REVIEW: Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 8:59AM 
Disclaimer: This review will make no mention of anyone being already dead. As one of my earliest memories of pure gangsta, and one of my favorite quotes to this day, Ken's "you're already dead" line is being done a disservice with it's laugh-inducing overuse in every damn Ken's Rage article written since it's first mention.
One of my fondest memories as a doe-eyed tween in the early 90's was being lent a VHS of Fist of the North Star from my much older friend and neighbor. The movie's exploding heads and bleak outlook was a huge departure from the cartoons I was used to watching, and I loved every minute of it. So forgive me if there is a special place in my heart for my first experience with anime, and what was a great influence in laying the Otaku But Gangsta groundwork. Twenty years removed, would Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage have the same effect on me as it's source material?