Ken the survivor: how does this ultra violent anime end?


Find out how the first Ken the survivor series ends, once broadcast on Club Dorothée in 1988, the last episode of which was not broadcast at the time due to censorship.

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“Ken (Ken), survivor of hell, Ken (Ken) often crosses swords!” A credits that brings back memories to many and the hours spent in front of a very special VF to discover the story of Ken (shiro), heir to the Hokuto school. Adapted from the manga Hokuto no Ken signed Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, the series has 109 episodes for its first run. A sequel was released, Hokuto no Ken 2.

Ken the Survivor is set in the near future. The world has been ravaged by a titanic atomic explosion and only a few scattered groups manage to survive in a dark and desert world.

We are going to tell here the end of the first series, the one we think of when we talk about Ken the survivor. It has the particularity of ending at episode 108 and not the 109th, which is devoted to the history of the Hokuto school, and summarizes part of the series with images already seen during the season.

The final narrative episode, the 108th, is titled “The Farewells of the Two Hokuto Brothers. At the Height of Love and Sadness”. Here is the detailed summary:

Ken and Raoul (Raoh in VO) have been fighting for 2 episodes now. This fight has weakened them greatly, and each has bloody wounds on their bodies. Ken announces to his adversary that he is going to give him a final blow which will be fatal to him. He manages to injure Raoul in the chest, a formidable blow that makes his blood squirt.


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Raoul does not understand his defeat since he had put “all his power” into his blow, but Ken explains to him that his heart is empty, and that emotions are the best allies during a fight. However, Ken accepts his feelings while Raoul rejects them, which explains his victory.

Raoul plunged Dame Julia (Yuria in VO) into a state close to death to stop the progress of her disease. But Lynn’s tears, seeing the fight between Raoul and Ken start again, fall on Julia, which brings her back to life.


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Both Ken and Raoul are the heirs of the Hokuto school, but there can only be one. Raoh understands that Ken is superior to him and admits his defeat although he states that he has no regrets about his past actions.

He travels to the heavens and reunites with his dead brother, Toki. Raoul, who had transmitted part of his aura to Julia, was weakened, and without this gesture Ken might have lost the fight. Light returns to the world, ending nuclear winter.


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Ken becomes the heir to the Hokuto and rides with Julia on the back of Kokuō the dark horse. Bart and Lynn, who have promised not to follow them, stay put, and hope that one day Ken will come back to see them.

Ken the survivor was broadcast on TF1 as part of Club Dorothée from 1988. Many viewers did not have access to the end of the series because after the broadcast of episode 84, Le Plan de Raoul, the series is censored in France. It is currently available in full in VOST and in VF on the platform DNA.



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