Details
- Original title
- 北斗の拳2000 究極解説書PART2
- Authors
- Buronson and Hara Tetsuo (collaboration), TEAM MUSCLE (editing)
- People
- Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, Tetsuo Hara
Edition
- Publisher
- Home-sha (株式会社ホーム社)
- Distributor
- Shueisha (株式会社集英社)
- Collection
- Jump Comics Selection (ジャンプコミックスセレクション)
- Release
- December 1999
- Colophon date
- December 18, 1999 (1999年12月18日 第1刷発行)
- Price
- 781 yen before tax (820 yen including tax at the time of publication, 859 yen at the current rate)
- Pages
- 191
- Format
- A5, softcover with dust jacket
- ISBN
- 978-4-8342-1685-1
- Magazine code
- C9979, 雑誌 44719-99
- ASIN
- 4834216853
Staff
- Authors (著者), collaboration (協力)
- Buronson (武論尊), Hara Tetsuo (原哲夫)
- Editing (編)
- TEAM MUSCLE
- Editorial assistance (編集協力)
- Shinno Kunihiko (秦野邦彦), Ōnishi Shōhei (大西祥平) (reading to be confirmed)
- Interior design (本文デザイン)
- Sugiyama Katsuhiko (杉山勝彦) (reading to be confirmed) and CAMTECH, Fukuda Ryōichi (福田亮一) (reading to be confirmed), Hariya Shunji (針谷俊司, Still Life) (reading to be confirmed), Ōtsuki Sachiko (大槻幸子) (reading to be confirmed), Iwashita Michiko (岩下倫子) (reading to be confirmed)
- Photography of the dialogue (撮影)
- Sakuraba Hiroki (桜庭宏紀) (reading to be confirmed)
- Publishing director (発行人)
- Kawajiri Katsunori (川尻勝則) (reading to be confirmed)
- Publisher (発行所)
- Home-sha (株式会社ホーム社)
- Distributor (発売元)
- Shueisha (株式会社集英社)
- Printing (印刷所)
- Kōsaidō (株式会社廣済堂)
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DatabookHokuto no Ken
Hokuto no Ken 2000 Kyūkyoku Kaisetsusho PART2 (Home-sha, 1999) 北斗の拳2000 究極解説書PART2
Overview
“Hokuto no Ken 2000, the Ultimate Explanation Book, Part 2” (北斗の拳2000 究極解説書PART2) was produced by TEAM MUSCLE in collaboration with Buronson and Hara Tetsuo. Its preface presents it as the sequel to a first volume by the same team, the Seikimatsu Haō Retsuden released the same year, and announces a jacket, a cover and a poster drawn for it by Hara. The back cover calls it “the only study book in the world approved by the authors” (世界で唯一の著者公認の研究本) on Hokuto no Ken and promises to solve, in time for the year 2000, the mysteries left open by the previous volume.
The opening color pages include a comic strip acted out by figures, “Hokuto no Ken-chan” (北斗のケンちゃん). The black-and-white section begins with a conversation between the two authors, “Talking about Hokuto” (北斗を語る。), joined by Horie Nobuhiko, presented as their editor at the time of the serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Horie recounts that Hara wanted a writer who understood the soul of naniwabushi (浪花節), hence the choice of Buronson. Buronson describes a start without a plan, “like a simple road movie with no goal” (目的のない単純なロードムービーみたい). Shin and Yuria came later, and Kenshiro's three elder brothers were at first mere silhouettes. Hara says it all began with Tetsu no Donquijote, when he said he wanted to draw Bruce Lee one day and Horie came back with research on vital points.
Thirty questions on the secrets of Hokuto deal among other things with the period of the story, the characters' ages, the reality of vital points, the horse Kokuō and the origin of the villains' death cries. Lily Franky, Ishikawa Jun, Kusumi Masayuki and Ani, of Scha Dara Parr, form an improvised “committee for promoting a live-action adaptation” (実写映像化推進委員会). A great Hokuto dictionary (北斗大辞典), the readers' letters and an afterword close the volume.
The opening color pages include a comic strip acted out by figures, “Hokuto no Ken-chan” (北斗のケンちゃん). The black-and-white section begins with a conversation between the two authors, “Talking about Hokuto” (北斗を語る。), joined by Horie Nobuhiko, presented as their editor at the time of the serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Horie recounts that Hara wanted a writer who understood the soul of naniwabushi (浪花節), hence the choice of Buronson. Buronson describes a start without a plan, “like a simple road movie with no goal” (目的のない単純なロードムービーみたい). Shin and Yuria came later, and Kenshiro's three elder brothers were at first mere silhouettes. Hara says it all began with Tetsu no Donquijote, when he said he wanted to draw Bruce Lee one day and Horie came back with research on vital points.
Thirty questions on the secrets of Hokuto deal among other things with the period of the story, the characters' ages, the reality of vital points, the horse Kokuō and the origin of the villains' death cries. Lily Franky, Ishikawa Jun, Kusumi Masayuki and Ani, of Scha Dara Parr, form an improvised “committee for promoting a live-action adaptation” (実写映像化推進委員会). A great Hokuto dictionary (北斗大辞典), the readers' letters and an afterword close the volume.
