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2 unusual facts about Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage


Ai o Torimodose!!

A heavy metal arrangement of the song is featured on the Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage soundtrack.

Takeshi Mori

Takeshi Mori (voice actor), Japanese voice actor who has supplied voices for a number of video games including Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War


Bachata Romántica: 1's

The album includes tracks recorded by several artists from the bachata genre, such as Aventura, Ivy Queen, R.K.M. & Ken-Y, Jayco, Watson Brazoban, José Feliciano, Monchy & Alexandra, Frank Reyes, El Chaval de la Bachata, Zacarías Ferreíra, Daniel Monción, Fanny Lú, Toby Love and Xtreme, featuring content dating back to 2004.

Crystal King

Crystal King, a Japanese rock band active since 1979, known for performing the original theme song for the anime TV series Fist of the North Star

Elisha Kane

McGoogan, Ken, Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures and Romantic Obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane (Toronto, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2008. ISBN 978-0-00-200776-4)

Gaiden

Works that includes the use of the word gaiden in their titles include Fire Emblem Gaiden, Ten no Haō Hokuto no Ken Raō Gaiden (spin-off of Fist of the North Star, which is told through the eyes of Kenshiro's brother, Raoh) or Albert Odyssey Gaiden (released in English as Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean).

Lugger

Shearwood, Ken (1972) Evening Star: the story of a Cornish lugger.

Mazinkaizer SKL

Garan's forces are styled after the marauder types from Fist of the North Star and Mad Max 2.

Medwyn Goodall

One of Goodall's tracks, "Free Spirit" from his album Meditations and Visualisations (2001) features the same Spectrasonics "Distorted Reality" sample featured in the "Summer Forest" music in the video game Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, as composed by Stewart Copeland.

Mizar and Alcor

Of incidental note, the popular Japanese manga, Fist of the North Star, used this legend as a model for its death omen star (死兆星), in which it was said that people who saw the star would die later in the year.

Nobuaki Kakuda

He named his son Kenshiro (賢士朗) and daughter Yuria (友里亜) after characters from Fist of the North Star.

Oniken

Zaku's character design was highly inspired by that of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star fame.

Ramkrishna Dalmia

Auletta, Ken: “Citizens Jain - Why India's Newspaper Industry is Thriving“.

Toyoo Ashida

He was most notable for directing the Fist of the North Star Series and Vampire Hunter D and for character designs on Vifam, Wataru, Minky Momo and F-Zero GP Legend.


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