Dragon Ball Episode 65

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Go, Goku! The Assault Begins
Japanese English
ゆけ悟空！突撃開始 Yuke Gokū! Totsugeki Kaishi
Air Date	10 June 1987 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	2nd Eyecatch
Insert Song	With a Blazing Heart: Defeat the Red Ribbon Army
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 93 (3-13)
TV Rating	25.8%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshiki Inoue
Art	Tatsuo Yamamoto
Animation	Masayuki Uchiyama
Director	Daisuke Nishio
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Confront the Red Ribbon Army
Air Date	8 November 2002 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	Goku, Goku! Commence Assault
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	Commander Red Saga
Release Date	11 November 2003

"Go, Goku! The Assault Begins" is the sixty-fifth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 10 June 1987, receiving a ratings share of 25.8%. It was written by Toshiki Inoue and directed by Daisuke Nishio.

Synopsis

Using the Dragon Radar that was stolen from Goku, Colonel Violet returns to Red Ribbon Army Headquarters with a second Dragon Ball. Commander Red is not aware of Tao Pai-pai's defeat, and looks on in good humor as the signal from the four Dragon Balls Goku is carrying approach on the radar. Meanwhile, Goku's friends at Kame House use Bulma's reconnaissance mecha to learn that Goku's target is the Red Ribbon Army's stronghold! In order to rescue Goku, Bulma and the others hurry to the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters in Yamcha's plane!

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
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Christopher R. Sabat
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Brad Jackson
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe	Monika Antonelli
Lunch	Mami Koyama	Meredith McCoy
Turtle Hermit	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Commander Red	Kenji Utsumi	Josh Martin
Colonel Violet	Kazuko Sugiyama	Kasey Buckley
Assistant Black	Masaharu Satō	Christopher R. Sabat
Umigame	Daisuke Gōri
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): Daisuke Nishio
• Animation Supervisor: Masayuki Uchiyama
• Art Director: Tatsuo Yamamoto

• Key Animation: Tai'ichirō Ohara, Akio Katada, Naotoshi Shida, Hidehiko Kadota
• Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
• Assistant Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
• Production Progression: 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 65: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-315	Recap	M309		Daizenshuu 2:18(a)
K-24	Title Card	C3		Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-306	Colonel Violet	K-306	C+	Unreleased
K-89	Violet's boat attacked	K-89	F Minor
K-321	Violet feeds her men to the beast	K-321	D Minor
K-312	The Paku-Paku tribe attacks	K-312	F Minor
K-144	Red Ribbon HQ	K-144	C Minor
K-325	Surveilling the beach	J17A†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:6(a)
K-92	Pants drop	K-92		Unreleased
K-13	Eyecatch A	C2B-2	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4		Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-82	The drone flies into a trap	K-82	E˚7	Unreleased
K-129	The drone is attacked	M121	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:23(c)
K-137	The drone pushes through to HQ	M109		Daizenshuu 2:18(b)
K-133	Goku approaches Red Ribbon HQ	M118		Daizenshuu 2:17(b)
Insert	Red Ribbon flashbacks	With a Blazing Heart: Defeat the Red Ribbon Army†		Daizenshuu 1:13
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. The insert song "With a Blazing Heart: Defeat the Red Ribbon Army" is performed by Wonderland Gang.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Episode 65