Current Events > Fist of the North Star inspired DBZ.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbY_3HmeCmU

that shit looks just like DBZ fam

The correct translation of Hokuto no Ken is Fist of the Big Dipper

It also inspired Jo Jo's, so at least something good was made due to Fist of the North Star inspiration.

Fist of the North Star inspired quite a bit of media in its heyday.

Also, when the heck is the anime revival supposed to come out? Would be nice for it to finally do some cleaning up of the plot.

BombermanGold posted...

Fist of the North Star inspired quite a bit of media in its heyday.

Also, when the heck is the anime revival supposed to come out? Would be nice for it to finally do some cleaning up of the plot.

Oh? This has me interested.

10-20

Makes me wonder where the DBZ clones were. Were there any other shows with muscular flying characters punching and throwing planet-destroying energy blasts at each other?

sabin017 posted...

Makes me wonder where the DBZ clones were. Were there any other shows with muscular flying characters punching and throwing planet-destroying energy blasts at each other?

Yes, many of which came out before DBZ, like Fist of the North Star and Saint Seiya.

Saint Seiya would have similar before Dragon Ball, just not quite as the level of DBZ.

Fist of the North Star? lol no, it has the usual flair of overpowerful mystical martial artists, but no one flew around and anyone that threw ki attacks were rare and introduced late into the series primarily as opponents of Kenshiro.

BombermanGold posted...

Saint Seiya would have similar before Dragon Ball, just not quite as the level of DBZ.

Fist of the North Star? lol no, it has the usual flair of overpowerful mystical martial artists, but no one flew around and anyone that threw ki attacks were rare and introduced late into the series primarily as opponents of Kenshiro.

You can literally see them flying and shooting Ki beams in the video lol

Toriyama's editor admits that he modeled DB post Pilaf after Fist to make the series popular

Clearly, you forget that IS the anime movie that exaggerated a ton from the manga and old anime series.

Up until that point in the series, Ken, Juda, Toki and Raoh were the only ones that threw out any plasma (and Ken only did it twice, Toki only once as one hell of an intro).
And no one could actually fly. They just jump real good (a thing that a lot of Chinese Martial Arts films loved doing, even way back then).

BombermanGold posted...

Clearly, you forget that IS the anime movie that exaggerated a ton from the manga and old anime series.

It was a very successful movie so

@BombermanGold lol these aren't Ki attacks to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iSr3in6GQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7BNjPFiFs

even if literal laser beams weren't common in fist, ki attacks were hella common

It was mostly wushu martial arts films, actually. But this definitely inspired the Anime.

TC didn't seem to understand what I was trying to get across. -_-

Unless ki attack = anything that has a glowing aura, even if not fired off like a projectile (which, when shot off like well, a Kamehameha, usually is what people think of as a Ki attack).

BombermanGold posted...

TC didn't seem to understand what I was trying to get across. -_-

Unless ki attack = anything that has a glowing aura, even if not fired off like a projectile (which, when shot off like well, a Kamehameha, usually is what people think of as a Ki attack).

You can literally see Raoh pushing Ken back when a Ki wave; that's basically a Kamehameha right there lol

You still misunderstood.

I didn't say they didn't use them. I said it was rare throughout the series, and up until the end of the first part of HNK (Raoh's arc), only those I had listed in an earlier post had USED such up until that final fight with Ken and Raoh.

HNK2 anime they became more frequent with the bad guys using such (demonstrated with Ken's first major opponent having a style that focuses on flinging plasma, and it just increased from there).