Dragon Ball Super Episode 27

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The Earth Explodes?! A Climatic Kamehameha
Japanese English
地球爆発！？決着のかめはめ波 Chikyū Bakuhatsu! Ketchaku no Kamehameha
Air Date	17 January 2016 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!
Eyecatch	Part A: Vegeta Part B: Goku
Ending	Light Pink
Episode Data
TV Rating	5.2%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Yoshifumi Fukushima
Art	Sei'ichiro Sugiura Shinji Saito
Animation	Shūichirō Manabe Kazuhiro Koyama Tatsuya Oka
Storyboard	Hiroyuki Kakudō
Director	Takao Iwai
Toei Simulcast Subs
Title	The Earth Explodes?! The Deciding Kamehameha
Simulcast	12 November 2016
FUNimation English Dub
Title	The Earth Explodes?! A Decisive Kamehameha!
Air Date	29 July, 2017 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	The Earth Explodes?! A Decisive Kamehame-Ha
Subtitles	Steven J Simmons
Sub Debut	Dragon Ball Super Part 3
Release Date	20 February 2018
Bang Zoom! English Dub
Title	Earth Explodes?! The Kamehameha That Ends It All
Air Date	18 November 2017

"The Earth Explodes?! A Climatic Kamehameha" is the twenty-seventh episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 17 January 2016. It was written by Yoshifumi Fukushima and directed by Takao Iwai.

Summary

As Vegeta steps in to fight Freeza, he explains that he needs Goku around to become even stronger, so he cannot let Freeza kill him. Vegeta calls Goku an idiot for getting caught off-guard despite Whis warning him about that very thing, and tells Kuririn and the others to give him a senzu. While Freeza tries to prevent this, but Vegeta deflects his blast to kill Sorbet instead. Soon Goku's up again, good as new. He thanks Vegeta for saving him, but Vegeta replies that in return he will be taking the best part all for himself. Freeza laughs at the thought of Vegeta defeating him, but Vegeta transforms into a blue-haired Super Saiyan, just as Goku did earlier. Vegeta remarks that Freeza apparently did not know that he too can become a being surpassing even the legendary Super Saiyan.

On the sidelines, the Turtle Hermit is amazed that Vegeta has obtained the power of Super Saiyan God, and Goku explains that unlike him, Vegeta managed this feat through his own power, without any help from other Saiyans. Undeterred, Freeza attacks with wave after wave of ki blasts, but Vegeta easily deflects them all. Coming closer, he warns Freeza that he is not as soft as Goku, which Freeza should very well know already. He starts pummeling Freeza mercilessly, saying that Freeza has no chance of winning now that he is out of stamina. But Freeza refuses to admit defeat, and gets beat up more and more until he finally reverts from his Golden Freeza form back to normal. Holding out his hand to fire a finishing blast, Vegeta says Freeza's era is over and that he will not be coming back to life any more. Freeza replies that none of them will be coming back to life either... and with that, he blows up the Earth.

As waves of energy start ripping the planet apart, Beerus orders Whis to do something. Around the world, the Z Warriors' families continue to go about their daily lives, oblivious to what's happening: Videl and Pan, No. 18 and Marron, Mister Satan and Boo, and Goten and Trunks up at Dende's temple. Bulma's parents sit outside eating a meal together and see one of the waves of energy approaching. The Earth explodes, but amidst the rubble a small chunk of land floats, protected by Whis' shield. He, Beerus, Bulma, Goku, and the other bystanders who were watching Vegeta fight Freeza are all there, safe and sound, but Vegeta and everyone else on Earth has died. Bulma and the others mourn their families, and Tenshinhan curses Freeza for taking everyone else down with him, but Beerus and Whis point out that Freeza can survive in the vacuum of space and so is likely still alive.

Goku says he should have finished Freeza off back when he had the chance, and Whis says that in that case, he should. Goku is confused, but Whis explains that they can simply "redo" things. Goku remembers how Whis said something similar once before, when Beerus accidentally destroyed a planet and Whis said there was no need to redo it. It turns out that Whis can turn back time: for instance, Beerus once destroyed their sun, but without it everything was terribly dark, so Whis turned back time to before Beerus did this and gave him a good knock on the head to stop him. However, he can only turn time back a maximum of three minutes, and once he does this he will not be able to do it again for quite a while, so Goku gets only one shot at saving the Earth. Goku agrees to try, and Whis promptly rewinds time to shortly before Freeza destroyed the Earth.

Once again, Vegeta is about to finish Freeza off, telling him that his era is over. But this time, before Freeza can do anything, Goku becomes a blue-haired Super Saiyan once more, flies up, and wipes Freeza out with a Kamehameha. Vegeta is furious at Goku for interfering, but Bulma and the others explain to him what happened. Meanwhile, Jaco checks out Freeza's spaceship and is quite impressed. Beerus finds it ironic that a God of Destruction such as himself helped restore a planet, and Bulma promises that she will prepare a feast for him and Whis in gratitude. She also asks Jaco if he is going to arrest Whis, since time control is supposed to be a serious galactic crime, but Jaco claims he did not see anything. Goku says he needs to go meet up with Goten and Trunks so that they can revive Piccolo using the Namekian Dragon Balls. Gohan also excuses himself, returning home to see that Videl and Pan are safe. He promises to protect them both no matter what, and gives them a big hug.

