Jagi going from “Love doesn’t exist!” to “Show it to me! Show it to me! Prove it to me, whatever it takes!” in Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 has to be one of the best moments in the game.

watching fist of the north star and i gotta say. i love how they portray kenshiros emotions.

like hes normally so composed and reserved, that when he does show emotion, it really means a lot. im at the jagi arc rn and kens face quivering in shock seeing how far mako walked to see his older brother REALLY carried a lot weight. like fuck.

Uhhhh I’m sick… maybe :(

added colour and a background so just ignore that last one thanks

It all started with teerak and phi.

Then it escalated to oppa and jagiya.

Now it’s gege this and fujun that.

What’s next? This is not just a fandom pipeline, it’s a spiritual journey.

How did I got from hot Thai boys to Chinese cultivation dramas with (mostly) heterosexual yearning and a side of sword fights plus 3000-year-old trauma?

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Jagi? Jagi 💕

some of you must be minsungers. do you know what stakes me in the heart like i’m some kind of vampire?

sometimes when lee know makes eye contact with hannie he sighs and his shoulders relax and yeah whatever heart eyes but he really is at peace and these clips exist before the vacation home thing and if i can’t have a soulmate what is even the point of having a soul?

My boyfriend ugh he’s so cool

I love this outfit for him in Legends ReVIVE waahhhhggdhd shout out to my gf for telling me abt it i will now be so annoying about this game

K I know I’m like 2 days late just enjoy the art of my fav lil guys pls

They belong together you can’t tell me other wise

Koikeya Karamucho Spicy Curry Corn Snacks would be Jagi from Fist of the North Star!

jagi’s arc being so short and him dying so quickly makes me so sad because he'e genuinely maybe my favorite villain. i like him a lot as an opposite to kenshiro in more than just “he’s evil lol”

LIKE HOW KEN IS ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO HOKUTO SHINKEN AND ITS VALUES while jagi just sees it as another tool to get ahead. or how he’s kind of a master manipulator who doesn’t always solve things with his fists

i think there’s a good reason why i and a lot of people consider jagi gaiden their favorite gaiden (other than it being the only good one) and it’s because it gives more content to a character who desperately needed it

AHHHH MONA AHHHHHH 🫨🫨🫨

😏…

She’s good lol, but even BETTER after seeing not one, but TWO ASKS FROM her equally smexy celestial enigmatic goddess of a wife in her inbox 🤭

ignore how I’m talking in third person rn

How’ve you been tho ?? ✨✨✨

(( ive been so swamped lately but found enough time to draw some jagi smh ))

Well I tried drawing a merman using Jagi as my first try lol still working on coloring

As terrible of a monster of a character he is, i find myself weirdly sympathetic towards jagi and his plight. dude unquestionably got the short end of the stick, and then got spat on by destiny itself, before being tossed in a discarded heap of other one off villains. yet at the same time hes so fundamental to kens development as an individual, to the point that you can argue without jagis manipulations and his falling out with ken playing out the way it did, that kenshiro would have never been ready for his destiny/responsibilities as hokuto’s heir making jagi arguably the most actually important one of kenshiros siblings when it comes to kenshiros journey as a character. like, there would fundamentally be no saviour at centuries end if jagi didn’t exist the way hokuto no ken is written.

yet as i noted, the story just discards him like any other villain once its done with him. hes left out of any future discussions of the hokuto siblings, to the point that if ya skipped his part of the story you could genuinely just pretend there was only the three siblings not four. and when it isn’t just writing him off, hes basically just any other wasteland gangster but with hokuto powers, an over the top pastiche of a monstrous bully its okay to explode without a second thought because the minute society collapsed the switch was flipped. a bully its okay to feel nothing for and one whos own prowess is mostly just sadistic show before ken completely outclasses them. and if ya asked most hokuto fans on the matter, they’d probably just be as eager to ignore or disparage him without much thought either.

and its so indicative of hokuto no kens writings problems, and its just such a wasted opportunity. im not asking for secret softboy jagi kun or anything ridiculous like that. its just… wouldn’t it have been more interesting if jagi hadn’t just been like every other paper tiger of a villain? if there had been a real risk ken might die by taking jagi on? he can still be cruel, and monstrous and all that, but it would have been a perfect opportunity to hammer in how much the whole succession matter sucks when it comes to hokutos singular heir rule that the relation between the brothers well tense was utterly ruined by it when things boiled over. in that context the flashback fight could highlight more then just ‘jagi sucks and cheats’ but that the rigid structure of hokuto pushed the two brothers into that fight and because ken chickened out and spared jagi he inadvertently created a mortal enemy in a disillusioned bitter brother consumed by a resentment fostered by their own discipline.

and then, you could have the kicker to the whole matter be that when they do get into that second fight, that second round ken is self assured hes going to win at because jagi was always a cheat looking for shortcuts… only to have his expectations flipped on his head and be pushed to near death farther then any other opponent has until that point [baring shin]. that jagis cheating style [evil fist hokuto? idk] works and displays a talent equal to any of the other brothers laying the groundwork for future altered hokuto styles, and leaving the implication that yeah maybe jagi could have been the heir, the kitch in kenshiros armour of doubt that eats at his own self confidence. and when kenshiro finally succeeds, brings justice to jagi for jagis crimes it can feel like a true triumph but also a true tragedy as kenshiro muses over how he created a monster out of a flawed man losing a big brother in the process. and then jagi twists the knife as he dies reminding ken that theres still two more brothers out there, and how those who bear hokutos burdens are destined for tragedy.

like, this is all very rambly i know. i just… i just have thoughts on all this nonsense is all.