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HIDIVE Streams Live-Action Lone Wolf & Cub Series
posted on by Karen Ressler
Video streaming service Lone Wolf and Cub live-action series on Wednesday. A new episode will debut every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. ET.
The 78-episode series ran from 1973-1976. Media Blasters previously licensed the series and released the first 36 episodes in North America in 2009.
First Comics premiered releasing the series in 2000 as the first manga series to be published in North America straight to graphic novels that corresponded with the Japanese releases. In 2013, Dark Horse began releasing the series in omnibus format. Dark Horses' Lone Wolf and Cub editions have around 1.3 million copies in print.
In addition to the live-action series, the manga also inspired six feature movies starring Lone Wolf 2100.
The series also has an English-language film in the works.
