Dragon Ball Episode 2

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Alalala–! No Balls!
Japanese English
あらららー！タマがない！ Arararaa! Tama ga Nai!
Air Date	05 March 1986 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	1st Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 2 Dragon Ball Chapter 3 (1-7)
TV Rating	27.1%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshiki Inoue
Art	Eiji Itō
Animation	Tomekichi Takeuchi
Director	Daisuke Nishio
FUNimation English Dub
Title	The Emperor's Quest
Air Date	16 September 1995 (BLT) 21 August 2001 (redub)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	What the...?! No Balls!
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	The Saga of Goku (Australia) Dragon Ball Season One (US)
Release Date	10 March 2004 (Australia) 15 September 2009 (US)

"Alalala–! No Balls!" is the second episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 05 March 1986, receiving a ratings share of 27.1%. The episode was written by Toshiki Inoue and directed by Daisuke Nishio.

Synopsis

Goku and Bulma continue their journey in search of the fourth Dragon Ball. Bulma brings out a house from a Hoipoi Capsule, which the two are to stay the night in. But Goku, who has always lived in the mountains, mistakes Bulma for a sorceress. Goku is amazed at the TV and lights, leading Bulma to brand him a "hick"! The next morning, a lost sea turtle appears before the pair!! In order to fulfill the turtle's request, the two set out to carry it to the sea, but…?!

Summary

Prologue

As the sun sets, Bulma and Goku ride her motorcycle across a vaguely Chinese landscape. Goku's stomach rumbles in hunger and Bulma suggests that they camp for the night.

Part A

Goku asks if they will be camping out for the night, but Bulma responds that she is too delicate for that sort of thing. Instead, she pulls out her capsules and selects the largest capsule in her case, a "Capsule 1" house. She tosses it only a nearby flat spot and invites Goku in. Goku at first is apprehensive, even accuses Bulma of witchcraft, but he trusts her again quickly. He is impressed by the artificial lighting. As he moves warily around the house, Bulma teases him by turning on the TV to see his reaction. The scene settles on a soap opera and Bulma begins to drool over the romantic lead before Goku snatches away the remote and changes it to a kaiju film.

Bulma tells Goku that he must take a bath before dinner, but Goku has no idea what that means. Bulma proceeds to bathe him—completely stumped by Goku's lack of modesty—before realizing that his tail really is attached. Goku uses it to scrub his own back and Bulma screams. Goku is puzzled and believes that all boys have tails. Bulma considers that she's never seen a naked boy's butt before, but then Goku recalls that his grandfather didn't have a tail as well.

Bulma settles in for her bath before realizing that Goku is standing in the bathroom watching her. He offers to help wash her, but Bulma is incensed that he would violate her privacy. Goku notices and asks her why girls have another butt on their chests, so she informs him that it's not a butt, it's breasts; babies like them, and boys too, but he is too young to be interested in such things. Goku claims that he is not young and that he's actually fourteen. Bulma suddenly re-evaluates that they saw each other naked and tosses him out of the room, calling him a pervert and threatening to call the cops. She is, after all, only sixteen. As Bulma dries and brushes her hair, Goku complains that he is hungry.

At Pilaf's Castle, Shuu returns and informs Pilaf that he was unable to find the next Dragon Ball. Pilaf scolds him, saying that evil guys after world domination may be searching for the balls as well. Shuu reminds Pilaf that he is also seeking world-domination, although Pilaf claims that he sees this in a "kind-hearted" way... before saying that if anyone so much as farts that he will kill them. Pilaf then farts himself, much to his embarrassment, then turns the tables by claiming that Shuu was the one that did it. When the dog refuses to admit it, Pilaf has one of his machines grab him. He threatens Shuu with a chainsaw to the crotch if he will not admit that he himself farted. Shuu admits that the gas was his. Pilaf prepares to chop him up anyway, but just then Mai interrupts and informs the pair that she may have located the next Dragon Ball: in Dragon Valley, a valley from which none have returned alive, 150 kilometers north of the castle. At night there is a strange glow emanating from the valley. He dispatches both of them to find the ball.

Back at the capsule house, Bulma offers Goku dinner, but he has never eaten bread or coffee before and is turned off by the taste. He offers to go out and get Bulma some real tasty food.

Part B

Later that night, Goku bounds through the forest looking for food. All he has managed to find so far is a centipede. He spots an airplane overhead and believes that it is a bird.

