Hokuto no Ken episode 43
Cassandra Collapses!
The Legend of the North Star is Reimagined!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro finally meets Toki.
Original broadcast date: September 12th, 1985
Contents
1)
Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Two guards are about to kill Toki, but he stops their swords just as Kenshiro breaks down the wall. Toki uses a move called Hokuto ujou hagan ken (North Star humane face breaking fist) to kill the guards. He and the others then work their way out of the prison, which has started to collapse. As they reach the exit, they find...
...that Raiga and Fuuga have sacrificed themselves to let them escape, as they are holding up a large concrete block which would have sealed off the exit. The large tower then collapses, and Kenshiro sees some blood on part of the wreckage. Toki explains that the Fist King killed many martial artists here, and it is their blood on the walls. Kenshiro correctly guesses that the Fist King must be Raoh, another man who trained with him in the North Star divine fist. Just then, another one of the Fist King's troops called Burg appears with a small unit of men.
Burg was the one who killed Raiga and Fuuga, but he doesn't last long against Kenshiro, and all of his men are killed. Cassandra is completely destroyed, and Toki says that Kenshiro is the only one who can stop Raoh now. Elsewhere, the Fist King finds out that Kenshiro has saved Toki. He thinks that the heavens call for chaos, and it calls for him.
-The scene with Uighur happens earlier in the manga. If happens before Kenshiro fights the soldier who tries to fight him with his spinning sword technique. For the anime, they put it in just after Kenshiro finds the real Toki.
-Toki calls says just "Hokuto ujou ken" (North Star humane fist) when he kills the two soldiers in the manga. Kenshiro then tells Rei and Mamiya the technique Toki just used was Hokuto ujou hagan ken (North Star humane face breaking fist). For the anime, Toki says "Hokuto ujou hagan ken" and Kenshiro never says anything about it. For those in doubt, Toki's style of North Star divine fist is a self taught one, which lets him kill enemies without them feeling any pain.
-Cassandra is not destroyed in the manga, that only happens in the anime.
-Burg was not in the manga. Raiga and Fuuga were killed by Zarqa and Qasim in the manga, rather than him. (See the previous episode for more details on that.)
-When the group leaves with Toki, he takes them through a corridor where the walls are stained with blood. He explains that the Fist King fought and killed many martial artists here, just to make himself more powerful. He says about a man who gave the secrets of his style away, but was still separated from his family.
This scene is kind of in this episode, but everyone just happens to see some wreckage with blood on it. The scene with the martial artist being separated was used, with a different outcome, back in this episode.
-When Raoh/Fist King first spoke -which was back in this episode -he was voiced by Norio Wakamoto. But in this episode, he is voiced by Kenji Utsumi. Kenji voices him for all of his appearances in the rest of the series.
-When Rei gets his first kill of the episode, his arm bands are gray instead of green.
-When the Fist King listens to the soldier's report, the horns on his helmet keeps flickering on and off.