Table of contents
Color pages “celebrating the millennium” (ミレニアムを彩るカラーページ) (p. 2-31)
- “Hokuto Art Collection” (北斗アートコレクション)p. 2-19
- “Hokuto Goods Collection” (北斗グッズコレクション)p. 20-23A collection of merchandise.
- “A figure comic to shake heaven and earth: Hokuto no Ken-chan” (驚天動地のフィギュアコミック「北斗のケンちゃん」)p. 24-31
- Kaiyodo advertisement, “Violence Action Figures New Item” (not in the table of contents)p. 32New items in the Violence Action Figures line: Souther, already on sale, Kaioh in gold and black versions, repaints of Kenshiro DX, Shû, Raoh and Kokuō for winter 1999-2000, and a set of five clear figures (Ken, Rei, Toki, Shû, Jûza), with their prices before tax.
Opening
- Preface (まえがき)p. 33Written on behalf of TEAM MUSCLE. It announces more color pages, an expanded “Secrets of Hokuto” section, and a dust jacket, a poster and a cover drawn for the book by Hara Tetsuo.
Features “that pulverize the end of the century” (世紀末を粉砕する骨太企画ページ) (p. 37-189)
- “Buronson × Hara Tetsuo, end-of-the-century dialogue: Talking about Hokuto” (武論尊×原哲夫 世紀末対談「北斗を語る。」)p. 37-41Presented as the first dialogue between the two authors, joined by Horie Nobuhiko, the series' editor at Weekly Shōnen Jump during its serialization. It opens with the birth of the series. Full translation of the interview.
- “The manliness ranking returns” (男気番付リターンズ)p. 42, 64, 96, 134, 144, 176Six single pages, each placed just before a section.
- “1,800 years of Hokuto secret techniques condensed!! Complete collection of Hokuto's deadly secret techniques” (北斗1800年分の秘技を凝縮!! 北斗必殺奥義全集)p. 43-63Thirty-two techniques named in the table of contents, from Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken (北斗百裂拳) to Musō Tensei (夢想転生), from Tenshō Jūji Hō (天翔十字鳳) to Taizan Tenrō Ken (泰山天狼拳), then “other techniques and secret techniques” (その他の技・奥義).
- “Straight answers to new mysteries!! The secrets of Hokuto, complete edition, part 1” (新たなる謎にズバリ答える!! 北斗の秘密 完全版 PART1)p. 65-95Fifteen questions, including: Where is Hokuto set? In what era? How old are Kenshiro and the others? Do vital points really exist? Does Kenshiro carry weapons too? Who killed the most people? With so many deaths, doesn't the population shrink? What was the world like before the nuclear war? What became of Kenshiro and the others afterward?
- “Dear villains, welcome!! The villains' room, part 1” (悪人さん、いらっしゃい!! 悪党の部屋 PART1)p. 97-105
- “Kenshiro under the lens of science!! Imaginary Hokuto no Ken research lab” (ケンシロウを科学する!! 空想北斗の拳研究室)p. 106-111
- “Committee for promoting a live-action Hokuto no Ken: biographies of conquerors, our way” (「北斗の拳」実写映像化推進委員会 勝手に覇王列伝)p. 112-117Four guests: Lily Franky, Ishikawa Jun, Kusumi Masayuki and Ani, of the group Scha Dara Parr.
- “Fists explode on the cathode-ray tube!! Hokuto electronic game arcade” (ブラウン管に拳が炸裂!! 北斗電脳遊戯館)p. 118-125
- “You want to become Kenshiro?! The road to conqueror of the end of the century” (ケンシロウになりたいか〜っ!! 世紀末覇者への道)p. 126-133
- “The villains' room, part 2” (悪党の部屋 PART2)p. 135-143
- “The secrets of Hokuto, complete edition, part 2” (北斗の秘密 完全版 PART2)p. 145-175Fifteen questions, including: Why could Jagi be adopted? Why did Toki go into Cassandra? What kind of horse is Kokuō? What is the link between Hokuto and Nanto, and which is stronger? Why are the Nanto schools named after birds? Who is the Celestial Emperor? Does Mamiya love Ken or Rei? Where do the villains' death cries come from?
- “The flawless Hokuto chronicle: great Hokuto dictionary” (完全無欠の北斗クロニクル 北斗大辞典)p. 177-189
Closing
- “Reader mail” (読者のおたより)p. 190With Watanabe Kengo (渡部謙吾, reading to be confirmed), of Pancrase.
- Afterword (あとがき)p. 191
Table of contents translated and entry compiled by Hokuto Chronicles from the original book. First published on October 13, 2026. © 2026 Hokuto Chronicles. Any reuse, even partial or reworded, must credit Hokuto Chronicles with a link to this page.
Extras and supplements
- A poster of Kenshiro and Raoh drawn for the book by Hara Tetsuo.
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