North America from Eastern Star on bilingual DVD.

The original DVD release, one of the handful produced by Image Entertainment from Streamline material as that company was fading away, is about as minimal as they arrive. Was initially out there within the US from Streamline Pictures on dub-solely VHS and, briefly, on a dub-solely DVD produced by Image Entertainment, each long out of print. It's the perfect critique of governmental censorship that additionally options a lady working round with underpants on her face as she throws pictures of scorching naked ladies to shocked onlookers who probably haven't even seen themselves naked earlier than. This anime adaptation is among the earliest Streamline Pictures releases, and hence amongst the first anime films to succeed in the US.