Yuda starts using a secret technique of his style against Rei, called denshou reppa (tradition-defying rending wave), and Rei can do nothing about it. Meanwhile, Kenshiro goes to the dam, and finds that it was Komaku who blew part of it up. He kills Komaku and then rips out part of a cliff, using it to block off the water.

This lets Rei fight back, and he uses a secret technique of his style called hishou hyakurei (soaring white grace) to defeat Yuda. In his final moments, Yuda admits he was insanely jealous of Rei and his style, for being more beautiful that himself. He says he could never surpass Rei, and then dies in his arms.

Whilst Yuda has been defeated, Rei realizes that his time will soon come. He tells Mamiya to try living as a woman before leaving her -he does not want her to see his disgusting death. Later on, Rei says his goodbyes to all of his friends, before entering a house by himself, ready to die.

Manga Differences

-What happens to Komaku is very different in the manga. He blows up the dam, but then plans to poison the waters.

Just before he can pour his poison in, Kenshiro arrives, and ends up making Komaku drink it instead. Komaku doesn't even get a chance to fight -Kenshiro simply kicks him off the dam, and part of his head explodes as he falls.

Notes

-The opening recap, uses clips from episode 47, 54 and 55. The clips taken from episode 54 and 55 have some differences to what they originally looked like, click here for more details.

-The title card for this episode isn't the usual style of a black background. Instead, it features a red background, with four images of Rei.

-For the most part, this episode uses the ultra-detailed animation style previously featured in episode 49. However, once it gets to the scene where Rei enters the house, it changes between shots -for the most part, it uses a less detailed style, matching the usual animation quality seen in other episodes. But there are a couple of shots where the more detailed style was used.

-Yuda's rending wave is a technique Raoh used against Kenshiro in episode 49.

-During the next episode preview segment, there is a shot of a naked, swimming Mamiya. This shot is not actually seen in the next episode.

Errors

-During the recap, this shot of Yuda uses the wrong background -making it look like he's fighting Rei outside the village, which isn't the case. This error was not present in the previous episode.
-The time suddenly changes from day to dusk in between shots of Kenshiro blocking off the dam.
-Yuda's fingernails aren't painted during this shot.
-Yuda's not got any lipstick on during this shot.
-When Yuda pulls out Rei's hands, he's missing his eyeliner and lipstick.
-He's missing his lipstick again just a few shots later.
-When Rei is about to go in the house, there is a long shot where his left foot is overlapping Kenshiro's left arm.
-During the next episode preview segment, this shot of Rei shows a stand of his hair colored the same as his skin. When this shot is shown in the next episode, it was corrected.