Conclusion of Chapter 2: Farewell Rei!
Your Heroic Legend Will Be Told Throughout Time
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site

Hokuto no Ken episode 57
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In his final moments, Rei reflects on his life.
Original broadcast date: December 26th, 1985

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes


Synopsis

Away from his friends and family, Rei thinks about what has happened in his life. How he met the likes of Kenshiro, Mamiya and Toki. His body then begins to rupture.

Having said he had no regrets, Rei dies. Some of his blood trickles out of the house, where everyone sees it. They realize Rei is dead.

Kenshiro says that they will never forget Rei, as he burns the house down. Mamiya happens to see the Big Dipper in the sky, but she can no longer see the star of death! Lin says Rei's death has caused a miracle for her. Farewell, Rei.

Manga Differences

-In the manga, Rei dies seconds after entering the house. The anime adds all of those flashback scenes.

Notes

-This episode uses clips from several previous episodes -with quite a lot of differences in them, especially the clips used from the previous episode. See this page for more details.

-When Yuda is shown using his blood-adorned beak move, it has extra frames of animation that were not present in the previous episode. In the previous episode, the shot cuts here. But in this episode, it has some additional animation frames, and the camera zooms in towards Yuda's face. It's still not clear what kind of attack Yuda was going to do though.

-The preview segment for this episode -which was shown as the end of the previous one -has a brief shot of a naked, swimming Mamiya in it. This shot is not actually used in this episode.

-This is Airi's last appearance for quite a while. She will next appear in episode 114, where it's revealed that she stayed in Mamiya's village.