Episode 49

EPISODE 49

残された力！幻海の死闘 (Nokosareta Chikara! Genkai no Shitou)

Remaining Power! Genkai’s Life-or-Death Battle

First Broadcast: September 25, 1993

Equivalent Manga Chapter(s): chapter 85 (WSJ #38, 1992, September 7), first half of chapter 86 (WSJ #39, 1992, September 14)

Summary: Toguro, who seems to know Genkai, tells Karasu she will die before the finals. Mask/Genkai beats Shishi-Wakamaru by deflecting his own technique back at him. Outside, the other girls leave Keiko behind with the sleeping Yusuke.

Anime/manga differences after the jump.

Differences from the Manga

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• At the start of the episode, Genkai repeats her line from the end of last episode about having only enough power for three Spirit Guns.

• When Toguro and Karasu are talking about Genkai, in the anime Toguro explicitly tells Karasu about how she gave her power to Yusuke.  He’s vaguer in the manga.

• In the anime Hiei thinks to himself that he ought to have fought Shishi-Wakamaru.

• While Shishi-Wakamaru’s sword does its screaming thing, there’s a Koenma/Jorge scene.  Jorge has headphones on, and isn’t affected.  Koenma isn’t so lucky.

• Kurama explains a bit about Shishi-Wakamaru’s Bakutodokushokuso attack in the anime: his yoki turns into skulls, which devour whoever they touch.  How Kurama knows this, I don’t know.

• After Shishi-Wakamaru’s attack causes a ridiculous amount of collateral damage, in the anime Juri runs off rather than continue her ringside commentary.  She comes back later just in time to announce Genkai’s victory.

• When Kuwabara rushes into the stadium, in the manga Shishi-Wakamaru has already surrounded Genkai was his wall thing.  In the anime he gets there slightly before Shishi-Wakamaru creates it.

• In the manga Genkai beats Shishi-Wakamaru after reflecting just one of his attacks back at him.  In the anime he manages to get back up again and fire more skulls at her.  This time Genkai creates some kind of force field to absorb the skulls, but it’s apparently still supposed to be the same reflecting technique as before.  She converts Shishi-Wakamaru’s energy into her own and fires it back at him again.  This time he stays down.

• After Kuwabara rushes into the stadium, Botan and co. head inside too, but leave Keiko outside with Yusuke.  Keiko asks what the big idea is, and in the manga Atsuko says this way Keiko can have her way with Yusuke.  A nice, motherly line.  In the anime Botan says this.

• The episode ends about 9 pages into chapter 86, as Keiko and Yusuke sit peacefully together.

• The next episode preview ends with Kuwabara saying “Suzuki-san…You mean Suzuki-san from the third precinct?” This is obviously a reference to something, but I don’t know what.