Talk:List of Fist of the North Star characters

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Great work

Whoever's done all this stuff, great work because Fist of the North Star is such a great series, with so many awesome characters. Nice going. Doom jester 17:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article split

How about splitting off the character groupings as they are into separate articles where feasible? --BrokenSphere 18:29, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that would be a good idea. The article's way too big now if you ask me. It makes it messier than it would be if it were broken down. That said it still looks good which is a testament to how good the article is. But yeah, splitting it up would be good. Not really sure what the best way to organise it would be though. You could do it by organisation e.g. The Fang Clan or you could do it by the most well-known stuff. e.g. more people will remember "The Colonel" than "GOLAN". Also splitting it up would make sense because you could add trivia, external links etc. for each section. Doom jester 14:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One of the more obvious ways to split would be by fighting style; the Hokuto Shinken practitioners can be integrated into that article, while the Nanto Seiken practitioners can be migrated into their own space. --BrokenSphere 14:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So that would be an article for hokuto characters, an article for nanto characters, one for each of the other major groups e.g. GOLAN, the Fang Clan and then just have one article for other groups, and another article for minor characters. Doom jester 07:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While I do agree needs to the split, I don't think splitting based on the gangs in series (GOLAN, Jackal, Kiba Ichizoku) isn't such a good idea, since most of them were only around for a single story arc. If we go by the Japanese Wikipedia, each of the four Hokuto brothers and the Nanto Roku Seiken have their individual articles, since there's more ground to cover with them. So does Falco, Kaioh and oddly enough, the Harn Bros, Amiba and Ein (but not Ryuga). I think this article needs a bit of cleaning up before anything significant can be done. Jonny2x4 03:59, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yuria, Toki (Fist of the North Star) and Rei (Fist of the North Star) now have their own manga and deserve their own entries. Probably Ryūken as well; he appears in both Fist of the North Star and Fist of the Blue Sky, as well as having his own one-shot. Evan1975 23:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't a matter whether or not they "deserve" their own article, but how much referenced non-plot summary info you can write about the characters. As it is right now, the Kenshiro and Raoh articles are both a big mess as they are right now, while Lin and Bat are just plot summary. I think fixing them has higher priority than splitting this list. Right now I'm trying to promote Fist of the North Star to Good Article status.Jonny2x4 03:57, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'm the wrong guy for this; I'd probably just start from scratch if I did it.... That would probably make people angry. Evan1975 23:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that we eliminate some of the less notable characters from this list and only focus on the major ones. This doesn't need to be an indiscriminate list of every named (or unnamed) Hokuto no Ken character ever made. Toki, Jagi, Yuda, Souther, Falco and Rei are all major characters, as well as lesser villains like Heart, Uighur and the Golan Colonel to some extent. Rizo, Hawk, Usa and Dargarl on the other hand, aren't. Jonny2x4 (talk) 01:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree on Dagarl and probably Usa as well; they are fairly prominent in the Gaiden manga. Evan1975 (talk) 21:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most common official trade names

Does anyone have the English romanizations used in the Hokuto no Ken: Kyuukyoku Kaisetsusho book? I've seen scans of the book, but don't personally own, and I'm curious to know which are the most common English romanizations for the characters' names. Jonny2x4 22:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About Bell

It is confirmation, but is "Bell (ペル, Peru)" Bell in English? Not Pell? --Motsu (talk) 06:31, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Animaze dub of the series uses Bell if I recall correctly. Jonny2x4 (talk) 16:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]