Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 19
Episode 128 overall
The Legend of Asura's Savior!
His Name is Raoh!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 19 |
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Episode 128 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro fights Han, as Shachi reveals more about his past to Lin.
Original broadcast date: August 27th, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
The fight between Kenshiro and Han continues, and Shachi carefully watches. He can see Han's fast fists, and says he can kill him now. Lin isn't impressed with his murderous attitude, but he tells her this is how you must live in this land. He tells her a story about how two Asura were going to kill Leia, until he confronted them. He killed one, but the other was going to kill him before another man appeared and killed the Asura. His name was Jukei, and he was a master of the North Star lapis lazuli fist. Wanting to become stronger, Shachi asked Jukei to train him in the North Star lapis lazuli fist, much to Leia's disapproval. Back in the present, Shachi tells Lin that he is waiting for a savior to come, and the savior's name is Raoh!
As the battle goes on, Shachi is surprised at just how strong Kenshiro is. Lin reveals that Kenshiro is the man who defeated Raoh. Shachi is shocked that Raoh is dead, and reveals that he met Raoh a long time ago. Raoh was considering going to Asura to conquer it, but decided he couldn't yet, not until he had defeated Toki and Kenshiro. An army of bandits gathered, wanting to kill Raoh, but their appearance gave Raoh another reason to stay -there were too many idiots like them still around, not knowing to fear him. Raoh charged into battle and slaughtered them all within seconds.
Back in the present, Han uses a secret technique of his style called hakura messei (white net destroying energy), but this is beaten by Kenshiro's tenshou honretsu (heaven's command charge). Whilst Han can still fight, many of the Asuras gathered think he is losing. Shachi tells them Han's opponent is none other than Raoh himself -a statement that seems to cause fear, and one rag flicks a switch which makes all of the water red, signaling Raoh has come to the Land of Asura. Shachi says that everything has been planned for the day Raoh arrives, whilst Lin can only wonder to what he is planning. As Han gets back up, it's clear that his battle with Kenshiro is far from over.
-In the manga, Shachi puts a cloak on Lin before telling her the story of how he met Jukei.
He doesn't do this in the anime.
-When Shachi tries to fight one of the Asura in the first flashback scene, a rag tries to stop him. This isn't in the anime.
-The Asura Shachi kills has a more violent death in the manga, as the piece of metal goes straight through his skull.
-The way Raoh kills people in the second flashback scene is more violent in the manga, as he's quite clearly splitting them in half. The anime does have him do this as well, but it's nowhere near as graphic.
-In the manga, there is a part where a huge statue falls out of place, right on top of where Kenshiro and Han are fighting. It crushes several Asuras, but Kenshiro and Han survive without a scratch, as the statue breaks around them. This part is not in the anime.
-In the manga, the rag who pushes down the switch to make the water red declares that Kenshiro is Raoh just because he used the heavens command charge technique. In the anime, this was changed so Shachi tells everyone that Kenshiro is Raoh.
-There are a few small differences with some of the animation in this episode when compared to what was seen in the previous one -click here for more details.
-Jukei's voice actor, Kohei Miyauchi, previously did the voices of Lin's village elder, Mamiya's village elder (in this episode only), Mako and Aki's grandfather and Sojin.
-"Kill the Fight" is played for the third time in the series, starting when the Asura run up to watch the battle.
-The music during the next episode preview segment has been changed, and is now a version of "Tough Boy" (the song played during the intro) without any lyrics.
-Early on in the episode, as Kenshiro and Han are hitting each other at super speeds, Kenshiro's glove is sometimes colored correctly, but sometimes skin colored.
-Kenshiro's glove is missing when Han chops him through the floor.
-When the rag runs off to pull the lever down, he's not wearing gloves during this shot. He has them in all other shots.
