Hokuto no Ken episode 63
The Young Warrior Challenging Fate!
The Cry of his Soul moves the Heavens!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Shiva risks his life to help Kenshiro.
Original broadcast date: February 13th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Kenshiro continues to use his North Star divine fist, but it still fails to effect Souther. Souther strikes back and defeats Kenshiro. Word of Kenshiro's defeat reaches Shu, who finds out that Kenshiro is still alive, but is bleeding badly and is chained up in the Holy Cross mausoleum. Shiva volunteers to go there alone and rescue him, as he has snuck in and out of there before, plus his smaller size means he has more of a chance than an adult. Shu lets him go, and as he runs off, he hopes his son will return.
Shiva frees Kenshiro, but Kenshiro is badly injured, and is unable to walk without assistance. The two head through a sewer and have gotten some distance away from the mausoleum, but Souther's forces have found out that Kenshiro is gone, and send out search parties. One of these parties is heading in Shiva and Kenshiro's direction, but Shiva has a plan. He tells Kenshiro that he shares the same star as his father, and will gladly give his life to help another. He reveals that he has several sticks of dynamite on him, and runs off to confront the soldiers.
Kenshiro cannot stop him and a few seconds later, he sees a large explosion in the distance. Nobody is going to find him now, but Shiva had to sacrifice himself to do it. Kenshiro is determined to tell Shu about his son's fate, but he is still badly injured, and can only crawl across the desert. A sand storm only makes things worse for him, and he passes out. Later on, some men on horses find him.
-The rest of the battle between Kenshiro and Souther goes on for longer in the anime.
-Souther does not stomp on Kenshiro's head after defeating him in the manga.
-The scene where one of Shu's men tells Shu what happened to Kenshiro was not in the manga.
-The scene between Shu and Shiva was not in the manga.
-The scene where Souther dislikes his food is where Shiva makes his debut in the manga, in the anime, they introduced him earlier, in the previous episode.
-The scene where Kenshiro and Shiva head through the sewers was not in the manga.
-Shiva's final thought of saying goodbye to his father was not in the manga.
-In the manga, Raoh is the one who finds Kenshiro, and there is an additional scene where Raoh tells Kenshiro his time has not yet come -he must figure out Souther's secret first.
For the anime, they decided to change this to just two of Raoh's soldiers finding him.
-This episode's recap, and the first minute or so after the title card, use clips from the previous episode -with some differences. There is also some additional animation where, after realizing Souther hasn't died, Kenshiro's eyes widen -whilst this shot was used in the previous episode, the part where his eyes widen wasn't used. Another oddity is that all of the dialogue for the previous episode clips was re-recorded, and sounds different to before. Compare Souther's "three" for example:
-When Shu goes to sit down, a star in the sky vanishes as he moves.
-When Shu and Shiva are talking to each other, there is a shot where Shiva has blonde hair instead of brown.
-Shuu appears to have pupils in his eyes during this shot, when his eyes are meant to be completely white.
