Hokuto no Ken episode 10
Raging Flame Reverse Flow Punch!
There Are Too Many Who Must Die!!
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro enters the castle of Dragon, and has to fight both him and Patra together.
Original broadcast date: December 13th, 1984
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
With the lake drained, Kenshiro ventures towards a place called Mt. Ryujin, despite the villagers warning him of a monster being there. He encounters a ninja who tries to kill him, but he destroys the muscles in his arms and forces him to take him to his master. The ninja leads Kenshiro towards a castle, but after rounding a corner, is set on fire by someone and killed. Kenshiro runs around the corner, but nobody is there. He instead finds a large castle.
Kenshiro enters the castle and sees a picture of Yuria. A man called Dragon then appears and tells Kenshiro that Yuria and Shin stayed here recently, but have now gone to the capital city of Southern Cross. Dragon then attempts to kill Kenshiro by trapping him in a room with spikes lowering down from the ceiling, but Kenshiro escapes. He catches up with Dragon and Patra, who are selling slaves and other goods to the highest bidders. Kenshiro kills the guards and tells the slaves, including Mike and Sam, to get out of the castle. As they do, Patra and Dragon start their attack.
Kenshiro defeats Patra by forcing some necklace beads into her eyes, and she is accidentally set on fire and killed by one of Dragon's projectiles. Kenshiro hits Dragon with a technique called rekka gyakuryu ken (raging flame reverse flow punch) which stops Dragon from being able to breathe out, causing Dragon's flames to consume himself. With the two main bad guys dead, Kenshiro gets the water back on, and the villagers start to enjoy a new life of peace.
-This is a filler episode, and was not in the manga. However, one scene in this episode -where Kenshiro saves Sam and Mika from Dragon -was based on a scene from Hokuto no Ken II, the second part of the pilot manga (Click here for more info on the prototype manga).
-This is the first episode of the series to feature some nudity in it.
-Some of the fight scenes in this episode had their animation plucked straight from the intro. Some animations of Kenshiro attacking are also from the intro.
-When Dragon's castle is blowing up, the picture of Yuria shows her with yellow hair, whilst it had the correct purple color earlier.
-When Yuria thinks of Ken at the end of the episode, an image of him appears in his green outfit, but only one shoulder pad. That outfit should have two shoulder pads on it, as seen in episode 5.
