Comedy about grunts trying to survive in Ken-Oh’s army after apocalypse
The streamed “Itʼs Fist of the North Star Day! Gather Around, All Four Brothers!!” special announced on Saturday that Hiroshi Kurao‘s Fist of the North Star: Elegy of Ken-Oh’s Army Grunts (Hokuto no Ken: Ken’ō-gun Zako-tachi no Banka) spinoff manga is also inspiring a short anime. The short anime will air and stream in January 2026.
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The comedy has a tagline, “Three daily meals included, company room and board, no experience necessary!” In the year 199X after the nuclear apocalypse, our protagonist Nobu finds work as just another grunt in Ken-Oh’s army. Nobu learns how long he can last in a workplace where deaths outnumber even the job applicants.
The manga launched on Coamix‘s Manga Hot app in November 2017, and ended in February 2020. The manga’s third and final compiled book volume shipped in March 2020.
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara‘s original landmark manga Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) is also inspiring a new anime next year.
Source: Press release