The plot: Nuclear war has ravaged planet Earth. Mohawked bikers roam the planet savaging the weak, water and fuel supplies are commodities survivors pay for with their lives, and once-thriving metropolises now resemble refuse centres in East Thurrock. Jedward aren't on the telly, but the world is still very much in a state of disarray. 
Fist is like the animated love child of Mad Max and Empire Strikes Back but with lots more severed limbs and misogyny 
What little hope there is for any semblance of a future rests of the rippling shoulders of the Fist of the North Star. An accolade held by Kenshiro and jealously fought over by his two brothers, the Fists have the ability to harness supernatural kung fu power and the licence to spout B movie dialogue without fear of recrimination.
So what happens? A mythological fable of Star Wars proportions unravels encompassing mixed identities, bloody revenge and paranormal chop-socky of the head-imploding kind. Fist is like the animated love child of Mad Max and Empire Strikes Back but with lots more severed limbs, misogyny and scenes where huge balding warlords are slapped upside the head then told "they're already dead", their brain subsequently bursting out of their cranium like it's just been exposed to an afternoon of Sex and the City.
Why's it a classic? It may be showing its age, but Fist is still regarded as the foreurnner to most of the classic Manga of today. Frame by frame it nevers fails to deliver. Whether Shin is making Germaine Greer's snot bubble or Ken is wandering about in a Jedi cloak with an Eric Clapton beard, Fist hits every nail bang on its head. It's a cracking mythological tale of mysterious, force-harnessing mumbo jumbo of the George Lucas variety and should more than sate anyone who's still got Slave I proudly on display in their flat. Ken's city-levelling rebirth is spectacular and Rei's laser finger-cutting moves are genius. Arnie would have killed for a part in this.
CHECK IT OUT. CLAPTON BEARD, EXPLODING HEADS AND GREAT "YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD" DIALOGUE
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