Hokuto no Ken episode 85
Preclude to a Death Match!
The Screams of Huey of the Wind Echoes in the Heavens!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Huey fights with Kenshiro, then later draws out the Fist King, determined to take his life.
Original broadcast date: August 21st, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Huey tries to test Kenshiro, but the latter is not interested. Only when Huey is clearly going to use an attack that could seriously injure him does Kenshiro make a move, and hits a pressure point on him without him realizing it. Part of Huey's arm explodes slightly, and the fight ends. Huey tells Kenshiro that he is indeed the true successor to North Star divine fist. Whilst he has to go now, he tells him that the other members of the South Star five chariot stars will meet him. As Huey, Shion and the Wind army depart, Kenshiro later helps out a woman and child by saving them from some of the Fist King's men.
Meanwhile, Huey and his army continue to attack the Fist King's villages, wanting to draw out the Fist King himself. Raoh finds out from a dying soldier that more of his territories are under threat, and so goes out to meet this new enemy. Huey and his army confront the Fist King in a desert, and Huey tells him that he is part of the South Star five chariot stars, and will protect his leader -the last general of the South Star six holy fists -to the death. He has come to end the Fist King's life, and jumps towards him whilst using his five chariot wind split fist technique.
This fails to even scratch the Fist King, and he kills Huey with a single punch. Just before he dies, Huey manages to tell the Fist King that the other stars of the five chariots will come after him. Shion is sent back to report to Rihaku and Tou, whilst the Wind army fights with the Fist King and his forces. Later on, Shion makes it back to the capital, but collapses. He tells Rihaku that Huey was defeated by the Fist King, and killed with a single punch. As Shion dies in Tou's arms, Rihaku realizes that the Fist King is an even greater foe than they had imagined.
-Most of this episode is filler. The only scene that happens in the manga is the one where Huey fights the Fist King.
-At this point in the manga, Fudo has been introduced, and has met Kenshiro. Huey sees them meet, and then he and his army start attacking the Fist King's villages (in the manga, Huey never actually meets, let alone fights, Kenshiro).
-Huey's death is much more violent in the manga, as there is a lot of blood when he gets hit. In the anime, they toned how much of his blood gets spilt by quite a bit.
-The fight between Huey's troops and Raoh's army is not shown in the anime, but in the manga, it is shown.
It looks like Raoh defeats everyone by himself. His army just watch.
-In the preview for this episode (shown at the end of the previous episode), the scenes where Kenshiro fights some of the Fist King's guys have a sand storm going on in them:
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In the episode itself, the sand storm effect was removed. (The animation cells were also moved down slightly.)
-I don't know if this should be listed as an error, but several times throughout the episode, the background is just black (most notable whenever Huey is shown fighting) rather than the psychedelic thing most animes tend to love. I can only assume this was done for an artistic reason, as it is never done again in the series.
-The red bandage Shion gives Huey often vanishes throughout the episode.
-During this shot, one of the Fist King's soldiers appears to be colored like the last South Star general.
-When Raoh first meets Huey, one of the horns on his helmet goes blue briefly. This happens a couple of times.
-Shion has blue sleeves during this shot, but his outfit isn't meant to have sleeves at all.
