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The Hokuto no Ken arcade games
Hokuto no Ken in the arcade: Konami's Punch Mania / Fighting Mania (2000), the punch-pad cabinet that made the player the successor, and Arc System Works' 2005…
The Hokuto no Ken Famicom games
Toei Animation's eight Nintendo games of Hokuto no Ken: the four Famicom titles (1986 to 1991), the NES Fist of the North Star by Taxan, the Game Boy's 10 Big…
The Hokuto no Ken manga gallery: all 27 Jump Comics covers
All 27 original Jump Comics covers of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star), Shueisha 1984 to 1989, painted by Tetsuo Hara, verified volume by volume with…
How can you tell a first printing of Hokuto no Ken?
How to identify first printings of the Hokuto no Ken Jump Comics volumes: the Shueisha imprint and ISBN blocks, the colophon printing line, matching the release…
How did Hokuto no Ken influence video games?
Hokuto no Ken's influence on video games: Double Dragon's wasteland, the fatality finishing move Mortal Kombat inherited, the Famicom Shinken column and Yuji…
How does Tetsuo Hara draw Hokuto no Ken?
Tetsuo Hara's method on Hokuto no Ken: twenty pages a week, painted covers, death cries invented as comedy, an editor who never praised him, and the eye disease…
How many editions of Hokuto no Ken are there?
The Japanese editions of Hokuto no Ken counted and explained: 27 Jump Comics volumes, the 15-volume aizoban and bunkoban, the 31-volume Bunch World set, the…
How was the Hokuto no Ken anime censored?
How the Hokuto no Ken anime was censored: the TV series' toned-down, discolored violence, the complaints in Japan and France, the 1986 film's ultra-violence and…
The history of Hokuto no Ken
From two Fresh Jump one-shots in 1983 to a five-year Weekly Shonen Jump run, 27 Jump Comics volumes, 152 anime episodes and over 100 million copies: the…
What are the English editions of Fist of the North Star?
The three English editions of Fist of the North Star: Viz Communications' unfinished monthly comics of 1989 to 1997, Gutsoon's colorized Master Edition (nine…
What Fist of the North Star video games are there?
The Fist of the North Star games counted: from Enix's 1986 PC adventure and the Sega and Famicom games of the 1980s, through the Arc System Works arcade fighter…
What Hokuto no Ken anime came after the TV series?
The Hokuto no Ken anime after the 1984 TV series: the 1986 film, New Fist of the North Star (2003), the Legends of the True Savior films and OVAs (2006 to 2008),…
What inspired Hokuto no Ken?
The documented inspirations of Hokuto no Ken: Mad Max 2 and Blade Runner, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, Bruce Lee and Yusaku Matsuda, an acupressure anecdote found in…
What is Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise?
Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise (Hokuto ga Gotoku, 2018): Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's PS4 action adventure, an original story in the city of Eden, Yakuza's…
What is Hokuto no Ken: Ken's Rage?
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage (Hokuto Musou, 2010) and Ken's Rage 2 (Shin Hokuto Musou, 2012): Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors treatment of the manga,…
What is Hokuto no Ken LEGENDS ReVIVE?
Fist of the North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE: Sega's mobile action RPG, launched worldwide September 5, 2019 for iOS and Android, retelling the manga from chapter one…
What is Hokuto Shinken?
Hokuto Shinken explained: the 1,800-year-old assassination art of Hokuto no Ken, its 708 secret channeling points (keiraku hiko), the single-successor rule,…
What is the Hokuto no Ken pilot?
The two Hokuto no Ken prototype one-shots Tetsuo Hara published in Fresh Jump in April and June 1983: a present-day Kenshiro Kasumi, the Taizanji Kenpo…
Which Weekly Shonen Jump issues have Hokuto no Ken on the cover?
The verified Weekly Shonen Jump cover appearances of Hokuto no Ken: the 1983 issue 41 debut, the 1985 New Year double issue, and the all-Hokuto special of 1986,…
Who is Buronson, the writer of Hokuto no Ken?
Buronson is Yoshiyuki Okamura (born 1947): Air Self-Defense Force radar mechanic, Hiroshi Motomiya's assistant, the Charles Bronson nickname, Doberman Deka, Fist…
Why are Black Belt and Last Battle Hokuto no Ken games?
Black Belt (Master System) and Last Battle (Genesis) are Sega's Hokuto no Ken games with the license stripped: what Sega changed in 1986 and 1989, Kenshiro…
