Hokuto no Ken episode 96
Juza Falls!
I'll Give My Life to Protect the Woman I Love!!
-From Rage Quitter 87's Fist of the North Star site
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
Juza returns to Raoh to fight him, whilst Kenshiro learns who the last general is.
Original broadcast date: November 27th, 1986
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
3) Notes
4) Errors
Synopsis
Kenshiro and the others head back to Fudou's village, where he meets the other children Fudou is looking after. Fudou wants to take Kenshiro to the South Star capital, but he falls down. He has many arrows in his back, which hit him during the fight with Hiruka. Meanwhile, Juza heads back to Raoh alone on the Black King, having told his gang that they may no longer follow him. Juza resumes fighting Raoh, and uses his most powerful technique -gekiheki haisui shou (strike-wall backwater palm)- but Raoh survives, having hit pressure points on Juza's arms before he used the move so it was not as powerful as it should have been.
Already injured, Juza allows Raoh to hit him, but he survives, and he and Raoh crash to the ground. Juza tries to break one of Raoh's arms, but underestimates his opponent's power. Raoh gets up and as Juza falls off of him, he hits a pressure point on the back of his neck known as kaimon tenchou (heaven's gate reveal). With Juza now in tremendous pain, Raoh demands to know who the last general is.
Meanwhile, a recovered Fudou decides to tell Kenshiro who the last general is -it is the woman he loved, Yuria! At the capital, the general removes her helmet, revealing that she is indeed Yuria.
-Juza does not have any bandages around his stomach in the manga.
-In the manga, the scene with Kenshiro and the others arriving in Fudou's village is shown after Juza uses his technique on Raoh, whilst this is the other way around in the anime.
-In the manga, Kenshiro is wearing a cloak when he arrives in Fudou's village, whilst he isn't in the anime.
-In the manga, Kenshiro finds out who the last general is before Raoh hits that pressure point on Juza. In the anime, it's the other way around.
-Most of the time, when a character loses a major amount of blood, the blood color is white. But in this episode, the blood is colored red. This is most notable during this shot of Juza.
-When Yuria removes her helmet, "Yuria... Eien ni" (Yuria... Eternally) starts playing. This was previously used as the credits music for the pre-chapter 4 episodes.
-Raoh is drawn way too tall a few times in this episode.
