The INSANE Story Of Fist Of The North Star
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Fist Of The North Star is wild. Kenshiro and Hokuto Shinken can do literally anything. And we're going to go through literally all of it.
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Chapters:
0:00 - 5:16 - Intro
5:17 - 7:53 - 2 Men 1 Manga
7:54 - 15:58 - The Apocalypse Sucks
15:59 - 19:42 - The Many Ways Of Fisting
19:43 - 27:54 - Brothers From Another Mother
27:55 - 33:11 - I'm A Joker, I'm A Toki-er
33:12 - 41:31 - Mano A Mano
41:32 - 45:18 - A Stupid Storyline, But Honorable Death
45:19 - 48:37 - Friendship Is Blind
48:38 - 53:34 - Brothers Till The End
53:35 - 1:05:54 - The Fake Death To Rule Them All
1:05:55 - 1:14:13 - Senoritis
1:14:14 - 1:20:29 - [Deranged Screaming Noises]
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Opera GX is chromium-based tho bro come on now
intriguing lack of "YURRRRRIAAAAAAA" screaming in the video, but yeah, i'll give operagx a try
@@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 :/
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.
How accurate is the video game to the manga
@@patrickhathcox1816 Considering that Kenshiro has only bounced one person off the pavement in a combo that I can remember, fairly
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.
He could also do the foot stab in the two Muso games.
That is the best.
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.
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!!!
Facts but folks wanna act like Dragon Ball created everything
@@realamericannegro977Only the casuals.
@@realamericannegro977 yep both Jojo and berserk was inspired by hokuto no ken.
@@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.
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.
I have lost many beloved ones as well, but still I keep moving forward to help others.
that movie was the first adult Anime I ever saw. Before that I only knew about Macross/Robotech.
Same here. That movie was absolutely insane, especially since I think I was only 11 when I saw it.
Every time I hear ''Hokuto Shinken can do anything'', I say "Put it on a shirt"
Also complete an English dub!
We need a compilation!
XD
@@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.
Everything except put on a shirt ironically
Useless, the shirt will get ripped off as soon as tge action starts!
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.
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:)
Thanks for the story! XD
She was watching HnK while pregnant?
I take your son was born already with a long beard 💪
Congrats my guy and thanks foe the story
HnS*
My man, wheres the rest of the Story lmfao.
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.
Bro you forgot one of the best characters in the series.. REI!!! 😭😭😭😭
I read this in another comment but correct if I am wrong, Toki was sick before saving Ken and Yuria but he hide it
32:02 Toki was the original successor until he got sick from the nuclear bombs
Guy was nuked and still had more energy than end game bosses.
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.
This guy talking about Toki like this shows that he is just a tool
Understandable.
@@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.
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
Fist of the North Star is one of the most wonderful and stupendous anime and manga of all time.
Big facts.
hugely influencing anime/manga to come
Yeah but... it truly did'nt age well.
Me as a teen watching this show and yu yu Hakusho.
👁👄👁 "wait all animes just copied these too?"
The 2nd fight between Raoh and Toki always makes me shed the manliest tears.
I just wanna add
ATATTAATATATATATTATATTTATATATATATTATATATATATATTAATTATATATATATATATA
WAAAAAAAAAH TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*head explodes
OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU
_" _*_NANI?!_*_ "_
NANI?!!!!.....*head explodes*
"I'm not being sarcastic. I just usually sound...sarcastic."
This is my life.
Horses normally are bigger than people
CLYDESDALES
XD
@@Ramsey276one *normally
Some horses are normally smaller than people is an equally true statement.
Ponnies
“The time for logic has past” is probably the most anime line I’ve ever heard.
1:05:05
XD
_"In the arena of logic I fight _*_unarmed!_*_ "_ - Ken- 'Red Mage' -shiro
What about the time to shit divine right right there
Yuda is one of the best side character in this story.
"I became a villian because i couldn't handle my crush on my classmate at martial arts school"
Absolutely hillarious motivation 10/10
Yuda should be on hate of Rushmore right there with Amiba.
JoJo's in the 80s
"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.
*damn*
Woah! Don’t flippin swear dude. There are kids here, you sicko.
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.
Fist of the north star lost paradise is a masterpiece.
Like a North Star
NANI?!
“Sign language punches” bro I’m dead.
That's all you one-sided people knew.
@@NelsonWin to some it goes "sideways,,
Omae wa shinderu
Can’t wait for the new Fist of the Northstar anime remake
Is there?
@@n.kosters4757 Netflix Confirmed it
@@n.kosters4757 Yes apparently it's in works
Remember kids, and Repeat after me: Hokuto Shinken CAN DO ANYTHING ! ! !
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.
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
@@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.
@@stephenpardue2052 the OVA was made by North star pictures(Hara's animation studio)
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.
The Story is kind of weaker in Demon Island being artificial extension but I liked it to due to more Worldbuilding
I liked all of it.
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.
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
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.
Snoop dog is out there appreciating your brother 😂
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
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?
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.
