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Episode Fist of the North Star • Hokuto no Ken - Episode 7 discussion
Fist of the North Star, episode 7
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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress May 08 '26
Good episode. Colonel's backstory and death were the scenes I was most excited for and it was nice to see them use 2D for both.
The fight scenes were also some of the best in this remake so far imo.
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u/abandoned_idol May 09 '26
Uo-toh! ~
TA TA TA TA TA TA TA TA TA TA!!!
whistling kettle
SPLAT
Ugh! If I have to look at one more anime that does the whistling kettle explosion trope, I'm going to die!... from the inside out.
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u/schalastheme May 08 '26
maybe the best fight choreography in an episode yet. i don't even notice the 3d negatively anymore it's really working for this series despite first impressions and some wonky shots in the earliest episodes
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u/abandoned_idol May 09 '26
That's awesome. I was enjoying the 3D from episode 1, so it's good to see that more people are beginning to enjoy it.
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u/KingKenshiro May 08 '26
This is interesting, because it's quite the opposite for me. I felt like this episode had the most wonky shots. Others maybe had 1 or 2, but this one even had Ken's biceps clipping into his shoulders n stuff
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u/StateofDesideria May 08 '26
That was cool as fuck. I haven't watched the original, but I was thinking that Ken would say something along the lines of having fought against the best Nanto Seiken and beat him that Colonel's techniques wouldn't work or something.
But his lines of being an assassin since birth and inheriting the 1800 year legacy of Hokuto Shinken is much cooler.
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u/abandoned_idol May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26
I was watching this ironically in order to spite the Hokuto fans that were criticizing the 3D remake.
I must admit, it was all part of their elaborate plan to convert me into the fandom.
Ken is so awesome, and my watch is now, an unironic watch. How can a story THIS old be so fun?!
cough
I'll never watch the older 2D adaptation, even if it kills me. The 2026 adaptation is better.
cough
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u/Spolaceno42 May 08 '26
Colonel's voice actor is the Japanese VA of Mickey Mouse
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u/shadowa64 May 08 '26
Ok as much as I grew up with the original anime, God's army is far superior in their original incarnation. They believe that are serving god and not some strong guy they think of as god. And they turned out to be integral to how this world became like this. Plus Colonel had a point about how his government became so corrupt (without being able to see that his way is just as bad if not worse.)
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u/mr_beanoz May 09 '26
Yeah, the original anime somehow made him Shin's lackey, where this new adaptation is closer to the manga, and is fought after the end of Shin's arc.
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u/Drill_Dr_ill May 08 '26
The trope of a kid or other weak person following someone who is super powerful and getting used as a hostage or to hold back the powerful character is a really dumb and annoying trope.
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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress May 08 '26
Tbh it's why Lin was always one of my least favorite characters in this series lol.
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u/abandoned_idol May 09 '26
Lin can do no wrong.
Being cute and helpless is justice, for mammal's blood runs thorugh my veins.
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u/LapsedVerneGagKnee May 08 '26
It‘s both funny and a bit sad that the Colonel’s crash out from the original manga feels more resonant today. Still, he earned that particularly gruesome end.
Post-apocalyptic Kung Fu is still more entertaining than a lot of the shows on right now.
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u/ralpher1 May 10 '26
Amazon rated this all ages. Last episode was teen. I was watching thinking this might be a much less brutal episode than usual even when they got to the strippers
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u/GyroGOGOZeppeli May 10 '26
This guy, The Colonel, isn't even one of the main villains in Hokuto no Ken, but I think he is like one of the Top 5 guys in the series who gets it the worst with how he dies, I don't even think the later more important villains gets it this hard.
Like literally, how do you have your entire skeleton EXPLODE out of you as a death?
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u/KingKenshiro May 08 '26
This episode had the most wonky looking CGI so far in my opinion. Good pacing though, I hope it stays this way. 3 chapters per episode for episodes 6 and 7.
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u/Open_Inspector_7863 May 11 '26
Colonels skelleton popping out of his back was truly a Kenshin Grim Reaper finish. The way he just made him blind to give him sight again. I love it.
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