蒼天の拳 １７巻

蒼天の拳 [Sōten no Ken] #17

by Tetsuo Hara, 原哲夫

魔都上海で閻王と恐れられたひとりの拳法家がいた。彼は義と友を重んじる上海裏社会の組織“青幇”のため、敵対する“紅華会”の幹部を皆殺し、姿を消した。それから数年。清朝最後の皇帝・愛新覚羅溥儀は閻王を見つけ出し、禁衛隊に加えるため日本に向かっていた。その船には閻王を知る男、元青幇の李永健も毒見役として乗船していた。日本に着いた李は冴えない教師、霞拳志郎に出会う。そう拳志郎こそがかつて閻王と呼ばれた男であり、第62代北斗神拳伝承者だったのだ。李との再会を喜ぶ拳志郎だったが李のもたらした報せは衝撃的なものだった。上海で紅華会が力を盛り返し、青幇の幹部が皆殺しにされたというのだ。その中には拳志郎の親友、潘光琳そして彼の妹であり拳志郎が愛した玉玲もいた。拳志郎は亡き友、恋人のため再び地獄と化した魔都上海に戻ることを決意する。そこに運命と言える出会いや宿命の戦いが待ち受けていることを拳志郎は知る由もない。

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2007

About the author

A native of Tokyo, Hara attended Hongo Senior High School and worked as an assistant to manga artist Yoshihiro Takahashi after graduating. As an amateur, he won the first prize of the 33rd Fresh Jump award for his one-shot Super Challenger. Hara's professional career began with his first published work: Mad Fighter in 1982. His first serialized work in the Weekly Shōnen Jump was the Iron Don Quixote, which lasted only ten weeks in serialization. He achieved fame after the publication of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) in 1983, which he co-created with Buronson and ran for six years in Weekly Shōnen Jump. After its completion, he worked on shorter series and one-shots, including three different adaptations of Ryu Keiichiro's novels (Keiji, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sakon). One of his recent works is Sōten no Ken (Fist of the Blue Sky), a prequel to Hokuto no Ken, which was serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch from 2001 until the magazine's final issue in 2010. He suffers from keratoconus.