Now that the dust has settled so thoroughly it has quite literally fossilized...

Now that the dust has settled so thoroughly it has quite literally fossilized, what the fuck was his purpose in the story, to make Toki and Raoh seem important?

Hokuto I believe is more about the journey than some overarching "plot". He was actually Buronson's favorite character and had some interesting subtext that was wonderfully explored in Jagi Gaiden.

"SAY MY NAME!"

Well the plot part is obvious, but when compared to the other Hokuto brothers, his arc kinda falls flat.

>Hokuto I believe is more about the journey than some overarching "plot"
This definitely, you should focus on the moments rather than a really serious plot (because there are tons of inconsistencies at that)

Yeah, even forgetting about plot I had to reread because I knew Ken had a brother but couldn't remember him. Meanwhile, even Jyuza got his badass moments.

Literally a Mad Max reference.

If Jagi didn't have an unique design, would any of you have remembered him, seriously?

I remember the guardian of the prison and that one nanto seiken dude who died under a pyramid more than I remember Jagi

>unique design

Don't bully the true successor of hokuto shinken

In the story he was essentially a "test" for Kenshiro to see if he could be the successor of Hokuto Shinken in a post apocalytpic world. Despite being a gigantic dick to him Ken still thought of Jagi as a brother, and if he wasn't able to kill him then there was no way he could save anyone.

On a personal level Jagi's story is a little interesting. He's essentially a nobody who was taken in by Ryuuken and trained solely for the purpose of benefitting someone else, and I suspect deep down he knew that. He basically became one of the strongest people in the world for nothing which is a bit of a kick in the balls. But since he was a dick all the time no one feels bad for him.

Well i kinda thought his design was unique.. at..least.... well Jagi was first.

So Jagi is basically an entry level test in shonen messiah school.

I wouldn't say an entry level test, but in the manga and I think maybe 2 of the Gaiden stories it's mentioned that Kenshiro would never be able to succeed Hokuto Shinken unless he could find it in himself to beat Jagi, emotionally rather than physically since he was always better than him at fighting. It goes in with HnK's main theme of fighting (and failing) against destiny; if the apocalypse never happened then there would have been no need for Jagi to exist in the grand scheme of things.

Jagi fueled Shin's jealousness.

Isn't clear that with every new enemy the author was making it up as he went along?

It was an 80s WSJ fighting manga, I don't think anyone thought anything through at the time because the risk of being canned suddenly was always so high. For example this is Toki and Raoh's first appearance in the manga, they don't look like how they ended up. It's impressive that they made up all this shit and only ended up with the number of inconsistencies they did.

I mean Toki did have super cancer and all, but why the fuck did he age like that. Kenshiros aging is like nothing from war to asura but Toki goes from handsome pseudo-doctor to fucked up hippie monk in a matter of years.
The plot is not consistent nor the point.

Of all the inconsistencies in HnK I think that is the least poorly explained one, Toki got nuclear cancer by being around when the bombs landed whereas everyone else was holed up in a bunker somewhere. It's a miracle he was even alive so him aging like shit isn't unreasonable, it was an even greater miracle that he was still nearly able to BTFO everyone despite being dead.

I want to binge hakuto no ken movie which should i watch first?

series then movies

I mean sure, Ken not figuring out the Yuria was alive and that the last nanto general was Yuria on the other hand was way more retarded.

Yeah I didn't get that either. If the stuff with Ken/Toki/Raoh wasn't so good I think people would be much more critical of HnK.

Ruined the ending of the Shin arc.

They legitimately were making that stuff as they were going for the first volume and a half because Buronson's first manga in WSJ got cancelled quick and they didn't know whether or not they'd be popular enough to survive again for a longer run. Although I heard the very first chapter of HnK did really really well so I wonder why they thought they would still be cancelled. WSJ didn't sound like a forgiving place back then.