Shakka Shakka

>>388571571
Best part of the trailer.
HnK>Jojo

dozo

>>388571571
i dont remember the anime being this silly, cheesy yes, but not straight up goofy

ˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃˢʰᵃᵏᵏᵃ

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>>388571872
I've started reading the manga and it definitely has some silly sound effects and Kenshiro saying things like this out loud when he does all kinds of stuff.
Even if this is more silly I do understand the need to embellish to make the game compelling.
Like how it looks like Kenshiro fights hundreds of enemies off at once despite the manga topping out at like 10 active assailants.

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>>388571872
It had humorous moments, but was mostly serious.

>>388572247
>Like how it looks like Kenshiro fights hundreds of enemies off at once despite the manga topping out at like 10 active assailants.
I mean. It's not like Kenshiro couldn't fight a whole bunch of people at once due to the very nature of his fighting style. But yeah I get what you're saying.

>>388571990
but are traps gay?
that is the question

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>>388571990
>profile picture

"bawww why can't I fool straight guys!"

I only watched the HnK movie. How bad did I fucked up and should I remedy this before the game?
Because I can't fucking wait

>>388573142
The tv show is better than the movie.
The weird censorship and stupid ending kind of kill the movie for me.

>>388573418
Strange I don't remember much censorship.
Should I just watch the tv show?

>>388572331

Fucking Taizan style

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>>388573516
You didn't notice all the goofy rainbow colored filters on certain gore scenes? Go look up the Hnk movie censorship. It's a pretty well known anime fuck up.

>>388573743
I just watched a comparison; I definitely watched it uncensored somehow.

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>>388573142
You watched a butchered version of the story that turns 10 volumes of manga or so (~45 anime episodes, 20 minutes each) into 1.5h bumrushed piece of garbage.
Kill yourself.

Now to remedy your fuckup, pasta:

Anime for first time, yes there is a bit of filler but only at the beginning, and half of it is actually much needed character development that manga didn't have at the beginning since it was written as a one-shot due to not expecting success.
Furthermore it rotates some early events chronology to make better sense than in the manga.
And most importantly, while artwork obviously isn't anywhere near as good as manga, the voice acting, music and direction are absolutely top of the line 10/10 material.
Watch anime, you won't regret it, here's highest quality you can get for the anime:
Hokuto no Ken 1: https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=0_0&q=fist+north+star+x264+ac3
Hokuto no Ken 2: https://nyaa.pantsu.cat/view/923302
Manga: https://nyaa.si/view/879993

The anime adapts entirety of the manga up to chapter 210 (beginning of Volume 24), after you're done with anime you can either read manga from the beginning but mind you that the scans are mostly terrible and very rough translation, especially in the middle, or you can read the manga from Volume 24 to the end which is the portion that the anime didn't adapt.

After that you can read the (non-canon) spinoffs (also included in the manga torrent) and watch the anime adaptation of the only one of the manga spinoffs that wasn't translated, you can get it here:
https://nyaa.si/view/904978

After that you can watch the movies, the original 1986 movie which is basically a huge advertisement for the anime, as well as the late 00s 25th anniversary movie pentalogy that serves as abridged versions of the bigger arcs of the series with new OC donut steel material thrown in, you can get them here:
https://nyaa.si/view/884962

>>388574037
also, avoid anyone saying it has tons of filler. trust me on this

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>>388571990
or maybe some of us are just straight

>>388574172
This. Seriously. Watch the filler. It's entertaining in it's own right. Which is rare as hell to say about filler.

>>388574172
My post already debunks the filler claim.
Like I said, almost literally all the filler is only in the very first arc (Shin arc) and half of that is character development the manga never had due to being planned as a one-shot at the time due to not expecting to take off, second half is silly but harmless stuff, and some of the filler like the WW2 Nazi warehouse is legit awesome.
After that there's no filler at all, only recap episodes every once in a while.

