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Daiki Yamashita Joins Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji Cast as Bat
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the television anime of Imōto Yukito, Yūshi Kawata, and Yukito's Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji (Fist of the North Star: Strawberry Flavor) manga revealed on Monday that Daiki Yamashita (Shōnen Hollywood's Kira Saeki, Yowamushi Pedal's Sakamichi Onoda) is voicing Bat in the series.
The website is revealing a new cast member and character line art every day until August 25. The website will reveal the voice and line art for Rin on Tuesday.
The anime will air as part of the DD Hokuto no Ken 2 Ichigo Aji+ program that is adapting both the DD Hokuto no Ken and the Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji spinoff gag manga. The program will premiere on October 6 on TV Tokyo, and it will air on Tuesdays at 1:35 a.m. The series will also air on TV Osaka and TV Aichi.
Akitarō Daichi will return from the 2013 anime to direct the "DD2" part of the program, and Mankyū (Mobile Suit Gundam-san, Tono to Issho) will direct the "Ichigo Aji" side of the program. The cast from the 2013 DD Hokuto no Ken anime series will return for the "DD2" side of the program.
The previously-revealed cast members for the "Ichigo Aji" side of the program include:
Katsuyuki Konishi (Gurren Lagann's Kamina, Tales of Symphonia the Animation's Lloyd Irving) as Kenshirō
Takashi Matsuyama (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan's Nyūdō Hitotsume, Hozuki's Coolheadedness' Rurio) as both Fudō and Raoh
Toshiyuki Morikawa (Berserk's Griffith, Tenjho Tenge's Mitsuomi Takayanagi) as Shin
Kishô Taniyama (Attack on Titan's Jean, Gurren Lagann's Kittan) as Yuda
Junichi Suwabe (Fate/stay night's Archer, Space Dandy's Dandy) as both Shū and Toki
Kōsuke Toriumi (Naruto's Kiba, Yowamushi Pedal's Imaizumi) as Rei
Yūko Minaguchi (Dragon Ball Z's Videl, Sailor Moon S' Sailor Saturn) as Yuria
Banjō Ginga will return to the franchise to play Souther. Ginga played Souther in the original Fist of the North Star television anime series.
Buronson and Tetsuo Hara — the creators of the original Fist of the North Star post-apocalyptic fighting manga — are credited with the original work for Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji. Kawata writes the manga's scenarios, Imōto Yukito draws the manga, and Yukito is credited with collaboration.
The gag manga centers on a fun version of the Holy Emperor Souther as he tries to find ways to become friends with Kenshirō, demonstrates his party techniques, and sometimes plays with the Gosha Sei.
Imōto Yukito, Yukito, and Kawata launched the manga on Tokuma Shoten's Web Comic Zenyon website in 2013, and the publisher shipped the fourth compiled volume (pictured at right) in June.
