Demon Kaioh's Choice!
Cold Blood Runs Through my Body!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site

Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 31
Episode 140 overall
Previous Episode	Next Episode

For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.

As Kenshiro recovers, Kaioh goes to where Sayaka and Lin are.
Original broadcast date: November 19th, 1987

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes


Synopsis

Shachi takes Kenshiro to a small hut next to a waterfall, leaving him in the care of Coyote, an old friend. Shachi then leaves to try and find them food. However, Kaioh has sent out a message to all the warriors in the Land of Asura: they can become the third supreme leader if they can kill Kenshiro and Shachi. Many Asura start searching for them, and one group, led by a powerful Asura called Cain, find where Kenshiro is. But just as they are about to finish him off, Kenshiro awakens.

Cain soon loses all of his men, but is still determined to fight, and uses a projectile beam. This does nothing to Kenshiro, who uses his aura to send all of the water in the waterfall flowing the wrong way, taking Cain with it. Cain is destroyed in mid-air. Kenshiro thanks Shachi for what he has done, and finds out that he wants just one thing in return: Kaioh's death. Meanwhile, Sayaka is still with Lin, and the two of them are looking out at the ocean. Sayaka explains that she was raised in this land, and so has never crossed the sea. She hopes that one day, when the Land of Asura is at peace, she will be able to. Her brother is strict, but he has never hurt her yet. But she doesn't think that he has good intentions for Lin, so that is why she has refused to hand her over. Lin says that whilst Ken was defeated by Kaioh once, she's sure that Ken will return and defeat Kaioh. They hear something behind them, and see Kaioh standing in the doorway.

Lin backs away as Sayaka tells her brother to stop, and to leave Lin alone. She begs him to be the brother she once knew, before the North Star lapis lazuli fist effected him. Saying nothing, Kaioh puts one of his massive hands on her shoulder, and then without warning strikes a pressure point in her chest. Kaioh says that everything exists for him, and to create the new century he desires, a sacrifice must be made. She, as his sister, must die for him. Lin attempts to stop him, but she gets shoved back as Kaioh hits his own sister with one last strike. Sayaka starts to fall back, and thinks of Hyoh one last time before she dies. Kaioh stops her from hitting the ground, but he shows no sadness to what he has done. Instead, he just starts to laugh.

Manga Differences

-In the manga, Sayaka makes her first appearance when Kaioh enters her room, and then kills her. She never meets Lin and appears for a very little amount of time, at least compared to the anime.

-In the manga, Kaioh wears a different helmet when he kills Sayaka:

The anime has him wearing his usual one.

-In the manga, Shachi finds Leia and the two hide Kenshiro in a simple tent next to a waterfall. They talk about how two days have passed, how Shachi has no feelings of regret, and that Kenshiro has not regained consciousness yet. However, when they go to check on Kenshiro, they see he is up, standing in front of the waterfall. Kenshiro uses his aura to make the water flow the opposite way. In the anime, this was changed so Leia isn't present, and they also added in Cain, a character who isn't in the manga, for a fight scene.

Notes

-Coyote is not named in this episode. That's what the wiki calls him though, so I'm going with that. Better than calling him "old man" which is what Shachi and Kenshiro call him.

-This episode's preview -shown at the end of the previous episode -features a shot of Kenshiro ripping his jacket off. This animation is not used in this episode, but an animation very similar to it will be used in this episode.

-The opening recap uses clips from the previous episode. These clips are slightly zoomed in or out depending on the shot when compared to what they originally looked like, but there's one more major difference:

Episode 139	Episode 140

When Shachi is seen ripping out his eye, the recap adds some effect that mostly covers up the blood. This wasn't there in the original.

-Cain's voice actor, Michihiro Ikemizu, previously voiced Baruda, Gensho and Solia.