Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 39
Episode 148 overall
A Sad Victim of Love!
This Is The Origin of The Evil Kaioh!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 39 |
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Episode 148 overall |
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
The final battle between Kenshiro and Kaioh begins.
Original broadcast date: January 21st, 1988
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Kenshiro finds out from Black Yaksha where Kaioh and Lin are. Leia gives him Shachi's shoulder pad and he then leaves them. He soon finds Kaioh and Lin. Kaioh explains that this place is the burial ground of his mother, and points out her tomb on a small island in the middle of a swamp. He says that the reason his mother died is Kenshiro and Hyoh's fault. He explains that many years ago, his mother died protecting Kenshiro and Hyoh in a fire, and Kaioh was angry, thinking she had died for no reason other than being a slave of the North Star clan. Kaioh began to hate the North Star clan, and anyone who believed in it. He decided to that he would obliterate love from his life. He wanted revenge for her pointless death, and he was determined to not have love get in his way.
Kenshiro says he will fight for love, and Kaioh starts to attack him. He says that Raoh was dragged down due to his emotion, and that was why he lost. Kenshiro uses nil-thought rebirth to get to Lin, and then punches Kaioh in the face, saying that that fist was one of Raoh's. Kaioh sends in his horse to distract Kenshiro, and then blasts him. Kenshiro protects Lin, but crashes into a cliff. Lin ends up falling back into Kaioh's hands. He hits a pressure point on her known as shinkanhaku.
Lin loses consciousness and Kaioh says that when she wakes up, she will fall in love with the first man she sees, no matter how bad he maybe. He sends his horse off and Kenshiro attempts to follow, but Kaioh kicks him to the ground. Kaioh asks if he understands now how useless and weak love is, and how evil is the only way to get past such emotions. Kenshiro can't get to Lin now and as he gets up, Kaioh tells him that he won't know when Lin will wake -it could be in a few minutes, or it could be a year from now. He just knows she will wake up very easily. Kenshiro tells him he will not be forgiven. Kaioh says that he wants to kill the successor to the North Star divine fist here and now.
-The scenes with Black Yaksha in this episode were not in the manga -in the manga, Kenshiro already knows where Kaioh is due to the statue pointing it out for him (see the manga section for the previous episode), whilst in the anime, Black Yaksha finds out and reports Kaioh's location to Kenshiro.
-Almost as soon as Kenshiro appears, Kaioh hits the pressure point on Lin in the manga. The anime changed it so they have a flashback first, and then a scene where Kenshiro and Kaioh start to fight until the horse is sent in to distract Kenshiro. Only then does Kaioh get Lin and hit her pressure point.
-The flashback scene with Kaioh's mother does not happen until later on in the manga.
-In said flashback scene, the manga version has Kaioh hug Ryu... then smash him into the ground headfirst to kill him.
The anime changed it so the dog drowns off-screen.
-Ryu is a dalmatian in the manga, and is a different breed I'm not sure the name of in the anime.
-A couple of the clips from the previous episode have some minor differences in this one, click here for more details.
-Kaioh is ridiculously huge during this shot.
-Kaioh's gloves have fingernails painted onto them during this shot.
