Fist of the North Star

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This article is awesome. Do not fuck it up.

Setting aside the fact that it's Manga and Anime and thus Weeaboo for a moment, this is the single manliest show in existence. If you got Vance Motherfucking Stubbs, Colonel "I Ripped Off an Eldar Farseer's Leg and Beat Her to Death With It" Straken, General Sturnn, Gabriel Angelos, and Commissar Fuklaw to get together and produce a show using only their pure manliness, this is dangerously similar to what they would probably come up with.

Fist of the North Star is a series taking place in a post-apocalyptic world wherein mankind has descended into barbarism and the strong prey upon the weak. Into this horrid world, there is a man who is trained in a martial arts style called Hokuto Shin Ken, which is centered around punching people using their pressure points and causing them to explode in fountains of gore, like an Angry Marine feeding someone a Plasma Grenade. This man is Kenshiro, a genuinely good-hearted protagonist who protects the weak and who is searching for his Fiance, Yuria. And it only gets more epic from there. The series leads across a dizzying array of support characters and antagonists, ranging from hilarious and uplifting to terrifying and tragic.

Fuckawesomeness ensues.

It is a work of such power and depth that it truly transcends its medium, and it was notorious for shattering the "men cannot cry" crap that occured in the 1980s by having the protagonist openly shedding manly tears over his few honorable rivals and the disadvantaged. It's a powerful show - as well as a hilariously awesome campaign setting for GURPS or d20 Modern if you want to take it to its extreme, and several fa/tg/uys have already done so.

Chuck Norris wishes he was anywhere near as awesome as any of the protagonists in this series. Even the fucking little girl.

Fist of the North Star and /tg/

Fist of the North Star is considered one of the only manga/anime works that /tg/ will openly tolerate, if only because it's widely considered fucking awesome and 100% distilled manliness. General gist is that it's about the only Manga/Anime /tg/ will openly tolerate, and that's fucking unique. Suffice to say, there's a few amusing examples of Fist of the North Star's influence on /tg/.

It is often joked that one of several commanders of the Manly Marines is an expy for Kenshiro.

Additionally, the infamous Ranger build, which /tg/ used to break 4e before it even came out, Kenshiro Cascadero "Rattata" Orcuslayer, is named for Kenshiro.

If this isn't enough, several DMs have run humorous and hilarious campaigns in GURPs and d20 Modern by using Fist of the North Star as an example. The combination of a post-apocalyptic world and the fact that the martial arts the protagonists and antagonists use is a form that makes people explode (unless they are using Nanto Seiken, in which case it tears them apart in a matter similar to an Eversor) is a bit of curiousity that has never truly gotten old.