>>388571872
I think that's just the Yakuza team saying "We're not losing our identity just because we're adapting a different IP"

>>388574172

God if anything I wish it had more filler. Instead it just fucking stretches the source material forever.

It's 200 chapters of material in ~150 episodes. That's almost One Piece anime pacing.

>>388574037
Fantastic anon, thanks a lot. I'll go kill myself and crack this up

Not properly watching HnK was always something I had regret for.
Sure I won't skip anything too (who would do that)

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DOZO

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Hey

Hey Ken-oh

ur a faget

>>388574037
The movie is a really big disappointment. It looks great but the fight at the end is fucking stupid.

>>388574034
You can't. The uncensored versions have been lost long ago.

>>388574830
>It looks great but ... is fucking stupid.
This is basically my opinion on that 1986 movie.
It is nothing but advertisement that spoils the first half of HnK1.

>>388574637
>>388574037

I'm dying over the
>kill yourself
>and then watch/read this

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>>388574637
>I won't skip anything too (who would do that)
babbies who don't have the attention span to look away from their phone and watch some motherfucking kung fu anime.

>>388571571
They should make a game based on the whole series where you see Ken's face progression from Bruce Lee to Sylvester Stallone.

>>388575036

If you watch every single episode of the HnK anime, you'll have effectively seen the entire plot of the anime at least 3 times.

>>388574941
explain?

>>388575010
>he doesnt watch HnK in hell

>>388574034
There's a version that's slightly less censored but none that are completely uncensored. It simply is not on the internet, but there may be a reel sitting in some dusty old theater basement in Japan or Italy.

>>388575198
The great Tokyo warehouse fire, a lot of many great anime and movies were forever lost.
Hokuto no Ken is one of them, that's why only DVD remaster was released and why the movie is partially censored, since the original fully uncensored film reel is lost forever.

>>388574941
Are you sure?
I bought the movie on vhs almost 2 decades ago. I'm not sure if I have it anymore but I remember that version having a ton of blood
Certainly none of that grey blood bullshit at the very least
The battle again Raoh was all red that I'm absolutely certain

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>>388574743
Jyuuza was such a cheeky cunt.

>>388575391
>HoM shitsubs
>Jyuuza
Stop this.

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>>388575391
Literally died calling Raoh a huge faggot and Raoh still gave him a proper burial.

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>tfw the villain is literally confirmed to NOT be Raoh and is instead some shitty diet knockoff of Raoh
What the fuck are they thinking?

>>388575558
I still can't get used to seeing Raoh with white hair.

>>388571571
Only reason why I bought Yakuza Kiwami

Give me the HnK game, Sega.

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>>388575335
>the original fully uncensored film reel is lost forever.
I'm sure its out there somewhere. Like I said, sitting in the warehouse of some dusty old theater. It just hasn't been discovered and put on the internet yet.
>>388575463
But that's how you spell his name.
ジュウザ

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>>388575674
Recycling Raoh over and over gets a little old.

>>388575739
>ジュウザ
Juuza

>>388575837
I thought Kaioh was awesome.

>>388575739
No, that's how you autistically romanize it.
Juza is the official translation, because you don't need the extra "u" letter for same pronounciation in English. And the romanization is Juuza, not Jyuuza. Like I said, stop watching HoM shitsubs.

>>388575837
>Recycling Raoh gets old
>so let's recycle him agains as a OC donut steel with exact same backstory and almost identical design
Kagami, the guy who is the villain of Hokuto ga Gotoku, LITERALLY has Raoh's backstory.

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>>388575721
I much prefer his dark hair and flesh colored eyebrows of the anime.

D O Z O
O Z O D
Z O D O
O D O Z

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>>388575895
>The only propriety that is actually faithful to his appearance is fucking Ken rage 2.
Bah.

>>388575721
>>388575971
The "canon" look grows on you if you play Ken's Rage games.

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>>388575870
You can romanize it however you want but the proper spelling of ジュ is jyu.

