Dragon Ball Super Episode 1

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Who Will the 100 Million Zenni Peace Reward Go To...?!
平和の報酬１億ゼニーは誰の手に!? Heiwa no Hōshū Ichioku Zenī wa Dare no Te ni!?
Air Date	05 July 2015 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!
Eyecatch	1st Eyecatch
Ending	Hello Hello Hello
Episode Data
TV Rating	7.9%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Yoshifumi Fukushima
Art	Shinzō Yuki
Animation	Yukihiro Kitano
Director	Kōji Ogawa
FUNimation English Dub
Title	A Peacetime Reward - Who Gets the 100,000,000 Zeni?!
Air Date	07 January 2017

"Who Will the 100 Million Zenni Peace Reward Go To...?!" is the first episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 05 July 2015, receiving a ratings share of 7.9%. It was written by Yoshifumi Fukushima and directed by Kōji Ogawa.

Synopsis

It is some time after the fierce battle with Majin Boo. While the days pass peacefully, Goku works tilling the soil like Chi-Chi had ordered him, while still finding time to train. Meanwhile, newlyweds Gohan and Videl are living happily, but…?! Goten wants to give Gohan a wedding present, and Trunks offers his advice! What item do they end up picking?!

Summary

After a brief recap of the end of the Majin Boo arc, the narrator explains that Earth is at peace. Goku is plowing a field when Goten stops by to bring him lunch. Goku has Goten drive the tractor for him while he trains, but soon has to rescue Goten when he accidentally drives off a cliff. Goku explains that he is continuing to train in case any more strong enemies appear, even though Chi-Chi demands that he work to earn some money. Out in space, an alien race offers Beerus their best food in an attempt to appease him. Beerus finds the food all right enough, so in return he only destroys half the planet.

Back on Earth, the press is interviewing Mister Satan about him receiving the 100 million zenni World Hero Prize, when Mister Boo angrily wanders out saying he is hungry. The reporters wonder who this strange person is, and how he dares to be so rude to the hero Mister Satan, but Satan explains that Boo is an alien and his number one disciple. After a tense stare-down, Satan manages to get Boo to go away. He then excuses himself to use the restroom... but instead goes and gives Boo a massage to calm him down, promising to give him lots of tasty food later. He calls out to Videl asking where the chocolate is, but Videl is out in town with Gohan, where she has just bought him a book for his studies. Gohan feels guilty that Videl is always the one buying him things while he never buys her anything in return, but Videl is happy to help Gohan become a great scholar. Piccolo secretly observes the couple from nearby, looking displeased for some reason.

Goten asks Trunks what gift he should give Videl to commemorate Gohan and Videl's marriage. After looking at some rings, Trunks thinks they should get her some beauty wash instead, but Goten is unable to afford any of the high-priced products with his allowance. An old man likewise complains about the cosmetics prices, saying the hot springs water from out in the country where he lives are at least as effective. Goten and Trunks decide to get this water for free, and follow the old man's directions out into the country, but when they get to the hot spring they find it crowded with people. Instead, they go get water from an ordinary river nearby, and wind up battling a giant snake that lives there. Goten starts charging up a Kamehameha, but Trunks warns him that he will blow away the people in the nearby hot spring too. Despite this brief difficulty, the pair are victorious and return with a bottle of water. When Goten gives his gift to Videl, she is surprised to find that it is just ordinary water, but is glad to receive it all the same.

Later, Goten tells Goku about all this out in the field as the sun sets. Goten notes how big Gohan and Videl's house is, and Goku is grateful Mister Satan had such a large home built for them. Mister Satan himself drives up and tells Goku about the prize money. He thinks Goku is the one who truly deserves the prize money, especially since Vegeta has already turned it down, and his family is rich anyway. Goku at first refuses the money, but changes his mind when Goten points out that with the money, Chi-Chi will let him go off and train at Kaiō's planet. This is indeed precisely what happens when Goku presents Chi-Chi with the money: Chi-Chi only asks Goku that he come back home from Kaiō's occasionally, and he teleports off. At this point the Turtle Hermit barges in demanding that Goku use some of the prize money to buy him dirty videos, but Chi-Chi angrily sends him packing.

In the Kaiōshin Realm, East Kaiōshin ominously tells Elder Kaiōshin that another planet has been destroyed...

Episode Notes

• The first piece of background music in the show (used during the recap of the battle with Majin Boo), while being a new recording, is an arrangement of "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA" (the first opening theme to the Dragon Ball Z TV series).

• While Goten is talking to Goku about his training, Goten remarks that his grandfather, the Ox Demon King, is not making enough money to support them all. The Ox Demon King is shown sitting at a desk eating noodles, and next to him is a statue of a bull with a "Beef Goodwill Ambassador" (牛肉親善大使) certificate prominently displayed right above it on the wall. The title on the certificate is a play on Gyūmaō's name, which can be directly translated as "Bull Demon King".

• The title of the book Son Gohan is carrying — "Muzukashii Hon" — means "difficult book" in Japanese (難しい本).

