Dragon Ball Chapter 31

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The Kame-sen School's Tough Training
Kanzenban Full Color Tankōbon
亀仙流の厳しい修業 Kamesenryū no Kibishii Shugyō
Premiered	Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1985 #31
Sale Date	02 July 1985
Issue Date	15 July 1985
Chapter Data
Pages	Title; Pages 1-14 (Black and White)
Episodes	Dragon Ball Episode 18
Viz Publication
Title	It Only Gets Harder
Release	June 1999
Translation	Lillian Olsen
Adaptation	Gerard Jones
Editor	Trish Ledoux
Collected Volumes
Tankōbon	Dragon Ball Tankōbon Volume 3
Kanzenban	Dragon Ball Kanzenban Volume 3
Full Color	Boyhood Arc Volume 2 Digital Color Part 1 Volume 3
VIZBIG	Dragon Ball VIZBIG Volume 1
Viz 3-in-1	Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Volume 1

"The Kame-sen School's Tough Training" is the thirty-first chapter of the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. It was first published in Japan in the 1985 #31 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Summary

After finishing their early morning training (delivering milk), Muten Rōshi say it is time for the morning training, plowing fields. Muten Rōshi tells them they will have to do this quickly, otherwise they cannot have breakfast. Kuririn thinks about never having to do any of this stuff at Ōrin Temple. Muten Rōshi interrupts his thought and tells them that they cannot use hoes. They must use their bare hands instead, as it is good training for the hands, arms, and legs. After a while, they finally finish, and Muten Rōshi tells them that tomorrow they will plow an even bigger field.

After eating breakfast, Muten Rōshi says that they will study until lunch. Good martial artists train their minds as well as their bodies. Goku hates this, but Kuririn thinks he will surely win at this one. They start with language, and Muten Rōshi tells Goku to read from page twelve. It is now 12:30, and the three of them are lying in hammocks, taking a nap until 1:30. We are told that "Moving well, learning well, having fun, eating well, resting well; this is the Kame-sen Style's training."

After taking a nap, they go to a construction site, and Muten Rōshi says they will have this part-time construction job. It is good training for the muscles. When they are finished working, they head to a lake. Since they just did a lot of sweating, the next part of their training is swimming. But first, Goku wants to know when Muten Rōshi is going to teach them kenpō. Muten Rōshi says there is no point in teaching martial arts if the body does not have the power to use them. Muten Rōshi tells them that he will teach them martial arts once they are strong enough to move this boulder. Muten Rōshi moves the boulder, but then Goku moves it a lot more than Muten Rōshi. Muten Rōshi laughs nervously and says that was just a little one, and points to a much bigger boulder, which he says is the real one. Goku cannot move this one, but Muten Rōshi says he can (though he does not demonstrate...).

Goku and Kuririn take off their clothes, and Muten Rōshi tells them to swim back and forth ten times. He warns them that there is a shark in the lake, but not until after they are already being chased. They finally get out, and Muten Rōshi says they will move on to the next part. He ties the boys to a tree, and tells them they will have to dodge their foe's attack. Muten Rōshi creeps over and whacks a beehive with his staff, and Kuririn and Goku try running away, but they cannot because they are tied to the tree. Muten Rōshi says that today's training is finished, but starting tomorrow, they will have to wear these 20-kilogram turtle shells on their backs.

Cast

• Turtle Hermit
• Son Goku
• Kuririn
• Farmer (Debut)
• Restaurant chef (Debut)
• Restaurant patron (Debut)
• Construction workers (Debut)
• Shark (Debut)
• Bees (Debut)

• Censorship
• 
  3-in-1 Volume 1
  (8th print, January 2020)
• 
  Viz Comics Part 2-4
  (June 1999)
• 
  Viz Graphic Novel
  (December 2000)
• 
  Shonen Jump Graphic Novel
  (14th print, May 2019)
• 
  VIZBIG Volume 1
  (03 June 2008)
• 
  Digital Graphic Novel
  (Viz/SJ or Kindle/Comixology)
• 
  Kanzenban Volume 1
  (28 December 2002)

English Adaptation

Visual Edits & Censorship

The sound effects outside speech bubbles are edited and translated in every Viz edition, but Akira Toriyama's roman-letter sound effects and other roman-letter markings are preserved:

• KAME HOUSE

In the original Viz printing of this chapter, there was no visual censorship. In the Viz Graphic Novel edition, Goku's genitalia was censored, and it remains censored in most subsequent editions, including the 8th printing of the 3-in-1 Edition (the least-censored edition since the original monthly comics. However, some printings of the Shonen Jump Graphic Novels are uncensored. See the gallery at right for details.

Availability

This chapter has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both print and digital formats.

Japan

• Dragon Ball Volume 3: The Tenka'ichi Budōkai Begins (Tankōbon; 10 June 1986)
  • Digital Monochrome Edition Volume 3 (12 October 2012)
• Dragon Ball Volume 3 (Kanzenban; 28 December 2002)
• Dragon Ball Part 1: Son Goku Training Arc Volume 3 (Digital Color Edition; 04 February 2013)

North America (English)

• Shonen Jump Digital: Dragon Ball Chapter 31
• Dragon Ball Tankōbon Volume 3: "The Training of the Turtle Hermit"
  • Viz Graphic Novel (December 2000)
  • Shonen Jump Graphic Novel (16 April 2003)
    • Digital Graphic Novel (16 November 2010)
• Dragon Ball VIZBIG Edition, Vol. 1 (03 June 2008)
• Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 1 (04 June 2013)
• Dragon Ball Part 2-4 (Viz Monthly Comics) (June 1999)

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Manga Guide - Dragon Ball Chapter 31