>>388576141
speaking of ken's rage, how are they? read and watched HnK but never played the games.

>>388576154
Jap teach says it's Ju.

>tfw Hokuto threads back in vogue again
Ken-oh bless Sega.

Is this a Hokuto no Ken reference?

So what are your guys' thoughts on Fist of the Blue Sky?

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>>388576627
pretty good

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>>388576279
Mine taught us its jyu.
Jyu is a glide. A combination of じ(ji) and ゆ(yu)

>>388576227
Ken's Rage 1 is a very solid beat'em up game, because they tried something new and didn't try making it into traditional Musou.
It's pretty good, but the story mode is a bit barebones and only covers up to Raoh (so HnK1).
Dream mode (what-if story) is fucking amazing, Jagi's what-if story is literally him and Amiba teaming up and trying to wreck Ken's and Toki's reputation but the twist to what happens is amazing.
The game has rather infuriating motion blur (you get mostly used to it but initially it pissed me off to no end) and runs at 30 FPS, often dropping below that. But it does look ok.

Ken's Rage 2 has MUCH better story mode and very faithful to the manga (the only shit they skipped is the Ryo stuff from near the end of the manga, going from Kaioh straight into the love triangle resolution epilogue and manga ending), it has more music than the first game (BUT THEY FUCKING TOOK OUT AI WO TORIMODOSE, GOD IM MAD STILL) however the level design and gameplay got completely raped and turned into very generic barebones musou.
Basically new characters were added, quite a bit of them, but they have only 50% as robust movesets as the Ken's Rage 1 characters. So what did they do? They fucking took out 50% of returning characters movesets to make them in line with the new ones. Levels lost absolutely all verticality, jumping and jumping combos were taken out entirely outside of scripted points on the map, and levels have late PS2-tier graphics (they legit look comapreable to God of War 2 in terms of level graphics). However all those downgrades mean there are A LOT more enemies on screen now (like in a typical shitty Musou) and the framerate is a lot better too. It runs at uncapped framerate, mostly hitting 50-60 FPS most of the time.

tl;dr
Ken's Rage 1
Great beat'em up, story a bit barebones, amazing what-if stories, shit motion blur and passable framerate

Ken's Rage 2:
Downgraded gameplay and graphics, much better framerate, great story mode, no what-if.

>>388576627
>>388576775
Better than Hokuto no Ken 2, worse than Hokuto no Ken 1, a lot less international appeal however and goes way too indepth with the China of the 1940s autism, I literally had to Wikipedia some shit it references.

>>388574213
No, billions of years of evolution is just a confabulation in our head

>>388576227
The first game was was pretty alright. It was less a musou and more of a beat-em-up. Kinda. Had some neat what if modes alongside the typical retelling of the first half of HoK.

The second was more musou like. Which people don't like very much. Also it's more faithful to the original manga. As in. It covers everything. Even the very last parts when Kenshiro lost his memory.

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>>388577085
>>388576886
alright thanks lads

>>388571571
Please meme this.

>>388577085
Japanese hated the fact the first game wasn't "musou-like" which is why they made the second one the most generic shallow musou possible for widest possible appeal, people always forget to mention this in Hokuto threads.
Japan just has overwhelmingly shit taste.
Also the second game was rushed to meet the 30th anniversary deadline because their rights to the series were expiring after that and if they missed the deadline they wouldn't be able to release the game at all.

>Fist of the North Star is more popular than Yakuza overseas

Hopefully this could lead to a PC/Xbox port. I've always wanted to play a Yakuza-like.

>>388576627
I liked it but there's a fuckton of questions that it left unanswered.

>>388577191
SHAKKASHAKKASHAKKA

>>388577365
You can literally emulate the first two games on PCSX2, and while the first one is a bit rocky gameplay wise due to being the first, the second one is basically on par in gameplay with 3rd, 4th and 5th game since very little changed in terms of controls and gameplay fluidity between those.

>>388577191
Please don't.

