Hokuto no Ken episode 47
The South Star Waterfowl Fist's Dance of Death!
I Will Give Up My Life for Love!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Rei fights Raoh.
Original broadcast date: October 17th, 1985
Contents
1)
Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Despite Lin begging him not to, Rei attacks Raoh. However, before he can get close, Raoh unleashes his touki (fighting spritual energy) on Rei, allowing him to knock him back without actually having to make any physical contact. Raoh says that it is impossible for Rei to hit him. Rei then uses his ultimate secret technique: danko sousai ken (self-sacrifice offset fist) which will allow him to get through Raoh's aura and kill him, but at the cost of his own life. Just as he is about to do this, Raoh throws his cape over Rei to stop him, and then hits one of his pressure points.
Kenshiro finally arrives in the village, only to see that Rei has been defeated by Raoh. Raoh finds out that Kenshiro has not seen the death omen star, and has no interest in fighting him now because of this. He knocks Kenshiro back with a powerful aura blast. However, Kenshiro releases his own aura, scaring Raoh's horse, Kokuoh (Black King). Raoh realizes that Kenshiro can also control his aura, and decides to fight him.
Kenshiro uses a technique called Hokuto shichischi kihei zan (North Star seven death cavalry kill) which temporarily knocks Raoh off his horse. However, Raoh was shot in the leg with an arrow at the time, and it was only because of this that Kenshiro survived -a point brought home when Kenshiro suddenly suffers a massive injury to his chest! Rei appears, as he was the one who shot the arrow, and he finds out that Raoh has given him just three days to live. He will feel the fear of the Fist King during his remaining time. With Rei unable to fight and Kenshiro seemingly down, who can stop Raoh now?
-The way the battle between Rei and Raoh plays out is slightly different in the manga -when Rei leaps towards Raoh for the first time, the scene then jumps to Mamiya suddenly feeling a pain in her chest. Then Kenshiro runs into the village and sees Rei has been defeated. Bat tells him what happened, and then the scene showing Rei trying to use the self-sacrifice offset fist move is shown. In the anime they changed this so what happens in the fight is continuous.
-You never get to see how Rei's ultimate move would work in the manga. In the anime, they added a sequence where Raoh thinks about what will happen.
-The arrow is never shown hitting Raoh in the manga, but they added a shot of it happening for the anime.
-The text for this episode's title card is initially colored blue. The color then changes to red, then finally changes to the traditional white.
-Kenshiro's shoulder pad is colored blue during this shot.
-When Raoh lands back on his horse, the arrow that hit his leg isn't there.
