He has time to turn away and close his switchblade before the High-Pressure Blood kicks in.
#OMAE MOU SHINDEIRU SERIES#
At which point he reveals he's not only immune to Kenshiro's style (it turns out that Souther has dextrocardia situs inversus totalis, a medical condition in which all of the internal organs and blood vessels are reversed compared to normal humans, and thus his pressure points are on the opposite side of his body from where Kenshiro hit him) but used a delayed attack on Kenshiro, opening a series of wounds on Kenshiro's body. Souther responds by counting down himself. Kenshiro strikes one of Souther's fatal pressure points and tells him he's dead in three seconds. Also happens to Kenshiro in his first duel with Souther.Once Shin starts panicking, Ken tells him to relax, he had missed his vitals. Ken repays the favor in his rematch with Shin. Countering Shin's Nanto Gokuto Ken with his own Hokuto Hiei Ken in a memorable instance of Air Jousting, Ken lands, slowly rises, and turns around to face his rival, only to realize Shin's attack has incapacitated him by cutting the tendons in his limbs. A non-lethal version occurs during Ken's short-lived duel with Shin at the beginning of the series.And Bat claims to be able to do this to a mook, only he was lying so he could use the mook's horrified reaction to retreat. note Kenshiro hit a pressure point in his face a few moments before, making it a Time-Delayed Death. One time a mook attempts to do this to Kenshiro, only for his own head to explode. To elaborate, he uses pressure points in the opponent's body so that said pressure points communicate with the brain in such a way that over time, the body will be commanded to bend unnaturally, disable parts of itself, or most commonly, become so overtaxed that the head and everything else explodes. Kenshiro, the protagonist, used this as his Catchphrase (お前はもう死んでいる "Omae wa mou shindeiru") when he made his opponent's head or entire body explode with superpowered Pressure Point martial arts.
Fist of the North Star is the Trope Namer.
This can be exploited for dramatic effect in war movies, where fatally wounded soldiers wander the battlefield before succumbing. In more modern settings, gunshot wounds can often have this effect, since getting shot typically feels like getting punched hard and it is not uncommon for victims to take some time to realize it. This trope is not necessarily limited to close combat, either. One of the most stylish versions is for a Master Swordsman to perform a series of lightning-fast slashes, and then slowly and dramatically sheath their sword until you hear a *click*, upon which their opponent bursts out bleeding or literally falls into pieces. There will be a pause as the two hold their finishing pose, then one (or both) will fall down. In the Single-Stroke Battle, the two sides charge each other and attack. When used with swords there are a number of common variations, often shown with a Diagonal Cut that doesn't seem to have cut through the object until an outside force reveals the cut was so surgically neat that at first, you didn't see it.
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