List of Fist of the North Star video games
The following is a list of video games based on the manga "Fist of the North Star". Since , many video games based on the "Hokuto no Ken" franchise have been released for the Japanese market, including coin-operated arcade games and computer software. The majority of these games were released only in Japan, with the exceptions of "Fist of the North Star" for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Taxan Soft in , "Fist of the North Star: 10 Big Brawls for the King of Universe" for the Game Boy by Electro Brain in , and the "" series by Koei Tecmo, which started in . The arcade games "Fighting Mania" by Konami and the "Fist of the North Star" fighting game by Sega, also received international distribution. Additionally, the Sega games "Black Belt" for the Master System and "Last Battle" for the Genesis, were originally released as "Hokuto no Ken" video games in Japan before they were stripped of the license and rebranded for the international market.
DD Fist of the North Star
To celebrate the series's 30th anniversary, a second anime adaptation was announced in January 2013, through "Zenon"s March issue. 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. Four DVDs collecting the episodes were released between June 28, and September 27, 2013. 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. In December 2014, Sentai Filmworks announced the licensing of the series to the North American digital and home media market. Sentai released it on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 14, 2015, and also made it available through the streaming site Hidive, and on iTunes, Microsoft Store and PlayStation Store.