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>>388577365
>PC port
is that all you guys look forward to?

>>388577406
Souten no Ken 2 is starting serialization later this year, that's why this game is being made to begin with.
Hara announced SnK2 last month and teased the announcement of the game.
SnK2's official title is Souten no Ken Re:Genesis

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>>388577316
>Japan and their unrelenting shit tastes strikes again.
Of course. Fucking Japan always gotta ruin something good with garbage taste.

Can someone post the france dub sub?

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>tfw Freddy Mercury probably won't be in this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2YfpyMmzk

>>388577641
Japan also hated the fact that Raoh, Shin and Souther wore their capes during gameplay, which is why the capes were fucking removed for the international version of Ken's Rage 1 (the one we got) and Ken's Rage 2.
Only the original, Japanese version of Ken's Rage 1 allows you to play as Raoh with his badass helmet and cape on, Souther with his mask and cape and Shin with his cape.
Pisses me off greatly since they could've simply made them alternate costumes instead of removing them entirely (the capes literally magically fly away when you start level).

>>388573142
You should read the manga. Much better art. Listen to the TV soundtrack though, its fantastic

>>388577542
Tried running the first on my computer. It's a little too low-spec to run PS2 games on. I did like what I saw, though. The dub was shit though.

>>388577595
Also has to do with longetivity. A console-only game requires you to have the console to actually use it, but a PC game could be kept around forever. Look at GOG.

>>388577946
The anime has way too godlike direction, voice acting and music to make manga his first experience, don't be a faggot.
The answer is BOTH but anime first.

>>388577625
Any word on the protagonist?

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>>388577947
yakuza got over 10 games and its console-exclusive

>>388577365
>petitionfags
It's called a fucking beat em up, you insufferable nerd

>>388577946
There's something about 80s anime that really calls out to me though

>>388578024
Still Kasumi most likely since it's supposed to be a direct continuation starting where the first one left off.

>>388578071
Don't listen to that fag, see >>388578001
Go with anime first.
Then when you read manga later, you will automatically fill in the music and voices of the anime with your imagination.

>>388578042
Technically, it is. But the amount of interactivity that comes from minigames and the like make it a little bit more than Streets of Rage 4.

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>mfw watching the Raoh spin off

>>388578406
Is that meant to be a positive or negative reaction? Cause the Raoh spinoff is great and you're a faggot if you don't like it.

>>388578162
Really? Shit, I was hoping it'd be Ryuken.

>>388578510
He's talking about Ten no Haoh, the anime adaptation of Raoh Gaiden manga.
Basically everything what Raoh was doing from the time he left Ryuken's dojo up to his reunion with Kenshiro in Mamiya's village.

>>388578490
Anything that wasn't raoh vs souther was shit.

>>388578673
>more backstory
>shit
You lack taste. It was blatantly obvious that Raoh will just steamroll everything from get go, but it was nice seeing him steamroll everything.

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So i'm guessing this will be the "batting cage" equivalent.

>>388578761
Rather have him steamroll everything with a non garbage animation desuu.
Souten no ken somehow has even worse animation.

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Hokuto no Ken is absolute trash.

Go ahead, try to defend that shit. Try to elaborate on why it is good. You can't.

>>388577625
First I've heard of it. Maybe they'll reveal what the east star fist is.

>>388578929
hi akagi, how irrelevancy?

>>388578912
>animation
It was literally faithful to the Raoh Gaiden manga, you'd know that if you weren't a pleb.

>>388578929
Go away Akagi, nobody likes you.

>>388579016
>>388579050
As I said, you can't defend trash.

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god hand like HNK game when?

>>388579323
as i said, you can't become relevant

>>388579358
Fucking this, Platinum's cuhrayzeer than Yakuza devs.

>>388579391
I don't even know who you're talking about.

I gave you a simple task. Elaborate on why you think this shit you apparently like very much is good. You couldn't.

