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Hokuto no Ken 2 episode 41
Episode 150 overall
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As Kenshiro and Kaioh continue to fight, Hyoh saves Lin, and the history of the North Star styles are shown.
Original broadcast date: February 4th, 1988

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes


Synopsis

Kaioh gets Kenshiro to fall into the depths below them. Kenshiro finds it extremely difficult to breathe, and Kaioh says that the fumes effect a man by paralyzing his body! Kaioh hits a pressure point on himself to be able to go down there without harming himself, and continues to batter Kenshiro. Meanwhile, Hyoh arrives just in time to save Lin by killing Samoto and his men. Kenshiro manages to counter Kaioh's assault by throwing a single stand of hair into his neck, which causes him to breathe again. Both he and Kaioh leap out of the depths, and arrive back on the surface.

Kaioh goes into a stance and Kenshiro recognizes is straight away: it is the same stance the statue was in when he saw it earlier. He and Kaioh exchange several more strikes, and one of Kenshiro's punches takes off some of Kaioh's hair, revealing a birthmark of the Big Dipper. Kenshiro then stuns Kaioh by telling him that he is part of the North Star clan's family! The birthmark on his head is proof. He tells Kaioh he knows the history of the North Star styles, and reveals that thousands of years ago, two sisters, Shume and Ouka, had a child each: Shuken and Ryuo. The world was in chaos due to the many warriors constantly fighting each other. The members of North Star clan gathered together, wanting a savior to appear who would create a new assassination style art which would rule supreme, and bring the world back in order. Shume was sick, but the two sisters would look out for one another as they hoped their sons would. However, the problem was that there were two children now. They would compete and potentially destroy each other in combat. Therefore, the North Star clan elders took the two babies away, with a horrible fate awaiting one of them.

The babies were taken away to a sacred place where a pack of wolves would kill one of them -the surviving one would become the savior. However Shume couldn't stand it, and on the night the event was to take place, she took her child and hoped Ryuo would forgive her. She was found before she could get away, but revealed that she was very sick, and would die soon. Ouka decided to sacrifice herself, letting both children live instead. Honoring their agreement, the elders kept both babies alive. They said that the sister's love for Shuken was a sign from the heavens, and that he must be the savior. Shuken grew up and developed the most powerful assassination style ever seen: the North Star divine fist! Later on, the elders built that female statue to honor the art's history. Ryuo, who had the mark of the North Star clan on his head like Kaioh now has, went on a journey. Without his mother's love, he did not realize that love had any power. And because of that, he was the one who created the North Star lapis lazuli fist. Back in the present, Kenshiro tells Kaioh that if he defeats him, he will no longer be able to turn his back on love any longer.

Manga Differences

-Hyoh defeats Zebra after Kenshiro and Kaioh head down into the depths in the manga, whilst in the anime, Zebra was defeated in the previous episode.

-As mentioned previously, the scene with Samoto is different in the manga. In the manga, Samoto is some posh guy who tries to wake Lin up, but then his men are suddenly killed by another Asura called Numeri.

Numeri then kills Samoto and takes Lin, saying he (somehow) knows the destructive point to wake her up. Hyoh then arrives and kills him. In the anime, Samoto and Numeri were combined into one character, with him having Numeri's design but largely Samoto's personality. One of the Asuras Hyoh kills does bear a resemblence to Samoto's manga design -the guy on the far left of this shot.

-Ouka has a slightly different design in the manga, and looks a little bit like Tou. The anime version of her does not give her a pony tail.

Notes

-This episode's preview -shown at the end of the previous episode -has a difference with the below shot:

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The Big Dipper can't be seen on Ryuo in the preview, but was added for the finished episode.

-Shume's voice actress, Yuriko Yamamoto, previously voiced Yuria.

-Ouka's voice actress, Mika Doi, previously voiced Tou.

-So Ouka kills herself by leaping off a tall place, whilst when Shume is seen being ill, she coughs up blood. Sound familiar?