Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 20
Episode 129 overall
Kenshiro's Secret is Revealed!
The Land of Asura is His Motherland!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 20 |
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Episode 129 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
The battle between Kenshiro and Han concludes.
Original broadcast date: September 3rd, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Leia and Tao go and find Jukei, and tell him what is going on. As the battle between Kenshiro and Han continues, Jukei says that the savior of this land, Raoh, was born here, in the Land of Asura. Many years ago, Asura was invaded and devastated by an army. Wanting to protect his home country, Jukei sent Raoh, Toki and Kenshiro across the sea in a boat, to find Ryuken and learn the North Star divine fist from him.
Jukei was not sure if they would ever return, so he trained three people in the North Star lapis lazuli fist: Han, Hyoh and Kaioh. This turned out to be a mistake, as all three of them later went off and conquered Asura. Tao tells Jukei that he has found out that the man who has come here isn't Raoh -his name is Kenshiro! Jukei is shocked by this. Meanwhile, Han has told Kenshiro the same story and that his homeland is Asura. They continue to fight, and Han thinks he has won when Kenshiro realizes his legs have gone numb -throughout the fight, Han has been waiting for this moment, as he hit a pressure point that would do this. Han tries to use a move to rip Kenshiro's heart out called zanfu enpa (beheading wind swallow destruction), which misses -it hits his arm. Kenshiro fixes his legs and reveals he has damaged Han's eyes, which made him miss.
Kenshiro defeats Han. Han tells him that even if he is stronger than Raoh, he will not be able to defeat Hyoh, the second supreme leader. Han falls to his death, landing in the red river below. Later on, Kenshiro tells Lin and Shachi to go back, as they have people waiting for their return. He is going to stay here, as there are still things he must do. Shachi has no interest in going back to his father, as he still intends to rule Asura. Lin thinks about Bat and Lui, but ultimately decides that she wants to stay here with Kenshiro.
-When Kenshiro reveals he has damaged Han's eyes, he instantly batters him with punches in the manga. In the anime, Han tries to use the beheading wind swallow destruction again and gets kicked a couple of times before Kenshiro starts punching.
-The flashback scene showing what happened to the Land of Asura is shown after Han is defeated in the manga. In the anime, it's shown earlier, whilst Kenshiro and Han are still fighting.
-The ending scene is slightly different -in the manga, Kenshiro tells Shachi and Lin to go back, but he doesn't start a fire to make a signal. That part was added for the anime.
-The recap uses clips from a few previous episodes. Some of the clips from the previous episode have some minor differences -click here for more details.
-During this shot, Kenshiro's glove is missing.
-In the flashback scene, Toki has gray hair, when it should be brown. This happens throughout the rest of the series for any flashback scenes with Toki in them.
-Raoh and Toki's birthplace being the Land of Asura is a retcon, as it was previously established that Raoh and Toki did not come from there, and that their parents had died. The only reason Ryuken agreed to train anyone was because he knew Raoh's father, and only wanted one son.
-It doesn't make much sense for Jukei to send three children to Ryuken either -surely he knew of the North Star divine fist's single successor rule? His dialogue in this episode suggests he thought all three of them would master it.
-When Han and Kenshiro start smashing rocks against each other for the second time, there is a shot of Han where he is missing his mustache.
-When Kenshiro walks up to the defeated Han, the latter suddenly has his armor back on again in one shot.
