Hokuto no Ken: Legend of Heroes (original) (raw)

While the user "sakakiDMT" has a very positive and emotional opinion about "Hokuto no Ken:" Legend of Heroes" (at the time of writing this, his review is the only one that exists) I will try to be more objective.

This is a 3D 6-minute video of Ken fighting Raoh. The 3D animation was probably impressive for its time and even now it's visible that effort was put into it. However, the 3D effect is horrible and really makes the whole thing more ugly than it needs to be. The way the whole thing looks is admittedly a bit weird, even if you don't want it... to. There are two situations where animation is sped up to show Raoh's and Kenshiro's fast movement and it looks goofy. Every other character except them two and Yuria who speaks a bit and a bunch of soldiers Kenshiro quickly annihilates is absent. The video ends with Raoh's death and credits during which that new version of "Ai o Torimodose!!" plays, but it doesn't play to the end and that's a shame.

Overall, this is a curiosity in which only the most hardcore fans of the series will be interested. For the 6 minutes it lasts, it's passable. I give it 6/10! and I recommend it only to the fans.