Fist of North Star is a bloody martial arts manga. Still it could give Kishimoto several lessons regarding romantic plots. How is that?
- Kenshiro is the soft-hearted, compassionate, gentle main character. Yuria fell for him. She did NOT fall for any of the cool-looking, morally defective martial artists around her.
- Kenshiro was deeply in love with Yuria. He never, ever, EVER moved on. And he did not return the feelings of a woman that he barely knew.
- When Kenshiro's best friend turned evil, kidnapped Yuria and became a monster, Kenshiro hunted him down and killed him, even though it saddened him. And it happened in the second volume! FOTN's creators took two volumes to solve in a logical, coherent way a subplot that Kishimoto solved in an awful way after nearly fifty volumes. And when Kenshiro found out who had screwed Shin up and caused his turn to darkness, he found that person and killed him. Kenshiro believes that responsibility and accountability exist!
- Lynne and Bat were kind of Kenshiro's sidekicks. Lynne had a crush on Kenshiro since she was a little child, but he never reciprocated, and he thought that she would be better off with Bat, since Bat had always been there for Lynne.
