Pacing a little slow and too many "Kenshiro kills off goons effortlessly", otherwise kino of the highest degree and probably the best anime opening ever made.
I'll always recommend the anime because the soundtrack and voice acting elevates it to another level but the manga is much better in regards to pacing and it fits without saying that the art is far superior.
Hey, it’s one of those double-ended sex toys. There are so many lesbian pornkinos that feature those. Don’t get the chain though, must be a BDSM fetish variant or something.
>Repeating the same move and tagline every episode >Surviving in a nuclear wasteland with no supplies >Endless supply of clothes >Destroying tanks and helicopters with bare hands >Killing and helping people for no reason
it genuinely is like the same thing over and over but you'll keep watching because you want to see this poor fricker get somewhere nice.
Honest to god - FOTNS is ripe for being totally remade. the vibe is good but there is just so goddamn much fluff and cheap-ass "non-fights" of mooks just getting annihilated. It can be VERY fricking goofy as well. don't take this shit too seriously.
>They remade it already, wasn't very good.
because they refuse to adapt the manga properly for some reason
i understand the art is hard to replicate, but they don't even try
Nah, OG series is way better than any remakes.
Raoh, Toki and Kenshiro's VA's are irreplacable and the remakes kill me for having to try.
Daisuke Gōri's Uighir is fricking peak performance too.
There's a lot of filler in the show but its peaks are excellent. I don't know if there's a good watchlist out there but there should be. Pretty much any episode with the main villains will be good. Raoh vs Toki II is one of my favourite screen fights ever.
Welcome to this crazy time
Kono ikare ta jidai e youkoso
Kimi wa tough boy, tough boy, tough boy, tough boy
Matomona yatsu hodo feel so bad
Shouki de irareru nante un ga iize
You, tough boy, tough boy, tough boy, tough boy
I didn't care for it, I thought it was just mindless action. The plot is mostly incomprehensible, as are the characters' motivations, which are just there to precipitate the next fight scene anyway.
Even though it's rated R, or maybe even X, it's still really clearly something that was made for 8-year-olds to enjoy.
Some people really like that. That sort of thing is right up some people's alley. If you like it, great, I'm happy for you.
I like mindless shit too sometimes, but to me, this one was a little too mindless.
I dropped Naruto pretty quick, maybe less than 10 episodes.
I love Bleach, especially the manga. You can try making fun of that if it makes you feel better.
I wasn't trying to insult your favorite anime, I was just trying to describe it to someone who ostensibly hasn't seen it before. I wanted to warn the guy not to expect a strong plot or realistic . . . anything.
It's pure ridiculousness, and some people love that, and that's perfectly fine. Maybe OP will read that and decide that's exactly what he wants to see, and maybe he'll love it.
In truth OP, you should always watch something for yourself and never trust anybody else's opinion on it.
P.S. Even though I didn't care for it, I definitely acknowledge that it had a huge influence on practically everything to come along after it. For good or ill.
You people are mistaking something here, this is not rated R.
The manga is from shonen jump, same magazine as dragon ball, one piece, naruto, bleach etc. (at the time in the 80, it ran togheter with cap tsubasa, arale, early dragon ball, early saint seiya, orange road and cat eyes/city hunter)
I always interpreted it as wanting to be so mighty that he would be the strongest on earth and ultimately in heaven when he died. Considering the ending, maybe he is the strongest in heaven.
Too much filler. The primary scenes are good, the characters are good, etc. Someone needs to make a good fan edit eliminating the waste of time scenes.
There is actually a "manime" far superior to Hokuto no Ken / Fist of the North Star. I just absolutely can not remember the name of it. It was so fricking kino though. God my shitty memory. It's a lot like Hokuto no Ken but it's also funny.
what the hell that's amazing they literally just drew over Stallone's pic. strange though, why does Kenshiro look so much more jacked on the right when if you measure the proportions they're identical?
I remember renting this as a kid, having grown up with the anime.
At first I the title "fist of the north star" confused me, because the series was just called "Ken" in French.
All our lives are on the line
We need a hero - Hero!
The seven scars and fists of fury
He's the chosen one
The savior of the people - Hero!
From sorrow's land our bleeding hearts
Cry out for a hero
This is no doubt my fav anime series but was anyone else a bit dissapointed by the final arc??? Han and the asuras where cool but then we get kaiho whos unironically raiho 2.0 and that long haired homosexual (i forgot his name). Kinda lame.
>but was anyone else a bit dissapointed by the final arc???
Everyone ever. Honestly the final chapters in the manga that have never got adapted were better than that shitpile.
