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Summary: Perfection
Review: Fist of the Nort Star is one of the greatest manga in Japanese history. And now Raijin has brought it to the USA in perfect form.FOTNS Master Edition is just that. Every page is in brand new full color, supervised by creator Hara Tetsuo himself (yay), the color is nothing short of stunning, it looks like you're reading an anime movie. The paper is just about photo quality stuff, very thick and glossy, the printing job is flawless, laserjet printing all the way. The book also comes with an outer dust jacket of very high quality. As for the manga itself, all the original Japanese sound effects are untouched, it reads right-to-left, all attack names are still left in Japanese romanji, so Kenshiro doesn't yell "Thousand-Fist Attack!!", he says it in Japanese romanji, (for example "HOKUTO DAIZENKEN!!") and it's translated into english on the page footnotes. And the most important of all, this is in large comic book format, 7x10, not the puny 5x7 format the cheapie 7.95 Tokyopop and Viz mangas are in. I was stunned at the quality when I got this book, this should be the standard all manga is brought to the USA in. Raijin will be releasing all 27 volumes here, and I can't wait to get them all.
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Summary: Mediocre manga and a half-assed coloring job
Review: Fist of the North Star is considered a "classic" in the shounen genre and it's an ok read, but there's little more than lame fights (which take up 90% of the content). Even if the cover says "for mature readers", the only 'mature' feature is the gore. The storyline and dialogue are just as corny and childish as any other shounen for 12 year-olds, if not more.
As about the hyped "full color presentation", it is mediocre at best and only ruins the original black & white art. There's the occasional good panel but most of it is just ugly rushed CG. The backgrounds are especially bad.
I don't recommend buying this unless you don't get turned off by stupid plot and dialogue, repetitive fights, and would pay the extra cash for a half-assed coloring job.
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Summary: Great manga, Great value.
Review: When you get this manga in the mail.... The manga is pretty big, and it is in FULL color. There is also a nice jacket on it. They really spent some time on mastering this manga. They did a terrific job. The manga revolves around Ken fighting Shin mostly. Then the aftermath as Ken fights more random people. Right when it starts off the fighting begins. They did a great job with it as we see a lighter side of Shin. I really enjoyed this manga. There is a lot more fighting compared to volume 1 I would say. There are also some more great death moves. Enjoy.
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