Hokuto no Ken - Raoh Gaiden Junai-hen Episode 1 Discussion
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View Poll Results: Hokuto no Ken - Raoh Gaiden Junai-hen Episode 1 Discussion
| 5 out of 5: Loved it! | 6 | 46.15% | |
| 4 out of 5: Liked it | 5 | 38.46% | |
| 3 out of 5: It was OK | 1 | 7.69% | |
| 2 out of 5: Disliked it | 1 | 7.69% | |
| 1 out of 5: Hated it | 0.00% |
Voters: 13
#1
10-24-09, 7:53 AM
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Offline Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 425 |
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This movie is awesome. I didn't knew the background story of HnK when I saw this but still I was amazed. Wonderful fights & story!  大阪大好きやねん！ |
#2
04-03-10, 8:50 AM
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Not bad as remakes go but the new characters and bits of story were unnecessary and I wasn't particularly fond of the Ken's and Raoh's new voice actors. The animation and fights were pretty top notch though. Also, it had YOU WA SHOCK!!! which was epic win :P  |
#3
06-15-10, 12:11 PM
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Offline Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 333 |
simple wow didnt expect this movie to be this good. |
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02-22-11, 12:11 PM
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Offline Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 338 |
Having watched this after watching the 13 episode Raoh Gaiden it was nice to see Reina and Souga |
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12-03-11, 1:39 AM
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Offline Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 1386 |
Meh. The gore was toned down which sucks and omitted whenever possible, in fact there's none and less blood than the original fist of the north stars. Also felt a bit rushed at times, and melodramatic. I mean...Reina was gonna go to get Toki or Kenshiro but Souther's henchmen ambush her like 20 to 1. Then a few scenes later she rode out of the forest. At first I wasn't sure if a "flashback" scene has started but it became apparent Reina's fight scenes with those low punks were completely skipped. Colors were pretty, but animation fight scenes seem low sometimes. Overall, I'm tempted to give 7/10 but 6/10 will do. Fuck violence censorship laws. Ruins this anime. |
#6
09-22-12, 1:21 PM
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Offline Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 1134 |
this movie was amazing imo. i love seeing some of my favorite arcs remade with better quality. cant even get over how awesome this movie is...  |
#7
12-20-12, 5:47 PM
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Offline Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 666 |
So it's a retelling of the Shu/Souther part of the original story awkwardly married to an anemic new story with this Reina character. Not only is it too easy to forget Reina during any scene in which she does not appear, her story doesn't make sense given the direction of the larger story. Here Raoh is sentimental and compassionate when it's important to the plot of the original that he is cruel and callous in the extreme until very shortly before his death (and with the exception of when dealing with his brother Toki). I don't want to complain about an adaptation changing things (the 1986 movie changed a great deal and I rather liked it), but given that this movie is largely a slice of the original story and the changes it makes invalidates that story, it just ends up making little sense. I would have wished they had taken the extra time to flesh out Shu some more. His Christlike suffering and death is one of my favorite sequences from Fist of the North Star. |