LEGEND OF THE SAVIOR OF THE CENTURY'S END
Planning
Yoshinobu Nakao
(FujiTV)
FIST OF THE NORTH STAR 2
Welcome to this crazy time
Kono fuzaketa jidai e youkoso
You're such a tough boy
Kimi wa TOUGH BOY
Original Manga Buronson Tetsuo Hara
You're covered from head to toe in wounds
dokomokashikomo kizu darake
Music Director Nozomi Aoki
But nothing's gonna change if you cry over 'em
uzukumatte naitetemo hajimaranai kara
This is truly the end of the century
toki wa masani seikimatsu
Theme Song
"TOUGH BOY"
Sound Producer
Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Music and Lyrics TOM
Music Arrangement
Tsuyoshi Ujiki TOM
"LOVE SONG"
Lyrics by TOM
Music Takagaki Kaoru
Music Arrangement
Light House Project
Vocals by Tom Cat
Canyon Records
We met on a ruined street corner
yodonda machikado de bokura wa deatta
Production Manager Yoshirou Sugawara
Character Design
Masami Suda
As you run through
kakenukete
The midst of depraved and uncontrolled violence
kono fuhai to jiyuu to bouryoku no mattadanaka
Art Design
Nobuto Sakamoto
You gotta march on
susumanakya
Series Director
Toyoo Ashida
No matter how hard the winds bear down on you
ikioi wo mashita mukai kaze no naka wo
Producer
Yoshio Takami
THE FINAL CHAPTER: THREE EPISODES REMAIN!
HERE IS THE 2,000 YEAR-OLD HISTORY OF THE CLAN OF THE NORTH STAR!!
You wouldn't understand
the pain of the North Star Lapis Lazuli Fist...
Cursed as a depraved art for 2,000 long years!
The humiliation of being called only the planets...
Of the North Star Clan! Here and now,
I will annihilate the Clan of the North Star along with you!
What's this place?
Can you fully utilize your art in this confinement?
What?
I can't breathe...
The gas rising from there is no ordinary gas!
It's called Dark Gem Yellow Gas,
and once it enters your body, you're completely paralyzed!
Windpipe Closure!
The secret technique: Breathless Combat!
I'll do whatever is necessary!
So even a man beyond men can barely move here!
It's as if the pillars are restricting my movements.
Die!
What on earth is this?
It can't be!
They're...
The pillars are arranged like the Big Dipper!
The Big Dipper formation is a foil to your movement!
The successor to the Divine Fist of the North Star
will always fall into that pattern!
The greater their mastery of the art,
the more they unconsciously follow the same pattern!
This is a deadly formation passed down through my family
to overthrow the Clan of the North Star...
The North Star Reverse Consignment!
And look at where I'm positioned!
This is your fate!
It's the position of what you call the Death Omen Star!
The Death Omen Star!
That's right, no matter how much you struggle,
you're already in my hands!
What?
This Dark Gem Yellow Gas
enters the bloodstream through your wounds.
Call me coward if you will. But if I defeat you...
And annihilate the Clan of the North Star,
I'll gladly embrace the word coward!
Wake up! Hurry up and open your eyes!
I want to see your beautiful face with your eyes open!
- Come on, now! - Wake up already!
Come on, wake up!
Samot-sama!
Samot-sama, I've got her story!
Kaioh-sama apparently struck her Shikanhaku then set her free!
Her name's Lin.
What? The Shikanhaku! When she wakes up,
she'll fall in love the first man she lays eyes on?
This is getting interesting!
Wake up!
Wake up and love me!
I even know the destructive point to open your eyes!
You won't have eyes for anyone but me!
Be quiet! I'm trying to wake this girl up!
Just in time...
So you're still alive, Hyoh? I won't let you steal my bride!
Hyoh-sama, you mustn't push yourself.
Lin, I won't let Kaioh have his way, not with you.
You can't open your eyes yet.
There is only one man you should lay your eyes on!
Kaioh...
It's no use. Struggle all you want, but you can't win.
Kenshiro...
Take that blade and stab yourself.
What?
Commit suicide!
I'm not going to kill you as a martial artist.
You're going down as a weak man. A man who, faced with my might...
Took his own life.
That's what I'll tell them.
From that moment,
the legendary Clan of the North Star will crumble.
Kaioh's legend of the new century will begin!
Do you understand, Kenshiro?
Those who abandon their heart will win,
and those who keep their heart will be destroyed!
That's it... Kill yourself, Kenshiro!
I must fulfil my promise to Raoh.
Kaioh! You're about to learn...
...the strength of fighting with love!
And how will you defeat me in that condition?
You can barely even breathe!
You can't even strike a pressure point on my body!
If you can't even kill yourself, I'll finish you off!
Die!
I can't breathe... You couldn't have!
There's only one destructive point...
That can break my Breathless Combat!
It's the size of a needle, a finger can't even strike it!
You used a hair like a needle!?
His body is coming back to life!
The poison in my body is gone. All that's left is to defeat you.
Kenshiro, do not underestimate my power!
I'm not like Raoh or Toki who gave in to compassion!
I will show you Kaioh's invincible style...
No one taught this to me. It's a stance I was born with!
That is...
To this day, no one has ever evaded the arts
that spring from this stance!
This stance...
It was carved into the female statue...
And passed down only to the Clan of the North Star!
Impressive, man of the North Star Clan...
You're the first one to ever evade this art!
I thought so.
Kaioh...
You also carry the blood of the Clan of the North Star!
What?
