Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 21
Episode 130 overall
A Cruel Prophecy! Kenshiro,
You Cannot Be the Savior!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 21 |
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Episode 130 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
The villagers of Asura think that Raoh has returned, and are ready to help him fight.
Original broadcast date: September 10th, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
The villagers and rags of Asura have found out that Raoh is back, and rise up to help their savior. One group of villagers, led by Kosem, attacks a training camp and rescues the children being forced to fight there. But they are then attacked by a group of Asuras lead by Buron.
Kenshiro, who has been thinking of the things that have happened during his time in the Land of Asura so far, notices smoke coming from a building not far away and decides to go and take a look. He finds Kosem barely alive, who wants to know why the savior Raoh didn't come to help them.
Buron is still around and attacks, but is easily killed by Kenshiro. Kenshiro finds a medallion Raoh gave Kosem a long time ago, and thinks that now he is on this land, there is no turning back for him.
-The scene with Kenshiro at the start, where he listens to the chanting, was not in the manga.
-The scene where Buron kills several cowardly Asura was not in the manga.
-All of the flashback clips in this episode are obviously filler and weren't in the manga.
-When Buron attacks the rags, he is shown using his boomerang to cut several of them in half in the manga. The anime has him just decapitate one rag instead.
-Buron also enters the place the villagers attacked in a vehicle in the manga, which he doesn't have in the anime.
-The story between the manga and anime changes slightly here, as the anime is about to start a filler arc. At this point in the manga, Kosem dies, as Buron kills him. In the anime, he is kept alive for a little longer yet.
-In the manga, Buron dies when Kenshiro throws his own boomerang at him -it goes straight through his head. Another Asura then attacks with swords, but Kenshiro hits a pressure point on him which makes him stab through his own head. In the anime, this was changed so Buron survives being hit with his boomerang, but then gets one of his pressure points hit and stabs himself through the head.
-Buron's voice actor, Yasuo Tanaka, has previously voiced several other characters, including Gojiba, Gonzu and Barona.
-Some of the clips have a few differences to what they looked like originally, click here for details.
-During the clip of Kenshiro picking up Leia's pendant, this shot has his hand colored like his glove. Strangely, this error was not present in the episode this clip was taken from (see above).
-During the last shot of the next episode preview segment, Kenshiro's arm bandages are colored black instead of white. This error would not be corrected in the next episode.
