Hokuto no Ken episode 34
Toki! Are You
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Angel or a Devil!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro meets and fights with more of Toki's forces.
Original broadcast date: July 4th, 1985
Contents
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Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Lin is found by Yuu, a boy who is part of a merchant group. Meanwhile, a man is taken to Toki who was a former boxer, and should make a good test subject for him. The boxer reveals he let himself be captured so he could kill Toki, but he actually ends up losing to him in battle. Toki tries to hit a pressure point to increase the power of his punches, but it goes wrong, and kills him.
Meanwhile, Kenshiro is having a drink in a bar when some of Toki's troops move in, lead by Habu. He offers people the chance to win a month's supply of food if they can defeat Gyuki in an arm wrestling contest. Nobody wants to try it, but Kenshiro eventually accepts the challenge. Kenshiro defeats Gyuki, so Habu fights him instead. However, Ken hits a pressure point on Habu which makes him unable to open his hands, meaning he can't let go of his staff weapon. Kenshiro carries Habu outside, forcing him to show the way to Toki's place. As he gets outside, Kenshiro finds another unit of Toki's army waiting for him, led by a man called Goum.
Kenshiro kills all of them, and sets off to where Toki is. Meanwhile, Toki finds out that Kenshiro is on his way here. He believes that Kenshiro has gotten a little better over the years, but he knows he will still be able to use him as a test subject, and eventually complete his plan of giving the North Star divine fist a new start -and making it the devil's own martial art!
-The character of Goum was never in the manga. The scene near the end where he and his men attack Kenshiro was only in the anime.
-In the manga, Habu shows Toki the boxer, rather than Goum.
-Between the boxer being defeated and then experimented on, there is a flashback scene with Kenshiro and Toki. This scene was used in the previous episode of the anime.
-There is a challenger who tries to defeat Gyuki before Kenshiro in the manga, who does not appear in the anime.
He has his hand destroyed by one of the saws. Habu doesn't reveal the saws straight away in the manga either.
-Yuu and his family are in the manga, however, they are not introduced until later (see the next episode for more details). They do not find Lin, because Lin does not run off trying to find Ken in the manga.
-Early on in the episode, Kenshiro thinks about what Gertz told him. Footage from the previous episode is used, but there is a small difference with one shot:
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The background has been shifted to the right slightly.
-Some of the new characters in this episode have had previous voice roles in the series:
--Yuu is voiced by Hiroko Emori, who previously voiced Rima.
--Yuu's father is voiced by Ikuya Sawaki, who previously voiced Johnny, and the "oh no!" guy who claimed to have stolen some North Star divine fist techniques from Jagi.
--Goum is forced by Yusaku Yara, who previously voiced Wolf, and the guy who owned Airi before losing her to the Fang King.
-The animators decided to have some fun with Goum's men during the scene where they attack Kenshiro. Whilst some are drawn attacking, some are doing ridiculously silly things:
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One guy is playing baseball, one is doing gymnastics, some are jumping hurdles, a couple are pole vaulting and finally, some are vaulting.
-When Bat gets into his car, there are a couple of shots where his eye is colored red instead of brown.
-A couple of shots of Goum's men getting killed re-use footage from previous episodes, but the shots used show men who don't wear the same armor the rest of Goum's unit have.
-One of the guys who stabs Goum has blue hair instead of blonde hair during this shot.