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>>388579678
you first, elaborate why its bad. You couldn't

here's you final (You)

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Stop replying to the retard trying to shit up the thread.

>>388579901
Not my job. I didn't even watch that crap.

I asked you but you couldn't deliever.

>>388579358
Just pretend God Hand is a HnK spinoff
The setting is already pretty close

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>>388580762
>Just pretend God Hand is a HnK spinoff
No.

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>>388580919
>3/10 IGN

>>388572331
A lot of the over the top-ness was for the point of comedy, I am certain. Those early episodes where it's like a horror movie with Ken as the killer are truly hilarious.

>>388573142
Watch at least the first arc. The show gets super repeatative and I can certainly understand not wanting to sit through it. The early episodes are golden though.

>>388581704
>super repetitive
Anon, it's the early episodes that are repetitive.

What was the point of all the Nanto generals fighting Raoh? None of them did anything to him.

>>388582068
>Generals
Nanto Five Chariots are not the Nanto generals.
The Nanto generals were Shin, Rei, Yuda, Shu, Souther and Yuria.
Five Chariots are just the bodyguards of the last general.

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>Kiryu is now literally the motherfucking fist of the north star

Based yakuza man

>>388572636
they're homophobic at the very least so be careful when bringing it up with SJWs

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http://gematsu.com/2017/08/hokuto-ga-gotoku-confirms-shin-yuria-game-original-characters
>Tetsuo Hara: “Concerning the game, I wanted it to be done in the worldview of Yakuza. Fist of the North Star will be 35 years old next year. If we don’t adopt new energies from scratch, it won’t be a game that people will love.”
Do you agree with him?

>>388571571

Is this a motherfucking VA-11 Hall-A reference???

>>388578867
Might be, and better not be the only side activity in the game. I want to sing Karaoke with Kenshiro damn it,

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>>388574037
>pasta
>nyaa links

>>388582889
>Let's make everything OC donut steel instead of making the first good HnK game in decades
Yea, I have no hopes for the story

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>>388583060
>Kenshiro singing Machine gun kiss

MUH

>>388575010
>not killing yourself with the legendary technique that takes 60 years to take effect
it's like your not even already dead

>>388583090
nigger everyone knows the FOTNS story already, same with the DBZ games, let them try something new for once

>>388583090
Ken's Rage 2 already does the story justice, it's one of the few redeeming qualities of that game.

>>388583270
>Ken's rage 1 & 2
>Good

>>388573142
You dun fucked up real good. Go read the manga and watch the anime.

>>388571571
Do we have any idea who, if anyone, from the source material will be in this game? I've read it's its own self contained thing, yet we see people like shin in the trailer? so what the fuck are we getting? Are we going to get Raoh if we get shin (and I mean real raoh, not a copy paste like we usually get because Buronson can't top raoh)? Or bat and lin? apparently yuria is in the game, so what the fuck is going on?

>>388583358
Kill yourself you tasteless pleb if you didn't like the first one, you clearly never played it.

>>388583358
Ken's Rage 1 is a decent musou, 2 is trash but it shine in other aspects that arent gameplay

>>388575674
Gotta save Raoh for the sequel.

>>388583384
So far the only confirmed characters from the source material are Kenshiro, Yuria, Shin and Rei.
No Raoh, new OC donut steel villain that has exact same backstory as Raoh.

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>>388571571

>>388583423
>>388583386
>Defending bad games because they're not complete irredeemable trash
I can understand why you'd defend that if you only play garbage though.

>>388577625
Wait, really? I thought Tetsuo Hara going blind from one eye ternimated his career as drawing became extremely difficult to him, endgame chapters for Souten no Ken had to overseen and heavily redrawn by his assistants all the time due the perspective problems resulting from the loss of Tetsuo's depth perception.

>>388582889
Well he is not wrong.

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>>388583613
>bad games
have you played them?

