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  • Awesome Art: This is one beautiful manga, featuring realistic designs and extremely high levels of detail.
  • Cry for the Devil:
    • Goran. He might've been a complete and utter piece of shit, but it's hard not to feel bad for him due to his death being insanely brutal and cruel even by the series standards, as he winds up having his body break all of it's bones from within, then getting roasted alive by the furnaces pipes in the ring he fought Kenshiro in.
    • While Chen is a member of the Hóng Huá Huì, he actually spends most of his time being the Only Sane Man among a cohort of eccentric psychopaths. He's never shown doing anything worst than normal banditry, which therefore doesn't make him look worse than most of Kenshiro's allies, and he doesn't actually abuse or kill his men - save for his last appearance, during which he undergoes a Sanity Slippage. (Even then, their deaths was accidental - they were killed by the ricochets of his machine gun when he foolishly opened fire in an enclosed space.) Yet, he suffers an ignonimous death by drowning in a sinking ship, while his former boss (and a former rapist) doesn't lift a finger to help him. To add extra insult to injury, it happens right after a Hope Spot for him, as he's given the honor of being promoted to being the number 2 of the organization. While the narration doesn't give him a sad send-off, one can still feel sorry for him, and agree when he complains to himself it's not fair to die like that.
  • Epileptic Trees
    • Some fans speculate that Kenshiro later became the hermit Koryu, the last opponent Ramon (Ryuken) fought in order to become the Hokuto Shinken successor. The fact that there's only two Kasumi brothers and Tesshin isn't shown to be training any other students gives this theory a bit of credence.
    • Also many Japanese fans theorize the old Taoist is actually the Taoist god of the Big Dipper, Beidou Xingjun. Although this really isn't so far-fetched in a manga featuring reincarnation and dragons.
  • Tear Jerker: When Mang Kuang-Yun aka Ling Wang spares the life of Yu Ling, his fiance, who has fallen in love with Kenshiro, upon seeing her tender kindness towards a dying baby girl. Instead, he wipes her memories to give her a new start at life, free of persecution from the Hong Hua Hui.

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