The manga going on a bit after the kaiho defeat is also weird as frick. Just a handfull of random short story episodes. I wonder why they exist in the first place.
The only reason it continued past Raoh was because it was too popular to end and WSJ told them to keep writing. That probably just kept happening until they finally ended it. What confuses me is why Ryu and Ken traveled together for a bit and then stopped, with yet more chapters still coming out after. They could have parlayed it Kenshiro training Raoh's kid to continue Hokuto Shinken, if they really wanted it to continue. Maybe Japs back then really didn't like Raoh's kid?
if i had to guess, they probably had their editors demand a certain amount of new chapters after raoh died (which iirc is where the author and the illustrator wanted to end it) which they were unable to reach with the kaioh arc. i do think the stuff after kaioh is actually better than that arc though.
>i do think the stuff after kaioh is actually better than that arc though.
Agreed. Bolge was actually pretty good for post-Raoh HnK, although his arc relied on the awful amnesia Kenshiro to work. But it finally gave Bat a real chance to shine. I also liked the arc where the bad guy was just a landlord because civilization had been restored enough that it wasn't just dudes fighting each other to death, but immediately after that, it's back to just dudes fighting to death.
100% agree with you on that landlord arc being cool. It was actually a really natural and smart way for the progression of society to be shown in a post-apocalyptic fighting manga. Ideally they could have ended it there. Also I agree Bolge was a decent final boss and that arc ended the manga pretty well imo (despite all of the goofy soap-opera tier amnesia).
The series creators said that after final fight between Ken and Raoh, they had trouble coming up with more stories, to the point that everything after that was a blur to them. It seems that they were pressured by the magazine that they were publishing in to keep going after what supposed to be an ending.
>kill off Falco by having him lose to some nobody the second the arc begins >All of the stupid magical bloodline shit >Kaioh is just Raoh and Souther mixed together, even dies like Souther did >Shachi is just a boring Rei rip off who does literally nothing whatsoever >Hyoh is unironically moronic >Hokuto Ryuken is a weird type of bodybuilder wizardry, barely a martial art
That arc was such trash.
is just a boring Rei rip off who does literally nothing whatsoever
I foolishly thought shachi was going to live. HnK did the opposite of plot armor for anyone that wasn't Ken and it somewhat kills the tension all the same.
It's beyoned awesome. Consider the story finished after the first season. tho. The rest is good for more people exploding but it's clearly a repetition and a downgrade
I recently watched the '86 anime movie where it distills a lot of the arcs into one continuous narrative and re-arranges things. Since it's so many arcs shoved into one movie, most of them suffer a bit for lack of time. But it's interesting to see how they cut certain things and rearrange others for a different emotional impact. For example, the Shin and Raoh plotlines happen simultaneously and it works really well. I think it would be a great way to get someone into the show if they were reluctant at first, although it spoils them on a bunch of things. But not everything since Toki of all people was cut from this continuity.
as someone that has watched the entire series multiple times i recommend watching the animated movie and then reading the manga, which is still god-tier
That chain is way too long.
Nani?
*explodes*
Keep in mind, his back is six feet wide.
Pacing a little slow and too many "Kenshiro kills off goons effortlessly", otherwise kino of the highest degree and probably the best anime opening ever made.
I'll always recommend the anime because the soundtrack and voice acting elevates it to another level but the manga is much better in regards to pacing and it fits without saying that the art is far superior.
It's pretty amazing that an anime this old had voice acting that was this good.
But yeah I agree, it's pure kino.
I used to think it was the best opening of all time but now a recent contender took the cake for me:
(for some reason i cant find a good copy anywhere tho)
>posts nu-anime shit with generic shit electro instruments and awful singing
You should definitely have a nice day.
it'll put hair on your chest
Hey, it’s one of those double-ended sex toys. There are so many lesbian pornkinos that feature those. Don’t get the chain though, must be a BDSM fetish variant or something.
>Repeating the same move and tagline every episode
>Surviving in a nuclear wasteland with no supplies
>Endless supply of clothes
>Destroying tanks and helicopters with bare hands
>Killing and helping people for no reason
it genuinely is like the same thing over and over but you'll keep watching because you want to see this poor fricker get somewhere nice.
Honest to god - FOTNS is ripe for being totally remade. the vibe is good but there is just so goddamn much fluff and cheap-ass "non-fights" of mooks just getting annihilated. It can be VERY fricking goofy as well. don't take this shit too seriously.
They remade it already, wasn't very good.
>They remade it already, wasn't very good.
because they refuse to adapt the manga properly for some reason
i understand the art is hard to replicate, but they don't even try
Should just give it the Dragon Ball Kai treatment.
