Hokuto no Kishi

Run: 1976–1977

Chapters: 14

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A science-fiction adventure series built on the premise that Earth holds seven sites which, when they align with the Big Dipper, unleash a global cataclysm — a doom now about to recur in the present day. Only seven chosen ones bearing orbs marked with the characters for sun, moon, fire, water, wood, gold and earth — the Knights of the Big Dipper — can stop it, while the rival Knights of Orion scheme to bring the destruction about as pyramids appear one after another at the seven sites. In the finale, the Japanese archipelago itself rises like a colossal battleship for the decisive battle…