@@Amesang but how close of couseins are they really?
@@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.
@@Amesang so i say its ok. I cant imagine Tolkien messing up so badly on this.
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."
Man, it’s been years since the boys touched fist. The difference between the content from then and now is crazy!
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.
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
The Savior as Century's end. You a Shock!
"Humane Face-Breaking Fist" is such a good name
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.
SUCH A LONELY NIGHT 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️
I cried when I found out Auron's backstory & I love all of Yakuza. You have great taste in characters!
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.
Souther arc?
@@murderman8578 The one with the giant pyramid and the blind guy Shew.
@@neorock7491 is that after Demon Island
Or during Raoh
@@murderman8578 Just after Rei's death.
@@neorock7491 rei in the beginning right
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.
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.
THANK GOODNESS
They are basically the royalty of the wasteland. Some inbreeding is likely mandated.
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Also don't get those unique physical characteristics without some very particular selective breeding I suppose.
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.
Dragonball is the father of all shonen
But Fist of the North star is the grandfather of all shonen
That honor belongs to the creator of Atom Boy Osamu Tezuka. Fist of The North Star is the Son of Shonen
Yuda's death still cracks me up. Dude literally got horned up stun locked by the beauty of Rei's technique.
Mike this is TOP NOTCH stuff. Great writing and editing! Appreciate you bud
Just waiting for more news on the remake. I can't believe it. It's my top 1 favorite series
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.
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XD
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
@@Daimonas Thank you for clarifying, still just as wild.
Great video,the artwork for the manga is amazing,and his one of my favorite manga and favorite anime as well.
Great video. The 2nd half of the manga exists because Hokuto Shinken can do anything 🙂 You wa Shock!!!
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 👏🏻
This series brings back so many memories. So many explosions of lasagna.
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.
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.
i didnt expect them to drop a video this early now i have something to watch :)
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.
I love your casual voice in this. It s a great contrast to go from in-depth thoughtful videos to something like this where you genuinely seem both very into the material and completely fed up with it simultaneously lololol.
Aw yeah, here for this! Such a crazy series.
Hokuto No Ken “Fist of the North Star” is such a raw series always will be one of my favorites
This was awesome! Thank you for all your work.
i love this episode, GREAT WORK
Really enjoyed the video bro. Great job!
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
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.
Hokuto No Ken's 2nd half had insane artwork
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
Speaking of how awesome bonsai pop is, these hour plus long videos from bonsai pop are what I live for
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.
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.
Thank you for covering this epic manga/anime. Fist of the north star and dbz were my favorites as a kid
32:30
Ayo, Castlevania Portrait of Ruin music? 11/10.
Great summary of FotNS though! Been wantin' to learn more about this manga.
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
Thanks for the great episode
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
Man I just want you to know I've been having a wicked ruff time the last few months and everything that once was enjoyable is now feeling flat. But watching the last few videos definitely made me feel at least cozy and relaxed.
Thanks for y'all's hard work, it's definitely appreciated
I enjoy the way you tell story. Subscribed!!!
Great video, loved it, hope yall do the pre story stuff
Awesome video. showed me more plot points I never thought about. I would love to know more about thew sequel.
The older manga have their own charm. Violence Jack- just gonna leave write that here.
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 😂
Really enjoyed this one!! I've always felt the need to read/watch FOTNS as it's an iconic and hugely influential series. This was the perfect shorthand version for me to finally understand the series more. Thank you! Downloading Opera GX now too. 😆✌
I know these are important stories to watch at some point but you are my viewpoint for these older shows for the most part
Awesome video and the inconsistencies for me were like WTF I'm so confused. But all in all awesome great job 👍
i thought the reason rei's hair changed to white was because of all the pain and stress of toki's technique.
Thankyou for keeping kungpow alive with the references. Weeyoopeeyooo!!!!
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!
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 ?
Yesss time to cover a classic!
I love how you tell this story
Thank you ❤
Bro so much love to you and this channel for always making vids about such classic series. Im constantly trying to find older shows to watch/read. Jojos brought me to fist, but hooolllyyy fuck is it classic 80s badassery. Keep'em coming bro... Uhh stache looks great too btw
"Toki often fell ill, and it's possible that the old man predicted this. That's why he probably chose Kenshiro as his successor instead, since it was more likely that Kenshiro would remain alive to pass on the mantle to someone else."
Great Job!
I absolutely love your videos!❤❤❤ Have you done Dirty Pair anime already or Ghost in the Shell already?
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
Luv your channel somehow got un subscribed but I’m back. I loved of the North Star .
Content’s some of the best on YT but how yall get that “the story” animation passed? Lol love you guys
shit man you mentioned the extended edition, now I need to watch it again
Gotta love how they all play hot potato with Rin in the end. That's some prime stuff there. "i only live for the fight so you take her bro", "no you!", "ok.", "hey but i prefer the dead guy", "cool. peace out"
Great vid
Happy to see my favorite anime get more and more praise!
Put Hokuto Shinken can do anything on a shirt!!!
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