The INSANE Story Of Fist Of The North Star

[@BonsaiPop]

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[@sagittariusseiya8310]

Thanks, Bonsai Pop.

[@monkey238]

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[@RESGorilla]

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[@Chalepastel]

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[@SurroundedSita]

@@RESGorilla yep. Last time a bunch of youtubers had sponsorships from them I actually gave it a try. It took up more pc resources than just flat Chrome did. I understand people gotta get paid so as long as the company itself is ethical (I honestly haven't looked for this one though) make that money and pay your crew. I just dislike when something isn't accurately advertised :/

[@kouleifou]

Man, Fist of the North Star is a true Magnum Opus. Some may see it as just a typical shonen manga/ anime, but the ripple effect it has had is truly legendary. Also one of the finest examples of a positive male figure in modern times, who's influence can be seen even today.

[@dot-comintelligence9148]

Truth and Facts!! When Toki and Raoh fought I totally cried... Roah's backstory.... cried.... Cloud... cried and Rei at the end ... forget about it!!!

[@realamericannegro977]

Facts but folks wanna act like Dragon Ball created everything

[@artansadiki3244]

​@@realamericannegro977Only the casuals.

[@autobot_jazzman9856]

​@@realamericannegro977 yep both Jojo and berserk was inspired by hokuto no ken.

[@realamericannegro977]

@@autobot_jazzman9856 too many things is even American stuff. Testuo Hara and Brunson have influenced so much that they might be right under Go Nagai and Otomo.

[@kellydart1948]

Fist of the North Star is my favorite anime/Manga franchise. The movie from 1986 was my gateway. The best franchise out there. Ken shows it is OK to cry as a man when dealing with sadness.

[@Nelson_Win]

I have lost many beloved ones as well, but still I keep moving forward to help others.

[@bloodaonadeline8346]

that movie was the first adult Anime I ever saw. Before that I only knew about Macross/Robotech.

[@Freefall347]

Same here. That movie was absolutely insane, especially since I think I was only 11 when I saw it.

[@billcox8870]

The actual anime is more than 100 episodes

[@mohebbi71]

can I share with you a REALLY dumb Fist of the North Star moment in my life? I was an animator once upon a time and I married someone who... didnt like animated anything. She was into musicals, but she even hated every disney thing I ever showed her. Time passed and I gave up on "find anime my wife would enjoy". That changed when she got pregnant, and was struck by a restlessness that meant she couldnt sleep for long, she had to get up wander around the house, whatever. One night I woke up to the sound of stereotypical martial arts noises in the living room and sure enough, there she is watching FotNS on late night TV! Later I asked her how she got into it and basically, she loved the campy soapopera quality to it, with adden 9ft tall beefcakes exploding each other lol. I was inexplicable. She hated animation, didnt like action movies, wtf:)

[@212madfool]

Thanks for the story! XD

[@GiacomoSorbi]

She was watching HnK while pregnant? I take your son was born already with a long beard 💪

[@Poopick]

Congrats my guy and thanks foe the story

[@randomman2938]

HnS*

[@DieHardjagged]

My man, wheres the rest of the Story lmfao.

[@peterstrianus1790]

In Italy, this anime is considered a cult classic. According to Italian fans, the battle between Juza and Raoh is the greatest fight in anime history. It's difficult to argue with that.

[@CaptainHarlock-sx6xk]

Goku vs frieza or luffy vs kaido

[@Aquwert]

This makes sense, I was so shocked seeing the amount of life size Ken’s in manga shops when travelling through Italy lol

[@Tyu-f1s]

Also in france (and not only because of the bad dubbing)

[@them_best]

The opening in Italian is a bop

[@lilyphilia3302]

the only bad thing about that fight is that the original version in the manga sucked so they had to make it better in the anime

[@thebrokenlordspodcast2177]

You're in luck. There's a Fist of the North Star fighting game where Raoh does have his foot stab as a command move.

