Well, there have been plenty of groups that have been around for ridiculously long times that were still considered impure
Fair point.
I have never gone near Fist of The North Star. It looks a little overly gratuitously violent for me to enjoy. It sounds like a fascinating premise, but the TV tropes page makes it look like it wouldn't be handled in a way I like.
It's not anywhere near as fascinating as it sounds. (There's a reason the only thing people remember about it was the quote "You're already dead" followed by explosive gore.) The summation I quoted was more the theme of the show as presented by what happens during the course of the series. While it was essentially the first major fighting anime, laying the groundwork for all the tropes that the genre uses to this day, it also comes off as a sort of deconstruction of the genre it spawned.
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Date: 2012-08-24 08:23 pm (UTC)Fair point.
I have never gone near Fist of The North Star. It looks a little overly gratuitously violent for me to enjoy. It sounds like a fascinating premise, but the TV tropes page makes it look like it wouldn't be handled in a way I like.
It's not anywhere near as fascinating as it sounds. (There's a reason the only thing people remember about it was the quote "You're already dead" followed by explosive gore.) The summation I quoted was more the theme of the show as presented by what happens during the course of the series. While it was essentially the first major fighting anime, laying the groundwork for all the tropes that the genre uses to this day, it also comes off as a sort of deconstruction of the genre it spawned.