Sometime later, Bulma holds a dinner party at Capsule Corporation. Learning the full story of what happened while he was dead, Piccolo is amazed that Golden Freeza was so powerful. Trunks is annoyed he did not get to see Golden Freeza, and says that if Freeza ever returns, he and Goten will defeat him: they wll slice him in two! Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Tenshinhan, and the Turtle Hermit all look at Trunks in surprise, and Trunks asks if he said something funny. Bulma announces that the food is ready, and that everyone should eat their fill in thanks for all their hard work. The meal includes Satan's specially-made sweets, and Beerus says how he has been waiting for this; food always tastes best after a battle. He asks Whis if he secretly ate this sort of food without him while he was asleep, but Whis replies that he only did so once. Or twice... or three times...

FujiTV broadcast sponsor screen.

Elsewhere, Gohan meets up with Piccolo and apologies, saying that Piccolo's death was all his fault. However, Piccolo says there is nothing to apologize for, since Gohan fought as hard as he could. Gohan asks Piccolo to re-train him, saying that this battle made him realize he needs to grow stronger in order to protect what is precious to him. Piccolo agrees, warning that Gohan had better prepare himself. Meanwhile, Goku approaches Vegeta, who says he will not thank him for saving his life. After all, he saved Goku's life first. But that's not what Goku had in mind; instead, he points out that they never would have gotten into such a tight spot if they had worked together from the beginning. Just like Whis said, perhaps it would be best for them to cooperate from time to time. Vegeta shoots this suggestion down, and Goku admits he feels the same way. Vegeta notes that this is the first time they have ever agreed on anything, and they laugh.

Down in Hell, Freeza is once more wrapped up and hanging from a tree in the middle of the same field of flowers as before. The faeries and cute stuffed animals all welcome him back, while he screams in frustration.

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
Freeza	Ryūsei Nakao	Christopher Ayres
Turtle Hermit	Masaharu Satō	Mike McFarland
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Tenshinhan	Hikaru Midorikawa	John Burgmeier
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Alexis Tipton
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Videl	Yūko Minaguchi	Kara Edwards
Marron	Hiroko Ushida	Tia Ballard
Mister Satan	Unshō Ishizuka	Chris Rager
No. 18	Miki Itō	Meredith McCoy
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
Jaco	Natsuki Hanae	Todd Haberkorn
Sorbet	Shirō Saitō	Jeremy Schwartz
Tempura Shopkeeper	Ryōhei Arai
Fairy	Yuri Noguchi
Angel	Shino Shimoji, Yuki Nagaku
Narration	Naoki Tatsuta	Doc Morgan
Majin Boo		Josh Martin
Pan		Jeannie Tirado
Bulma's Mom		Cynthia Cranz

Funimation credits Bulma's Mom as "Panchy". This name has never been given in the series. It was mentioned as a possible name for her by Akira Toriyama in 2004, but she is named "Bikini" in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (2020).

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: Yoshifumi Fukushima
• Storyboard: Hiroyuki Kakudō
• Director: Takao Iwai
• Animation Supervisor: Shūichirō Manabe, Kazuhiro Koyama, Tatsuya Oka
• Art Director: Sei'ichiro Sugiura, Shinji Saito

• Key Animation: Yoshio Usuda, Hironori Sawada, Takenori Tsukuma, Tatsuya Oka, Daisuke Agata, Shūichirō Manabe, Yoshiaki Mizuno, Kazuhiro Koyama, Hirotaka Nii
  • Hirokatsu Maruyama, Net Animation, Akira Koremoto, DouDou Animation, Masato Ikeda, Studio Graffiti
• In-Between Animation: A-Line, Ayumi Kobayashi, Eri Isayama, Atsumi Shimura, DouDou Animation
• Digital Coloring: A-Line, Shingo Yamamoto, Yuka Kamijō, DouDou Animation
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Hitomi Kurihara
• Assistant Production Manager: Noriko Seto

The name of the episode's chief animation supervisor, Takeo Ide, was misspelled in the ending credits as "井出武生" rather than the correct spelling of "井手武生".

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 "Light Pink" is performed by LACCO TOWER.

^†First usage in the Dragon Ball franchise.

Dragon Ball Super Episode 27: 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-460	Vegeta outmaneuvers Freeza	Rushing Into Battle†	C Minor	DBS 1.2 #11
S-451	Vegeta transforms	Time to Strike Back	A Minor	DBS 1.2 #16
S-445	Freeza can't touch Vegeta	Training With Whis	D Major	DBS 1.2 #21
S-461	The Earth's last moments	Endless Training†	G Major	DBS 1.2 #22
S-447	Freeza's moment of victory	A Bad Premonition	C Minor	DBS 1.2 #08
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-444	Do-over	Inescapable Fear	A Minor	DBS 1.2 #10
S-462	After the battle	The Death Match Winds Down†	B♭ Major	DBS 1.2 #20
S-413	Piccolo is back	Like That Cloud	C♯ Major	DBS 1.1 #22
S-425	Time to chow down	Party Scene	C Major	DBS 1.1 #20
S-443	Freeza's Hell	Freeza's Penance	F Major	DBS 1.2 #24
ED	Ending	Light Pink (TV Size)	B♭ Major	Theme Songs #04
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 3 Blu-ray (Toei) 02 July 2016
• Toei Channel On-Demand

North America

• Dragon Ball Super Part 3 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation) 20 February 2018
• Crunchyroll Simulcast (multi-region, sub only) 12 November 2016
• Funimation Now Simulcast (sub or dub) 12 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 3 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation-MangaUK) 04 June 2018
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 13 November 2016

Australia and New Zealand

• Dragon Ball Super Part 3 (Funimation-Madman) 07 March 2018
• Dragon Ball Super Collection 1 (Madman) 05 December 2018
• AnimeLab Streaming (sub or dub) 13 November 2016
• Digital purchase: iTunes (dub)

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Super Episode 27