Dragon Ball Episode 50

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The Pirates' Trap
Japanese English
海賊たちのワナ Kaizoku-tachi no Wana
Air Date	11 February 1987 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	2nd Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 74 (6-End) Dragon Ball Chapter 75 (1-3)
TV Rating	26.2%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshiki Inoue
Art	Tatsuo Yamamoto
Animation	Minoru Maeda
Director	Minoru Okazaki
FUNimation English Dub
Title	The Trap is Sprung!
Air Date	12 March 2002 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	The Pirates' Traps
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	General Blue Saga
Release Date	23 September 2003

"The Pirates' Trap" is the fiftieth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 11 February 1987, receiving a ratings share of 26.2%. It was written by Toshiki Inoue and directed by Minoru Okazaki.

Synopsis

Treasure is supposedly hidden in the pirate's cave. And to protect that treasure, naturally traps were set! Goku and the others somehow manage to pass through these traps, such as a wall that shoots spears, or a trap door that opens above lava. The Red Ribbon troops are completely wiped out, except for Blue!! Goku and the others come to the end of the path, and come out into the pirate's sea-bottom dock. Goku can sense that something is moving. A skeleton-type battle robot appears, and immediately starts attacking them!!

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast.

Character	Cast
	Japanese	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Stephanie Nadolny
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Laurie Steele
Commander Red	Kenji Utsumi	Josh Martin
General Blue	Toshio Furukawa	Sonny Strait
Assistant Black	Masaharu Satō	Christopher R. Sabat
Soldier A	Masato Hirano	Unknown
Soldier B	Michitaka Kobayashi
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Brice Armstrong

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): Minoru Okazaki
• Animation Supervisor: Minoru Maeda
• Art Director: Tatsuo Yamamoto

• Key Animation: Sonomi Aramaki, Yasuyuki Shimizu, Takeo Ide, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
• Special Effects: Yoshitaka Kumai
• Assistant Director: Yūichi Suenaga

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 50: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-126	Recap: sub chase	K-126	F Major	Unreleased
K-304	Recap: in the cave	K-304†	C Minor
K-24	Title Card	C3	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-138	Red Ribbon Headquarters	K-138		Unreleased
K-144	Blue follows Goku & co.	K-144	C Minor
K-28	Kuririn dodges a spear	G12	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:13(c)
K-141	Blue lurks	M111		Daizenshuu 2:16(c)
K-93	The path past the spear trap	K-93		Unreleased
K-139	Blue's men charge	K-139
K-13	Eyecatch A	C2B-2		Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4		Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-30	Blue's men are skewered	I22		Daizenshuu 2:2(d)
K-144	Blue dodges a spear	K-144	C Minor	Unreleased
K-95	Lit bricks to dark stone	K-95	F Minor
K-42	Falling through the skull trap	K-42	A˚7
K-99	Falling toward the lava	K-99	F Minor
K-144	Blue stalks	K-144	C Minor
K-86	Blue vs the electric eel	M9	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:15(b)
K-76	The pirates' submarine	K-76	C Major	Unreleased
K-77	The pirate robot lurks	K-77	F Minor
K-129	The pirate robot emerges	M121		Daizenshuu 2:23(c)
K-124	Pirate robot attacks again	K-124		Unreleased
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.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Episode 50