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Feb 5, 2009 11:31 PM
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Silly Shin. Yuria hates you because your technique sucks. All you care about is penetration. Kenshiro knows how to press the right pressure points.

This episode proves that Kenshiro can be a badass while doing anything at all, up to and including helping old ladies cross the street. Plenty of hilarious action this episode, too. I think Kenshiro deflecting wrist-knives back at the Red Berets with his nunchaku is one of the funniest scenes in anime I've ever witnessed.
Feb 10, 2010 1:50 PM
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The fights are definitely hilarious in this anime. From Kenshiro's screams of "woootaaaaaaaaaaa" to random exploding heads...I love it though XD
Feb 21, 2010 9:06 AM
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5 out of 5: Loved it!
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Apr 12, 2010 10:28 AM
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Yeah, this is so 80s, the fights are absolutely hilarious.
ATATATATATATATATATA *all enemies die from deflected knives*
Dec 9, 2010 10:29 PM
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My favorite episode so far. I loved when he stopped that giant's attack with his fingers.
May 18, 2012 9:33 AM
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I hope this series gets more of an interesting plot soon.

I'm not a big fan of how needlessly violent Ken is, even if they are a bad guys. Is it really necessary? Just kill them quickly. No need to torture them for a bit first.
Jun 12, 2012 8:46 AM
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glitchhunter said:


I'm not a big fan of how needlessly violent Ken is, even if they are a bad guys. Is it really necessary? Just kill them quickly. No need to torture them for a bit first.


I think the idea is that Ken makes the bad guys suffer just as much as their victims usually do. I kind of like it.
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Sep 24, 2012 9:55 PM
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glitchhunter said:
I'm not a big fan of how needlessly violent Ken is, even if they are a bad guys.
If you aren't into gratuitous bloodshed, this series isn't for you.
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Oct 9, 2012 1:00 PM
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naikou said:
I think Kenshiro deflecting wrist-knives back at the Red Berets with his nunchaku is one of the funniest scenes in anime I've ever witnessed.
Yes and his voice was hilarious too.

I like that I got to see a new pressure point, I wonder what else he could make them do besides strangling themselves.
Jan 7, 2013 8:08 AM

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naikou said:
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Silly Shin. Yuria hates you because your technique sucks. All you care about is penetration. Kenshiro knows how to press the right pressure points.


Lol, i see what you did there.
Mar 8, 2014 1:17 AM

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Kenshiro sees bad guys

WATATATATATATATATA

Omae wa mo shindeiru

Fight over
May 19, 2014 6:09 AM
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Kenshiro using the nunchucks made me laugh so hard I woke my flatmates up.

I think I love Fist Of The North Star because of how goddamn cheesy it is, and I can't stop watching.
Jul 10, 2014 12:34 AM

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insan3Spectre said:
glitchhunter said:


I'm not a big fan of how needlessly violent Ken is, even if they are a bad guys. Is it really necessary? Just kill them quickly. No need to torture them for a bit first.


I think the idea is that Ken makes the bad guys suffer just as much as their victims usually do. I kind of like it.

Yea it's a pretty interesting way of defeating the main bad guy of each episode. Too bad this one didn't have the countdown.
May 3, 2015 2:55 PM

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Bart trying to be Ken's "Manager" lol

Man, God's Army kicking Peru, glad Kenshiro owned them with the nunchucks.

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Jan 21, 2016 5:32 AM

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Oh snap, you know he's serious when he breaks out the Nunchuks!
Jan 10, 2018 7:23 AM
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The God´s army was a little joke for Ken!!! kekeke
Jan 31, 2018 4:37 PM

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Even though this show is very formulaic they keep it interesting with over the top violence and variations on Kenshiro's killing techniques. The body manipulation employed in the final fight was my favorite so far.
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Ken letting that guy strangle himself to death was cruel.

Nunchucks were epic xD

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Feb 11, 2018 11:52 PM

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What a fitting way to die for bad people
By killing himself, well technically he is
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Apr 18, 2018 8:24 PM

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Imagine training for years, maybe even decades, and going through so much shit just to be easily one shotted by some random man you've never seen before lmaooooo
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Apr 24, 2019 4:59 PM

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Although not as bad as the bandits since you can bribe them, these army guys are still douchebags.
Oct 15, 2019 4:31 PM

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That nazi dude got strangulated by himself
ken is still badass
Dec 23, 2019 6:28 AM

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Looks like we got some military evil guys to defeat....and they are already dead...

Sep 16, 2021 4:21 PM

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Loved this episode. Ken saving the old woman, beating the guard with a neck-twisting, facebreaking punch, stopping the giant guy's punches with just a finger, the way he finished that last guy, ... Everything was good.

I like that he shows mercy at times by "stunning" people (or in case of the giant, just severing the muscles) and at other times he makes people suffer in their final moments. It's poetic justice at its finest.

Oct 20, 2023 11:06 AM

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I guess oases also exist in this world. But it doesn't make much sense why other people don't flock there but instead live in remote locations with no food and water. If I heard the slightest rumor of a place like this I'd bet everything and rush there even if I don't know if it exists if I don't have food and water. But I guess people like God Army keep other people away. Because nothing describes God's mercy better than keeping people away from it.

Entertaining episode. The way Ken made that guy strangle himself with his own weapon was cold af.

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