Hokuto no Ken: Raoh Gaiden Junai-hen

Highlights:
- The overall narrative was mostly cohesive and delivered well
- There are some exciting moments that get you pumped, especially when the cool 80s-style rock starts up!
- The heavy-handed and thick stroke outlines of the main characters give the visual presentation a cool flare

Criticisms:
- One of the characters seemed to be there for a brief moment to progress the story. It would have been nice to see a proper introduction and development
- The story is very simple, but is decent enough
- Some heavier moments seem to lack an emotional punch, likely due to the stoic delivery of some of the voice ... cast

Final thoughts - This isn't the best starting point for newcomers to Fist of the North Star. For that, I'd recommend the 1986 movie. This was actually quite a bit better than I'd imagined!

If you like this series, everything you'll expect and want is present here!

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Fist of the north star is probally one of my favorites of all time. The legend series was a good rebuild for the anime and it has some good parts and some parts that were less. Also please correct me on some parts since it was along time after i watch the movie also i'm suck at memorizing

Story 9/10:
The story was based on the original anime although it has some additional characters into it so the story were more enchanted since there were new characters like Raoh's retainers from the gaiden series

Art 8/10:
I like how the art was well-drawn and it looks like a more ... condesed version of the anime's artstyle following the Souther arc. But the fight scenes were not crispy enough, that's why i gave it an 8

Characters 9/10:
Most of the characters are brave men whom fights for either glory or other people's sake. The additional characters were Raoh's retainers, Soga and Reina. There were also a cameo character from the season 2 anime, Akashachi(Shachi's father). Soga's trick to get himself killed were also a good plot twist

Sound 9/10:
The sound is better than the sequel which takes place after the events of the souther arc. This one is genuienly better, the voice acting wasn't rushed and the soundtrack is good

Overall 9/10:
No matter how i watched this before, this movie still enjoyable and entertaining. The original might be had more emotions but i like to see them in high defitinition

The idea of the movie is good. had some errors of details of the personages, watch closely and you will see the minimal errors. It's no big deal, but it's still a mistake, do you agree? this movie compared to the movie Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Death in Love that took ¥ 500 million in Japan and $ 1,258,568 abroad, was well received, taking $ 1,479,911 in Japan. I did not look at much of the other films. following the trilogy of the movies, my comment should be much more critical, but I have no arguments to falsify and generalize the film. it was ... good just that.