Inside the plane, Shuu and Mai search for the mysterious light that might be a Dragon Ball. They spot something and descend, landing in a small valley filled with skeletons. They see a light in the distance, but before they can approach, Goku arrives! He yells that the bird is his. Behind them, more and more orange lights appear: they are the eyes of a very large, and seemingly very hungry, pack of wolves. They begin to advance. Shuu and Mai are freaked out, but Goku is excited. They look yummy! The wolves pounce and Goku fights them off one by one. Shuu and Mai return to the airplane and fly off, but Goku panics when he believes that his dinner is getting away. Using his Nyoi-bō, he soars up high enough and kicks the plane out of the sky. It crashes and burns in a forest nearby. Only when he finds the wreckage does he realize that it wasn't a bird after all. Goku returns to Bulma with the centipede and wolf, but she freaks out by his dinner choice and leaves him to cook them both himself outside. After his meal, he returns inside to sleep.

At bedtime, Goku is disappointed that he will not be able to sleep in the same bed as Bulma. Instead, she makes him a space on the floor. While she gets ready for bed, she asks Goku what happened to his parents. He admits that he doesn't know, only that he was abandoned in the mountains as a baby. Bulma suspects that he was let go because of his tail and is surprised that he is such a cheery boy despite his difficult past. Goku asks her is she was abandoned because her chest looks like a butt, but he's asleep even before Bulma can respond.

The next morning, Goku wakes up first and sees Bulma lying in bed. Remembering his time with his grandfather, he climbs in with her... but something feels different. He taps her crotch and then removes her panties and screams his startling discovery: she has no balls! Bulma wakes up with a start and rushes to check her Dragon Balls, but they are all there. She says that Goku was just dreaming.

Outside, a turtle walks slowly towards the capsule house. Inside, Bulma gets ready... very slowly... and Goku gets impatient. He heads outside for some exercise. He crushes a boulder then runs towards the next, only to discover that it is a talking turtle! Goku initially suspects that it is Bulma, somehow transformed, but he quickly realizes otherwise when Bulma peeks out the door. She observes that the turtle is a sea turtle and is very far from the ocean. Turtle asks her for some saltwater to drink. Once refreshed, he admits that he had come to land to pick mushrooms but had gotten lost for the past year. Bulma pulls out a map and reveals that the ocean is 120 kilometers south of their location. Goku volunteers that they will take the turtle to the ocean, but Bulma is upset by the detour and refuses to go. Goku decides to leave anyway, carrying the turtle on his back. Bulma realizes that Goku still has his ball. She runs off after him on her motorcycle after all.

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast. Additional characters/cast members not originally credited, or with speaking roles exclusive to a specific dubbing, have been included at the bottom of the table.

Character	Cast
	Japanese	English (BLT)	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Saffron Henderson	Stephanie Nadolny
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Lalainia Lindbjerg	Tiffany Vollmer
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Don Brown	Chuck Huber
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Doug Parker	Chris Cason
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Teryl Rothery	Julie Franklin
Turtle	Daisuke Gōri	Unknown	Christopher R. Sabat
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Jim Conrad	Brice Armstrong

Funimation's 1995 dub was contracted out to BLT Productions in Vancouver, who hired Canadian voice actors typically associated with Ocean Group. Funimation redubbed the series in the early 2000s with their in-house cast.

Main Staff

The following list provides the main staff responsible for the production of this episode as credited in this specific episode's ending credits.

• Scenario: Toshiki Inoue
• Director (Storyboard): Daisuke Nishio
• Animation Supervisor: Tomekichi Takeuchi
• Art Director: Eiji Itō

• Key Animation: Iiduka Yōko, Masako Misumi
• Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
• Photography: Motoaki Ikenoue
• Assistant Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
• Production Progression: Mitsuo Hashimoto

Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this episode. The background music is composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi, and our in-house K-catalogue numbers apply to tracks composed or arranged by him.

None of the background music (BGM) tracks have official titles, but the officially-released tracks generally do have official catalogue numbers, which are prefaced by letters other than K. These are included in the "Catalogue/Title" column. The documentation and scene descriptions are adapted from kenisu's Magicant.

^† First usage in Dragon Ball.

