Raoh Thread

What was his tax policy

Body parts are legal tender. Just ask Falco.

>the weaker you are the higher the tax, if you don't like it become stronger

complex character doesnt automatically equate to good or bad. simple character doesnt automatically equate to good or bad. raoh works in the story as kenshiro's opposite, and HnK is a kind of pulpy action story anyway

what was you favourite moment with raoh? mine was when he put his hands in the fire

I literally can't Raoh is the peak and he literally did nothing wrong

Unironically an interesting idea for a battle shonen. Every male has to enter a tournament each year to determine the tax bracket they're in. for the year. Hokuto no Accounting

Is Raoh black?
He has really dark skin also i love his relationship with Toki

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Whether he works within the setting is irrelevant. Being an appropriate villain in a Mad Max inspired setting doesn't really qualify you as one of the greatest. He's not even the most likeable villain of the series, Souther who built fucking pyramids with slave children just out of sheer pettiness is more memorable.

it is not irrelevant what so ever. the ultimate question is, is raoh effective how hes used in the story? and i would say yes he is effective and plays his role perfectly

I don't know, how is that any different from just fighting for prize money? It could be a cool part of a premise though

He was also really entertaining, I don't know if the scans had something to do with his dialog but he expressed way more emotions and was way more verbose than kenshiro, which in my opinion added a lot to both of their characters

i like kenshiros first fight with him. it sets up the character well, how further kenshiro has to go, and overall our expectations. this initial confrontation makes how hes peppered throughout the series until the final fight a lot more intriguing

raoh is interesting since it seems like he could be redeemed but stays on his path due to his own stubbornness to follow his personal philosophy

so this is the inspiration for dio?

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>Says this
>But also forces people to smile and beg
?????

That's completely logically consistent. He's forcing his enemies to cuck themselves for his own amusement

He doesn't have a noble goal and is not redeemed. What are you even talking about?

which one are you talking about?

Then you remember the choice between being branded or dancing on a hot plate.

I'm not so sure that Raoh doesn't have a noble goal. In my mind HnK boiled down to a clash of ideologies between nature vs nurture. Raoh believed in survival of the fittest, and thought that this way of thinking was the best way to try and rebuild civilisation, no matter the cost. Whereas Ken, while not completely repudiating Raoh's ideals felt that a more gentle and nuanced approach would be a better path. Raoh then essentially set out to test Ken's ideals, and if the man himself was worthy of being the "Saviour of Century's End".
In the end it was a foregone conclusion. Before the final confrontation Raoh had resigned himself to the fact that this world didn't need a man like him any more. It had grown beyond his capacity to guide/influence in a meaningful way. That's why he transferred some of his life force to Julia, as Ken had already won the war of ideologies and at the very least he wanted his brother to know this. Although he was far too prideful to say it outright.

It has nothing to do with his "amusement." He basically believes himself to be the only one strong enough to save the world and demands the same loyalty that any tyrant would. He ultimately believes in human dignity buts sees it as disgraceful to show pity to his enemies. Raoh is the most honorable villain ever and his stance is simply "Join with me or be destroyed."

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That's what I was getting at. Amusement was the wrong word to use. It's more like a test of respect. If you cuck yourself he'll hold you in contempt

Ok, who is strongest of the three, Raoh, Kaioh, or Toki WITHOUT the rad poisoning?

I want Raoh to be the strongest, but considering that Kenshiro beat both Raoh and Kaioh, and Toki was just a stronger version of Kenshiro before getting irradiated I'm gonna say Toki is the strongest

Toki would liquidate Kaioh, Raoh and Kenshiro with little effort pre radiation.

The guy that tanked a nuclear explosion

I forget Toki was irradiated before the successor was decided right?

dio is the next logical step after raoh, yes

id argue that dio is a lot more heavily based off of shin. compare the scenes of ken and shin in shin's throne room with dio and jonathan in dios throne.

Kenshiro confirmed that Toki was the strongest pre radiation.

You're more right than you know user.

Toki, hands down. Everyone says it, everyone thinks it, and it just makes sense.

Depends if Toki could learn Muso Tensei

He was the original successor. Also, Kaioh, even though hes a bit bigger than Raoh and 4 years older is a bit of a coward.

Toki, even post rad he still proved that his style of fighting was superior to roahs and kens. If he didn't tank a fucking nuke and live for years after getting weaker. He could've easily won the roah fight, even later when they get absurdly OP

Jesus fucking christ, not only are too retarded to understand an 80's manga, but you even are too dumb to understand history. Fucking burgers and their black and white thinking

Toki. If he learned Musou Tensei (and he most likely could have), he would outright be unstoppable, a figure of prominence whose legend would burn as bright as the legend of Hokuto.

Fist of the North Star 1986 was my first anime, and I remember thinking it was incredible that Ken could not defeat Raoh at the end. Up until then I'd never seen a hero actually lose the big showdown. It took Lynn to stop the fight, and make Raoh reflect on Ryuken's words. I know it doesn't fit the rest of the series, but I'll always love that ending.

That, and KING RAOH! KING RAOH!

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I unironically think that the show's changes to some of the plot elements we better, like showing Shin's empire as being comprised of all those smaller baddies that worked under him

Toki knows Muso Tensei. He is actually the one who revealed its secret to Ken. Before he died he tells him to, "change the sadness into anger, and live." Ken just didn't truly understand until later.

>If he learned Musou Tensei
Toki literally is the one that unlocked it
>These movements are like Toki's
literally what Raoh said.

>anyone who doesn't throw his life away doesn't deserve to be called human

Gee, thanks Raoh.

Why didn't he use it against Raoh then? Was he too weak by that time?

He was too weak by that time, it was hinted and outright said during the fight

So where the hell did all these super jacked up guys get the protein to maintain their bodies in a barren wasteland?

Fighting spirit/ki.

>The weak shall feed the strong

Raoh was a garbage villain in a garbage series that only gets a pass because it was read/watched by a bunch of millennials in their youth and had it been publishing today it would be rightfully panned for the pretty looking turd it is.

SAT MY NAME

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>jobi is strongest
now this is bait