The Fist of Kenshiro

Imagine a Mad Max like world. Naked nuclear wasteland, brutal motor gangs, desperate people who had lost all hope of life. Add a few tons of superpowers and you'll get what is "The North Star Fist."
In Toyoo Ashida's cult movie, released by Toei Animation, like Otomo’s Akira, there is also a sense of lack of completeness in the plot. This is because behind the 110-minute anime stand 245 chapters (a total of 27 volumes) of black and white manga, in which the action is taken to the limit, exploring the fates of many characters who are only slightly hinted at in the film.
And because the Japanese at the time (mid-80s) were totally crazy to imitate Americans and English-speaking countries, the Fist was no exception to its pro-Western orientation of the plot and atmosphere. Not a pinch, but a whole spoonful of unruly violence is added, which stains the screens every few minutes in bloody red.

A completely relevant topic, given the events that are shaking the planet at this moment, the story of Hokuto No Ken traces the life of Kenshiro, a young fighter and pacifist who is trying to survive and bring back the greenery of the world destroyed decades ago by nuclear war. In this world, relying on the laws of the jungle, only the strongest survive. The weak are exhausted and fall victim to rocker gangs of mutated men seeking revenge for their own miserable fate.
Kenshiro, a supernatural crossbreed between Bruce Lee, Sylvester Stallone and Max Rockatansky, after graduating from glass for hired killers, studying the art of hokuto shinken, begins the journey around the world, searching for the remnant of human virtues, deeply buried beneath the surviving bodies and minds.

His main enemy is the master of the powerful nanto-seiken martial art - Shin, who manages to defeat Ken at first and leave his agonizing body with seven marks on his chest. Shen abduct Ken’s fiancée – Yuria, and Kenshiro embarks on a long quest, during which he encounters dozens of powerful opponents, mutants, and desert kings.
The manga’s biggest plus is the art, which masterfully manages to capture the violence and combine it with this strange era, which can emerge in our future as an inevitable dark curtain of fiery pillars
This manga reinforces my personal opinion that in the 1980s this art was flourishing in all genres.

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