[@patrickhathcox1816]

How accurate is the video game to the manga

[@thebrokenlordspodcast2177]

@@patrickhathcox1816 Considering that Kenshiro has only bounced one person off the pavement in a combo that I can remember, fairly

[@HS_Gomikubi]

Also worth noting is that HnK(2005) is far and away the most thematically accurate fighting game of all time. It's broken to hell and back in every sense of the term, a fact which readily can be summed up in how it's tier list is not determined by which character(s) have an infinite (_the whole cast_ can do that) but rather simply by how _easily_ a given fighter can achieve the coveted Touch of Death in a single combo. Kenshiro doesn't sit at the top of that list, the game's systems don't grant him such favors simply by virtue of his status as the story's original protagonist... But he has all the tools, a player with sufficient dedication can bring his style to life just the same. There are many titles in the fighting genre containing glitches or other unintended exploits where competition is undeniably brutal and unforgiving... But in no other case is this sheer unrivaled level of tension so _perfectly_ suited to the setting and cast. It's not a particularly accessible experience, it takes a certain kind of person to actually enjoy facing down an opponent competent enough to generate that threat level, but there are still plenty of dedicated folks in Japanese arcades (as well as online via emulator) still doing just that to this very day.

[@sortedevaras]

He could also do the foot stab in the two Muso games.

[@BonsaiPop]

That is the best.

[@gymonstarfunkle136]

Hokuto Shinken reads like that kid you used to play with who would be like "nah that doesn't hurt me cos I can absorb moves so I absorb your move and then use it on you."

[@sortedevaras]

The story is more emotional then people give it credit. The feels when Raoh cries with Toki over his cruel fate or when Raoh brings the sunlight back to the world, those are the truest of manly tears. Toki was the successor but sacrificed himself to protect Ken and Yuria from radiant, he was more talented, that's the point of his conversation with Raoh when they fight.

[@JoeNuts-ix3he]

Bro you forgot one of the best characters in the series.. REI!!! 😭😭😭😭

[@HokutoShinkenSuccessor]

I read this in another comment but correct if I am wrong, Toki was sick before saving Ken and Yuria but he hide it

[@antonydrossos5719]

Two things I learned from Fist of the North Star, Man-tears can cure everything from mortal wounds and even blindness, and Hokuto Shinken is invincible. Also, yeah; both Buronson and Hara Shine brilliantly in their fields

[@onojaemiller1649]

1 crucial life lesson: You’re already dead!

[@Future_Doggo]

The 2nd fight between Raoh and Toki always makes me shed the manliest tears.

[@Wyllie38]

“The time for logic has past” is probably the most anime line I’ve ever heard.

[@Ramsey276one]

1:05:05 XD

[@Amesang]

_"In the arena of logic I fight _*_unarmed!_*_ "_ - Ken- 'Red Mage' -shiro

[@bernardoheusi6146]

What about the time to shit divine right right there

[@piedpiper1185]

Kick logic to the curb and do the impossible!

[@EpsilonKnight2]

Hokuto is one of the few anime series that feels like it carries the weight of an actual legend and is basically written in a Biblical manner. The direction in the original anime is honestly genius with how they present the theming and pacing and I even loved HnK2 that everybody shits on for some reason.

[@blackknight300]

Every time I hear ''Hokuto Shinken can do anything'', I say "Put it on a shirt"

[@asherzerbib3461]

Also complete an English dub!

[@Ramsey276one]

We need a compilation! XD

[@asherzerbib3461]

@@Ramsey276one William Winckler tried that. It was more or less a tool to help non-English speakers learn the language. Unlike other Winckler dubs, the compilations were never officially released stateside. Says plenty when you consider the quality of the other things his company dubbed when Discotek released them.

[@JoelGloade]

Everything except put on a shirt ironically

[@arx3516]

Useless, the shirt will get ripped off as soon as tge action starts!

[@sagittariusseiya8310]

Fist of the North Star is one of the most wonderful and stupendous anime and manga of all time.

[@artansadiki3244]

Big facts.

[@GameFuMaster]

hugely influencing anime/manga to come

[@bernardoheusi6146]

Yeah but... it truly did'nt age well.

[@ANTIStraussian]

Me as a teen watching this show and yu yu Hakusho. 👁👄👁 "wait all animes just copied these too?"

