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Started Hokuto no Ken last night. Gonna continue it now. Unfortunately the scans on Mangasee have been pretty shit. Anyone know where to get good scans?
 

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Those are the best scans available currently. The manga will be officially released fully in English next year, but until then, the Mangasee scans are the best translated ones available.
 

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They improved after chapter 5. Ranging from great to blurry af. Tolerable tho.
 

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Lookism

Guy wants that social media clout. Gets hit with a baseball bat.
 

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Praise Lord Appule. Hokuto no Ken was taken down from mangasee for several days but was just added back with superior scans. At least in the volume that I’m on. Nice.
 

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Reminder to only bother reading up to 136, since the timeskip after that drastically lowers the quality of the series and the first part had a perfect ending with no loose ends to make it essential anyway.
 

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I'd say read up to the end of the final Part 1 battle, and then skip to the Bolge chapters (about the last 5-6 chapters or so I think?). Kenshiro has some cool lines in the actual finale of the series, even if basically the entirety of Part 2 which builds up to that moment is :trash
 

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Captain Cadaver said:
Reminder to only bother reading up to 136, since the timeskip after that drastically lowers the quality of the series and the first part had a perfect ending with no loose ends to make it essential anyway.
Will do.
Kenshi said:
I'd say read up to the end of the final Part 1 battle, and then skip to the Bolge chapters (about the last 5-6 chapters or so I think?). Kenshiro has some cool lines in the actual finale of the series, even if basically the entirety of Part 2 which builds up to that moment is :trash
If I do this will I be able to follow the last 5-6 chapters? Or will I have to read up on what happened in between?
 

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Super Saiyan said:
Kenshi said:
I'd say read up to the end of the final Part 1 battle, and then skip to the Bolge chapters (about the last 5-6 chapters or so I think?). Kenshiro has some cool lines in the actual finale of the series, even if basically the entirety of Part 2 which builds up to that moment is :trash
If I do this will I be able to follow the last 5-6 chapters? Or will I have to read up on what happened in between?

You don't really need to know anything that happened in Part 2 (which is mostly garbage) to follow the last few chapters. All you need to keep in mind is that the characters got older and a few lost their memories, that's all.
 

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Hokuto no Ken. Through 64 chapters.
 

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Yea. It at least seems to have some direction and it’s not as episodic as other things that I’ve read. It does bother me how quickly things move from one plot point to the next with no transition at all. Suddenly you are immersed into the next mini arc with no backstory.
 

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It doesn't have an overarching plot until Raoh appears really.
 

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Super Saiyan said:
Yea. It at least seems to have some direction and it’s not as episodic as other things that I’ve read.
Yeah, I'm not sure how it'd be really considered "episodic" after Rei's introduced when each plot point leads pretty smoothly into the next (Rei's motivation leads Kenshiro to find Jagi, Jagi's last words lead him to search for Toki, etc.). The only plot point that would seem to be less essential was the Amiba goose chase, and even that was required pacing-wise for Rei and Mamiya to gather enough intel on where Toki was being held.

It does bother me how quickly things move from one plot point to the next with no transition at all. Suddenly you are immersed into the next mini arc with no backstory.
I wouldn't really say there's no backstory at all from mini-arc to mini-arc, considering each one has the connective thread of what the current objective means to Kenshiro (and, in one case, Rei) and things such as the Hokuto Brothers are set up as overarching elements between them. The only time I'd say this doesn't apply is with the events between Shin's death and Rei's introduction, which was more for exploring some aspects on the state of the world that further drives in the tones of the series or for establishing better what Kenshiro was capable and incapable of.
 

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