Dragon Ball Super Episode 4

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Aim for the Dragon Balls! The Pilaf Gang's Great Strategy!
Japanese English
目指せドラゴンボール！ピラフ一味の大作戦！ Mezase Doragon Bōru! Pirafu Ichimi no Dai-Sakusen!
Air Date	02 August 2015 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!
Eyecatch	Part A: Vegeta Part B: Goku
Ending	Hello Hello Hello
Episode Data
TV Rating	6.3%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Makoto Koyama
Art	Yoshiyuki Shikano
Animation	Seizo Toma
Storyboard	Yoshitaka Yashima
Director	Ryōta Nakamura
Toei Simulcast Subs
Title	Aim for the Dragon Balls! Pilaf Gang in Action!
Simulcast	29 October 2016
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Bid for the Dragon Balls! Pilaf and Crew's Impossible Mission!
Air Date	28 January 2017 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	Bid for the Dragon Balls! Pilaf and Crew's Impossible Mission!
Subtitles	Steven J Simmons
Sub Debut	Dragon Ball Super Part 1
Release Date	25 July 2017
Bang Zoom! English Dub
Title	Go for the Dragon Balls! The Pilaf Gang's Super Strategy!
Air Date	29 January 2017

"Aim for the Dragon Balls! The Pilaf Gang's Great Strategy!" is the fourth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 02 August 2015. It was written by Makoto Koyama and directed by Masanori Satō.

Summary

As Beerus and Whis head toward North Kaiō's planet, Kaiō is desperate to prevent Goku from meeting Beerus. He suggests Goku leave to attend Bulma's birthday party, but Goku is only interested in training and wonders why Kaiō is suddenly acting so suspicious. Meanwhile, Bulma's friends and family are enjoying themselves on her luxurious cruise ship. Bulma is upset that Goku and Vegeta are not there, and gets even more annoyed when Kuririn asks about her age. No. 18 is obsessed with the extravagant bingo tournament prizes, which include a plane and even a castle. She is determined to get second place! Below deck, Goten and Trunks run through the ship's kitchen and come to the enormous room where the tournament prizes are being stored. Goten is amazed at the prizes, but Trunks goes on to show him the secret top prize, which is protected by a high-tech security system of Bulma's own invention. Goten is amazed at how impenetrable it is, but Trunks simply unplugs the security system, revealing the Dragon Balls.

On a small desert island, Pilaf is fishing while Shuu and Mai dig for buried treasure. Despite the clear instructions of the treasure map they obtained, they have had no success, and their boat is likewise in poor condition. Bulma's cruise ship happens to be nearing Pilaf's island, and with the security system deactivated by Trunks, the Dragon Balls suddenly appear as blips on Pilaf's Dragon Radar, right as Pilaf gets a big fish on the line. In his excitement and confusion he drops the radar into the sea, then loses the fish, too. Trunks reactivates the security system, so by the time Pilaf manages to retrieve the radar, it no longer detects the Dragon Balls. Shuu and Mai think Pilaf was simply imagining things, but he insists they set out for the approaching cruise ship. Their rickety boat begins filling with water halfway there, and to make matters worse, a shark suddenly attacks. The trio manage to grab on to the side of the cruise ship and hang on for dear life, before Goten and Trunks notice them and toss a rope ladder their way. Now on board the ship, Pilaf keeps quiet about his search for the Dragon Balls, and even turns down any offer of food despite the trio's extreme hunger, but he finally succumbs before too long and they all eat happily.

At Capsule Corp., Vegeta continues his training in the Gravity Room, where now even 150 times gravity provides him little challenge. The gravity suddenly reverts to normal as a secretary comes in to inform him that he has a message from Bulma. Vegeta is still uninterested in the party, and so Bulma chews him out over the phone. Back on Kaiō's planet, Kaiō repaints his damaged house, while Goku fires a Kamehameha which quickly circles around the planet and comes straight back at him. He successfully blocks his own Kamehameha, but the impact causes Kaiō's house to collapse. Exasperated, Kaiō says that this endless obsession with getting stronger is precisely why Goku can't be allowed to meet Beerus. Goku's curious: who's Beerus? Having accidentally let it slip, Kaiō has no choice but to explain: though Beerus governs destruction and is therefore necessary to maintain the balance of the universe, he is fickle and destroys whatever annoys him. Kaiō hastily hides Goku inside his house, but it is too late. Whis and Beerus arrive on his planet in a puff of smoke!

