Hokuto & Nanto are two opposite martial arts. Hokuto Shinken - Destroys an opponent from the inside using pressure points. Nanto Seiken - Destroys an opponent from the outside using stabbing/slicing techniques. They are supposed to coexist in harmony with one another, but during events of the story several Nanto masters turn their backs on the teachings for their own ambition. Shuu is actually one of the virtuous Nanto warriors, and fights Kenshiro to gauge his strength and ambition.
SuieiShin translates to water reflection spirit after watching a fighter do a special technique this allows the hokuto successor to duplicate it. He picked up the hand wind slicing attack with the fight between rei and yuda. After watching yuda utilize this technique on rei Kenshiro was able to analyze it and incoperate it into his techniques. Remember Hokuto Shin ken is a a whole system not just head pressure point bursting attacks.
Shu's style Nanto Hakuro Ken, and Rei's Nanto Suichoken are both forms of Nanto Sei Ken, a martial that usually involves slicing and stabbing opponents with bare hands/feet. So they both do basically the same thing(stabbing/slicing), but do it slightly different ways(Nanto Suichoken is very graceful and works well in the air, Nanto Hakuro Ken mostly uses the feet).
The "Gaiden" series aren't remakes. They are back stories that Buronson and Hara did as "Roah's Story" or Shin's Story" ect... To be honest, these Gaiden are beautifully done, and I WISHED the original anime had waited a few years to have this quality, because in these stories, the beauty of the story FINALLY got a match in animation.
so....hd! idk if i even remember seeing this episode! was it in hnk2? or nfotns? i just got done watching raoh gaiden, it revolved around raoh & his army, never showed this :(
Shin's fighting style is nanto koshuu ken,Rei's fighting style is nanto suichoken,Juda's fighting style is nanto kokaku ken,Shuu's fighting style is nanto hakuroken and finally thouzer's fighting style is nanto hououken the most strongest of all nanto fighting style
@crissxxx I didn't say that Rei or Shin didn't use their feet at all, just that Shuh depends on his kicks more. I think either Kenshiro or Shuh specified that.
It's good to hear Jiraiya again. :P Shuu's and Jiraiya's (Naruto) voice actor seem to be the same. If that's right, I start being afraid of my knowledge of anime.
Yes they were from two diff schools of matrial arts that are shrouded by diff stars. They are supposed to live in harmony together. For some reason that I forget Ken was having to spar with people from this other school. The loser was supposed to die. Shuu beat Ken easily but choose to go blind by his own hand to please the court rather than taking Ken's life because Shuu knew Ken would be a great defender of the people.
I did do some research on the characters, and I'm guessing Kenshiro and Shuu are from 2 different schools? And they had their own motives which got in the way of each others?
no i dont see it i have see it but now... old visual etc dont like it much but seems like the new kenshiro are many movies that tell all the series.. isnt?
anyone update me on why Shuu and Ken fought here? What for? Shuu clawed out his own eyes to spare Ken's life when he was a toddler. Souther expected Shuu to kill Ken, but he refused...
uh no ... I've just gotten into Fist ofThe North Star recently - I thought these 2 befriended each other when Shuu spared Kenshiro back when he was only 10. So I don't know much of the storyline (and I'm probably wrong in almost everything I say...)
Although I like Hokuto I think it's unfair to the Nanto that a Hokuto practitioner can easily learn/imitate their styles while the Nanto can only stick with external (cutting) techniques. After all, Hokuto and Nanto are supposed to equal to each other in power!
@panzerlion Kenshiro is very definitely a huge asshole, but so are all of the guys he kills in gruesome ways, so the audience only feels mildly sympathetic for them. Also the bad guys (especially the incapable ones) tend to be absurdly overconfident, and thus too dumb to live. I have always maintained to my friends that, regardless of how the makers intended it, Hokuto no Ken is most enjoyable as a comedy. The recent OVA tried to move away from this, but Fist of the Blue Sky embraced it.
