Hokuto no Ken episode 53
The Harbinger of Death Approaches! Rei!
The Heavens Plays Cruelly With Time!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Rei and Kenshiro head to Buldan, where they meet Nova.
Original broadcast date: November 28th, 1985
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Kenshiro and Rei head to Buldan, but Rei suffers from pain and passes out. Kenshiro takes him to a place to rest, but when he wakes up, they are attacked by a group of young men, who are led by Nova. After a misunderstanding, Ken and Rei find out that Nova and his group are also heading to Buldan, as Yuda's gang captured their girlfriends and sisters. They decide to team up and head to Buldan together, where they fight some of Yuda's guys and find out where he is. They head into a building, and enter Yuda's room.
The women are in the room, but Yuda's men threaten to kill them. However, Kenshiro warns that if they do that, he and the others will chase them down to the ends of the Earth to take revenge. This gets most of the gang to run away in fear, as Rei confronts Yuda. However, it turns out that the Yuda here is an imposter! The imposter tells Rei that the star of justice is a star of the fool, but Rei quickly kills him.
Back at Yuda's fortress, Dagar is still suffering when the real Yuda appears -he had been here all along. Dagar sees this as betrayal, but Yuda kills him with a Nanto koukaku ken (South Star crimson crane fist) technique -it wasn't a betrayal, it was just strategy. Meanwhile, Nova's group are happy as they have successfully completed their rescue. Whilst Kenshiro and Rei are glad, it is still a hollow victory for them as Rei has still not managed to confront Yuda. But as Rei is saying this, he suddenly screams out and collapses once again from pain -what is going to happen to him?
-Most of this episode is filler -Nova and his story were not in the manga. Whilst Kenshiro and Rei say they will head to Buldan, they are never actually shown going there. Instead, Rei passes out, and Kenshiro takes him back to Mamiya's village. The scene near the end of the episode where Yuda kills Dagar was in the manga, though.
-This episode's title card does not have the usual black background. Instead, it features the death omen star, and the text is in black rather than the usual white.
-Early on in the episode, Dagar thinks about what Kenshiro did to him. Some clips from the previous episode are used, but a few shots look slightly different to what they looked like before -see this page for more details. Intersingly, some of Kenshiro's dialogue uses different takes to what was heard previously.
-Nova is voiced by Ryō Horikawa, who previously voiced Ko and Mitsu.
-Lan's voice actress, Hiroko Emori, previously voiced Rima and Yu.
-Golem's voice actor, Masashi Hirose, voice one of the God's Army soldiers (the one who executes Rima's parents) and the guy who Kenshiro saws through in this episode.
-When Nova and his team battle three of Yuda's guys, there is one shot where the wrong background is used, making it look like they are all fighting in the air.
-Lan has skin colored shoulders during this shot, but she's meant to be wearing a pink, long sleeved top.
