Fist of the North Star, Vol. 1 (1)

I was really looking forward to this book. I love this series, but the beginning is the last page and the first is it's last. Even the cover is backwards. I can't read this. Cancelled preorder for vol 2. Shame.

[[VIDEOID:9713d69481ea3a20f2da8aba8a2d9fec]] A Classic. It's right up there with other classics of great mangas like Dragonball, Dragonball z, Kenshin, Berzerk, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Ninja Scrolls ext: You get the idea it's great manga reading. Reminds me of Bruce lee in the world of Mel Gibson's The Road Warrior. You can't deny the inspiration for this was that movie the Road warrior. Kenshiro is a well built Bruce Lee lookalike and has similar mannerisms down to Bruce's howls and grunts. However in a apocalyptic world where water and food are most important , Kenshiro comes at the right time to save the day...but it's more than that. Definitely a must in your manga library. A classic manga long overdue here in the states. It's about time.

Finally! Fist of the North Star is getting a re-release in an awesome hardcover format!! The opening color pages of this volume are awesome and the black and white set is stellar! Let’s hope this series can find the new expanded audience it deserves similar to how JOJO finally caught on for western readers.

I don’t know why this keeps being an issue but manga readers should know that in Japan they read from right to left. This book maintains that format. It can be jarring to people who aren’t used to it but after reading even one or two books cover to cover you won’t even notice it anymore.

Bottom line: Classic story, classic art, awesome design, high quality hardcover. Amazing!

I love Fist of the North Star, I feel like I don’t meet too many people who knows this series. Sadly I’ve watched the show first before I read the manga and I’m hoping they complete this series because I want to own all 18 volumes and be able to look back years from now and introduce this series to my future kids one day. For you fans out there I’d recommend buying this, even if you already watched the show or read it already. I wish they would of completed the Master edition in English but this great as well. I really do hope that they complete the series in english, either that or I’m just gonna have to learn how to speak and read Japanese. I’d give y’all an unlimited star rating if I could.

Long before the days of the Super Saiyans and the Straw Hats, there was a little title in 1983 that revolutionized Shonen battle manga. This is a good old fashioned post apocalyptic slug fest that will wow and shock you to your very core! This is the world of Fist of the North Star! In the world of where our hero, Kenshiro lives in, the world as we know it no longer exists. There are no more government, no more industry, no more anything! All was wiped out in a nuclear war that made the earth a wasteland full of chaos and death! Roaming gangs and cults rule the people and the land they strive to maintain. Their only hope is a man that mastered the Hokuto Shin Ken (The Divine Fist of the North Star), a martial art that uses the channeling points of the human body to destroy anyone in a gruesome display that is too harsh for words! This man, is Kenshiro! He has gone down in history as one of the most powerful Martial Artists in fiction! His stance, his power, his attitude, and fighting style is utterly timeless! Very few can match his strength, will and fighting abilities! This manga has stood the the test of time, and if you want to read a Shonen Jump title that was here before the likes of Jojo, Dragon Ball and One Piece, look no further!

This is quite possibly the best first volume release of Fist of the North Star you could feasibly have. Viz have released Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's post-apocalyptic martial arts epic in a gorgeous new hardcover release, retaining all of the originally serialized color pages and a brand-new lavishly-faithful translation.

This volume contains chapters 1-13, which is a nice slice of the story that'll get you through all of the Shin arc and partway through God's Land. It's just enough to give you an idea of whether or not this story will be for you, and gives you just enough of the second arc to whet your appetite for the next volume.

As someone who's been a fan of this franchise since high school, I'm very happy with Viz's new Signature edition. It's the kind of high quality release that this series has begged for. Highly recommended, a must-have for fans of classic Shonen action.

First time reading Fist of the North Star and I am looking forward to more! The hardcover is superb quality. Some colored pages here and there and the paper quality is good, not like the thin toilet paper-esque feel from those other three in one mangas from other popular series. Story moves at a brisk pace unlike the anime. Storytelling is simple and straight to the point. The artwork here is nothing less than stellar especially for such an old property like this. It’s a five star no doubt. Hopefully it sells enough so we can get the whole series translated into English for the first time.

Really love the anime to this series but you know its aged not so good but still crazy good.

cant wait for the rest

PS the guy who rated this a one star literally doesn't know that manga is read differently from American comics. lol how he didnt know that its read right to left is beyond me. lol seriously

This is a fantastic classic manga and for any worried fans or collectors who see 1 star reviews on here from normies; This manga is not backwards, its printed in the original japanese format.

Manga pages and panels are read from right to left and the page order is reversed from what an English reader would usually expect. However this is intentional as it is the original intact form of the Japanese art. Older adaptations used to mame the media by mirroring it, but this has all but completely fallen out of favor. The actual English is still written from left to right, its not like you have to literally read backwards or anything. You simple start at the top right panels and work your way in reverse order, and flip the pages the opposite direction you usually would. Its not rocket surgery and anyone with an IQ over 85 can figure it out in about 12 seconds, and get used to it in 1 sitting.

The manga was simply amazing the art and story was great and first to keep me focused on every chapter I recommend this to anyone who likes anime and manga and this is the inspiration of famous manga/anime jojo bizarre adventure and bezerk witch all are amazing including this one