Hokuto no Ken
"Fist of the North Star" was one of "Weekly Shōnen Jump"'s most popular titles during the 1980s. It is one of the best-selling manga series in history, having sold approximately 100 million copies. In a poll conducted by TV Asahi in 2005, the "Fist of the North Star" anime series ranked 26 in a list of Top 100 Anime series. In a second poll in 2006, it ranked 89. In a celebrity version of the poll, it ranked 15. In November 2014, readers of Media Factory's "Da Vinci" magazine voted "Fist of the North Star" number 8 on a list of "Weekly Shōnen Jump"s greatest manga series of all time. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150,000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, "Fist of the North Star" ranked 22nd.