Love is Preached in the Century's End!
Her Name is Leia!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site

Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 17
Episode 126 overall
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Kenshiro meets Leia, as Shachi fights Kaiser.
Original broadcast date: August 13th, 1987

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors


Synopsis

Tao takes Kenshiro to Leia, a woman who teaches the children of Asura about love. When she meets Kenshiro, she tells him that she wants him to find and kill her boyfriend: Shachi! Meanwhile, Shachi and Kaiser continue to fight, but the tide is turned when Shachi breaks off one of Kaiser's arms.

Shachi finishes off Kaiser with the hama tokushi (destructive scraping solitary finger) technique. Before he dies, Kaiser informs Shachi about the three rashos (supreme leaders) of this land -the most powerful warriors Asura has to offer, he has no chance in defeating any of them. Shachi already has a plan in facing supreme leader Han though -he wants to use Lin as bait to draw Kenshiro in. When Kenshiro and Han fight, he will observe Han's movements. When Han kills Kenshiro, he will move in and attack and kill Han. Meanwhile, Leia takes Kenshiro to a cave. She explains that this was where she first saw Shachi kill a man via his newly mastered North Star lapis lazuli fist.

Elsewhere, at Han's castle, an Asura enters and says he wants to serve Han for the rest of his life, having no other ambition. Han tells him that his life is worthless and as the Asura tries to attack him, he uses a secret technique of the North Star lapis lazuli fist style called mabu kousou (crimson scrape dance) to kill him. Meanwhile, Leia is thinking about Shachi. She takes off and drops a pendant he gave her. Kenshiro appears before Leia and asks if she really wants Shachi to die. She says yes, but Tao believes she doesn't really want Shachi to die -she wants the North Star lapis lazuli to die. Kenshiro picks up the pendant, and tells her not to give up on Shachi yet.

Manga Differences

-In the manga, Shachi actually manages to hit Kaiser with his slide kick, but it does no damage and he gets blasted. In the anime, Shachi doesn't even get to hit him before being blasted.

-In the manga, Leia and Kenshiro are outside when Leia asks Kenshiro to kill Shachi. They are still inside in the anime version of this scene.

-Kenshiro and Leia find out Shachi has taken Lin before the flashback scene with Leia and Shachi in the manga. This happens afterwards in the anime.

-Shachi's destructive scraping solitary finger technique hits Kaiser straight through one of his eyes in the manga.

The anime toned it down by having it hit through his forehead.

-When Kaiser mentions the supreme leaders, only the shadow of one appears in the manga: Kaioh. In the anime, all three supreme leaders appear.

-In the manga, when the flashback scene with Shachi and Leia starts, the Asura who takes cover from the rain is confronted by a panther. The panther is about to kill him when Kaijin (the big Asura) appears and clumsily kills the panther by petting it too hard. Kaijin then threatens to kill the Asura when Shachi appears, and challenges him. The part with the panther does not happen in the anime.

-Kaijin's design is also slightly different in the manga, and he looks more like the sloth from The Goonies.

Notes

-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.

-Early on in the episode, Tao talks about the Asura, and some clips from these two episodes are shown. There are a couple of differences with these clips:

Episode 125	Episode 126

Episode 124	Episode 126

-Unusually for this show, Kaiser's death happens off-screen.

-Leia's voice actress, Masako Katsuki, previously voiced Jennifer.

-Kaijin's voice actor, Masaharu Sato, has previously voiced many other characters, including Belga, Kogure and Taiga.

-Han's voice actor, Koji Totani, had previously done the voices for Jagi, the young version of Ryuken, Fox and several other minor characters.

Errors

-During this shot, Kenshiro's right hand is drawn as if he wearing a glove on it (which is wrong), but the glove is skin-colored.
-Kenshiro's glove is missing during this shot.
-When Kenshiro and Tao approach Leia at the end of the episode, Kenshiro's glove is missing.
-Kenshiro is wearing gloves on both hands during this shot.
-The above error happens again for this shot.
-During the last shot of the episode, Kenshiro suddenly isn't wearing a glove at all.
-During the last shot of the next episode preview, Kenshiro's glove is missing. This would be corrected for the next episode itself.