I'm a descendant of the Clan of the North Star!?
That mark of the Big Dipper is the undeniable proof.
What I learned from the female statue,
was the tragic tale of the founder...
Of the Divine Fist of the North Star.
About 2,000 years ago,
the Clan of the North Star reigned over the world
as the shield for the Celestial Emperor.
But the ultimate art of assassination...
The Divine Fist of the North Star, hadn't been born yet.
The world had plunged into a chaotic age of wars.
Behold! The hellish visage of the end of this world!
With so many conquerors, chaos reigns everywhere...
There should only be one conqueror.
The conqueror they wished for was a man of the North Star,
who could create a new and invincible art of assassination.
That man would be their true savior.
But at the time, the North Star Clan was not blessed with sons...
And only had two beautiful daughters.
They each gave birth to a son on the same day.
The elder sister, Ohka, birthed Ryuoh...
And the younger sister, Shume, birthed Shuken.
I'm sorry sister, troubling you because of my condition...
Shume, we only have each other.
In this chaotic world, we need to help each other.
Yes...
Look, Shuken. Mommy wants to hold you!
They were born on the same day. I hope they grow up happily together.
Yes...
But if raised as equals, they may compete as conquerors,
and split apart both the heavens and the land.
The guardians of the North Star Clan made a painful choice.
They placed the two babies before starving wolves,
and turned to heave for the answer.
No way! You mean to kill one of them?
Indeed... whoever survives the sacred Tower of Heaven's Descent,
will succeed the Clan of the North Star!
And both babies were placed in the Tower of Heaven's Descent.
That night, the younger sister Shume slipped out.
Ryuoh, forgive me. Forgive your aunt!
Shuken is gone!
Sister?
Shume, why?
I'm sorry, sister!
Shume!
I've grown too ill...
I won't even make it to the end of summer.
So I wanted at least this child to live...
For him to lose his mother, and lose his own life...
That would just be too tragic for Shuken!
So I wanted to cross the mountain to another town...
Shume, I understand your feelings as a mother!
Sister!
Elder, as for succession to the Clan of the North Star...
Let us make it Ohka-sama's child, Ryuoh.
- Right. - No!
Please make the successor to the Clan of the North Star
my younger sister's child, Shuken.
- What?
Sister?
I only ask one thing.
Give my child Ryuoh whatever position you must choose.
But at least spare his life!
- But the code of the Clan... - I know the code!
I offer my life in exchange.
Sister!
Ohka-sama!
Sister!
For my younger sister, and for our two babies...
This is my love.
Sister!
The guardians, having witnessed Ohka's sacrifice of herself,
were deeply moved by her genuine love.
We have certainly just heard the voice of the heavens!
Bearing both women's deep love,
Shuken shall become the savior of this world!
This was truly the moment of birth for Shuken,
the founder of the Divine Fist of the North Star.
With the support of those two women's love,
he completed the ultimate art, the Divine Fist of the North Star.
Both because of its deadliness, and the tragedy of its founder,
the art was sworn to a sole successorship.
There after, the guardians built their female statue,
and engraved this sad tale upon it.
It was said that Ohka's child, Ryuoh,
also bore the mark of the Big Dipper.
Your mark is the proof of your North Star Clan heritage.
What?
And so Ryuoh lived on in the wasteland...
Creating the North Star Lapis Lazuli Fist.
But Ryuoh never knew a mother's love.
His descendants went astray, and became lost in love.
Someone must solve love.
That is the fate of the successor
to the Divine Fist of the North Star.
Thinking back, Raoh and Toki had both wandered in love.
If you intend to tarnish their great pride any further...
Love will defeat you!
Next Episode
PROLOGUE TO THE FINAL EPISODE!
A THIRD MAN APPEARS TO DETERMINE LIN'S FATE!!
Hyoh reaches his limit protecting Lin!
And who is the man that appears on a horse?
Kenshiro has only two more episodes left!
On the next episode of Fist of the North Star 2!
PROLOGUE TO THE FINAL EPISODE!
A THIRD MAN APPEARS TO DETERMINE LIN'S FATE!!
Script by Hiroshi Toda
Akira Kamiya as Kenshiro Miina Tominaga as Lin
In the curtain of the night, I can't yet fall asleep
yoru no tobari no naka mada nemurenai
Yuriko Yamamoto as Shume Shigeru Chiba as Black Yaksha
Thoughts about you pass through my mind
kokoro wo yogiru kimi e no omoi
Shinji Ogawa as Hyoh Kenji Utsumi as Kaioh
I wonder if anyone could fall asleep
konna fuu ni daremo dareka no koto de
While these feelings burn in their heart?
mune wo kogashite numuritsuku no ka
Animation Directors Toyoo Ashida Iku Ishiguro Masamitsu Sasaki Atsutoshi Umezawa
Don't you know, in this town, in this whole country
tatoeba kono machi kono kuni
Animation Directors Masahisa Ishida Osamu Uemura Kiyotaka Kantake Akio Mitsuya
Thousands of loves fly right past each other
tobikai tsuzukeru iku man no ai
Animation Directors Hiromichi Matano Umetarou Saitani Shigenori Kageyama Shinichi Masaki
Animation Directors Ichiro Itano Tomoharu Katsumata
I think it's an incredible energy
omoeba sugoi enerugii
Film © 1984 TOEI ANIMATION © BURONSON & TETSUO HARA/NSP
It may be foolish, but it excites me
bakageteru keredo koufun suru
1983 © NSP, TOEI ANIMATION 1984