Hokuto no Ken episode 33
This is the Village of Miracles!
A Fallen Angel Has Arrived!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro begins his search for Toki, and learns of the Village of Miracles.
Original broadcast date: June 27th, 1985
Contents
1)
Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Kenshiro wants to find Toki, and enters a village where he sees two people fighting. One of the guys, Gertz, says he will die soon, and is just doing what he likes because of this. Kenshiro defeats him, and learns he came from a village known as the Village of Miracles. The place was full of sick people, until one day a man entered it and cured everyone with strange techniques. However, this man then changed, using moves to kill others, or turn them into his superhuman slaves. This man hit a pressure point on him that gave him just three days to live, and he then dies. Kenshiro believes it may be Toki, one of his brothers whom he trained with in the North Star divine fist, but he cannot believe Toki would become a monster like that. Meanwhile, Lin is so worried about Kenshiro that she leaves Mamiya's village to try and find him. She leaves Pel behind, but the dog escapes, and follows her.
Kenshiro finds out from a store owner called Ellery that there have been reports of monster attacks in the mountains close by. Kenshiro decides to go and check it out. Back in Mamiya's village, nobody can find Lin, so Rei, Mamiya and Bat go out to look for her, leaving Airi behind. Meanwhile, Kenshiro comes across three of Toki's creations, and fights them.
He defeats them all, beating the last with the Hokuto soryu ha (North Star twin dragon wave) technique, and finds out that Toki was the man who did this to them. In another village, Toki finds out Kenshiro is coming, and he has killed three of the beasts he created. Toki is pleased, as he wants a strong person to experiment on, and Kenshiro will fill that requirement just nicely. He says that the North Star divine fist school will be reborn by his own hands!
-Right after the scene where the Gertz's mouth explodes, there is a scene with Toki being told that Kenshiro has killed Jagi. This is not in the anime.
-The battle between Kenshiro and the three beasts is not in the manga. However, the battle between Kenshiro and the largest guy was in the first one shot manga. (Click here for more details on the early one shot mangas).
The battle goes the same way in this, but Kenshiro's opponent had a name: Goda.
-Lin leaving the village and Rei, Mamiya and Bat going out to find her was never in the manga either. I'll go into more detail on this in the next few episodes.
-There was a two week gap between this episode and the previous one during the original broadcast, usually Fist of the North Star was broadcast once per week.
-Neither Gertz or Haystack are named in the episode. I got their names from the wiki.
-Gertz is voiced by Daisuke Gori, who previously voiced Diamond.
-Haystack is voiced by Yasuo Tanaka, who previously voiced Sergeant Mad and Gojiba.
-When Kenshiro is walking through the village, some of the people around him are not colored properly, with them practically being shadows. At one point, there is a layering error, and the villagers overlap Kenshiro for a couple of frames.
-When Kenshiro first speaks to Ellery, there are a couple of shots where his head is far too small.
-The background of Ellery's store does not match up between day and night shots -just compare the background of this to this.
-During this shot, Ken's arm band and bandages are on the wrong arms.
