Hokuto no Ken episode 42
A Century’s End with No Tomorrow!
Ken, I’ve Been Waiting For You!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Raiga and Fuuga fight their master, as Kenshiro gets closer to where Toki is being held.
Original broadcast date: September 5th, 1985
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
The Fist King's royal guard, led by Zarqa and Qasim, arrive at Cassandra, and want to bring order back to the place. However, Kenshiro, Raiga and Fuuga convince the prisoners and ex-guards to fight against the Fist King rather than fearing him, and there is soon another large battle between them and the Fist King's forces. Zarqa and Qasim run off to find Toki. Raiga and Fuuga give chase, but they encounter their master, Sojin, waiting for them. He attacks them with his furai jukyoku ken (wind thunder ten extremities fist), but they defeat and kill him.
Tired from the battle, they tell Kenshiro to go on ahead without them -Toki is being held on the highest floor of Cassandra. He goes with Rei and Mamiya, and they encounter Zarqa and Qasim. Zarqa tries to attack Kenshiro with a sword, but it doesn't work and he is killed. Qasim runs off to Toki's cell, and threatens to kill Toki.
However, he hasn't got the real Toki at all, and Kenshiro finds out he was just a distraction whilst the real one was taken out of the prison. Kenshiro hits a pressure point on Qasim, which makes him point out where the real Toki is (he dies shortly after revealing this information). Kenshiro starts to break down a wall, but it may be too late -two other guards have already entered the real Toki's cell, and are about to kill him!
-The battle at the start of the episode was not in the manga.
-Sojin was not in the manga either.
-When Raiga and Fuuga catch up with Zarqa and Qasim in the manga, they activate a trap where a massive block of concrete drops down, threatening to seal off the only entrance to the building with Toki in it. Raiga and Fuuga catch the block and hold it up, but Zarqa and Qasim start to hit them with spiked clubs and eventually kill them both. This scene will be in the next episode of the anime, although the reason Raiga and Fuuga hold the block is so there is still an exit rather than entrance, and they are killed by a different, and anime exclusive, character.
-Rei rips the curtain down in the manga, in the anime, it falls down by itself.
-In the manga, Kenshiro kicks Zarqa once to knock him down. In the anime, he punches him a lot before kicking him.
-Rei does not say Kenshiro's catchphrase to the second guard (you are already dead) in the manga. Kenshiro says it instead.
-There was a two week gap between this episode and the previous one during the original broadcast run, usually new episodes of Fist of the North Star aired once per week.
-Some of the footage shown during the opening recap has some slight differences to what it looked like originally -click here for details.
-When the guards are about to renew their attack, one of the long shots has Rei mainly colored like Kenshiro. It seems the remastered DVDs attempted to correct this.
-When Zarqa first starts to spin his sword around, the blade is transparent.
-When Kenshiro first attacks Zarqa, stock footage is used. The problem is that Kenshiro is going to poke his opponent, but when the shot changes, every attack he does is a punch.
-When Kenshiro points at the guard, the bandages on his arm are missing.
