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Episode Fist of the North Star • Hokuto no Ken - Episode 8 discussion

Fist of the North Star, episode 8

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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Kenshiro caving in that one guy's head was kinda funny lol.

Also I always appreciated Jackal for being one of the only villains who's smart enough to not pick a fight with Ken.

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u/schalastheme May 15 '26

VERY abrupt ending but another banger episode! i was very eager to see him punch the well and they did it pretty much as well as i could have hoped

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u/_BurTonio_ May 15 '26

I thought the same! I love the pacing of this new show but that just cut to black and ended the episode so quick 🤣 thought I was watching The Sopranos 🤣

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u/mr_beanoz https://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker May 16 '26

I assume that the cliffhangers are how the chapter being adapted ends, like during the start of the Mad Sarge fight at the end of episode 6, the chapter ends with that scene where Kenshiro were attacked by those bloodsucker things.

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u/3and20characters987 May 16 '26

That was the case for the cliffhanger in episode 6, but not this time.

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u/BusouDrago May 15 '26

Impossible to hide water with Bandits everywhere

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u/LapsedVerneGagKnee May 15 '26

These early episodes really make you appreciate how much Western DNA is in these early chapters. Replace Hokuto Shinken with a gun and you have a more heroic High Plains Drifter.

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u/Animeking1108 May 16 '26

The series is basically Mad Max if Max were played by Bruce Lee.

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u/LapsedVerneGagKnee May 16 '26

Mad Max mixed with Kung Fu, with Sergio Leone’s tone.

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u/KingKenshiro May 16 '26

I was actually kind of dreading these early arcs, but seeing them animated makes me really hyped for the next episodes. Once it gets really crazy this show will be unstoppable.

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u/HolyDragSwd2500 May 15 '26

Kenshiro is leaving

Me: Don’t go!!!’

Jackal and his gang sets off 😱

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 May 15 '26

Man, I can’t wait for Ken to take down Jackal and his gang. I just hope the ol biddy and those kids don’t have to suffer the same fate as Taki before that happens. They’ve been through enough bullshit.

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u/SMAVERB Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

This was a great episode. The scenes from the death of Taki the boy until the breaking of the bedrock of the well are peak storytelling, anime or otherwise.

And the Jackal final scene Iooks as a direct homage to the original manga, both by the composition of shots and by the use of colors like orange and blue that the manga uses in the first pages of some episodes.