The wraparound jacket band on the fourth compiled manga volume of Imōto Yukito, and Yūshi Kawata's Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji (Fist of the North Star: Strawberry Flavor) manga is revealing on Saturday that the manga is getting a television anime adaptation this fall. The jacket band is also revealing that the manga now has more than 1 million copies in print.

Buronson and Tetsuo Hara — the creators of the original Fist of the North Star post-apocalyptic fighting manga — are credited with the original work for Hokuto no Ken: Ichigo Aji. Kawata writes the manga's scenarios, Imōto Yukito draws the manga, and Yukito is credited with collaboration.