*Translated from Japanese.
There are so many Shout Outs to Fist of the North Star in most comedy anime that we'd be here all day pointing them out, but...Anime & Manga
- Excel♡Saga: After F City is destroyed, the rest of the series is more or less a continuous Shout-Out, with Excel as Ken fighting the Z Gang from the first episode along with a sidekick named Pad, a reference to the original Bratty Half-Pint, Bat.
- Dr. STONE: The 100 Stories' version of Momotarō looks a lot like Kenshiro, complete with his iconic chest-scars.
- GTO: The Early Years: In Chapter 76, Minamino says his "ultimate technique" is "the one from Fist of the North Star", and Kenshiro's star markings appear on his chest.
- Great Teacher Onizuka: Onizuka fights a group of punks harassing his students with Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken, the series' signature Spam Attack. He also draws Ken's seven-point scars on his chest with magic marker and screams about a woman named Yuria, Ken's fiancee.
- In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, during the battle with Ungalo's Bohemian Rhapsody, a nearby television mentions that Kenshiro defeated Raoh at Tokyo.
- Mari, the Huge Schoolgirl from the original Project A-Ko, is pretty much just Kenshiro in drag.
- In the episode of Abenobashi set in a parallel Hong-Kong-action-movie world, Sasshi undergoes a painful (and funny) training, at the end of which he looks like Ken, complete with scars on the chest. And when Mune-Mune hugs him, his head expands and then he deflates like a balloon, returning back to normal, a G-rated version of the many splatterrific deaths of the show.
- The end credits of Girls Band Party! PICO! Fever has Yukina and Ran reenacting the Kenshiro vs. Shin jump kick scene.
- My Bride is a Mermaid: When Nagasumi Took a Level in Badass to rescue his wife Sun from kidnappers, he turns into a parody of Kenshiro.
- Time Stop Hero: When Leafa chops Kuzuno Sekai in the face and breaks his nose, he incredulously says she used the Rocky Mountain Splitting Wave. Sekai nicknames the world beyond the Nether Gate the "Land of Asura". Later, he nicknames a mountain tribe "the Fang Clan". They don't get the reference.
- YuYu Hakusho: Bui looks similar to Kaioh and like him, uses his armor as a Power Limiter on his highly destructive Battle Aura.
Fan Works
- Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod: Chapter 4's execution ends with Tetsuo dying on his feet with his fist raised to the sky — just like Raoh.
- Pokémon Crossing: One of the main characters nicknames their Pokémon 'Kenshiro' after the Pokémon in question (an Aron) rejects the nickname Jagi.
Films — Animated
- The Transformers: The Movie: Backgrounds from the '80s anime appear
◊ inside Unicron when he devours Lithone. Of note is that both the anime and the movie were produced by Toei Animation.
Video Games
- Touhou Hisoutensoku ~ Choudokyuu Ginyoru no Nazo o Oe: Many of Utsuho Reiuji's poses and attacks are copies of Souther's, especially as he is seen in Twin Blue Stars of Judgement. Additionally, Reimu's ultimate spellcard, Innate Dream, is a direct reference to Musou Tensei. The music even changes to a mixture of Mystic Oriental Love Consultation (One of Reimu's theme songs) and Sentoo! from the Fist of the North Star, called Mystic Oriental Love Consultation (End of the Century Ver.).
Visual Novels
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair allows you to come across a statue of Sakura Ogami from the first game replicating Raoh's pose as he dies, complete with a raised fist.
Webcomics
- North Star of Housepets! named himself in direct reference to the anime, as part of a wolf coming of age Naming Ceremony. In HECKRAISER, Kitsune quotes the famous 'Already Dead' to cap off his fight with Stewart.
