Kenshiro's initial adversary in the series, Shin was Kenshiro's friend and rival, who was taught in the martial arts style of Nanto Seiken, specifically Nanto Koshuuken (南斗孤鷲拳) or "Lone Eagle Fist of the South Star", whose practitioners are able to pierce flesh with their bare fingers.  He had secretly fallen in love with Yuria, Kenshiro's lover and had slowly become insanely jealous. Jagi soon corrupted Shin, and convinced him to take Yuria for himself. Shin promptly challenged and defeated Kenshiro, then tried to convince Yuria to love him by wounding Kenshiro with his fingers, giving Kenshiro his distinctive seven scars in the shape of the Big Dipper. When Yuria finally gave in and said she loved him, Shin left Kenshiro for dead in the desert.  Shin went on to amass an army to steadily conquer the land, under his flag of "The Bloody Cross", in an attempt to fully win Yuria's love. Ultimately, in her honour he built the city of Southern Cross. However Yuria, because of Shin's cruelty and ruthlessness, and her love for Kenshiro, never gave Shin her love.  However, Kenshiro survived, and wandered the desert in search of Yuria. When he finally came face to face with Shin in the city of Southern Cross, he defeated Shin with the Hokuto Juuji Zan (北斗十字斬) or "Cross-Kill of the North Star", to kill Shin with his "Bloody Cross" emblem marked on his chest. However, Shin confessed that Yuria had seemingly leapt to her death and, preferring to die by his own hand than by Kenshiro's, followed her down.  Kenshiro took Shin's corpse and gave him a proper burial, saying that it was "because he loved the same woman as me".

One day, a wanderer appears out of the wasteland to bring justice to the guilty and hope to the people—a warrior named Ken, a man who bears seven scars upon his chest and holds the secret of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken, the Divine Fist of the North Star! 
 
(Source: Viz Media)

Nuclear war has devastated the planet, turning one fertile ground into a barren, inhospitable landscape on which mankind struggles desperately to stay alive. Society has collapsed and a fight for control wages between vicious dictators, super-powerful mutants, and biker gangs that terrorize the streets. 
 
In a world so cruel and bleak, only the chosen one can restore civilization to its former self. Kenshiro - master of the Hokuto Shinken fighting technique; a martial art so awesomely brutal that only a single being can be entrusted with its full power! 
 
(Source: Manga Entertainment)

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An American voice actor known primarily for his work in anime dubs and video games. Fans of Cartoon Network's Toonami can recognize Blum's voice as TOM, the block's robotic host. He was also the voice of 7-Eleven's "Oh thank heaven" television and radio advertisements.Steven is currently the "disembodied voice"" of the podcast show http://goanimetv.com/ also works with Vic Mignogna making parodies of Budweiser's audio commercials called "real fans of genius".

A veteran of the voice-over business, Steve Blum cut his vocal teeth in the industry, on anime shows like Guyver and Giant Robo, and since has voiced hundreds of diverse characters in productions representing every media imaginable!   Steve's training was highly unorthodox by industry standards. Before voice acting became a full-time profession, Steve worked in a book store, a pet store, an auto-parts store, serviced fire protection equipment, ran a mailroom, drove a delivery truck, managed warehouses, became an international film and video sales/service coordinator, copywriter and marketing executive for a sci-fi film company, an ADR script writer, part-time musician...

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Husband of voice actress [Shino Kakinuma](https://anilist.co/staff/96408).

Following a cataclysmic nuclear war, the world teeters on the brink of complete destruction. Civilization is polarized into a degenerate society where opposing packs of marauding scavengers prey on helpless, homeless nomads. For those who are lucky enough to survive the constant brutality and danger, it is a bleak existence. Life an death blur into abstractions. The only hope left for mankind is to find a hero worthy of becoming the next "Fist of the North Star" - an enlightened warrior - who is capable of leading those with the will to survive out of this barrenness into a new world. But in this savage no-man's land of shifting loyalties and power-hungry demi-gods, heroes are in short supply. 
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Michael McConnohie is an American voice actor, writer and director who has provided many voice roles in movies, anime, and video games. He and fellow actress Melodee Spevack run a production company called VoxWorks. Some of his major works include the Narrator on Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Hunter x Hunter, Azulongmon in Digimon, Gork in Masked Rider, Keiichi Ikari in Paranoia Agent, Rolf Emerson in Robotech, Manzou the Saw in Samurai Champloo, Cosmos and Tracks in Transformers, Hot Shot / Ironhide in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, D in Vampire Hunter D, Chief Inquisitor Margulis in Xenosaga and Charles zi Britannia in Code Geass.

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His cousin, [Fabrizio Manfredi](https://anilist.co/staff/96097), is a popular Italian voice actor too.  His sister, [Rossella Acerbo](https://anilist.co/staff/96677), is a popular Italian voice actress too.

The second part of the new Hokuto no Ken pentalogy. The story of this OVA centers around Yuria. 
(Source: Wikipedia)

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A deeper look at the childhood and history of Jagi, one of the four Hokuto brothers, and an important villain in the original Hokuto no Ken manga. 
Includes the one-shot: Hokuto No Ken - Ryuken Gaiden 
An alternate version explaining the choosing of Ryuuken's successor and the nuclear apocalypse in the Hokuto No Ken universe.

It's a special project commemorating the 30th anniversary of Hokuto no Ken.

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Rei is a ruthless man who is traveling the world in search of a certain someone... But Rei was not always ruthless an uncompassionate, it's vengeance the one who stripped Rei from his humanity, and he won't be able to become a normal human being until that vengeance is fulfilled. Right now, he can only roam the world as a furious lone wolf, a lone wolf who preys on those who oppose him.


A Hokuto no Ken sidestory telling the story of Yuria prior to the Hokuto no Ken main story, including the battle between Shin and Juuza.