Hokuto no Ken episode 68
Souther, the Sorrowful Holy Emperor!
You Were Exhausted with Love!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
The fight between Kenshiro and Souther concludes.
Original broadcast date: March 20th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Souther's secret was that he has dextrocardia situs inversus totalis -so his pressure points are reversed. Kenshiro hit a point on him that makes his arm bulge up, but he is strong enough to stop it from exploding, and then uses the ultimate move of his style -Nanto ho-oh ken ougi: tenshou juuji ho (South Star phoenix fist secret technique: heaven soaring cross phoenix). This lets him move so fast he appears to go through Kenshiro, and slice into his shoulders, without him being able to hit him back.
This works a few times, but Kenshiro eventually counters it with a secret technique called tenha kassatsu (heaven breaking impalement), where he sends forward a wave of his fighting spiritual energy, and allows him to hit several of Souther's pressure points without him having to make physical contact. Souther tries to attack Kenshiro again, despite his injuries, but is ultimately defeated and finished off with the Hokuto ujou mosho ha (North Star humane fierce flying smash), a technique that will kill him, but does not cause any pain.
Kenshiro tells Souther to remember the warmth, and this makes the Holy Emperor remember his time as a child, with his beloved master, Ogai. Kenshiro walks down the mausoleum, which begins to crumble. As he is surrounded by Bat, Lin and the other children, Toki realizes he has nothing left to teach Kenshiro. Raoh sees one of his enemies is dead, but he cannot grasp the heavens before defeating Toki and Kenshiro, the only two who stand in his way now. He tells Toki they will meet again, and then leaves.
-When Souther uses his secret move for the last time, he starts stabbing at Kenshiro rapidly in the anime, but this was not in the manga. In the manga, when Souther heads towards Kenshiro for the last time, he never gets to try and attack, as Kenshiro just starts rapidly punching him before he gets the chance to do anything.
-The scene at the end where the kids surround Kenshiro was not in the manga.
-The clips used in the recap for this episode feature many differences to what they originally looked like, click here for details.
-One of the shots used in the recap is a panning shot of Kenshiro. In the previous episode, it cuts before you get to Kenshiro's upper body, but in this episode, it pans all the way up.
-During the recap, if you look at this shot of Souther, part of his left shoulder pad is missing -this error was not present in the previous episode.
-Another recap error is this shot of Souther, where the blood overlaps his fingers. Again, this error was not in the previous episode.
-Near the end of the episode, Rizo (last seen here) makes a cameo appearance, but he has a different outfit and colors then before. (And I somehow doubt he had any time to get changed between episodes.)
