Happy Wedding! To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fist of the North Star, the popular manga and anime set in a post-Apocalyptic future in which everyone looks strangely like extras from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, the publishers are holding an actual wedding ceremony for the two main characters, Kenshiro and the woman he spent years battling for, Yuria. On Saturday, 777 lucky fans who won invitations to the event will dress up in their best formal suits to attend the special wedding, which is being put on by the famous “charisma wedding planner” Akemi Ariga. The event will be similar to the fake “funeral” for Kenshiro’s brother, the warlord Raoh, and should be widely attended by the media. You can always tell someone who’s on his way back from a wedding in Japan, because he’s carrying a large bag of gifts he received from the new couple containing things like katsuobushi (dried bonito fish), sekihan (red-colored rice with beans) and manju cakes. Tomorrow there will be 777 Fist of the North Star fans carrying some serious otaku cred home with them on the train. Although they’re fictional characters, we certainly wish Ken and Yuria lots of happiness. You are already married!