Dragon Ball Episode 2: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-17	Over the bridge	I1	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:11(c)
K-24	Title Card	C3†	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-25	The wonder of the capsules	K-25†	F Major	Unreleased
U-101	The guy on TV	U-101†	B♭ Minor
U-102	The kissing couple	U-102†	A Major
K-26	Bulma's bath	B2-A†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:4(b)
K-27	Pilaf's desert palace	K-27†		Daizenshuu 2:5(b)
K-28	Mai's news of the valley	G12†	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:13(c)
K-12	Eyecatch A	C4		Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4		Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-29	Shuu and Mai land	I21†		Daizenshuu 2:8(d)
K-30	A pack of wolves	I22†		Daizenshuu 2:2(d)
K-31	Goku's dinner "bird"	A7†		Daizenshuu 2:5(a)
K-32	Morning breaks	F37†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:13(a)
K-18	A shadow is coming	A6	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:3(c)
K-33	Goku exercises	A3†		Daizenshuu 2:3(a)
K-34	Goku leaves with Umigame	A9†		Daizenshuu 2:13(b)
ED	Ending	I'll Give You Romance (TV Size)	E♭ Major	Daizenshuu 2:27
K-23	Next Episode Preview	M23	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:26(c)

The opening song "Mystical Adventure!" is performed by Hiroki Takahashi, and the ending song "I'll Give You Romance" is performed by Ushio Hashimoto.

Notes:

• The "Eyecatch B" music is used for both eyecatches in this episode.
• U-1 and U-2 are of uncertain authorship. It is possible that they were composed by Kikuchi, but it is also possible that they are taken from stock music.

Items

• Nyoi-bō
• Capsules
  • Bulma's Kawasaki motorcycle
  • Capsule 1 house
• Dragon Balls
  • Pilaf now has the one-star ball at Pilaf's Castle
  • Bulma still has the two-, four-, and five-star balls

Setting

• September 1-2, Age 749
  • Wilderness and Dragon Valley valley, several hours west by motorcycle from Son Goku's house on Mount Paozu.
  • Pilaf's Castle

Tidbits

Goku's entire adventure with Shuu, Mai, and the wolves were an extrapolation from one panel in the original manga.

• Unlike most episodes of the series, this one starts with a prologue sequence before the title card rather than a full recap.
• This episode contrasts Goku's rustic "Chinese" living with Bulma's Western-style house. While Goku lived in a simple dwelling near a well, Bulma has modern comforts including TVs, running water, and plenty of food. The bathroom is designed Western-style with a sit-down toilet and bathtub. Later, Bulma introduces Goku to "Western" foods for the first time, including his first taste of bread and coffee.
• A romantic couple on a soap opera that Bulma flips to briefly are named Bruno and Josephine.
• This episode is Turtle's first appearance, one of only a small number without the Turtle Hermit. Turtle admits that he has been lost for a year (since Age 748) and somehow made it 120 kilometers away from the ocean.
• The full sequence with meeting Shuu and Mai and fighting wolves was an extrapolation of a single panel in chapter two.
• The geography in this episode is not consistent and does not track with the location of Pilaf's castle later in the series. Bulma and Goku are shown to have camped out a short distance from Dragon Valley, a valley filled with wolves. Pilaf's castle is said to be 100 kilometers south of the valley; surprisingly close considering the remaining trek Goku and friends will have to make to get there. Goku and Bulma then deliver Turtle 120 kilometers south to the ocean; presumably they must have passed close to Pilaf's castle along the way, without ever noticing the nearby Dragon Ball.
• Goku's Four-star ball is seen in Bulma's bag in her capsule house and Goku does not appear to take it with him when he goes outside and meets Turtle. Later on, Bulma joins him in part because she still needs her ball. It is unclear if Goku retrieved his ball off-camera or if Goku was willing to lose his ball to help Turtle and Bulma only assumed that he had it.

Background Text

• 
  Bulma tosses a shampoo bottle at Goku. The text on the back is a pair of poems, poorly written and all in katakana. The first fits the meter for a haiku, but the second does not. See below for the full text.
• 
  While Bulma is brushing her hair, she has bottles labeled ブロー (Burō, meaning "Blow") and ムース (Mūsu, meaning "Mousse"). While burō can refer to blow drying hair, it is not clear in context what the bottle represents.
• 
  An unknown painting hangs behind Pilaf. The text, even when seen more closely in specific shots, is meaningless gibberish.
• 
  Another Chinese-language painting in Pilaf's throne room. Also gibberish.
• 
  One of two Chinese-language circles filled with writing, on the left of the exit. Also gibberish.
• 
  One of two Chinese-language circles filled with writing, on the right of the exit. Also gibberish.

Shampoo Bottle Poem(s)

Japanese	Romanized Japanese	English
イロハニ	Irohani	A-B-C-D
デンデンムシ	Dendenmushi	snail [dendenmushi]
コロガッタラ	Korogattara	when it falls down and rolls, it’s a
カタツムリ	Katatsumuri	snail [katatsumuri]
ヒガタカイ	Higatakai	The sun is high
アッタカイ	Attakai	and warm
ソテツモアッテネ	Sotetsumoattene	with sago palms
ハイビスカスガ？	Haibisukasuga?	and hibiscus?

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Episode 2