Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 12
Episode 121 overall
An Elegy for Ein!
Die Bravely Than Live Without Honor!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 12 |
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Episode 121 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Ein gives it his all to save his friends, as Kenshiro continues to fight Falco.
Original broadcast date: June 25th, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Jako tries to kill Lui, and everyone else in the cave, by getting a large amount of rock to crumble, but Ein protects everyone from it. Meanwhile, the battle between Kenshiro and Falco continues. Kenshiro manages to hit some pressure points on Falco's chest and thinks the fight is over, but Falco uses his Source Star imperial fist to kill some of his own cells -preventing the hit pressure point from having any effect on him. They continue to fight.
Ein recovers and finds out that they are in a well Jako intended to open up. They find a device which, if hit hard enough, will create enough pressure to release the water and let them escape. Since they don't have any tools, Ein says he is the only one who can be of any use, and starts to hit it with his fists. Meanwhile, Jako sees that Kenshiro and Falco have become weak from fighting for so long, and has his troops launch arrows at them. Kenshiro and Falco's men prevent the arrows from hitting Falco, who wants to know why they saved him. Kenshiro says that Falco does not deserve to die by the hands of Jako. Back in the well, Ein has badly injured himself from punching so much, but his last two hits manage to do what he wanted.
The water blasts upwards, destroying Jako's arrow launching weapons. Bat and the others make it back outside, but Ein collapses and says that it looks like this is the end for him. Bat tells him to hold on, as he needs to live for Asuka, but his injuries are too much. After thinking about Asuka and the green lands he wanted to go to in their airship, Ein dies.
-In the manga, Jako is seen wearing a backpack with 3 lamps on it, that beam out bright light.
He doesn't have this in the anime.
-The dream sequence with the airship was not present in the manga.
-There was a two week gap between this episode and the previous one airing during the original broadcast. Usually, new episodes were once per week.
-The title card for this episode doesn't feature the usual black background, instead, it shows some dark clouds.
-Some of the clips used in the recap look slightly different to what they looked like in the previous episode. A couple of this episode's preview clips also look slightly different, along with a major change that fixed a coloring error with Jako's hair -click here for more details.
-When Ein falls back, the song "Wind and Rain" starts to play. It is sung by Shimon Masato.
-Like in the previous episode, there are a couple of times where Ein isn't wearing his gloves.
-It's difficult to see, but during this shot, Jako's hair is colored yellow instead of purple.