[@billcox8870]

Have you seen all 109 episodes of the anime? Only the first 35 episodes are dubbed but the remaining are subtitled.

[@Rise2Resist]

Yuda's death still cracks me up. Dude literally got horned up stun locked by the beauty of Rei's technique.

[@KoreanRambo]

As an avid Hokuto no Ken fan since childhood, I've always considered Fist of the Blue Sky to show off a different type of story telling that doesn't have to kinda make up where it's going volume by volume to kinda correct where Fist of the North Star went off the path. It's a great read and summoned a lot of emotion out of myself personally, I think it'd be a great story to do a retrospective video like this on.

[@christopherfigueroa8563]

It's sad that you skipped over Juza of the Clouds like that. But apparently he was made into more of a bad ass in the anime. The man was able to fight beyond death for a few moments.

[@Chalepastel]

I just wanna add ATATTAATATATATATTATATTTATATATATATTATATATATATATTAATTATATATATATATATA WAAAAAAAAAH TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[@scumbagjesus999]

*head explodes

[@artansadiki3244]

OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU

[@Amesang]

_" _*_NANI?!_*_ "_

[@oculus1857]

NANI?!!!!.....*head explodes*

[@EthanPineapple]

32:02 Toki was the original successor until he got sick from the nuclear bombs

[@dansmith16]

Guy was nuked and still had more energy than end game bosses.

[@brothersofwrath4785]

Actually his sickness was expanded to be his fate which is also the case with Yuria after Shin kidnapped her. The concept of fate is even more explained in Yuria gaiden.

[@simshengvue4642]

This guy talking about Toki like this shows that he is just a tool

[@Eniggma39]

Understandable.

[@SIGNOR-G]

​@@brothersofwrath4785 i never liked that part. Obviously a semi retcon. It really lessens both Toki and Kenshiro's figure. All was destined so it didnt matter. It doesnt sit well with me.

[@christopherwashington2417]

Fist of the north star lost paradise is a masterpiece.

[@Korgoth9]

Like a North Star

[@spencerdokes6056]

Horses normally are bigger than people

[@Ramsey276one]

CLYDESDALES XD

[@spencerdokes6056]

@@Ramsey276one *normally

[@RerememBerering]

Some horses are normally smaller than people is an equally true statement.

[@paske2001]

Ponnies

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

The first half of HnK is one of my favourite mangas, which I had gladly collected in the latest edition. It can be wacky and melodramatic, but it still carries good messages and Ken and Toki especially are very positive models for all young men. The Demon Island arc has cool fights and the usual amazing artwork by Hara, but story wise has always felt to me almost like fan fiction.

[@murderman8578]

The Story is kind of weaker in Demon Island being artificial extension but I liked it to due to more Worldbuilding

[@GAZAMAN93X]

I liked all of it.

[@MsCyou0157]

原作者である武論尊先生は、ラオウが死亡したところで物語を終了する予定でした。 ところが、その時点で北斗の拳の人気は過去最高になっていました。 少年ジャンプ編集部は、作品の売上が亡くなるのを恐れてました。 武論尊先生に、シリーズの継続を懇願します。 武論尊先生は悩みましたが、編集部の要請を受けいれることにしました。 武論尊先生は、新しい物語を考える時間が欲しいと要請しましたが、編集部は受け入れませんでした。 武論尊先生と編集部の間で激しい論争になりましたが、武論尊先生が要請を受け入れました。 その後のストーリーは全く白紙の状態で、毎週ストーリーを考えながら手探りで構築された為に、物語は無軌道に進むことになります。 とはいえ、評価出来るアークも多く、素晴らしいキャラクターも、たくさん生み出されました。 武論尊先生の能力と才能が、素晴しいものであることは疑いの余地はありません。 また原哲夫先生の画力は以降も、衰えるどころか、ますます上達していきます。 週刊連載という、厳しい制作環境で妥協なく仕事を完遂した武論尊先生と原哲夫先生には、尊敬する事しか出来ません

[@adamquenano8563]

Can’t wait for the new Fist of the Northstar anime remake

[@n.kosters4757]

Is there?

