Hokuto no Ken

What went wrong during the Post-Kaioh arcs?

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The same old story.
A manga reach it's natural conclusion but is so succesfull the editor (and probably the author) don't want to give up.
So they keep going until they shit all over their once epic product cause all the good ideas and plot elemnts are already exhausted.

Contract got extended due to popularity and they had to make more arcs that weren't planned to fill the space. It's weird your problem is with the post-Kaioh arcs when most people agree it should have ended with Raoh. I don't think any of the manga was bad but it obviously didn't need to get extended. It was certainly not as bad as the modern versions of this (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Gintama, Black Clover, BNHA, etc.)

Kaioh is bad but post-Kaioh almost feels like filler in manga form, also they usually just get ignored in anime adaptations and videogames.
It's a shame because all of it just adds too many tomes and make HnK harder to publish in most countries.

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Why would it be harder to publish? You don't have to commit to all 27 if you don't want to or you can lower print runs for the later stuff. Burgers didn't even publish Dragon Ball as a single series and believe there's such a thing as Dragon Ball Z. If anything, it's better to publish something that has its momentum at the beginning because it's a lot harder to get people to commit to 10 slow volumes at the beginning. Thinking that the later volumes mean you can't even translate the first ones is like saying you can't translate HnK unless you also translate SnK.

Honestly it was too hard to make "new" plot points and stories since HnK was so conclusive.
Ken/Yuria ride off into the sunset, Yuria is going to die and Ken is going to be there in his last moments with her.
Bat/Ren found a place to live
All the Nanto/Houkto Generals were dealt with
The land of Shura though interesting on paper just didnt turn out to be worth the time of day. It didnt add anything of value to the already solid story.

Kaioh (and Falco) arcs are not as good as what came before, but they're acceptable. The shit with Bat and Lin having amnesia is offensively bad.

>Bat and Lin
God dont remind me; Lin was forcibly shipped to Bat. That is shit writing. Having Lin have a thing for Ken is fine but they could have let her just love him for afar or some shit.

Is it just me or did the world after the death of Raoh get worse? That shit with Kotetsu and the Celestial Empire made Ken look lazy

Post Raoh was still decent. Not awesome but decent. Post Kaioh it was basically the manga sobbing and lamenting "please put an end to my suffering" while tragic music was playing in the background.

How the hell is Ryu become a succesor to both Hokuto Shinken and the legacy of his father if his only surviving relative abandons him after 3 adventures?

Bros, I miss Spamdini

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I liked the post-Kaioh arcs, they felt a bit quieter, and smaller scaled than the big Raoh/Asura Island stuff, and it had some nice moments(I liked Wolfgang Krauser and his 3 dickhead sons).

I have to get back to that and finish it, now that I think of it. Back when I was reading Fist of the North Star, they hadn't finished translating it, and had only gotten to the start of the religious fanatics arc.

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Kenshiro x Sara of Sava

Post-Raoh definitely had its share of issues. Hokuto Ryuken being Hokuto Shinken but EEEEBIL was contrived, retconning Toki/Raoh's home village was unnecessary, making Lin into the forgotten sister of an Empress was just ridiculous, the brother plot device was far too relied on. I could go on. But if you could put all of that to one side it was still an enjoyable watch/read. Post-Kaioh was hamfisted. That's the only word I can think to describe it. And don't even get me started on that Raoh/Yuria shit.

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I still just reject post Raoh myself. Even if some moments were cool you mentioned correctly that Hokuto Ryuuken the way it was shown there was kinda retarded and yeah I just can't accept the retcons all over the place

Is it true the newest reprint removes all of the contradictions/plotholes from the Post-Raoh as well as ending on the exact moment Kenshiro defeats Kaioh?

I didn't enjoy HnK2 that much to start with, but it began growing on me when Raoh started becoming part of the story again(despite being dead)

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Who the 65th master will be is still one big gaping question left unanswered. Or is Ken thinking Hokuto Shinken should die with him?

pt 2 was just garbage

The entire Asura arc was hackneyed and boring. I didn't hate it but all it's backstory is unnecessary and Kaioh fails to be half the villain his brother was. It also feels really disconnected from everything else beforehand, using Lin as a plot device to get Ken to cross the sea didn't flow well.

I actually liked the stuff with the North Star Army and Imperial Capital, they easily could have built the entire timeskip around reclaiming the districts and taking down the new organized government. The Heavenly Empress and Hokutos ties to it were a bit of an asspull but nowhere to the same degree as the demonic fist or amnesia. Post-Kaioh is just weird in how it starts setting up a successor story with Raoh's kid but doesn't commit to it, and Bolge was a pathetic final encounter.

I just want decent scans.

you realize it was never good

I liked Shachi.

It's a shame because both adult Bat and Lin had a lot of potential as characters.

The only adaptation of post-kaioh is in Ken's Rage 2.

>No Bart versus Ryu fighting to become the next successor

I wa shock!

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And that one skipped Kotetsu, Sava Kingdom and Baran

>Muso Tensei becomes catastrophically useless after being billed the ultimate Hokuto technique

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What does it do exactly?

In the most simple and dumbed down sense. It makes you invincible. Once you have lost what you loved, your essentially in some buddah "youre nothing" transcending your physical body between the living and dead. As if it has no purpose to be on earth. And thus nothing can hurt you (it either goes through you. Does no damage or is nullified. Its not clear) unless it has muso Tensei

Until kaioh of course