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>>388571726
i like both, but that's very obvious yes,

>>388583484
>So far the only confirmed characters from the source material are Kenshiro, Yuria, Shin and Rei.
Damn, I remember one of the yakuza games had some quests with Haruka (I think, I haven't played it in quite a while) that we're pretty cute. Be kind of fun to do stuff like that with lin.
>No Raoh, new OC donut steel villain that has exact same backstory as Raoh.
Damn. Not that I expected anything different, because that's what we always get.

>>388577847
Freddie Mercury vs. Jonathan Joestar was actually a hype as fuck with the timing of the music and all. Part 2 gets hated on a lot, but I really liked it.

I also liked that one really generic Purple General guy, I think it was Soryuu or Soria with the Ring of Annihilation / Destruction technique.

>>388583484
>new OC donut steel villain that has exact same backstory as Raoh.
does he?

>>388571726
no shit. I don't hate jojo, but you have to be an idiot to put it above motherfucking HnK

Anyone have the webm of Ken bartending?

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>>388583686
He wasn't going blind, his disease doesn't make you go blind, it makes your eyeball literally "pop" which fucks up your perspective, and it did.
All Hara's recent works have really fucked perspective, pic related (from the 30th anniversary 2 chapter interquel set between HnK1 and HnK2) is especially egregious.
But his detail is all still there since it didn't make him go blind.
Plus he's taking meds and I think underwent surgery.

And if anyone wants that special chapter (full canon, written by Buronson and drawn by Hara), here you go:
http://www.hokutodestiny.com/file/47-hokuto-no-ken-last-piece-part-1-english-translation.html
http://www.hokutodestiny.com/file/49-hokuto-no-ken-last-piece-part-2-english-translation.html

>>388583714
Yes and unless all you play are omega force games it's pretty obvious how bad they are.

>>388583918
>does he?
Google translated from JP reveal.

>One of the guys who has a great power in this evil world who took in the fraud one after another and gathered up as a "evil king's army". Because he sticks to Eden and regularly raids Eden, he is feared by the people of Eden most. User of mystery Kenpo.

>>388571924
dozo

>>388584025
>that body
Wat

>>388584025
>Pic
Holy skeletor.

>>388584194
Tetsuo Hara's (HnK artist) rare eye disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus

>>388571726
>>388583757
>>388583938
I dunno guys. HnK gets really fucking bad after the timeskip. And the spinoffs aren't that great either.
JoJo has lower low points but has been getting consistently better

>>388584306
The spinoffs aren't canon mate if you mean the "Gaiden" stuff. And some of them are actually good, much better than HnK2.

>>388584168
He sounds like a regular power-hungry asshole while Raoh seemed more like a venerable demon type of tyrant

>>388584426
Have you looked at the guy's design? It's literally diet Raoh, again. >>388575674

>>388584276
>HnK artist
He is the series creator dude, Buronson was taken in to made Tetsuo's concept into an actual readable story, more like a writter to make the ride smoother, the Hokuto no Ken pilot is made solely by Tetsuo Hara.

>>388584025
That fucked up Jack Skellington style looks kind of neat though.

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>>388584306
>And the spinoffs aren't that great either.
Rei manga is cool, Thouzer comedy manga is way better than has any right to be, Toki manga was decent too.

>>388584631
I'm aware, but he's not the sole creator of HnK as we know it mate. Prototype and Souten no Ken are all Hara (and Horie), but Hokuto no Ken is Hara+Buronson+Horie.

>>388584924
>Thouzer
Horrible mistranslation.
It's supposed to be Souther (literally Sauza).

>>388584306
>And the spinoffs aren't that great either.
DD FOTNS is fun though

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Guys stop it. You are making me wanna rewatch my dvds of the series again and I forgot which episodes are the filler episodes.

>>388585098
It's the one they sticked with, give up dude, as much as Souther makes sense it will never be official.

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>>388580320
Show's over, boys. He's doing it on purpose.

