OK people, the 10th episode of May I Ask for One Final Thing absolutely blew my mind. I had been joking on @animefeminist discord that this show was Fist of the North Star but shojo... but I did not expect an episode chock full of direct, obvious references to that show. Shojo adaptation recreates Kenshiro's fight with Heart was not on my bingo card. I'll try posting some comparison screenshots tomorrow. It's absolutely bonkers.

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Hokuto no Ken had this peculiar property of mixing turbo-testosterone-violence-comes-first masculinity with the complete opposite of it: from realizing the consequences of violence, to being very visibly emotional about it... to doing household chores because why not.

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