[@TyRiders2]

​@@n.kosters4757 Netflix Confirmed it

[@keijikusanagi3132]

@@n.kosters4757 Yes apparently it's in works

[@jtsra7]

​@n.kosters4757 I have the same question lol. Are they doing it?!

[@Etticos.]

NANI?! “Sign language punches” bro I’m dead.

[@Nelson_Win]

That's all you one-sided people knew.

[@brothersofwrath4785]

​@@Nelson_Win to some it goes "sideways,,

[@lightryu33]

Omae wa shinderu

[@dalegribble01]

When I was a little kid my brother rented fist of the North Star from our local video store and it was one of the very first animes I've seen

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Dragonball is the father of all shonen But Fist of the North star is the grandfather of all shonen

[@Thollis1987]

That honor belongs to the creator of Atom Boy Osamu Tezuka. Fist of The North Star is the Son of Shonen

[@residentgrigo4701]

Both started a year apart and stuff like Ultimate Muscle codified core aspects of the Jump formula at that point.

[@lilyphilia3302]

So that means Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho is the ancestor of Shounen. Well, WSJ to be specific.

[@adzi6164]

Toki was originally supposed to be the successor... but he got irradiated, so his life was in jeopardy. Kenshiro was good enough to be the successor, and he was considered to have bigger chances to pass the art on, so ultimately he was chosen.

[@brothersofwrath4785]

Toki's illness was expanded to be his fate. Before the holocaust he was fated in toki gaiden which was written by Buronson and Hara and Illustrated by Yuka Nagate

[@stephenpardue2052]

@@brothersofwrath4785 Is that the same as the Toki Gaiden movie? I hated that plot. It was much nicer when Toki was just a saint who sacrificed himself rather than him having a mortal illness, getting hit by a log and then getting cancer.

[@brothersofwrath4785]

@@stephenpardue2052 the OVA was made by North star pictures(Hara's animation studio)

[@volu9913]

1:13:53 Ryuken had no son, Ken is the son of some unknown sibling of Kasumi and Ryuken, Ken was sent over because Jukei deemed Hyoh too weak for inheritance and Kaioh too hate-filled

[@SIGNOR-G]

I also think theres not really incest between Hyo and Sayaka. Are they still comsidered cousins if there are houndreds of years between them and the original split of the 2 lineage?

[@Amesang]

To make another _Lord of the Rings_ reference, technically Aragorn and Arwen are cousins, since Aragorn is directly descended from Elrond Halfelven's twin brother, Elros, who chose the life of a Man (becoming the first King of Númenor), whereas Elrond chose the life of an Elf.

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@Amesang but how close of couseins are they really?

[@Amesang]

@@SIGNOR-G Well, Elrond and Elros "split" at the end of the First Age / beginning of the Second, so… 8,000 years, give-or-take? 😅 I don't remember how old Arwen is, but I recall Elros lived to be 500 years or so.

[@SIGNOR-G]

@@Amesang so i say its ok. I cant imagine Tolkien messing up so badly on this.

[@jbonzmcgee]

"Governments fell and the world was plunged into anarchy and chaos where the only rules come from a persons conscience.. It turns out, a lot of people didn't have those." Fuckin beautiful.

[@Ramsey276one]

*damn*

[@randomman2938]

Woah! Don’t flippin swear dude. There are kids here, you sicko.

[@monkey238]

Man, it’s been years since the boys touched fist. The difference between the content from then and now is crazy!

[@psiflash]

Remember kids, and Repeat after me: Hokuto Shinken CAN DO ANYTHING ! ! !

[@sarahhirsch8919]

"I'm not being sarcastic. I just usually sound...sarcastic." This is my life.

[@THEFRISKIESTDINGO]

"Humane Face-Breaking Fist" is such a good name

[@doomedspy]

My memory is hazy, wasn't in the first chapter the sky was blackened out with nuclear dust (which is odd because the would mean it is cold in not hot). Then the last thing Raoh did was swing his fist to the sky and cleared the sky (from chi or just force from his fist) and it restored the world weather patterns. Maybe that's wow the ocean appeared again in chapter 2? My head hurts now from trying to make sense of that.

