Hokuto no Ken Discussion Thread

Yes the Toki OVA is out and it’s decent. Jesus beam makes an appearance.

The women look more feminine but art seems more plain. Animation and art during the Toki-Raoh fight is a bit different especially.

any info on the Kenshiro volume?

i have a feeling that will be a let down as well.

They havent improved the OVAs at all and learned from the previous ones.

Also who is wishing for one day to see a post-Shin Hnk animation or manga? I’d like to see to what extent Ken goes

Does anyone wonder why Shin listened to Jagi at all? Jagi sucks so much I would have killed him if he got close to me.

Yuria could be the only reason why.

http://www.toei-anim.com/ondemand

So, Toei is taking HnK in English in its own hands by subbing HnK episodes and selling them digitally. Had no idea this was going on, but they haven’t started apparently. I wonder if a new dub is on the way as well. It’d be fantastic if the manga saw a full release as well. I’d support the hell out of those.

^That’s a good tidbit, thanks for posting that. Anyone know if there’s any new info about the Ten No Haoh tv series?

You can watch the first ep of the new on demand release on IGN for free.

^ ill vouch, it is top quality and no commercials.

Anyone here read Souten no Ken/Fist of the Blue Heavens Vol. 1?
That was an awesome start for the serious, I really like Ken’s personality in it.
…but…why the heck do Ryuken and Ken look like HnK Kenshiro? I thought Ryuken wasn’t blood related to Kenshiro?

Actually that is the ryuken of the regular Hnk series when he was younger. Kenshiro of Snk is his half brother and ryuken name the baby kenshiro after his older brother because both of them was born with the same big dipper birth mark on their heads.

No no no no no, I am asking why HnK Kenshiro looks like SnK Ryuken and SnK Kenshiro when they are not even Blood related.
Vol. 2 is out people, if anyone wants it, HOLA AT ME!

They were hoping you’d forget that they werent blood related. They could be blood related but the chances of that are rare

Finally finished the Raoh Arc :p(after rewatching episodes I liked without making any progress for like a month.), starting HnK2 and am planning to get caught up on SnK since I stopped on ep 2. Still no information on Ten No Haoh, but yea, finishing the Raoh Arc, am I the only one who actually likes the 80s series more than the new gaiden ovas? Besides the fact the new ovas take several storyline liberties like the 1980’s movie did, I just like the old series better overall, even though the movies have much better animation.

EDIT: Btw, would anyone know if there was a place I could get Ai Wo Torimodose as a ringtone?

I watched like half of the first OVA and it was very off putting because of the new VA’s. Kenshiro wasn’t Kenshiro, Raoh was definitely not Raoh, and Souther got really screwed. Nobody could hope to emulate his awesomely deep voice and it sucked that they didn’t even try.

^definetly agree there, Raoh/Souther’s old seiyuu > new. Raoh’s final scene in Gekitou no Shou was a little too fast paced for me compared to the epic end in the series.

Not only that, but most of the new OVAs were just eye candy. I hope that after the Kenshiro OVA, which Im not too hopeful about seeing as they havent improved their game at all throughout the movies, that we see something post SHnK.

OMFG, Art of War, the people who make the Berserk statues and merchandise, have picked up Hokuto no Ken as an addition to their line. Why the OMFG? Because they’re starting with a Raoh helmet O_O.

http://www.art-of-war.co.jp/english/items/detail.php?gid=230

The official name for Art of War’s HnK brand is “Ken-Oh”. :smiley:

Now we got the anime basically accounted for, the merchandise accounted for… manga resurrection not too far behind?

Would love any kind of continuation

Ten No Haoh website has gotten a small update, now there’s more of an actual site, the prologue/music sections can be clicked but not much there yet.

http://www.haoh.tv/

Also the Hokuto No Ken Online Website has received an update too and a new trailer:

http://www.hokutonoken-online.jp/

I deleted this message to repost this

http://www.hokuto-no-ken.jp/kekkon/

There’s going to be a RL Ken/Yuria “Soul Wedding”. L.O.L.