What is Hokuto no Ken LEGENDS ReVIVE?

The manga retold for the phone in your pocket, with its original artist supervising the new art.

Fist of the North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE is a mobile action RPG by Sega for iOS and Android, launched worldwide on September 5, 2019, the franchise’s English-language mobile debut. Built for the manga’s 35th anniversary, it recreates the original story from the first chapter onward in CG, assembling a roster of the series’ fighters, the legends of the title, for team battles built around their techniques.

Its credential is the supervision: Tetsuo Hara oversaw the project, and the game’s new character illustrations were drawn under his direction, a direct line from the 1983 page to the phone screen that none of the earlier licensed games could claim in the same way. Where the 1980s games were made by the anime’s studio, this one was made, artistically, by the manga’s.

Official key visual for the mobile game Hokuto no Ken Legends ReVIVE — **LEGENDS REVIVE**Sega's official key visual for Legends ReVIVE (2019), the mobile RPG that restages the manga's story with Hara-supervised art.

THE GAME, IN BRIEF

Sega · 2019

Worldwide from day one

A simultaneous global launch, September 5, 2019, after a pre-registration campaign that passed 600,000 sign-ups: the opposite of the franchise’s historical Japan-first pattern.

The retelling as structure

The story mode follows the manga chapter by chapter from the beginning, with famous scenes rebuilt in CG, the mobile era’s equivalent of the anime’s first television run.

Hara’s supervision

New art for the roster drawn under the original artist’s supervision, the selling point Sega led with, and the thread that ties the newest Hokuto game to the oldest pages in this archive.

What is Hokuto no Ken LEGENDS ReVIVE?

THE GAME, IN BRIEF

THE FIRST WORD