[@Alex_Koban]

Rei's suffering segment was the hardest thing in the whole anime. Also there was an arcade game called fighting mania that was super fun to play.

[@volu9913]

1:12:49 There isn't incest at work at here. The incident with Shuken and Ryuo happened about 2000 or 1800 years before the main story, so it's so long that Hyoh and Sayaka are at best very very very distantly loosely related. They certaintly aren't cousins.

[@Ramsey276one]

THANK GOODNESS

[@seriousblurs7996]

They are basically the royalty of the wasteland. Some inbreeding is likely mandated. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2mzi2qkpKqtmaM Also don't get those unique physical characteristics without some very particular selective breeding I suppose.

[@AngelCopout]

I watched the whole thing 3 times and it has one of my favourite soundtracks in anime for sure. Kenshiro is easily one of my favourite characters in anything along with Auron(FFX) and Kiryu(Yakuza). I was fortunate enough to be in Japan for the exhibition in Ginza last year. Got a bunch of merch including some storyboard post cards and a dope af art book.

[@JoeNuts-ix3he]

SUCH A LONELY NIGHT 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

I cried when I found out Auron's backstory & I love all of Yakuza. You have great taste in characters!

[@neorock7491]

Toki stepped down from the Hokuto Shinken succession because of his radiation poisoning. Not only it severely impaired his fighting prowess in a new era that absolutely needed the best warrior possible, it would also compromise his ability to train a proper successor on his own and in time. Both he and Ryuuken agreed that their best second option was Kenshiro, despite all his shortcomings in terms of strength, skill and resolve. He was still rough around the edges, but Ryuuken hoped he would eventually shape up and that Toki could be of assistance. ... And yeah, there's a crapload of stupid retcons in Hokuto no Ken 2, it gets pretty nonsensical quickly and the timeline gets cramped as hell. The way everyone revolved around Yuria was already stupid enough as it was, this manga really didn't this on top of all the other bullshit. Starting from the Souther arc, the manga also suffered from a "kleenex character" problem: characters who appear in one scene, get an establishing flashback or two if they're lucky, and get killed during the next scene to build cheap drama. The anime tried to mitigate this by giving those "kleenex characters" more screentime, but it was still pretty apparent that their quality declined following Rei and Toki's death. Shew, Ryuuga, Juza, Toh, Shouki, Sayaka and others are pretty egregious examples. Btw, Juza's element is the Clouds, not the Sky. As for Fudo and Rihaku, you mixed up their elements. Fudo is the Mountain and Rihaku is the Ocean, not the contrary.

[@murderman8578]

Souther arc?

[@neorock7491]

@@murderman8578 The one with the giant pyramid and the blind guy Shew.

[@murderman8578]

@@neorock7491 is that after Demon Island Or during Raoh

[@neorock7491]

@@murderman8578 Just after Rei's death.

[@murderman8578]

@@neorock7491 rei in the beginning right

[@wzx6x6z6w]

42:15 I'm pretty sure Mamiya is still wearing a pants as you can see the fold on her calf, it's just that her pants weren't shaded. 45:03 I think this just simply implies that "with the power of love you can change someone's fate", we know how Rei had feelings for Mamiya and his love was strong enough to save her from certain death.

[@the.coyote.king.]

And with that D&D monk reference you have once again earned a thumbs up. You never fail to pepper in references that speak to my heart 👏🏻

[@Doubtkiller256]

my dad was a mega-nerd who caught the anime bug a few years before it hit big in the west. He had the original 8-comic Viz series of FotNS, so one of the first things I ever read involved watching these beef muffins punch eachothers' guts out of their heads. I never had any context for the series beyond ch. 8, but this video confirms it was all about what I could have expected. Good shit.

[@hadestheinfernal]

i grew up watching the old '86 animated film and loved it so much. def wasn't old enough to watch it, but that didn't stop me from sneaking the old vhs tape my brother had 😂 i still watch it occasionally and have been dying to watch the show and read the manga. such a good concept, even if it is a bit out there.

