Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 34
Episode 143 overall
A Match Between Brothers of Flesh and Blood!
There Are No More Tears in Hyoh's Eyes!!
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Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 34 |
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Episode 143 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Black Yaksha fights Hyoh, but it's up to Kenshiro to stop his brother.
Original broadcast date: December 10th, 1987
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Errors
Synopsis
Some villagers are forced to drain a river. When they do, a building is revealed, and Hyoh heads inside it. He wonders if the objects inside it are meant to be graves of his predecessors. However he doesn't think much of them, as they never got to shine brightly thanks to the North Star divine fist being seen as the superior style. Hyoh means to change that, and says that this is the perfect place for Kenshiro's death. Kenshiro and Shachi soon learn of what Hyoh has done, and also go there. Kenshiro soon confronts Hyoh.
However, Black Yaksha appears, introducing himself to Kenshiro. When Kenshiro was just a baby, Black Yaksha used to care for him. He sees that Hyoh seems to have totally been consumed by his evil fighting spiritual energy, which means he must fulfill a promise he made to Jukei -he will take Hyoh's life! He tries a technique called yushou seibu (rising fearsome dance) which lets him circle around Hyoh rapidly, before striking at him. However, Hyoh manages to counter it, and cuts off one of Black Yaksha's arms. Black Yaksha then gets blasted into a pillar before Hyoh's evil fighting spiritual energy takes control of the fight. He uses it to pick Black Yaksha up and hold him in the air, as Hyoh goes to hit all 1,109 of his pressure points!
Kenshiro then enters the fight, saving Black Yaksha. Hyoh uses the heaven destruction technique to distort the space around Kenshiro, just like he did with Black Yaksha. Kenshiro failed to counter this when Kaioh did it to him, and so Hyoh readies another projectile blast to kill him with. But Kenshiro protects himself from the attack and manages to position himself! Black Yaksha is watching and says that the technique Hyoh used creates a frictionless force around the opponent. But now, Kenshiro has managed to overcome it, and he must have learnt how to deal with it after his fight with Kaioh. Kenshiro has done this by spinning himself in zero gravity, and used the centrifugal force to secure his position. Hyoh is surprised, as nobody has been able to counter it before. Kenshiro says the time has come for the Demon to fall.
-Two workers are killed via decapitation in the manga. The anime does not have this happen, and one of the people shown in the guillotine is saved.
-In the manga, Black Yaksha starts to fight Hyoh before Kenshiro and Shachi show up. Hyoh easily beats him and blasts him straight through a pillar, but when Kenshiro arrives, it turns out this was an illusion, as Black Yaksha has suffered no injury.
This does not happen in the anime, and the two don't start to fight until Kenshiro and Shachi are there.
-This is the point in the manga where Black Yaksha first appears -the anime introduced him earlier, where he helps Shachi defeat some Asuras.
-The scene with Kaioh in this episode does not happen in the manga.
-The guy who loses his teeth trying to stop the guillotine from falling has brown hair, but his hair is colored pink during this shot.