Nah, OG series is way better than any remakes.
Raoh, Toki and Kenshiro's VA's are irreplacable and the remakes kill me for having to try.
Daisuke Gōri's Uighir is fricking peak performance too.
Varying quality animation in OG series
FotNS: Ken's Rage was literary this, several chapters of the manga condensed to a singular level in some cases but some of you still complained
Kino
read the manga, the anime is padded to hell and the animation is really cheap and shitty
And miss the soundtrack ?
the manliest shit to ever exist on film
It's Biblical & Romantic.
Testesteron and motivation ATATATATATATATA!!!
(Only if you lift tho).
There's a lot of filler in the show but its peaks are excellent. I don't know if there's a good watchlist out there but there should be. Pretty much any episode with the main villains will be good. Raoh vs Toki II is one of my favourite screen fights ever.
Welcome to this crazy time
Kono ikare ta jidai e youkoso
Kimi wa tough boy, tough boy, tough boy, tough boy
Matomona yatsu hodo feel so bad
Shouki de irareru nante un ga iize
You, tough boy, tough boy, tough boy, tough boy
>When it plays during Kaioh's death
Absolute kinoh of the highest order
I didn't care for it, I thought it was just mindless action. The plot is mostly incomprehensible, as are the characters' motivations, which are just there to precipitate the next fight scene anyway.
Even though it's rated R, or maybe even X, it's still really clearly something that was made for 8-year-olds to enjoy.
Some people really like that. That sort of thing is right up some people's alley. If you like it, great, I'm happy for you.
I like mindless shit too sometimes, but to me, this one was a little too mindless.
Sorry it's not Naruto buying a loaf of bread.
I dropped Naruto pretty quick, maybe less than 10 episodes.
I love Bleach, especially the manga. You can try making fun of that if it makes you feel better.
I wasn't trying to insult your favorite anime, I was just trying to describe it to someone who ostensibly hasn't seen it before. I wanted to warn the guy not to expect a strong plot or realistic . . . anything.
It's pure ridiculousness, and some people love that, and that's perfectly fine. Maybe OP will read that and decide that's exactly what he wants to see, and maybe he'll love it.
In truth OP, you should always watch something for yourself and never trust anybody else's opinion on it.
P.S. Even though I didn't care for it, I definitely acknowledge that it had a huge influence on practically everything to come along after it. For good or ill.
>mostly incomprehensible
its pretty easy to follow
raoh wanted to be fist of the north star
their dad said frick you, imma give that title to ken
raoh gets triggered and kills their dad
ken's other brother, jagi, tricks shin into killing ken
now that ken is out of the way, raoh, by default, becomes fist of the north star
but wait
ken is then reborn and set things right
Jagi was such a little b***h.
Female hands
Spoken like a true homosexual
You people are mistaking something here, this is not rated R.
The manga is from shonen jump, same magazine as dragon ball, one piece, naruto, bleach etc. (at the time in the 80, it ran togheter with cap tsubasa, arale, early dragon ball, early saint seiya, orange road and cat eyes/city hunter)
This and naruto got the same demo, same genre.
SHOCK
would love to do a live action remake
What does Raoh mean when he wants to "War with the Heavens"?
That's the only part the confuses me.
he thinks he is stronger than the gods
Ooohhh~!
I like that.
I always interpreted it as wanting to be so mighty that he would be the strongest on earth and ultimately in heaven when he died. Considering the ending, maybe he is the strongest in heaven.
Too much filler. The primary scenes are good, the characters are good, etc. Someone needs to make a good fan edit eliminating the waste of time scenes.
There is actually a "manime" far superior to Hokuto no Ken / Fist of the North Star. I just absolutely can not remember the name of it. It was so fricking kino though. God my shitty memory. It's a lot like Hokuto no Ken but it's also funny.
Boku no Pico
Kinnikuman?
sakigake?
YOU WA SHOCK
Padding, a lot of padding.
Bearded Kenshiro is kino
Yup
Best anime there ever was.
I really like it when Toki goes around healing people like Jesus.
Remember that time when Kenshiro straight up just became Stallone
Stallone is the blueprint
he didn't look like that at all in the beginning
>Kenshiro is so powerful that his face transcends iron bars
what the hell that's amazing they literally just drew over Stallone's pic. strange though, why does Kenshiro look so much more jacked on the right when if you measure the proportions they're identical?
cross hatching mekes the difference
because the artist drew kenshiro's head smaller, more aesthetically pleasing proportions
Raoh was such a madlad
Get out of my head Cinemaphile I just restarted watching this so I could finally finish it
you're in for absolute kino
*blocks your path*
I remember renting this as a kid, having grown up with the anime.
