A second new trailer has been unveiled for the upcoming short gag spinoff anime series Elegy for the Henchmen: Fist of the North Star. The short series will premiere in Japan on January 5, 2026. It is known in Japanese as Hokuto no Ken: Ken’o-gun Zako-tachi no Banka.
The spinoff series is the first release from the new “anime production” label Animatica, which is a collaboration between motion comics production company Do-Raku and Frontier Works.
Daisuke Miura is credited as the animation director at Do-Raku, with Seiji Miura as music composer.
Meanwhile, the main voice cast includes:
- • Masaaki Yano as Buzz
- • Hiro Shimono as Nobu
- • Shinnosuke Ogami as Zaku
- • Shinya Takahashi as Narrator
The spinoff gag manga series by Hiroshi Kurao began serialization on Coamix’s Manga Hot app service on November 26, 2017. The manga concluded on February 23, 2020, with a total of three tankobon volumes being released in Japan.
The new Fist of the North Star: Hokuto no Ken TV anime series is expected to premiere in Japan in 2026.
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Elegy for the Henchmen: Fist of the North Star follows a man named Nobu, who has recently joined Ken-Oh’s army, but struggles to survive in a dangerous workplace.
Sources: Elegy for the Henchmen: Fist of the North Star Official Twitter, Anime News Network
