Episode Information

Episode Synopsis

As he trains in the Room of Spirit and Time, Gohan manages to turn into a Super Saiyan through anger at his own softness! With Cell’s transformation complete, Trunks and Kuririn madly attack him, but even the Kienzan, which sliced through Freeza, doesn’t even wound Cell. Instead, Kuririn is defeated by a single light kick from Cell. Defeated by Cell, Kuririn’s life is saved with a senzu. Kuririn trembles, having seen through Cell’s bottomless power. But at the same time, he has also seen through the fact that Trunks is hiding power even greater than Vegeta’s. Vegeta looks like he has the advantage against Cell, but Cell isn’t being serious. Angry, Vegeta nails Cell with a full power kick, but even this is unable to inflict any damage on Cell. Now that Cell has gotten serious, his single blow inflicts massive damage on Vegeta. This time it is Cell’s turn to look down on Vegeta.

Episode Notes

• While the original broadcast of this episode featured Kenji Yamamoto’s musical score, the background music in all subsequent re-airings have been replaced by Shunsuke Kikuchi’s original musical score from Dragon Ball Z due to allegations of musical infringement. The credits below reflect those from the original broadcast in which Kenji Yamamoto is credited as the series’ musical composer, although Shunsuke Kikuchi is credited as such in all subsequent re-airings and all home video releases of this episode.

Re-animated Scene Gallery

This collection compiles all re-animated scenes featured in this episode’s original broadcast, listed in order of appearance. Each re-animated scene will be presented with a screen shot from the original Dragon Ball Z TV series (left) and another taken from the Dragon Ball Kai TV broadcast (right). In Japan, Dragon Ball Kai was broadcast in widescreen, so these comparisons will maintain this proper aspect ratio. All original comparison screen shots were taken from the Japanese Dragon Boxes and maintain their proper 4:3 aspect ratios. It should be noted that some of these re-animated scenes only appear in the widescreen presentation of the series and were possibly omitted from fullscreen releases, both domestically and internationally.

Episode Credits

The overall credits listed follow a straight forward structure; the staff involved with the production of the series as a whole are listed in the opening credits and the staff involved with this specific episode are listed in the ending credits. All credits listed below are presented as they originally appeared in the episode’s initial broadcast, although errors have been corrected to maintain accurate and consistent spellings throughout the site. For more information and a complete listing of the series’ staff, visit the Animation Production Guide.

Cast Credits

The cast credits are traditionally listed in order of character importance within the series or episode. For more detailed information about the series cast, visit the Cast Guide.

Opening Credits

Ending Credits