At first I the title "fist of the north star" confused me, because the series was just called "Ken" in French.
After watching I was even more confused.
I watched it on HBO as a kid, I think, and I was also confused.
that movie is actually kino if you understand the huge barriers that existed in the 90s for creating movies such as this.
It was actually kino.
Shin was such a gay ass villain.
>Star of Martyrdom
It was in his destiny to be so
Still not as gay as juda to be fair.
one of the best soundtracks of all time
All our lives are on the line
We need a hero - Hero!
The seven scars and fists of fury
He's the chosen one
The savior of the people - Hero!
From sorrow's land our bleeding hearts
Cry out for a hero
kenoh ur a gayet
This is no doubt my fav anime series but was anyone else a bit dissapointed by the final arc??? Han and the asuras where cool but then we get kaiho whos unironically raiho 2.0 and that long haired homosexual (i forgot his name). Kinda lame.
>but was anyone else a bit dissapointed by the final arc???
Everyone ever. Honestly the final chapters in the manga that have never got adapted were better than that shitpile.
Should have ended at Raoh's death
the manga end a bit after
Isn't Yuria the kids mother?
It even ends past the Raoh kid arc.
god the amnesia arc was dumb, I don't know whats worse, kenshiro paired with lin or bat cucking himself with that
The manga going on a bit after the kaiho defeat is also weird as frick. Just a handfull of random short story episodes. I wonder why they exist in the first place.
The only reason it continued past Raoh was because it was too popular to end and WSJ told them to keep writing. That probably just kept happening until they finally ended it. What confuses me is why Ryu and Ken traveled together for a bit and then stopped, with yet more chapters still coming out after. They could have parlayed it Kenshiro training Raoh's kid to continue Hokuto Shinken, if they really wanted it to continue. Maybe Japs back then really didn't like Raoh's kid?
if i had to guess, they probably had their editors demand a certain amount of new chapters after raoh died (which iirc is where the author and the illustrator wanted to end it) which they were unable to reach with the kaioh arc. i do think the stuff after kaioh is actually better than that arc though.
>i do think the stuff after kaioh is actually better than that arc though.
Agreed. Bolge was actually pretty good for post-Raoh HnK, although his arc relied on the awful amnesia Kenshiro to work. But it finally gave Bat a real chance to shine. I also liked the arc where the bad guy was just a landlord because civilization had been restored enough that it wasn't just dudes fighting each other to death, but immediately after that, it's back to just dudes fighting to death.
100% agree with you on that landlord arc being cool. It was actually a really natural and smart way for the progression of society to be shown in a post-apocalyptic fighting manga. Ideally they could have ended it there. Also I agree Bolge was a decent final boss and that arc ended the manga pretty well imo (despite all of the goofy soap-opera tier amnesia).
The series creators said that after final fight between Ken and Raoh, they had trouble coming up with more stories, to the point that everything after that was a blur to them. It seems that they were pressured by the magazine that they were publishing in to keep going after what supposed to be an ending.
>kill off Falco by having him lose to some nobody the second the arc begins
>All of the stupid magical bloodline shit
>Kaioh is just Raoh and Souther mixed together, even dies like Souther did
>Shachi is just a boring Rei rip off who does literally nothing whatsoever
>Hyoh is unironically moronic
>Hokuto Ryuken is a weird type of bodybuilder wizardry, barely a martial art
That arc was such trash.
is just a boring Rei rip off who does literally nothing whatsoever
I foolishly thought shachi was going to live. HnK did the opposite of plot armor for anyone that wasn't Ken and it somewhat kills the tension all the same.
pure kino
It's beyoned awesome. Consider the story finished after the first season. tho. The rest is good for more people exploding but it's clearly a repetition and a downgrade
Daily reminder that Bart got keked hard.
>Kenshiro literally had to use his magical kung-fu to make lin fall in love with him
the absolute state
Absolute bro move by kenshiro. I would not mind if he did it to me.
I recently watched the '86 anime movie where it distills a lot of the arcs into one continuous narrative and re-arranges things. Since it's so many arcs shoved into one movie, most of them suffer a bit for lack of time. But it's interesting to see how they cut certain things and rearrange others for a different emotional impact. For example, the Shin and Raoh plotlines happen simultaneously and it works really well. I think it would be a great way to get someone into the show if they were reluctant at first, although it spoils them on a bunch of things. But not everything since Toki of all people was cut from this continuity.
as someone that has watched the entire series multiple times i recommend watching the animated movie and then reading the manga, which is still god-tier
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Too much dumb filler but the canon fights and episodes are kino, also great musics