Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 22
Episode 131 overall
The Hero on Horseback, Rock!
I Don't Believe in Kenshiro!!
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Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 22 |
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Episode 131 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Rock and his band of men go out to defeat the Asura.
Original broadcast date: September 17th, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Kosem holds his dead son, and blames Kenshiro for all of this -he has killed Raoh, their savior! Now he will never come, and the Land of Asura will be in misery forever. Kenshiro leaves and sees a village devastated by the Asuras, who are going on rampages to keep the rebelling villagers in check. As he surveys the damage, a man on a horse comes up to him and throws him a drink. He says his name is Rock. Meanwhile, some Asuras are looking for Leia, but she, Tao and some students are saved, and are taken to where Jukei lives. Shachi, in his rag disguise, is the one who helped them.
Rock returns to his village and finds that his father, Kosem, is going to die. Kosem tells him that Raoh, their savior, is dead! A man called Kenshiro who used the same style as Raoh killed him years ago. Rock is devastated by this as he has been training for years so he could one day fight at Raoh's side, but now that will never happen. Kosem tells him not to forget about Raoh, and then passes away. Rock finds out that the Asura have raided his village, and have captured all of the men to execute them, but he and his team go out to stop them. They wipe out the first wave of Asura, but then a much larger one called Xie appears. Xie slaughters some villagers and it looks like he can't be stopped, but Kenshiro then arrives, and starts to fight him.
Xie is quickly blown apart, but Rock does not thank Kenshiro when he finds out who he is -he wants him to go away, as it's because of him their savior will never come. Meanwhile, at Hyoh's castle, Han's body arrives in the red river. Hyoh hugs Han's body, telling his friend to rest in peace. But Hyoh then declares that he will avenge Han, and to do that they will destroy their new enemy: Kenshiro!
-Kosem does die in the manga, but he is killed earlier, by Buron. In the anime, he dies later, and was also made Rock's father.
-Rock and his gang were never in the manga -this episode marks the start of a mostly filler arc.
-The scene with Shachi and Lin in this episode was not in the manga.
-The scene showing a disguised Shachi saving Leia's group was not in the manga.
-Xie was in the manga, but his scenes are different. Shachi and Lin are present with Kenshiro, but then one of Xie's men (he has his own force in the manga, something he doesn't have in the anime) spots them. Xie sets a venus fly trap-like trap up and then fights Kenshiro, but Kenshiro defeats him and pushes him into his own trap, killing him instantly.
-Xie also adds "crab" onto the end of every sentence he says in the manga. So he'd talk like this: "Hi, crab. I'm Xie, crab. I want to kill Kenshiro, crab." He doesn't do this with his speech in the anime.
-Some of the clips used in the preview for this episode -which was shown at the end of the previous episode -have a few minor differences, click here for more details.
-When Kenshiro is walking through the wastelands and comes across a destroyed village, "Kareru Daichi" plays. This song was last used in this episode, and it's the last time it's used in the series.
-Bruce is not named in the episode. His voice actor, Michitaka Kobayashi, previously voiced Saiya.
-Xie's voice actor, Masaharu Sato, has previously voiced many other characters, including Belga, Boogal and Taiga.
-When Kenshiro appears before Xie, during the pan up shot, Kenshiro's arm bandages are colored black instead of white.
-During this shot, Kenshiro's glove is missing.
-It's missing again when Kenshiro leaps away from Xie.
-The glove is missing again during this shot.
-When Xie smashes into the wall, Kenshiro's arm bandages are colored black instead of white.
