SOUTEN NO KEN
STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
22
RELEASE
March 15, 2007
LENGTH
27 min
DESCRIPTION
A mysterious man known as "the King of Death" roams the streets of pre-war Shanghai in this action-packed prequel to Fist of the North Star.
Shanghai in the 1930s is a dangerous place. Foreign governments and Chinese factions have carved the city into different quarters, each with its own laws and government, and all rife with corruption. As the major powers vie for political control, the streets are left to local gangs. Life is cheap, and death is always near.
In days past, one man walked these mean streets battling the forces of evil. He was known only as Yan Wang, "the King of Death." Few knew who he really was, but many knew that he was a master of Hokuto Shinken - Fist of the North Star - a lethal martial art. He disappeared years ago after dispatching the city's worst gangsters, and is now rumored to be in Japan. Various people have come to Japan in search of him, but who will find him first?
CAST
Kenshiro Kasumi
Kouichi Yamadera
Yè
Kinryuu Arimoto
Charles de Guise
Taiten Kusunoki
Guang-Lin Pan
Masaki Terasoma
Yu-Ling Pan
Aya Hisakawa
Ryuuken
Takashi Kondou
Mang Kuang-Yun
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Aya Kitaoji
Aya Hisakawa
Zhang Tai-Yan
Houchuu Ootsuka
Zi-Ying Ye
Yuudai Satou
EPISODES
Dubbed

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REVIEWS
YuhiTyochi
5/100Poor Continuation. It was better if it doesn't existContinue on AniListI would like to delete from my memory, i waste my time watching this "anime", every time i remeber makes me want to cry, the scenes were poorly produced, it looks like something from the garage. badly spent money, expressions without the required emotion, very forced narrative, did not have the climax battle,~~ (without battle of great masters)~~ never shows the maximum power of hokuto shinken.
There is no evolution in the characters, many mistakes in the animation, the story is not meant to be a continuation of hokuto no ken, because it completely spoils its franchise with villes without past, with innumerable holes in the script. a lot of talk and little action for an anime with the genre of action, characters that never die, and when they die they are for bizarre reasons. that is, a few deaths for something that portrays the life of gangsters, how the man loses 2 legs and lives being eaten by rats for 2 years? the only strong point of the anime are the jokes, that besides script and the production are both jokes, there are scenes with humor.
there is an enormous variety of animes with the same amount of epsodios, but with an animation 500 times superior, and it does not have to be any expert to realize. cowboy bebop has the same amount of episodes presented, however his animation is presented at a remarkably higher level, we can take into account that _cowboy bebop _is a production of 1998, 11 years before souten in ken and how is this possible ?? perhaps it is not right to compare him to the cowboy bebop, so I isolate him and continue to be haunted every time I remember his forcibly written characters, trying to resemble hokuto no ken in a more relaxed and different times.
I particularly liked hokuto no ken, because his characters were well worked and well developed in the unfolding of the story, unlike souten no ken, which have no changes, kazumi did not learn a skill and fight in the same way in all battles , coming from a sequence of hokuto no ken I was disappointed enough, as an anime disappointed me, I would like them to review seriously souten no ken, and think "is this really what I want to show my audience?"the moment when I was most happy watching souten no ken, it was during the last seconds of the final episode, because I knew that I would not need to watch it anymore
SCORE
- (3.1/5)
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