>>388584025
what the fuck is that skellington

>>388585415
Anon, Souther IS official.
The official release of the series by Discotek Media, calls him Souther.
Literally the ONLY medium that called him Thouzer was the Musuo which was translated in-house by Koei. And Koei's translations are NOTORIOUSLY bad.

>>388585321
>and I forgot which episodes are the filler episodes.
Shin arc basically, not much after him can even be considered filler.

>>388585552
>Literally the ONLY medium that called him Thouzer
Nope, the ArcSys fighter also calls him that.

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>>388585451
>biting the bait

>>388585098
Thouzer / Thouser is awful, but I remember him by "Thouther" at one point.

Also in Dragon Ball Z character called Salza is Thouser as well.

>>388585480
Adult Rin, while never this much a skelly she was quite on the slim side of things, other women like Mamiya and Yuria had more curves than her,

>>388583073
that's the working nyaa, not the dead one

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>>388585565
I remember about 4 whole episodes, might be around the 80th episode where ken reflects on a few of the enemies hes defeted and friends that died.

But there was a few more with no action as well.

Screw it. Time to bust out my CRT.

>>388585651
The ArcSys fighter also has no English release so your point is moot, it's just proof that Japan is horrible at translating shit to English themselves.
The official material, the only material that got to Souther (since the manga's English official release never got that far), calls him Souther.
Ergo his official English name is Souther.
I don't give a shit what awful Japanese inbred elevens mistranslate it as.

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>>388585763
Correct, Lin was always skinny.

>>388585837
>The ArcSys fighter also has no English release
I'm gonna stop you right there. The PS2 port was never brought overseas.. But the arcade version was..in very limited from. But still counts.

I don't really care about the names though. I just wanna point that out.

>>388585763
ok, but why does lin look like a fucking skeleton or an ayy lmao? there's a huge fucking difference between skinny and that pic?

>>388586009
The arcade version wasn't translated, it simply had nothing to translate since it didn't have the story mode, only PS2 version did.

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>>388571571
>italians are so autistic about Kenshiro that they modded the PS3 games to look and sound like the anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4chHnRU8Nt4

>>388586131
Read the fucking thread and context you ADHD subhuman mongrel. Literally kill yourself.
Get cancer and die you piece of shit.

>>388586192
based as fuck

>>388586192
WHOA WHAT
I want that mod.

>>388586192
why is FOTNS so popular in Italy?

>>388586507
A lot of 80's anime/manga series are popular in Italy, many got official localizations there, Hokuto no Ken is one of them.

>>388586131
The series creator/artist has his eyesight partially fucked, it's a wonder he is even trying to draw still.

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>>388586507
Because Italian TV always aired popular to obscure japanese cartoons since the 70s
Many european/international translations were even based on italian adaptations, like Saint Seiy

>>388586803
but the dead people in that pic don't look too fucked up. Does it only affect it in certain ways?
still, that sucks. Good on him for keeping on

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>>388586507
>>388586667
>>388586353
>>388586260
Italians literally celebrated Raoh's funeral IRL

>>388586837
>Italy got Tiger Mask
>Neither the manga or anime will ever get translated into English

Fucking italy

>>388574037
Can I just read the manga up to HnK2 and drop it? Is the other material even canon?

>>388584306
HnK 2 may not be good, but fuck you, some of the spin offs are great. If you don't like DD FotNS you're a tasteless pleb.
But you also think that jojo has a chance at being better than HnK, so that was already clear

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>>388587102
goddamn.

>>388587102
was that a PR move like the one the japs held, or do they really love FotNS that much?

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>>388585109
>And the spinoffs aren't that great either.
Your taste is already dead.

>>388585109
This, it's the best FotN star series. It also included a few scenes from the manga that weren't in the anime.

