Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 32
Episode 141 overall
A Challenge From Kenshiro!
I Never Lose Twice!!
-From Rage Quitter 87's Fist of the North Star site
Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 32 |
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Episode 141 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Gyoko searches for Kenshiro, whilst Kaioh and Hyoh hold a cremation for Sayaka.
Original broadcast date: November 26th, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Hyoh gets to Kaioh's castle, but is devastated to find out that Sayaka has been killed. Kaioh lies and tells him that Kenshiro was the one who killed her, which angers Hyoh. Meanwhile, an obese Asura called Gyoko is out looking for Kenshiro, as he wants to defeat him so he can become the third supreme leader. He sees him and tries to run him down in his train, but Kenshiro stops it with just two of his fingers.
Kenshiro beats up Gyoko and tells him to give Kaioh a message: he never loses twice. At Sayaka's cremation, Hyoh thanks Kaioh for his kindness during this time, and passes him a pendant Sayaka gave him. Kaioh raises his fist and thanks the Gods that even though their time together was short, Sayaka was happy with her life with Hyoh. Gyoko's train then crashes through a wall, but Kaioh stops it. Gyoko waddles out and is berated by Kaioh for interrupting the cremation. Gyoko says that he has an important message for him: Kenshiro will not be beaten a second time. But Hyoh is the one to react to this, as his evil fighting spiritual energy begins to show!
He kills Gyoko, and storms out. Kaioh is pleased that Hyoh has become a Demon like him. He then looks at the pendant, before throwing it to the floor and crushing it. He wants Kenshiro and Hyoh, two of the North Star clan, to fight and destroy each other. He will then be supreme.
-The scene where Hyoh finds out that Sayaka has died happens before Kenshiro revives in the manga. The anime has this the other way around.
-In the manga, the cremation scenes take place before Gyoko appears, Hyoh and Kaioh never meet him. The anime changed this and added an extra part where Gyoko enters and gives Kaioh the message, only to be killed by Hyoh.
-In the manga, Gyoko never crashes though a village in his train. He instead finds where Kenshiro is and brings the train to a stop (Kenshiro doesn't stop it), and then he and his men fight Kenshiro.
-Gyoko goes to fight Kenshiro straight away in the manga, his troops aren't sent in first, which is what happens in the anime.
-Kenshiro still has his bandages on when he fights Gyoko, whilst in the anime, he has his jacket back.
-Kenshiro slices Gyoko's arms off in the manga, then uppercuts him so he lands on one of his train's spikes, which kills him.
He tells Gyoko's men to go back to Kaioh and tell him that he won't be defeated twice. The anime changes this so Kenshiro hits pressure points on him, and then tells him to go and give Kaioh the message himself.
-The opening recap mainly uses clips from the previous episode, which have a few minor differences -click here for more details.
-Gyoko's voice actor, Yu Shimaka, previously voiced Gelga and Gil.
-From this episode and onwards, Kenshiro stops wearing Ein's glove, although it does sometime appear again by mistake (see below).
-Apparently, the Asuras use money -Kenshiro's wanted poster has a currency reward listed on it.
-The animation of Kaioh using his dark lapis lazuli falling destruction technique to stop the train was originally from this episode.
-When Kenshiro and Shachi start to walk off, Ken's arm band and bandages swap colors for a few frames.
-There are several points throughout the episode where Gyoko is missing the pink paint around his eyes.
-Kenshiro's wanted poster first looks like this. But later on, when Kenshiro stops the train, the amount on the poster has changed (500 instead of 50), and the white box around the amount is gone. When Gyoko gets up and takes a closer look at the poster, it has changed again -not only is the amount different again, but the numbers are suddenly in red instead of black, and Kenshiro's picture is different! When Gyoko says "It's Kenshiro!", the poster is different again -the amount now reads 50000.00, previously it was 50000.000. The text is back to black instead of red, and Kenshiro's picture is different.
-Kenshiro is wearing Ein's glove during part of his fight with Gyoko's men. He didn't have it before, and it goes away again afterwards.
-When Kenshiro hits Gyoko with his final punch, his arm band inexplicably changes into his bandages.
-When Hyoh passes the pendant over to Kaioh, it disappears from Kaioh's hand once Hyoh moves his arm down.
