Look the thing ultimately Hokuto no Ken is if you're not reading the manga or watching the original anime you're doing it wrong. Every attempt for them to refresh the story makes it worse, even when it doesn't look and sound like an embarrassment. There is nothing to gain by doing anything else.

April 11, 2026 - 02:37 UTC

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What rules is when we say "doing HnK again never works" that includes Fist of the Blue Sky.
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oh 100% true
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They made a manga out of my favorite pachinko machine??
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My standards aren't nearly that high, but I have to say - the original anime's OST is such a major part of it that I do feel like every adaptation afterwards just can't compare in that regard. it's one of the greatest OSTs in the entire medium www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRJ-yvm-swc
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It is SO important oh my gosh like you cannot separate it from that 80s kung fu vibe. you NEED funky trumpets!
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it's so timeless. I still have this on regular rotation.

youtu.be/Ldxu_j7_vII
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(this video includes a lot of the theme songs for various localizations as well, which are honestly really admirable efforts that i think also manage to do it justice)
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I'm not even a big fan of the og anime but this remake is so self-evidently worse in every aspect it genuinely begs the question of why they even bothered.
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i dont think it can work without the extremely specific visual style of that era of anime/manga tbh
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and it needs to be watched with the objectively superior italian opening theme.
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Mai, mai
Scorderai
L'attimo
La terra che tremò
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Like they got those really good looking movies and they have so fun fights and can be fun to watch if you've seen everything before, but they're STILL a worse version of all those stories.
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