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pianocello
07-11-2008, 10:16 PM
I've seen quite a number of times that there have been parodies of Fist of the North Star in various anime.
In Abenobashi and Seto no Hanayome, the male leads suddenly turn into the male lead of FotNS. Then there's the horrifying gender reversed parody in Project A-ko. And there's even a hentai parody in Marine A-Go Go (I think that's the title - it's been a while) where they parody it by having a "penis of the north star" :rolleyes:
Any other FotNS parodies in anime?
Digital Boy
07-11-2008, 10:22 PM
I'm pretty sure that Urusei Yatsura had a scene (due to Akira Kamiya being a voice actor on both) also, I think Excel Saga had a scene
Rando
07-11-2008, 11:21 PM
I'm pretty sure that Urusei Yatsura had a scene (due to Akira Kamiya being a voice actor on both) also, I think Excel Saga had a scene
Didn't Kenshiro have a cameo in Urusei Yatsura?
Excel Saga had a whole episode making fun of the series.
Zalis
07-12-2008, 01:25 AM
Here is Greenwood had a character punching out a sliding paper-door in FotNS style.
Lucky Star invoked the "you are already dead" line when Souichirou Izumi demonstrated his mosquito-killing technique.
I can't recall right now, but I'm sure Hayate the Combat Butler! worked FotNS in somewhere.
The "villain" in the first episode of Trigun looked suspiciously similar to Z/Zed/Zeta/whatever his name is from FotNS.
Tofurkey
07-12-2008, 01:52 AM
Some guy did an AMV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj4fh45fBZo) with music from the Karate Kid a while back.
djanss
07-12-2008, 03:06 PM
Then there's the horrifying gender reversed parody in Project A-ko.
And Mari's not-so-silent-but-deadly variation on "You will be dead in three seconds", in A-Ko 2.
I'm pretty sure that Urusei Yatsura had a scene (due to Akira Kamiya being a voice actor on both)
A new student at Tomobiki briefly has an eerie resemblance to Ken, before being decked by Kotatsu-Neko... :catgirl:
Randall Miyashiro
07-12-2008, 11:34 PM
There is a couple of times in Gantz when it is subtly mentioned. The ending of Hellsing (I think episode 3) there is a character who is singing the OP credits song for Ken 2. It is also parodied in an early GTO episode and of course Excel Saga.
Yukino Miyazawa
07-13-2008, 03:47 PM
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fist_of_the_North_Star#References_in_other_wo rks) mentions some references:
In the ninth episode of School Rumble, Kenji Harima tells a story similar to the first season of Fist of the North Star, where he fashions himself as Kenshiro and fights an array of wildly dressed muscular minions in a post-apocalyptic desert world in an attempt to save his love, who is taken captive by his archrival who lives in a castle and dresses similar to Shin.
An episode of Mahoromatic features a female character claiming to grow more powerful with the more clothing she removes, referring to the technique as "Fist of the Nude Star".
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo makes regular references to this series. Every character who fights has at least one "Shinken" technique, most notably the title character's "Hanage Shinken", or "Fist of the Nose Hair", a reference to Kenshirou's "Hokuto Shinken". However, shinken is spelled differently. Similarly, the "brothers of Hokuto Shinken" are referred through the "Hair Children", five siblings, each with seven syllables in their names with a different vowel following the letter "B" who mastered the five separate Hair Styles. Similarly, some of the relations between the siblings mirror those in Fist of the North Star: Bo-bobo and his brother, Hair Kingdom leader Bibibi-bi Bi-bibi, mirror the relations between Kenshiro and Raoh, while Bububu-bu Bu-bubu (the only female of the siblings) takes on the Toki role as rebel leader and inspiration for Bo-bobo during his final battle.
In Air Gear, after the main hero Ikki had eaten poisonous mushrooms due to a misunderstanding, he dons a headband with the name Daigoin Jaki, after Kenshiro's brother Jagi.
Jūken Sentai Gekiranger has numerous references to Kenshiro's Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken technique. In episode 15, Gekiyellow is also able to do a variation of the Hokuto Zankai Ken by inserting her thumbs into the opponent's head with a similar yet non-lethal result.
In the 3rd episode of Hellsing Ultimate, the Major can be heard singing the first few lines of one fo the opening themes to the the Fist of the Northstar anime as they prepare to make war on England.
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