>>388587102
im glad to know Australia wont be the only place to have a mad max type of post-apocalyptic situation

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>>388585109
>>388587398
>>388587618
anybody know a good place to get the manga online for DD FotNS? I can't seem to find it for the life of me
the anime was great though

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>>388587317
>Can I just read the manga up to HnK2 and drop it?
Why would you even drop it, it's still nice
HnK2 is basically half the content that actually followed HnK1

Like, fuck
Orca and the pirates
Lynn's sister
Kenshiro's biological brother
Raoh's son
the fucking darth vader army

>>388587317
>Can I just read the manga up to HnK2 and drop it?
Honestly anyone should only read till Raoh's death and just drop it, the part that made the HnK2 is not up to par, and the anime knew it had to end there because holy shit, anything after Kaioh's death is just fucked, Tetsuo and Buronson were definitely trying to get their asses cancelled with that.

>jewjew kooky quest underages shitting on hnk2 but creaming themselves over toDDler hokuto no ken
Im out.

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>We'll never get a game of this quality for HxH
Hiatus soon, fellow Hunters!

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>>388587513
>do they really love FotNS that much?
They do, it was their idea
Nothing to do with marketing

>>388587773
>>388587851
Is anything else canon?

>>388584025
I only ever watched the first dozen or so episodes of the HnK anime. Is Miss Skellington that same little girl from the beginning? Can she do magic brain-melting karate?

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>>388587882
>defending HnK 2

>>388571872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DFcmbLJVY
Especially the end of the clip

>>388588124
Souten no Ken is the official prequel made by them, it shows Kenshiro's uncle, Kasumi Kenshiro and his crazy antics on China.

>>388587948
cool

>>388587882
Everything after Raoh's death is fucking worse than fanfic-tier of writting

>>388588146
Yes it's Rin, there's a time-skip halfway through the manga, the anime goes out of its way to adapt it as a complete second series.

She doesn't become some crazy kung-fu warrior, she is just Mamiya 2.0, can only harm some minor cannon fodder, her real importance is being moral support for the army of Hokuto made in the timeskip.

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>>388588124
Like a book (they made three movies out of it), but there are so many spinoff manga

The Raoh manga (also anime)
Jagi manga (really good, should read this)
Rei manga (also good, pic related)
Yuria manga
Toki mnga (really boring)
Juza manga

The prequel manga (also anime)
Like five movies about the series
An old shitty tv movie

Like SIX official parody manga/anime

>>388578929
It's far better than fucking Evangelion I can tell you that

>>388578929
shoo shoo akagi

>>388586507
Italy got a lot of 80s anime. Another big one is Hurricane Polymar. It was popular enough in Italy that the new live-action movie I'm fairly certain is getting or did get an Italian release.

>>388589619
Kenshiro movies, Lupin movies, Seiya/Harlock movies, Dragonball movies, even Evangelion movies were released in italy.
But they don't like seeing live action japanese guys, so I don't think it'll get to the cinema

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>>388590182
Given Zaborger did, as well as that Kotetsu Jeeg movie, I doubt it they care about live action.

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>>388590629
>as well as that Kotetsu Jeeg movie

...they made it
It's an italian superhero movie and it's actually unrelated with japanese Jeeg

>>388571990
>Can't dislike the trannies sexually without being branded as Homophobe

And this is why nobody wants to touch them. Literally the most selfish people on the planet.

>>388586192
>>388587102
italians are now officially my niggas

>>388588792
Jagi Gaiden isn't canon.

>>388571990
What was the point of posting this?

>>388591661
Based on what?

>>388591784
It wasn't made Hara or Buronson.

>>388591891
Neither were literally all of the Gaidens, you moron. Picking out one specific one and going "NOT CANON" because of Hara and Buronson's non-involvement is arbitrary and stupid. Especially when Hara gave his blessings to them all. Including that Heart manga which features him as a shota.

>>388591661
NONE of the gaidens are canon m8. They're just sanctioned fanfiction.

Canon stuff is only the entirety of Hokuto no Ken and Souten no Ken manga.

>>388574578
This. Niggas think DBZ is slow this shit is another level.

>>388571571
When the walls fell.

>>388593370

temba, his sides wide