Hokuto no Ken episode 74
The Wolf Who Dashes to the Horizon!
The End of Love and Hatred!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Some of Ryuga's past is explained, showing why he sided with the Fist King.
Original broadcast date: May 15th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Ryuga thinks about how he first met the Fist King, and how he decided to side with him after seeing how he ran things: using fear. Elsewhere, some of the Fist King's troops are still not aware that their master has returned, and are instead abusing villagers. One man runs around after women, trying to grab and crush them.
But Kenshiro then appears and fights them. Meanwhile, Raoh asks if Ryuga ever thought of taking over what was his, but he says that his star is a solitary one -so no, he hadn't. Ryuga thinks about how the Fist King's terrible legend began to spread. He and Raoh went to a village full of pacifists, who said that all they could do was smile and let invaders take what was theirs without resisting, as violence only leads to more violence.
Raoh, appalled by such an attitude, beat down the village leader and told him how pathetic he was. Back in the present, several of Ryuga's troops are on the way, shouting that they are going to kill the Fist King! Garou seems pleased, but Ryuga thinks they're fools. They seemingly state that they are doing this for him, but he leaps off his horse and promptly kills them all. The Fist King isn't bothered by what has just happened, and tells Ryuga to go and fight Kenshiro, if that is what he wants. Ryuga and Garou later witness Kenshiro save a family, and Ryuga sees Kenshiro pick a child up. He sees that the Fist King teaches kids to fight against fear. But Kenshiro brings out their innocence and purity. Which one of these two men will the ages wish for? Time is short and one of them must be selected... as Ryuga says he will voluntarily become a bloodthirsty wolf to find the answer.
-The first flashback scene was not in the manga.
-The scene with the blindfolded guy and the other bad guys was in the manga, but Kenshiro doesn't stop them -Raoh does. The men are part of his army, and when the blindfolded guy grabs him, Raoh slaps him with such force that he is decapitated. He then gets his horse to stomp over many of the other troops (this part was used in the previous episode).
-The manga also has a scene after the one above where Raoh returns to his castle, and Ryuga is sitting in his throne. This scene was used in the previous episode of the anime.
-In the manga, Raoh kills the village elder after slapping him, splitting his head in two with a single punch.
For the anime, they toned the violence down so Raoh just kicks him back, and he doesn't die.
-The scene where Kenshiro fights the bikers was extended in the anime. In the manga, he only fights the two pulling the pillar.
-The last scene with Ryuga in the anime is quite different
-as he does not mention the fact that Yuria is his sister, something he does think about in the manga. This is because the anime adds a lot more filler, and the writers decided to keep that fact a secret until the end of the next episode.
-This episode's opening is a retelling of the last few minutes of the previous episode. There are a couple of strange differences though, with characters who were there originally going missing.
-This is another episode to not have the usual black background during the title card shot. Instead, it features the he Fist King and Ryuga.
-When Raoh throws the kid away, the kid overlaps the Black King as he is sent flying.