[@TheSoulstar707]

Raoh actually does have the trident move in the HNK fighting game lol. And it does lead to punch..punch..punch. It's part of his infinite I think

[@crawlingboy]

glad to see people talk about the father of shounen and why a lot of troupes of shounen exist, the original anime is a masterpiece

[@mauricegreen2323]

Hokuto No Ken “Fist of the North Star” is such a raw series always will be one of my favorites

[@GiacomoSorbi]

Oh, wow: you really did not pay much attention or had a terrible translation at hand; but I would be inclined on the former; a few things: * Mamiya does not start to go half-naked in a super short skirt - the has tight pants and the "shirt" is actually the last part of her skirt; * Ken and Raoh are not cousins - their ancestors thousands of years ago were brothers, but not their parents; * Toki hitting his tsubos on his legs was not meant to kill him at once, just to shorten his life even more.

[@JefferyBlue]

You are the definition of the "well ackshually" meme. It wouldn't come off so self obsessed if you would have just given the notes without the bullshit at the start. Just because you use nice punctuation and grammar doesn't make you any less pedantic there Bald Potter! See, I could have left the insult out and that would have almost been constructive criticism wouldn't it? Instead you're over there mad because so old asshole on the internet decided it would be funny to shit on you for 30 seconds then ignore you.

[@Infamous1892]

The Savior as Century's end. You a Shock!

[@VieriTheArtist]

Fist of the Blue Sky is wild, I think the one scene I will remember the most is when Ken (don’t remember if his name is actually Kenshiro) is just in a hotel room, naked as the day he was born, starts flirting(?) with a male hotel attendant? It’s so strange I remember legally acquiring the series and watching it in public and realizing I can’t watch it in public anymore.

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G XD

[@Daimonas]

Yea, that scene was in the anime (which is pretty bad sadly) but not in the manga. Actually, Kasumi Kenshiro isn't flirting with him, he just tells him to take off his clothes because Ken needs to pose as hotel staff. The guy blushes when Ken tells him to take off his clothes tho, lmao

[@VieriTheArtist]

@@Daimonas Thank you for clarifying, still just as wild.

[@jamescampbell39]

I presumed the writers got the idea for the art from Sinanju from the Destroyer book series except blowing somebody up Remo and Chuin could do everything Kenshiro could do

[@Bortxer]

So much cry guy. Also when you said it’s a dog eat dog world, it reminded me of how my buddy thought it was doggy dog world and for decades didn’t understand why harsh worlds with brutal conditions where man must achieve survival through the overpowering and subjugation of others was so doggy dog.

[@BonsaiPop]

Snoop dog is out there appreciating your brother 😂

[@samuraigundam0079]

Love this story, and love the emotional beats that drive it. Even the recent games, from PS3 and 4, depict those emotional moments pretty well.

[@KhairiART]

Just waiting for more news on the remake. I can't believe it. It's my top 1 favorite series

[@paulavast]

When I was living in Hawaii my buddy Mike got me the complete subtitled dvd series back in like 2001. It’s so dope. I still have it now I want to bust it out and rewatch it.

[@nicokrasnow1851]

Kenshiro is Potencial Man done right. Both Toki and Raoh were better fighters than him at the beggining, but Kenshiro was chosen because his insane level of empathy gave him the potencial to rise the Hokuto Shinken to new heighs. And I love that

[@xNeoNxCyaN]

Speaking of how awesome bonsai pop is, these hour plus long videos from bonsai pop are what I live for

[@StudioFocus-hh7dx]

A lot of errors in this. 1. Ken was always the strongest but he was too soft hearted thats why he lost to shin the first time and why he needed sadness to achieve the ultimate art. 2. Rei death is important because the nanto stars fade when hokuto appears thats why they all die. 3. Souther is not immuned to channeling points he has his heart on the right side of his chest which is a real medical condition and his pressure points are reversed. Ken figures that out when he hears his heart beat during their second fight. All this is explained did you pay attention. Also they never said there was no more ocean

[@DZELION]

32:30 Ayo, Castlevania Portrait of Ruin music? 11/10. Great summary of FotNS though! Been wantin' to learn more about this manga.

