Dragon Ball Episode 131

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Each On His Own Path
Japanese English
それぞれの道をめざして Sorezore no Michi o Mezashite
Air Date	26 October 1988 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	2nd Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Filler Episode
TV Rating	17.3%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Keiji Terui
Art	Shigenori Takada
Animation	Yukio Ebisawa
Director	Mitsuo Hashimoto
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Walking Their Own Ways
Air Date	21 October 2003 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	Each On His Own Path
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	Piccolo Jr. Saga Part 1
Release Date	15 July 2003

"Each On His Own Path" is the one hundred and thirty-first episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 26 October 1988, receiving a ratings share of 17.3%. It was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto.

Synopsis

Goku trains by playing tag with Popo, but the blindfolded Popo catches Goku with extreme ease. This time Goku is "it," but he can't catch Popo at all. Popo tells him to search out his opponent using ki, but... As Tenshinhan and the others aim for the Karin Holy Land, they stop by a village that's bustling with people due to a festival. But the mountain that the village reveres as a god erupts, and the magma endangers the village. Tenshinhan stands up to stop the magma in order to save the village, but...

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
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Christopher R. Sabat
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Laurie Steele
Chiaotzu	Hiroko Emori	Monika Antonelli
Tenshinhan	Hirotaka Suzuoki	John Burgmeier
Mister Popo	Toku Nishio	Christopher R. Sabat
Mint	Naoko Watanabe	Unknown
Elder	Masaharu Satō
Paoru	Masato Hirano
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: Keiji Terui
• Director (Storyboard): Mitsuo Hashimoto
• Animation Supervisor: Yukio Ebisawa
• Art Director: Shigenori Takada

• Key Animation: Yukio Ebisawa, Mari Tominaga, Hiroshi Takeuchi
• Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
• Assistant Director: Tatsuya Orime

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 The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant.

^† First usage in Dragon Ball overall.
^* First usage in the Dragon Ball TV series.

Dragon Ball Episode 131: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure! (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-509	Recap	M517		Daizenshuu 2:23(a)
K-24	Title Card	C3		Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
U-703	Flute and drum dance	U-703†	E Major	Unreleased
K-16	Campfire	G2	D Minor	Daizenshuu 2:4(d)
K-130	Tenshinhan hears drums	H8	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:
K-432	Chiaotzu entranced	K-432		Unreleased
U-703	Dance part 2	U-703	E Major
K-704	God's Temple	M520†	A♭+	Daizenshuu 2:19(d)
K-401	Popo's ki	M401	C	Daizenshuu 5:3(a)
K-57	Popo chases Goku	I18	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:3(c)
K-147	Goku runs faster	K-147		Unreleased
K-89	Surrounded by natives	K-89
K-107	The villagers are nice	K-107	F Major
K-42	Birds flee	K-42	A˚7
K-13	Eyecatch A	C2B-2	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4		Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-418	Popo chases Goku	M420*		Daizenshuu 5:3(e)
K-409	Goku chases Popo	M411		Daizenshuu 5:3(c)
K-17	The village festival	I1	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:11(c)
K-224	Paoru studies Tenshinhan	K-224	C♯˚7	Unreleased
K-420	Kuririn vs Paoru	K-420	F Minor
K-316	Earthquakes	M303		Daizenshuu 2:21(b)
K-511	Flowing lava	M518		Daizenshuu 2:25(a)
K-257	Running toward the volcano	M261		Daizenshuu 5:2(d)
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 131