Hokuto no Ken episode 90
I Am Juza of the Clouds!
I Shall Move with the Flow of Time!!
-From RQ87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Kenshiro fights the lance squad, whilst a relative of Juza's is revealed.
Original broadcast date: October 16th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
Synopsis
Juza just wants to have fun, but Rihaku's two men keep trying to talk him into stopping Raoh. They happen to mention that, no matter how he tries to look like he is enjoying himself, he is struggling to forget about "her". Juza immediately becomes angry and threatens to kill them both if they ever mention her again. Meanwhile, the Fist King's lance squad has spotted Kenshiro, and goes off to attack him and his friends.
However, they turn out to be useless, as they are mainly defeated by Kenshiro, although Fudou helps protect Bat and Lin. Back at his castle, Juza thinks back about a girl he grew up with, and fell in love with. He wanted to marry her, but he found out he couldn't - as she was his half-sister from a different mother. Back in the present, Juza says that girl's name: Yuria.
Juza then finds out that some guy has invaded his castle, and wants the women Juza stole from him back. His name is Gelga, master of Taizan hadatsu go (Taishan destruction snatching strength), but his techniques are not fast enough to get Juza, who eventually kills him. Back at the South Star capital, Rihaku finds out that Juza still hasn't made a move, so Tou volunteers to help him change his mind.
-The scene at the start with Raoh happens after the scene where Kenshiro and Fudou fight the lance squad in the manga. In the anime, it's the other way around.
-The lance squad have an extra scene in the anime which was not present in the manga, where they discuss the rewards they can get for killing Kenshiro, Fudou or the two kids.
-The scene in the pool with Juza and the ladies happens after the scene where Kenshiro and Fudou fight
the lance squad in the manga. In the anime, it's the other way around.
-In the manga, Gelga enters the castle just after Juza tells Rihaku's two guys to never mention "her" again, and then gets into a fight with Juza. For the anime, they split this scene up so Gelga does not appear until towards the end of the episode.
-The flashback scene with Juza and Yuria was in the manga, but does not happen until later.
-There is no scene in the manga where some of Juza's guys try and attack Gelga, because there are no guys to begin with -in the manga, Juza is the only man in his castle.
-Gelga has several troops with him in the manga. These do not appear in the anime.
-When Gelga dies, his body splits in two in the manga. In the anime, he explodes, North Star divine fist style, which was an odd choice.
-There was a three week gap between this episode and the previous one during the original broadcast. Usually new episodes of the series were broadcast once per week.
-The preview of this episode (shown at the end of the previous episode) has a few minor differences when compared to what's shown in this episode itself -click here for more details.
-During part of the flashback scene with Juza and Yuria, an instrumental version of "Ai Ha Oni" plays. This song will make another appearance, complete with vocals, in a later episode.