Dragon Ball Super Episode 4

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Aim for the Dragon Balls! The Pilaf Gang's Great Strategy!
Japanese English
目指せドラゴンボール！ピラフ一味の大作戦！ Mezase Doragon Bōru! Pirafu Ichimi no Dai-Sakusen!
Air Date	02 August 2015 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!
Eyecatch	Part A: Vegeta Part B: Goku
Ending	Hello Hello Hello
Episode Data
TV Rating	6.3%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Makoto Koyama
Art	Yoshiyuki Shikano
Animation	Seizo Toma
Storyboard	Yoshitaka Yashima
Director	Ryōta Nakamura
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Bid for the Dragon Balls! Pilaf and Crew's Impossible Mission!
Air Date	28 January 2017

"Aim for the Dragon Balls! The Pilaf Gang's Great Strategy!" is the fourth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 02 August 2015. It was written by Makoto Koyama and directed by Masanori Satō.

Summary

As Beerus and Whis head toward North Kaiō's planet, Kaiō is desperate to prevent Goku from meeting Beerus. He suggests Goku leave to attend Bulma's birthday party, but Goku is only interested in training and wonders why Kaiō is suddenly acting so suspicious. Meanwhile, Bulma's friends and family are enjoying themselves on her luxurious cruise ship. Bulma is upset that Goku and Vegeta are not there, and gets even more annoyed when Kuririn asks about her age. No. 18 is obsessed with the extravagant bingo tournament prizes, which include a plane and even a castle. She is determined to get second place! Below deck, Goten and Trunks run through the ship's kitchen and come to the enormous room where the tournament prizes are being stored. Goten is amazed at the prizes, but Trunks goes on to show him the secret top prize, which is protected by a high-tech security system of Bulma's own invention. Goten is amazed at how impenetrable it is, but Trunks simply unplugs the security system, revealing the Dragon Balls.

On a small desert island, Pilaf is fishing while Shuu and Mai dig for buried treasure. Despite the clear instructions of the treasure map they obtained, they have had no success, and their boat is likewise in poor condition. Bulma's cruise ship happens to be nearing Pilaf's island, and with the security system deactivated by Trunks, the Dragon Balls suddenly appear as blips on Pilaf's Dragon Radar, right as Pilaf gets a big fish on the line. In his excitement and confusion he drops the radar into the sea, then loses the fish, too. Trunks reactivates the security system, so by the time Pilaf manages to retrieve the radar, it no longer detects the Dragon Balls. Shuu and Mai think Pilaf was simply imagining things, but he insists they set out for the approaching cruise ship. Their rickety boat begins filling with water halfway there, and to make matters worse, a shark suddenly attacks. The trio manage to grab on to the side of the cruise ship and hang on for dear life, before Goten and Trunks notice them and toss a rope ladder their way. Now on board the ship, Pilaf keeps quiet about his search for the Dragon Balls, and even turns down any offer of food despite the trio's extreme hunger, but he finally succumbs before too long and they all eat happily.

At Capsule Corp., Vegeta continues his training in the Gravity Room, where now even 150 times gravity provides him little challenge. The gravity suddenly reverts to normal as a secretary comes in to inform him that he has a message from Bulma. Vegeta is still uninterested in the party, and so Bulma chews him out over the phone. Back on Kaiō's planet, Kaiō repaints his damaged house, while Goku fires a Kamehameha which quickly circles around the planet and comes straight back at him. He successfully blocks his own Kamehameha, but the impact causes Kaiō's house to collapse. Exasperated, Kaiō says that this endless obsession with getting stronger is precisely why Goku can't be allowed to meet Beerus. Goku's curious: who's Beerus? Having accidentally let it slip, Kaiō has no choice but to explain: though Beerus governs destruction and is therefore necessary to maintain the balance of the universe, he is fickle and destroys whatever annoys him. Kaiō hastily hides Goku inside his house, but it is too late. Whis and Beerus arrive on his planet in a puff of smoke!

Episode Notes

• At the end of the previous episode, Whis says it will take about 26 minutes to reach North Kaiō's planet, which Beerus complains is long enough to watch a regular anime episode. Whether intentional or not, when Beerus and Whis finally arrive at North Kaiō's planet at the end of this episode, it has actually taken them an entire episode of Dragon Ball Super to do so.

Staff & Cast Notes

• The episode's script was written by Makoto Koyama, son of veteran Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z series composer and script writer Takao Koyama. His only previous involvement with the Dragon Ball franchise was providing the script for the "Episode of Bardock" feature.

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
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Alexis Tipton
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Chuck Huber
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Chris Cason
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Colleen Clinkenbeard
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
No. 18	Miki Itō	Meredith McCoy
Bubbles	Takahiro Fujimoto	Christopher R. Sabat
Gregory	Yūsuke Numata	John Burgmeier
Cook	Yūsuke Handa
Staff	Yukiko Morishita
Kaiō	Jōji Yanami	Sean Schemmel
Narration		Doc Morgan

Production

• DBS 4 Animation
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  An example of animation supervisor Seizo Toma's trademark thick line art.
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  Seizo Toma draws relatively thick eyebrows on female characters.
• 
  An example of chief animation supervisor Miyako Tsuji's pure style as of this point in the series.
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  Miyako Tsuji maintains Seizo Toma's thick line art when she corrects his work.
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  This cut was redrawn by series animation director Tadayoshi Yamamuro.
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  Key animator Yukihiro Kitano's work, corrected by Miyako Tsuji.
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  Presumed uncredited work by Masahiro Shimanuki.

This episode's animation is supervised by Seizo Toma, who is known for his thick line art, which dominates the episode despite heavy corrections by the chief animation supervisor, Miyako Tsuji, who supervises all the even-numbered episodes in Dragon Ball Super. Tsuji maintains Toma's approach to line art even when she entirely redraws other animators' work.

Animator Masahiro Shimanuki is not credited on this episode, but his unique style nevertheless seems to be present at points in the first quarter of the episode.

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: Makoto Koyama
• Storyboard: Yoshitaka Yashima
• Director: Ryōta Nakamura
• Animation Supervisor: Seizo Toma
• Art Director: Yoshiyuki Shikano

• Key Animation: Seizo Toma, Nobuo Horii, Yukihiro Kitano, Tatsuhiro Nagaki, Emi Tezuka
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Kōji Kawasaki
• Assistant Production Manager: Kazuo Fukuda

External Links

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