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Hokuto no Ken episode 20
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Kenshiro heads towards Southern Cross, but the most powerful weapon of Shin's army is sent to stop him.
Original broadcast date: March 7th, 1985

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors


Synopsis

Kenshiro finds out where Southern Cross is potentially located, and heads out that with Bat and Lin. Jennifer also goes with them, as she wants to help -many of her friends have died because of Shin. They leave her village, but are almost immediately attacked by Hydra and his army. It doesn't take that long for the good guys to win, and Hydra is killed by Kenshiro. When Shin learns of this, he has the South Star rail cannon sent out, which is controlled by a guy called Toda.

The cannon is capable of causing large scale destruction, but Jennifer notes how long it takes it to reload. She heads out on a bike and tries to distract the cannon, and buy Kenshiro enough time to move towards it. However, Jennifer is shot at and killed as a result. Kenshiro runs towards the cannon and by the time the crew have reloaded, he is already there. He kills the majority of the crew, but Toda has escaped, and gotten onboard the wreckage of a battleship. The weapons on the ship still work, but they fail to stop Kenshiro from ramming the cannon train into it.

Kenshiro hunts down Toda and kills him in the ship, but General Balcom and a fleet of small gyrocopters arrive and bomb the ship. Later on, Bat and Lin head out to the ship and see that it has been totally wrecked, but there are no signs of Kenshiro anywhere.

Manga Differences

-This is a filler episode, and was not in the manga.

Notes

-This episode's preview -shown at the end of the previous episode -has a slight difference with a shot of the train cannon firing:

Episode 19	Episode 20

In the preview, this shot has a yellow tint, but in the episode itself, it has a red tint.

-The train cannon has some words written on the side of it.

"Deutsche Berlin" and "Kürze Bruno". The Bruno was a type of German cannon, first used in the First World War.

Errors

-Hydra is now black, whilst in his debut appearance, he was white.

Episode 17	Episode 20

His hair color and outfit have also changed between episodes.
-When Balcom is first shown in his helicopter, his helmet has protection around both of his eyes, instead of just his right one.