


Best anime of season Binbougami-ga! has been further expanding its already vast array of parody elements with yet more subjects, including some none-too-subtle references to a certain exploding punk anime…
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Japanese women in their twenties asked what shonen manga they would like to see their prospective sons reading yield up a list with several interesting surprises.
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North Star Warriors seems set to enter into the shoddy port hall of fame – some benchmarking tags its load times as 8 seconds on the PS3 versus 62 seconds on the Xbox 360.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Apr 8, 2010 19:52 JST
- Tags: DLC, Fist of the North Star, Koei, Marketing, Oppai, Oshiri, PS3, Xbox 360



The latest DLC for North Star Warriors has proved an immediate hit for reasons which should be obvious.
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Hokuto Musou (“North Star Warriors”), the latest in Koei’s famed Musou/Dynasty Warriors brawler series and the first to feature Fist of the North Star, has proved a great hit in Japan with 500,000 units shipped to retailers.
Plenty of bloody gameplay videos have emerged for those curious about Kenshiro’s latest antics, and just how successful Mamiya’s corset is in countering jiggle.
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Japanese asked which anime and manga had the greatest influence over them as children, shaping their lives and aspirations, gave a surprisingly uniform set of answers, with titles such as Gundam and Fist of the North Star evidently doing much to shape the minds of entire generations…
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Impressive and bloody details of new Fist of the North Star brawler Hokuto Musou have surfaced, and it looks as if another blockbuster entry into the Musou series is imminent, along with plenty of flying entrails.
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When 10,000 anime and manga fans were asked “who is the strongest character?”, the results were rather predictably dominated by a lengthy list of characters from top shonen manga…
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Hokuto Musou (Dynasty Warriors: Fist of the North Star) has been formally announced as being set for a multi-platform release in 2010.
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The latest K-ON! crossover offers an antidote to the excessive moe blobbery of the original in the form of a manly dose of Kenshiro.
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As we heard, the latest instalment in the titanic (literally in the case of the main characters) Fist of the North Star franchise is 北斗の拳 天の覇王ラオウ外伝 / Hokuto no Ken – Ten no Haou – Raou Gaiden, a story eschewing usual protagonist Kenshiro in favour of telling the tale of Raoh’s rise to power.
Or more accurately, it tales the tale of another man who makes heads explode and knocks down buildings with his fists.
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Air dates of the latest anime in the immortal Fist of the North Star franchise have emerged, due October; the title is an adaptation of manga sub-story 北斗の拳 天の覇王ラオウ外伝 / Hokuto no Ken – Ten no Haou – Raou Gaiden, focussed unsurprisingly on Raoh’s antics, with him centre stage.
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