The world is now covered with bands of mohawked ruffians who prey on the weak. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future, after a nuclear war sometime during the 1990s has leveled civilization. The manga lasted nearly six years in Weekly Shonen Jump with 27 collected volumes. Essentially Mad Max meets a Bruce Lee film, North Star became a classic of 80s Shōnen manga manga, and subject to many parodies, seen in sources such as Seto no Hanayome, Excel Saga, and School Rumble (but none so much so as Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo). Fist of the North Star ( Hokuto no Ken, literally the "Fist of the Big Dipper") is the quintessential " guy who looks and sounds like Bruce Lee wandering the post-apocalyptic wasteland makes people explode with his fists and cries lots of Manly Tears" manga.
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