DD Fist of the North Star

It is a convenience store.

• Bat: An university student working in Ryuryuken.
• Rin: A high school girl, and Ryuken's daughter.
• Ryuken: Ryuryuken owner, and Rin's father.

DD Fist of the North Star was first announced in 2008 as an anime to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Buronson and Hara's series.[4] However, it was first made into a manga, which started to be serialized in Monthly Comic Zenon by its first issue on October 25, 2010.[3][5] Its run was completed on the August issue released on June 25, 2016.[6] The individual chapters were collected into eight tankōbon volumes by Tokuma Shoten;[7] the first was released on June 20, 2011 and the last was released on August 20, 2016.[8][9]

In December, through Zenon's February issue, an anime television series was announced to debut in 2011.[10] A Flash series,[11] it was directed by Kajio himself,[12] and aired on Kansai TV between January 11, and April 5, 2011, lasting 12 episodes.[13] The entire series was released on DVD by TC Entertainment on October 26, 2012.[14]

To celebrate the series's 30th anniversary, a second anime adaptation was announced in January 2013, through Zenon's March issue.[3] Produced by Ajia-do Animation Works under the direction of Akitaro Daichi, 13 episodes were broadcast by TV Tokyo from April 2, to June 25, 2013.[15][16] Four DVDs collecting the episodes were released between June 28, and September 27, 2013.[17] The anime was streamed by Crunchyroll; the first two episodes were available from June 4, 2013, with three more episodes streamed every week there after.[18] In December 2014, Sentai Filmworks announced the licensing of the series to the North American digital and home media market.[12] Sentai released it on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 14, 2015,[19] and also made it available through the streaming site Hidive, and on iTunes, Microsoft Store and PlayStation Store.[1]

In August 2015, a sequel series was announced through the sixth manga volume.[20] Featuring the same cast[20] and mostly the same staff,[15][21] the series was broadcast on TV Tokyo as part of a DD Hokuto no Ken 2 Ichigo Aji+ program along with the Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji anime adaptation.[22] The first episode aired on October 6, 2015, and the twelve and last was broadcast on December 22, 2015.[23] It was licensed by Crunchyroll to be exhibited simultaneously with Japanese airing.[22]