Hokuto no Ken episode 40
Villains Need No Graves!
This Is the Hellish Cassandra!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro fights Uighur, the prison warden.
Original broadcast date: August 15th, 1985
Contents
1)
Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Uighur confronts Kenshiro and uses his Taizan ryu sojou ben (Taishan style twin streak whip) against him. This proves to be unsuccessful at first, as Kenshiro ruins Uighur's weapons. However, Uighur removes the horns on his helmet, which somehow contain even more whips, which he uses to tie Kenshiro down.
This gives Uighur enough time to use a technique called Moko hakyoku do (Mongolian champion way), which sends Kenshiro flying into some gravestones. However, this is not enough to defeat him, and he gets back up. Uighur raises the stakes by getting a wall of spikes to pop up behind Kenshiro, and he attempts to use the same move to crush him into them. Kenshiro stops Uighur's attack and crushes one of his arms, using a technique called Hokuto kouretsu ha (North Star steel-rending grasp).
Kenshiro then uses the Hokuto hyakuretsu ken (North Star Hundred crack fist) to defeat Uighur and make him crash into a grave that had been made for Kenshiro. The pressure points Kenshiro had hit cause Uighur's body to cave in on itself, and make him fit into the grave, where he explodes. The prisoners are freed, and refer to Kenshiro as their savior, but Kenshiro starts to walk further into the prison.
-The scenes with Lin, Bat and Airi were not present in the manga.
-Kenshiro's grave is still being dug in the manga, whilst it is ready in the anime.
In the manga, after Kenshiro survives Uighur's Moko hakyoku
do move, Rei tells two prisoners to keep digging and make the grave bigger. This joke was not in the anime.
-The manga has Uighur use the Moko hakyoku
do three times. The first one hits, but the second one has Kenshiro move out of the way, causing Uighur to crash into a wall. The third time, Kenshiro stops it. In the anime, he only uses it twice -the first one hits, and the second one is stopped by Kenshiro.
-When the prisoners start celebrating their freedom, Mitsu is reunited with his brothers in the manga. This is not in the anime, as Mitsu is dead.
-One of the freed prisoners resembles Johnny, the bar owner from the God's Army arc.
-The guard who wants to bet on Kenshiro has a mis-colored helmet during this shot, making him look bald. It's the right color during other shots.
-One of Uighur's horns keeps changing color from yellow to green during this shot.
-During this shot, Uighur's mouth can be seen opening and closing, but he doesn't actually say anything.
-A guard's design changes between shots -first, he looks like this, but just before he dies, he looks like this.