[@Based_Face]

Funny, Charles Buchinsky was given his stage name “Charles Bronson” by actor Steve McQueen. And now I can’t stop thinking about Kenshiro saying “my finger point” right before poking someone until they explode thanks to the Kung Pow footage.

[@Bes7iA]

48:07 wowowowowowow souther "channeling points" are NOT in random places, his body is kinda inverted, so something that should be on the right is on the left and so on, it's a real and rare condition called Situs inversus. I guess for the manga is the same thing but more extreme

[@sirc625]

Great video. The 2nd half of the manga exists because Hokuto Shinken can do anything 🙂 You wa Shock!!!

[@godfreygoodson6215]

Grew up watching the Anime in French with the green blood and white cuts, saved money for the english Manga when I relocated back to Asia, and now keep reading it again every year to-date (I am 50 now) on digital format, never lost the appeal for me, agreed on the first arc, the rest was just indulging in all things Kenshiro. I met the Actor Gary Daniels in the Philippines with family friends, stand up guy, he really got into the character and even named his son Kenshiro! He should do a remake and play Ryuuken 😄

[@aldorenteria5105]

Y’all took me for a ride!! I was already interested in the Manga and now I’m really interested! Seen all the other movies/series. Time to read now.

[@anwvererere]

SUCH MANLY TEARS 😭. Man the recentish 6 OVAs were so lit too, amazing animation as well! I watch them yearly...WITH A BOX OF KLEENEX BY MY MANLY BEDSIDE TABLE.

[@D2ezbmu]

Mike this is TOP NOTCH stuff. Great writing and editing! Appreciate you bud

[@TheDonPalumbo]

First heard of this from the arcade game in the 90s, where you had to punch the pads, ever since then loved the vibe of this series

[@Chaosic]

Great video,the artwork for the manga is amazing,and his one of my favorite manga and favorite anime as well.

[@personontheinternet2164]

My absolute favorite part of this video is how often you callback to “hokuto shinken can do anything”. I thought it was just something you would establish at the beginning of the video but every time you reminded me I was rolling bruh 😂

[@coolbreeze-x5x]

This series brings back so many memories. So many explosions of lasagna.

[@maninthemailbox6094]

One of the best parts of the first Ken's Rage game was Mamia had a special move where she'd bump into someone and then fall on her ass like she got knocked back. Then said person would walk up to her ("Evil" characters would have an arrogant walk while "Good" characters would walk like they were gonna help her up) and after they got close she'd pull out these spikes and stab them in the chest. But if the person in question was one of the 9ft tall throwaway tough guys she'd stab them in the balls instead lol

[@WinspearUltima]

Glad I have the manga of fists of the north star it’s so good and I love it. I’ve been collecting the new hardcover reprints that viz has been putting out.

[@demillebrandon1185]

So ur G Gundam review pops up in my feed and I'm like well this will be the second video of URS I would watch and I got to going through ur videos and now I'm on number 4 of the more longer ones . Love ur work bud and I'm now a sub thanks.

[@ryuusaki7309]

I didn’t know your game Mad max

[@theheavymetalhillbilly7152]

I really wonder what the master of HnK was thinking by picking Jagi as a potential successor? I mean did he think..yeah this dude has got what it takes!

[@n30gn0sis9]

They say everything is a JoJo ref....but everything is really just fotns. Also fun note about the live action fotns, I got an ear full from Malcolm McDowell on his role in the live action film... Aka "I had no god damn idea what I was doing... "...classy fella.

[@grigorirazumovski1012]

The older manga have their own charm. Violence Jack- just gonna leave write that here.

[@ashemountain]

I'm at the 10 minute mark realizing how badly Dub of the North Star fucked me up for this series! 🤣

[@kumajin3621]

"With the speed of Kenyans"

[@ashemountain]

@@kumajin3621"You're stupid and ugly and I hate you." "UGLY?!"

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G XD

[@irabowen693]

Thank you for covering this epic manga/anime. Fist of the north star and dbz were my favorites as a kid

[@MasterCode86]

correction: The six big nanto styles are not the main nanto styles that split off into others, they are just most powerful practitioners of nanto seiken, the nanto rokuseiken. Also, the 108 branches of Nanto are a reference to 108 Stars of Destiny from the chinese novel Shui Hu Zuan.

