The cover of the December issue of Tokuma Shoten’s Monthly Comic Zenon magazine is revealing on Wednesday that a new television anime series is in the works for Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Tetsuo Hara’s Souten no Ken (Fist of the Blue Sky) manga.

The December issue is also launching a new manga in the franchise titled Souten no Ken Re: Genesis (pictured above). Buronson is credited with editorial supervision, Hara is credited with the original work, Hiroyuki Yatsu is writing the scripts, and Hideki Tsuji is drawing the manga.

Buronson and Horie wrote Fist of the Blue Sky, with art by Hara. The manga is a prequel to the Fist of the North Star manga. Fist of the Blue Sky launched in the debut issue of Shinchosha’s Weekly Comic Bunchmagazine in May 2001 and continued until the magazine ceasedpublication in August 2010. Shinchosha published the series in 22 compiled book volumes.

Gutsoon! Entertainment published part of the manga in English graphic novels and in its Raijin Comics anthology. Gutsoon! described the story:

Fist of the Blue Sky inspired a 26-episode television anime adaptation in 2006.