Hokuto no Ken episode 88
The Five Chariot Stars Approach Kenshiro!
Fudou, Who Are You!!
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro finds out who Fudou is, whilst the Cloud is told to make his move.
Original broadcast date: September 11th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Fudou helps capture an escaped chicken. The owner thanks him and gives the group an egg each, then sets off back to his village. However, later on Kenshiro and the others come across him in the desert, and he has been fatally wounded. Kenshiro finds the gang who did it, and defeats them.
Fudou happens to see one guy hiding, and kills him with a technique called gosha sanga zan (five chariot mountain slash). He introduces himself to Kenshiro, Bat and Lin, and reveals he is one of the South Star five chariots. He has orders to take Kenshiro back to the South Star capital. There, the last South Star general awaits him. At the capital, Rihaku and Tou discuss what is happening. The Mountain cannot fight now he's with Kenshiro, and both the Wind and the Flame have died in battle. Raoh doesn't know the location of the capital yet, but with his troops advancing it is only a matter of time. There is one last person they can turn too: the Cloud.
A message is sent to Juza of the Clouds, but after reading it, he rips it up! Juza just isn't interested in such nonsense, and says that he's free like a cloud. He just doesn't care about the South Star, or even what else is going on in the world for that matter. There's no way he's going to help!
-In the manga, the scene with Fudou and the chicken was shown before Shuren appears.
-The guy who looks after the chickens does not mention that he has a daughter in the manga. They added this for the anime.
-The gang is very different in the manga -it doesn't have as many members, and the ones there are completely different compared to the ones in the anime.
The manga has one really big guy who Fudou defeats, by using his five chariot mountain slash to cut him in half. In the anime, Fudou uses this technique on a much smaller guy.
-In the manga, whilst Fudou explains who he is, Shuren is fighting Raoh. In the anime, they changed it to the battle between Shuren and Raoh happens earlier (see the previous episode).
-In the manga, Fudou tells the two guys he meets up with to go and find Juuza. In the anime, they changed it so Rihaku sends a message out via carrier pigeon.
-The scene at the end with Juza was not in the manga.
-During the recap, clips are taken from the previous episode, with some differences. Raoh is missing his aura in certain shots, which was there originally.
-During this shot, Jira's hair is colored blonde instead of green.