[@cripplinganimedepression9902]

Souther fight is different. He was born with his heart being on the right, insted of the left, like all normal people do. So in their final confrontation Kenshiro used his op af power to MOVE HIS HEART TO THE LEFT, so those pressure points could work.

[@dansmith16]

Toki IS that one Korean comic of a guy who got shot and ends up in severe pain for several decades, getting married, marry his daughter off, then finally dying on his bed from old age. Similar to another comic by the same author with the guy getting shot and he spent the rest of his day doing stuff he wanted to do before dying.

[@jaceshaffer8104]

The Fist Of The North Star movie was the first R rated movie I ever rented for myself from my old blockbuster when I was old enough to. I don't remember the others I rented but I sure as hell remember FOTNS

[@DragonBall-Manga-1984]

the DragonBall competition

[@santibelmondo5480]

Toki was disregarded as successor because of his illness. He was the one, but just couldn't.

[@Thebettermartyr]

You look like a moody teenager who hangs out at the skate park after school hahaha

[@johannesstephanusroos4969]

He's the kind of Millennial that makes the rest of us look bad

[@ftwsam2246]

So it went from Mad Maxx to Waterworld in the second part.

[@scooterdescooter4018]

"You call throwing dynamite around a martial art?" "Hey, as long as it works."

[@jjstarrprod]

Awesome vid, man ! Must have been a pain to write down, talk about it, film, and especially the edit (You just did a feature documentary film, at this point !) And yeah, like Dragon Ball, you can very clearly tell when was the true narrative ending as the author had prepared, and what was the unneeded padding Jump forced them to do long after their heart were not in it anymore. The Raoh fight and the Frieza arc, you could already tell both Buronson&Hara and Toriyama were already trying to drag it out to try and tire the audience out, but it severely backfired and people were just more and more addicted to it, making them have to churn out even more. Anything post Raoh or Frieza was just whacky af. Shueisha just can't help themselves, they just had to ruin great works by overworking their authors to their future impending death (literally, as we saw recently with Toriyama sensei). I mean, when was the last time you saw one of their hits actually stick the landing, and not be either getting an abrupt boot, or dragged for 1500 chapters to many ?

[@GinraiMinor]

Toki was suppose to be the successor of Hokto but could not due to radiation poisoning...way to flub a major plot point....rookie move

[@weichiang89]

FoTNS taught me that you can be tough while protecting others AND be super masculine while showing your emotions. Heck, cry if you want It's still macho.

[@milkncookie]

I am a master of the martial art, Fist of the Keyboard Warrior. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@zacktengler4124]

I know these are important stories to watch at some point but you are my viewpoint for these older shows for the most part

[@tragicallyfunny]

There's a Hawk tuah meme waiting to be made out of the Fist

[@demillebrandon1185]

Yoooo definitely want to see the blue sky fam🙏🤟

[@psychophipps]

I remember buying FotNS #1 at my local comic shop. You're welcome.

[@og.gamer9160]

I'm about to put that hokuto shinken in my resume lol.

[@jeffreyrumery6768]

Moustache, no beard looks awesomely amazing! Mike: Explains second half Me: Oh no, I've just gone cross-eyed.

[@sacredgear]

I haven’t watched FOTNS in like 10 years but I thought Yuda confessed that rei had the most beautiful Nanto technique?

[@JamesJones-cv4wf]

After seeing this anime, when I was little, I had to learn how to crack my neck like that and my friends thought I was so weird!

[@boomkruncher325zzshred5]

"The ocean disappeared then somehow came back for years" TECHNICALLY, you could say that the oceans evaporated but then all that water has to go SOMEwhere, right? It's possible that parts of the world flooded due to unending cloud cover as water rained down the heavens in near-constant storms. This would EVENTUALLY re-condense the oceans back together. BUT STILL YAH THAT'S A BIT ROUGH ON THE CONTINUITY FRONT

[@brothersofwrath4785]

Only one ocean was left

[@thewave-qz9lt]

i thought the reason rei's hair changed to white was because of all the pain and stress of toki's technique.