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{{nihongo|'''Shin'''|[[w:ja:シン (北斗の拳)|ja:シン]]}} is the successor of {{nihongo|[[Nanto Koshū Ken]]|南斗孤鷲拳||"South Dipper Lone Eagle Fist"}} style and one of the [[Nanto Roku Seiken]]. He bears the destiny of the {{nihongo|Star of Sacrifice|殉星|Junsei}}, who is destined live and die for love.
{{nihongo|'''Shin'''|[[w:ja:シン (北斗の拳)|ja:シン]]}} is the successor of {{nihongo|[[Nanto Koshū Ken]]|南斗孤鷲拳||"South Dipper Lone Eagle Fist"}} style and one of the [[Nanto Roku Seiken]]. He bears the destiny of the {{nihongo|Star of Sacrifice|殉星|Junsei}}, who is destined live and die for love.


Notable for being the first major antagonist in the series, Shin was Kenshiro's rival, who loved Yuria from afar. However, Kenshiro's wicked brother Jagi manipulated Shin into taking Yuria for himself, as he claimed Kenshiro was too weak. Following this, Shin engaged Kenshiro and defeated him, engraving the seven Big Dipper-shaped stab wounds onto his chest, and abducting Yuria. Shin adopted the honorific "King" and amassed an empire to win Yuria's favour, culminating in constructing the city Southern Cross. Yuria could not handle the innocents suffering in her name, and attempted suicide from the palace balcony in an effort to end Shin's infatuation. In fact, Yuria's life was miraculously saved by the Nanto Goshasei, who united to protect her from Raoh's imminent arrival. Shin reluctantly entrusted Yuria to their custody, and awaited his destined battle with Kenshiro. During Yuria's absence, he keeps a life-like [[mannequin]] of Yuria's likeness in her throne. The vengeful Kenshiro meets Shin and having already fought Shin in the past, sees through his techniques, eventually finishing Shin off with the ''Hokuto Jūjizan'' (North Star Cross Kill), inscribing Shin's emblem of the Bloody Cross on his chest. Refusing to die from Kenshiro's technique, Shin leaps to his death, maintaining that Yuria had died. Despite Shin's earlier betrayal, Kenshiro prepares a grave for him recognizing their kindred love for the same woman. The writers of the TV series extended Shin's role in the story by making him the main antagonist for the first season of the series. His subordinates in the TV series includes not only the four lieutenants of the King army from the original manga, but also the Golan commandos and Jackal's gang (which were the immediate villains after Shin's death in the manga), as well as several original villains, notably Joker and Barcom. In the episode prior to the final battle between Shin and Kenshiro, General Barcom leads a mutiny against Shin, leading to the destruction of Southern Cross, as well as the dissolution of the King organization. In the 1986 movie, Shin is challenged by Raoh, who invades Southern Cross to use Yuria as bait for Kenshiro. When Kenshiro finally makes it to Southern Cross, Shin dies from the Hokuto Shinken wounds inflicted by his off-screen defeat to Raoh.
Shin secretly desired [[Kenshiro]]'s fiancee [[Yuria]] since as long as he remembers. After the nuclear war and the death of Master [[Ryuken]], Shin was persuaded by [[Jagi]] to challenge Kenshiro and take Yuria by force. Shin defeated Ken and then engraved the seven scars on his chest as a reminder of his defeat.
 
Afterward, Shin took on the name of [[King]] and expanded his organization, building Yuria the city of [[Southern Cross]] to win her affections. However, his continued atrocities only drove Yuria to commit suicide by leaping off the top floor of Shin's palace. Yuria survived thanks to the intervention of the [[Nanto Goshasei]], who arrived on Southern Cross to protect Yuria from [[Raoh]]'s impending arrival. Shin entrusted Yuria to the Goshasei to protect and allowed his reputation to be tarnished by pretending that Yuria was dead because of him.
 
A year after their initial battle, Ken and Shin fought each other once again within Shin's palace. Motivated by the "tenacity" Shin taught him after their first battle, Ken overpowered Shin and defeating him, striking his vital points in the shape of Shin's emblem, the Bloody Cross. Maintaining that Yuria has died, Shin refuses to die from Ken's techniques and takes his own life by leaping off the building of his palace like Yuria did before him.
 
In the TV anime, Shin has several more subordinates in his army addition to his four chief vassals ([[Heart]], [[Spade]], [[Diamond]], and [[Club]]), which includes the [[Golan|God's Army]] organization, and [[Jackal]]'s gang, the Warriors. After most of them are killed by Ken, Shin gathers the remainder of his army and plans an all-out assault against Ken as he approaches Southern Cross. After Ken is presumed dead, [[Barcom]], the General of Shin's army, plots a mutiny against him. Although Shin defeats Barcom, his city ends up being destroyed in a fire caused during the confrontation. Because of this, the moment when Yuria leaps off Shin's palace occurs during the destruction of the city, when Shin promises to build Yuria another city like Southern Cross.
 
In the 1986 movie, Shin's army is defeated by Raoh's troops before Ken's arrival to Southern Cross and Shin is defeated by Raoh himself after Yuria is taken captive. When Ken arrives at Southern Cross, Shin is dying from previously inflicted wounds he suffered from his fight with Raoh and before dying, he tells Ken the whereabouts of Raoh and Yuria.
 
The movie ''Kenshirō Den'' introduces Shin's Nanto Koshū Ken predecessor [[Fūgen]], as well as Shin's former training partner [[Jugai]].
 


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