A tankōbon (単行本, translation close to "independently appearing book") is the Japanese term, originally borrowed from classical Chinese, for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series or corpus (similar to a monograph), though modern Japanese publisher may use it for volumes which may be in a series and as a term as opposed to 雑誌 (magazine).[1][2]
Tankōbon may be of any dimensions, from a miniature-sized book (i.e. mamehon, 豆本) to a sumptuous folio-sized one.
Fist of the North Star (北斗の拳 Hokuto no Ken)[1] is a Japanese manga series written by Buronson and drawn by Tetsuo Hara that was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1983 to 1988, spanning 245 chapters, which were initially collected in a 27-volume tankōbon edition by Shueisha.
The manga was adapted into to anime TV series produced by Toei Animation which aired on Fuji TV affiliates from 1984 through 1988, comprising a combined total of 152 episodes.
Tetsuo Hara has stated that he came up with the idea of Hokuto no Ken from his editor Nobuhiko Horie. According to Hara, Horie suggested to him that he should draw a manga about "a martial artist who destroys his opponents by striking their acupressure points" based on Hara's aspiration to draw a manga about martial arts and his knowledge of pressure points.
Fist of the North Star was one of Weekly Shōnen Jump's most popular titles during the 1980s. It is one of the magazine's best-selling manga series of all time.[23]
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