Dragon Ball Episode 6

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The Midnight Visitors
Japanese English
真夜中の訪問者たち Mayonaka no Hōmonsha-tachi
Air Date	02 April 1986 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	1st Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 9 Dragon Ball Chapter 10
TV Rating	20.8%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Yasushi Hirano
Art	Yūji Ikeda
Animation	Masayuki Uchiyama
Director	Kazuhisa Takenōchi
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Keep an Eye on the Dragon Balls
Air Date	14 October 1995 (BLT) 27 August 2001 (redub)

"The Midnight Visitors" is the sixth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 02 April 1986, receiving a ratings share of 20.8%. The episode was written by Yasushi Hirano and directed by Kazuhisa Takenōchi.

Synopsis

Yamcha attacks at night in an attempt to steal Oolong’s capsules! As Yamcha looks into the condition of their opponents, he learns about the Dragon Balls. Yamcha and Pu’er try to steal Goku and the others’ Dragon Balls through any means necessary, but fail!! At this point, they come up with the plan of waiting for Goku and the others to gather all seven Dragon Balls, and then steal them. Unaware of this, Goku and the others aim for Mt. Frypan in search of the sixth Dragon Ball.

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 (BLT)	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Saffron Henderson	Stephanie Nadolny
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Lalainia Lindbjerg	Tiffany Vollmer
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Ted Cole	Christopher R. Sabat
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Alec Willows	Brad Jackson
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe	Cathy Weseluck	Monika Antonelli
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Don Brown	Chuck Huber
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Doug Parker	Chris Cason
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Teryl Rothery	Julie Franklin
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Jim Conrad	Brice Armstrong

Funimation's 1995 dub was contracted out to BLT Productions in Vancouver, who hired Canadian voice actors typically associated with Ocean Group. Funimation redubbed the series in the early 2000s with their in-house cast.

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: Yasushi Hirano
• Director (Storyboard): Kazuhisa Takenōchi
• Animation Supervisor: Masayuki Uchiyama
• Art Director: Yūji Ikeda

• Key Animation: Yoriko Shirosu, Tai’ichirō Ohara, Akio Katada, Yasuhiro Kinda
• Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
• Photography: Motoaki Ikenoue
• Assistant Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
• Production Progression: Toshihiro Ishikawa

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 6: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Release
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-3	Yamcha makes a plan	H3	D Minor	Daizenshuu 2:7(c)
K-24	Title Card	C3	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-2	Spanning the landscape	H4	D Minor	Daizenshuu 2:7(d)
K-63	Shuu and Mai	K-63†	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:6(c)
K-64	Bulma's shower	B3†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:4(e)
K-65	The sleeping drug	K-65†	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:11(b)
K-12	Eyecatch A	C2B-2		Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-11	Eyecatch B	C4	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-30	The bomb is reset	I22		Daizenshuu 2:2(d)
K-41	Oolong goes upstairs	G13		Daizenshuu 2:5(c)
K-66	Oolong is almost successful	K-66†		Unreleased
K-55	Oolong panics at fake Goku	G9		Daizenshuu 2:8(c)
K-56	Yamcha sneaks upstairs	G3		Daizenshuu 2:9(d)
K-67	Yamcha is traumatized	K-67†	F Major	Unreleased
K-28	The bomb is planted	G12	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:13(c)
K-68	Bulma the bunny-girl	K-68†	F Major	Unreleased
K-69	Yamcha comes attacking	K-69†	F Minor
K-54	Yamcha fires the Panzerfaust	K-54
K-10	Yamcha's plan	K-10	C ♯˚7
K-70	Driving to Mt. Frypan	D1†	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:5(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 6