Episode Notes

Bubbles and Gregory repair Kaiō's house while Kaiō explains Gods of Destruction to Goku.

Goku destroys Kaiō's new house in Dragon Ball Z Episode 194.

• At the end of the previous episode, Whis says it will take about 26 minutes to reach North Kaiō's planet, which Beerus complains is long enough to watch a regular anime episode. Whether intentional or not, when Beerus and Whis finally arrive at North Kaiō's planet at the end of this episode, it has actually taken them an entire episode of Dragon Ball Super to do so.
• When Kaiō explains the necessity of a God of Destruction, the backdrop is a scene of Bubbles and Gregory repairing his house, which had just been destroyed when Goku appeared unexpectedly and caused Kaiō to crash his car into the house.

界王：この世のバランスのためには物を生み出す神様もいれば破壊する神様も必要なんだ。
Kaiō: For there to be balance in this world, if there are deities that create things, then there need to be deities that destroy things, as well.

This might be a callback to a scene at the end of the Cell arc in Dragon Ball Z. After Goku destroys Kaiō's planet by bringing the self-destructing Cell there, Kaiō asks Goku to help him build a new house.

孫悟空：だけど 界王様｡　オラ 壊すのは得意だけど造んのは あんまし うまくねえぞ｡
Goku: Then again, Kaiō-sama, I may be good at breaking things, but I ain't very good at making stuff.
— Dragon Ball Z Episode 193

Kaiō builds the house himself, and in the next episode, as soon as the house is finished, Goku destroys it on accident just by touching it.

As an anime-original plot point, this sequence would have been written by Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z series composer Takao Koyama, whose son Makoto Koyama wrote the script for this episode of Dragon Ball Super. His only previous involvement with the Dragon Ball franchise was providing the script for the "Episode of Bardock" feature.

Kaiō's house bites the dust again.

Kaiō's repair job in this episode is just as unstable as his work in Dragon Ball Z. Kaiō, Bubbles, and Gregory take shelter in a tree while Goku fires a Kamehameha at himself around the planet. When they fall from the tree, the house collapses.

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 (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel
Son Gohan		Kyle Hebert
Son Goten		Kara Edwards
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Alexis Tipton
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Chuck Huber
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Chris Cason
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Colleen Clinkenbeard
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
No. 18	Miki Itō	Meredith McCoy
Bubbles	Takahiro Fujimoto	Christopher R. Sabat
Gregory	Yūsuke Numata	John Burgmeier
Cook	Yūsuke Handa
Staff	Yukiko Morishita
Kaiō	Jōji Yanami	Sean Schemmel
Narration		Doc Morgan

Production

• DBS 4 Animation
• 
  An example of animation supervisor Seizo Toma's trademark thick line art.
• 
  Seizo Toma draws relatively thick eyebrows on female characters.
• 
  An example of chief animation supervisor Miyako Tsuji's pure style as of this point in the series.
• 
  Miyako Tsuji maintains Seizo Toma's thick line art when she corrects his work.
• 
  This cut was redrawn by series animation director Tadayoshi Yamamuro.
• 
  Key animator Yukihiro Kitano's work, corrected by Miyako Tsuji.
• 
  Presumed uncredited work by Masahiro Shimanuki.

This episode's animation is supervised by Seizo Toma, who is known for his thick line art, which dominates the episode despite heavy corrections by the chief animation supervisor, Miyako Tsuji, who supervises all the even-numbered episodes in Dragon Ball Super. Tsuji maintains Toma's approach to line art even when she entirely redraws other animators' work.

Animator Masahiro Shimanuki is not credited on this episode, but his unique style nevertheless seems to be present at points in the first quarter of the episode.

