Fist of the North Star manga illustrator Tetsuo Hara designed the cover art for music group Junretsu’s new single, which will ship in Japan on June 8. The illustration depicts Yujiro Shirakawa as Kenshiro, Kazuyoshi Sakai as Raoh, Ryohei Odai as Toki, and Shota Gogami as Jagi.
Sakai, who proposed the collaboration in the first place, said he is a fan of Fist of the North Star since his childhood. Shirakawa also said that the series has a special place in his heart and that as a child he wanted to become Kenshiro. He said that he and his now deceased father used to sing the first ending theme together while listening to it on tape.
“More than 30 years have passed since I wrote in my elementary school graduation book that I wanted to be Kenshiro, and now that dream has finally come true,” he remarked.
Hara got the offer through comedian Chance Oshiro, who is a longtime acquaintance of Sakai. Hara commented, “It was luck that I got mixed up with Junretsu and had to draw an illustration of the limbs. But it was also good luck, so I took the opportunity to draw. the members channeling Hokuto Shinken. This will be the last time the members met with this formation, so I drew the current Junretsu blazing brilliantly at its peak!”
The group formed in 2006 and is made up of several tokusatsu actors. Odai announced in April that he would retire from the group by the end of the year.
the original Fist of the North Star manga by buronson and Tetsuo Hara ran into Shueishait is Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1983 to 1988.
Source: comedic Natalie