• The face of the 10,000 zenny bill appears to be Tori-bot (wearing a bow-tie), Akira Toriyama's own self-representation. In a Q&A session within the 2009 'Super Exciting Guide: Character Volume', Akira Toriyama stated that he, "... envisioned them as the same as yen." In July 2015 (when this episode first aired), one yen was worth approximately 0.0082 USD, making Mr. Satan's "100 Million Zenny Peace Reward" worth roughly $820,000.

• The episode reveals that Mr. Satan has paid for Gohan's house. This was previously mentioned by Akira Toriyama in the special Dragon Ball Volume "F" bonus booklet given to Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' theatrical attendees in Japan. In describing Gohan's house where Piccolo is babysitting Pan, the movie script notes from Toriyama:

The garden of Gohan's house (Mister Satan had this house built for them, so it's really fancy.)"
— Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Volume "F"

• Mr. Satan's lighting assistants appear to be Pizza and Karoni, filler characters introduced during the Cell Games arc of the Dragon Ball Z TV series. Pizza was Mr. Satan's promoter, while Karoni was one of his top disciples.

• There are minor differences between events shown in Toyotarō's manga adaptation (which preceded the TV episode in release order) and the final TV episode. In the manga adaptation, Goku specifically imagines fighting Freeza, Cell, and Majin Boo after passing off the work to Goten; in the TV episode, we do not see any of his internal thoughts. Beerus' and Whis' entire conversation about "Super Saiyan God" and the prophetic dream from the manga adaptation is also not present in the TV episode. In addition to the aliens looking completely different between the manga adaptation and TV episode, the "Soup Yasai Jinkot" name and joke are also not present in the TV dialog. Finally, Beerus only destroys "half" of the planet in the TV episode (versus the entire planet in the manga version). With the addition of antics from Goten and Trunks, the first TV episode and first manga chapter otherwise roughly cover the same span of time and overall events.

Staff & Cast Notes

• There is one notable voice change in this episode: Shin'ichirō Ōta plays the role of Kaiōshin (credited here as "Kibito-Kaiōshin"), rather than the character's original voice actor Yūji Mitsuya. Shin'ichirō Ōta previously took over the role of Kaiōshin for the entirety of the Dragon Ball GT TV series, but himself was replaced by Yūji Mitsuya in the "refreshed" Dragon Ball Kai TV series and the theatrical film Battle of Gods.

• This episode marks the first animated production of the entire Dragon Ball franchise not to feature original sound effects from Hidenori Arai, most likely due to his existing sound effects obligations to the One Piece TV series during the production of Dragon Ball Super. Instead, the series' sound effects are created by fellow Fizz Sound artist Mutsuhiro Nishimura.

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 (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel
Son Gohan		Kyle Hebert
Son Goten		Kara Edwards
Turtle Hermit	Masaharu Satō	Mike McFarland
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Alexis Tipton
Chi-Chi	Mayumi Shō	Cynthia Cranz
Videl	Yūko Minaguchi	Kara Edwards
Mister Satan	Unshō Ishizuka	Chris Rager
Majin Boo	Kōzō Shioya	Josh Martin
Kibito-Kaiōshin	Shin'ichirō Ōta	Kent Williams
Elder Kaiōshin	Ryōichi Tanaka
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
King	Yasuhiro Mamiya
Chef	Yūsei Oda
Woman	Yui Kano
Shop Clerk	Yukiko Morishita
Reporter	Masaya Takatsuka
Reporter	Kenji Akabane
Narration	Jōji Yanami	Doc Morgan
Ox Demon King		Kyle Hebert

Production

• DBS 1 Animation
• 
  This episode is dominated by series animation director Tadayoshi Yamamuro's style.
• 
  Chief animation supervisor Takeo Ide's style is significantly less prominent than that of Yamamuro.
• 
  Animation supervisor Yukihiro Kitano's style is hard to pick out. It is not entirely certain this is his work.
• 
  Key animation by Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT character designer Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru.
• 
  Key animator Kōji Nashizawa's style is recognizable here.

This episode is supervised by Yukihiro Kitano, but Kitano's style is barely evident in the episode, which is heavily corrected by series animation director Tadayoshi Yamamuro and, to a much lesser extent, chief animation supervisor Takeo Ide, who is responsible for the odd-numbered episodes of Dragon Ball Super.

This episode features an appearance by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, best known for his work as character designer for the second half of Dragon Ball Z and then Dragon Ball GT. Nakatsuru provides key animation for every Dragon Ball series, beginning with Dragon Ball Episode 50, and his work on this episode of Dragon Ball Super is his last contribution to the franchise.

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: Yoshifumi Fukushima
• Director (Storyboard): Kōji Ogawa
• Animation Supervisor: Yukihiro Kitano
• Art Director: Shinzō Yuki

• Key Animation: Hitoshi Inaba, Kōji Nashizawa, Shuntarō Mura, Atsushi Nikaidō, Emi Tezuka, Osamu Ishikawa, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Yukihiro Urata, Satsuki Aizu, Yū Matsuo
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Kōji Kawasaki
• Production Progression: Kobayashi Katsunori

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Super Episode 1
• Dragon Ball Super - Quad Staff Roundup - #1, #2, #3, & #4! (AnimeAjay)