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: Makoto Koyama
• Storyboard: Yoshitaka Yashima
• Director: Ryōta Nakamura
• Animation Supervisor: Seizo Toma
• Art Director: Yoshiyuki Shikano

• Key Animation: Seizo Toma, Nobuo Horii, Yukihiro Kitano, Tatsuhiro Nagaki, Emi Tezuka
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Kōji Kawasaki
• Assistant Production Manager: Kazuo Fukuda

Music

Main article: Dragon Ball Super Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this episode. The background music is composed by Norihito Sumitomo, and our in-house catalogue numbers apply to tracks composed or arranged by him. The opening song "Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic" is performed by Kazuya Yoshii, and the ending song "Hello Hello Hello" is performed by Good Morning America.

^†First usage in the Dragon Ball franchise.

Dragon Ball Super Episode 4: Norihito Sumitomo Original Soundtrack
Catalogue	Scene	Title	Tonality	Release
OP	Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic! (TV Size)	D Major	DBS 1.1 #01
S-401	Recap	CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA (Days of Battle)	B♭ Major	DBS 1.1 #34
S-402	Episode Title Card	Sub-Title (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!)	D Major	DBS 1.1 #40
S-421	Packed lunch in space	Beerus's Tea Time	C Major	DBS 1.1 #13
S-425	On the Princess Bulma	Party Scene†		DBS 1.1 #20
S-406	Bingo prizes	I'm the Best in the World	A♭ Major	DBS 1.1 #28
S-403	Enter the Pilaf Gang	Under the Blue Sky	C Major	DBS 1.1 #18
S-407	Pilaf's Dragon Radar	The Pilaf Gang's Plan	G Minor	DBS 1.1 #26
S-409	Eyecatch A	Eyecatch A (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!)	D Major	DBS 1.1 #38
S-410	Eyecatch B	Eyecatch B (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!)		DBS 1.1 #39
S-411	Shark attack!	The Pilaf Gang Runs Away	G Minor	DBS 1.1 #27
S-413	Pitiful Pilaf Gang	Like That Cloud	C♯ Major	DBS 1.1 #22
S-423	Gravity Room	Vegeta's Strength	B Minor	DBS 1.1 #15
S-417	Kaiō's tired of Goku wrecking his planet	Pleasant Friends From Pluto	D Minor	DBS 1.1 #31
S-415	Kaiō explains creation and destruction	The Earth's Fate	A Minor	DBS 1.1 #25
ED	Ending	Hello Hello Hello (TV Size)	D♭ Major	DBS 1.1 #30
S-416	Next Episode Preview	Preview B (Toward Tomorrow)	A Major	DBS 1.1 #36

Availability

This episode has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both streaming and physical formats. "Simulcast" streaming services (even Funimation) use the Toei Animation subtitles rather than the Funimation subtitles by Steven J. Simmons, while digital purchase platforms use the Simmons subtitles that are provided on the Funimation DVDs and Blu-rays.

Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were to Funimation's streaming service a few weeks after the dub broadcast, and to AnimeLab around the time of the Madman home video release. Simulcast dates reflect regional time zones. The United Kingdom was originally covered by the now-defunct Daisuki streaming service until Crunchyroll added the UK to their Dragon Ball Super coverage area on 30 May 2017.

Japan

• Dragon Ball Super Box 1 Blu-ray (Toei) 02 December 2015
• Toei Channel On-Demand

North America

• Dragon Ball Super Part 1 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation) 25 July 2017
• Crunchyroll Simulcast (multi-region, sub only) 29 October 2016
• Funimation Now Simulcast (sub or dub) 04 November 2016
• VRV Simulcast (sub only) 30 March 2017
• Adult Swim On-Demand (dub only)
• Digital purchase (Simmons subtitles)
  • Amazon (dub and sub sold separately)
  • Microsoft (dub and sub sold separately)
  • Google Play (dub)

United Kingdom

• Dragon Ball Super Part 1 DVD or Blu-ray (MangaUK) 30 October 2017
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 30 October 2016

Australia and New Zealand

• Dragon Ball Super Part 1 (Funimation-Madman) 06 September 2017
• Dragon Ball Super Collection 1 (Madman) 06 December 2018
• AnimeLab Streaming (sub or dub) 30 October 2016
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 30 October 2016
• Digital purchase: iTunes (dub)

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Super Episode 4
• Dragon Ball Super - Quad Staff Roundup - #1, #2, #3, & #4! (AnimeAjay)