Reading Fist of the North Star at breakneck speed to find instances of its dumb Greco-Byzantine-BladeRunner architecture

HnK is both super iconic and super problematic

It hits a lot of the right aesthetic notes but it’s hard to argue that it’s not completely messed up thematically. That’s actually be part of the appeal in a way, how it’s a bunch of completely fucked up musclemen stoically punching each other. It wouldn’t be any fun if they were, like, sane or anything.

the series’ treatment of women is terrible in just about every way