Great news for me. Guess what came out on the 21st of this month? Why it's the long overdue Hokuto No Ken movie dvd from 1986. A DVD of it has existed but in HK DVD form. Which wasn't very good quality but hey it was cheap and it could play on any DVD player. That or you had an old Streamline VHS tape of the movie with the altered defeated Kenshiro ending.

Still that movie resonates very passionately among fans as it was one of the first things they probably remember seeing when non-American syndicated anime came over to the US way back in the day (along with Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D and so on). Some got introduced to the genre because of it so it's fondly remembered (for the curious I got into it via the action figures when years ago Tendou introduced me to the figures, then the comic when he said the immortal words "I think you'll like it".)

So now after all of these years it's out on DVD in its remastered glory. While this movie is uber busy trying to cram nine books into it I can say that the animation still holds up and I still get pumped watching Raoh kick the crap out of people to the tune of Heart of Madness.