Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~24 min/episode
- Length
- 6 seasons · 152 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
It's the year 199x, and Earth burns with the fires of a nuclear holocaust. On the charred remains of the planet's surface, humans struggle desperately to survive a fearful world. The young wanderer Kenshiro rises to stand against the violent reality. Upon his chest are seven scars in the shape of the North Star!
- martial arts
- melancholy
- post-apocalyptic future
- dystopia
- based on manga
- fighting
- macabre
- shounen
- anime
- intense
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Yusaku Yara
- Banjo Ginga
- Takaya Hashi
- Yuriko Yamamoto
- Toshio Furukawa
- Daisuke Gori
- Toshiko Fujita
- Mika Doi
- Kenji Utsumi
- Shigeru Chiba
- Teiyu Ichiryusai
- Directed
- Hiromichi Matano, Shigenori Kageyama, Iku Ishiguro, Umetaro Saitani, Atsunori Umezawa, Toyoo Ashida & 1 more
- Written
- Shikichi Ohashi, Hiroshi Toda, Shozo Uehara
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 129 ratings
- Network & studio
- Fuji TV, Fuji Television Network, Toei Animation, Shueisha
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
