Hokuto no Ken episode 89
The Crisis is Near!
Ken, Destiny Awaits at the South Star Capital!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Juza shows off his way of life.
Original broadcast date: September 25th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Fudou convinces Kenshiro to let him guide them to the South Star capital, where the last general of the South Star six holy fists awaits. At the capital, Rihaku finds out that Kenshiro is on the way, but also knows that he has still yet to receive a reply from Juza of the Clouds. This is mainly because Juza has better things to do, such as beat up people who steal women.
Juza kills a guy called Daruka, and tells the women who had been captured that they'll have way more fun with him. Taking their chances, the ladies head out with Juza and his gang, back to his castle. Meanwhile, Kenshiro's group encounter a group of men claiming to be soldiers of the Fist King (which they aren't), and want them to hand over any food they have. This results in a fight, where two of the men are killed, whilst almost all of the others run away.
Only the leader is stupid enough to keep fighting, and is killed when Fudou makes him walk back off a cliff. Meanwhile, Juza is devastated to find out that the women he saved are already married, and, worse yet, some have kids! He gives them some food and tells them to leave. A little later on, two of Rihaku's men appear before Juza, asking for him to go out and stop the Fist King. Juza just does not care about that, but then shows some kind of interest when the men request for him to at least meet with their general.
-In the manga, Fudou is the one who sends two men to find Juza. In the anime, Rihaku is the one who sends them.
-In the manga, Juza makes his debut when he appears on the building. For the anime, they introduced him earlier (see the end of the previous episode)
-Juza has black hair in the manga, whilst in the anime, it was changed to light blue.
-Juza urinates on Daruka in the manga.
In the anime, they changed it so he just throws a bucket of dirty water all over him.
-The fight between Juza and Daruka is no where near as long in the manga. Juuza just lands on Daruka, breaks his neck, and that is it. The anime added parts where Juza kicks him a lot, and also gives Daruka his own fighting style.
-The line where Juza says the women he can't carry should come with him, as they'll have much more fun, was not in the manga.
-Juza does not have his own gang in the manga -he is the only male in his castle. So in the manga, there is no scene where his gang blow up Daruka's men and vehicles.
-The scenes with the group of men pretending to be the Fist King's forces were not in the manga.
-In the manga, when the two men are trying to convince Juza to stop the Fist King, they notice one of the Fist King's patrols not far away and realize that they are heading towards Kenshiro and Fudou. This part of the scene was not in the anime version.
-There was a two week gap between this episode and the previous one during the original broadcast. Usually new episodes of the series were once per week.
-Daruka's voice actor, Daisuke Gōri, previously voiced Diamond and Uighur. He also voices the guy who attacks Kenshiro with a staff in this episode.
-During this shot, Fudou's hair is colored green instead of black.
