Dragon Ball Episode 117

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Son Goku Finally Departs!!
Japanese English
孫悟空ついに発進！！ Son Gokū Tsui ni Hasshin!!
Air Date	29 June 1988 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	2nd Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 152 (1-13)
TV Rating	17.0%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Keiji Terui
Art	Tatsuo Yamamoto
Animation	Katsumi Aoshima
Storyboard	Katsumi Aoshima
Director	Mitsuo Hashimoto
FUNimation English Dub
Title	The Ultimate Sacrifice
Air Date	25 September 2003 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	Son Goku Finally Takes Off!!
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	King Piccolo Saga Part 2
Release Date	03 June 2003

"Son Goku Finally Departs!!" is the one hundred and seventeenth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 29 June 1988, receiving a ratings share of 17.0%. It was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto.

Synopsis

Goku is filled by extreme pain. But despite Yajirobe's worries, Goku awakens with his body swelling with new power from the Super God Water. At that time, the world had fallen into a great pinch due to Piccolo Daimaō's cruelty... After returning to Karin-sama's, Goku receives a new Kinto-Un and sets off for King Castle. Meanwhile, having learned the Mafūba through intense training, Tenshinhan hurries to King Castle as well...

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
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Christopher R. Sabat
Yajirobe	Mayumi Tanaka	Mike McFarland
Lunch	Mami Koyama	Meredith McCoy
Karin	Ichirō Nagai	Christopher R. Sabat
Piccolo	Takeshi Aono
Hacchan	Iizuka Shōzō	Dale Wilson
Tenshinhan	Hirotaka Suzuoki	John Burgmeier
Sno	Naoko Watanabe	Carol Hope
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Brad Jackson
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Kyle Hebert

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
• Storyboard: Katsumi Aoshima
• Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
• Animation Supervisor: Katsumi Aoshima
• Art Director: Tatsuo Yamamoto

• Key Animation: Katsumi Aoshima
• Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
• Assistant Director: Tatsuya Orime
• Production Progression: Akihiko Yamaguchi

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.

Dragon Ball Episode 117: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-504	Recap	M501		Daizenshuu 2:21(a)
K-24	Title Card	C3		Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-509	The Darkness descends	M517		Daizenshuu 2:23(a)
K-513	King Piccolo addresses the world	K-513		Unreleased
K-512	Criminals go wild	M511	A♭+	Daizenshuu 2:24(c)
K-505	Attack on police	M516	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:24(d)
K-417	No. 8 sees the destroyed city	K-417		Unreleased
K-438	Piccolo takes over TV	M441-1	D Minor	Daizenshuu 2:20(c)
K-314	Goku's friends despair	K-314	G+	Unreleased
K-226	No. 8 finds Sno	K-226	F Major
K-13	Eyecatch A	C2B-2	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4		Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
U-507	Thug tosses his knife	U-507†		Unreleased
K-220	Knife attack	K-220
K-432	Tenshinhan trains	K-432
K-147	Goku and Yajirobe run	K-147
K-508	Tenshinhan flies to Piccolo	M513		Daizenshuu 2:
K-516	Karin Tower	K-516		Unreleased
K-506	Goku senses Piccolo	K-506
K-43	Goku takes off on Kinto'un	K-43	F Major
K-317	Episode wrap	M308	A˚7	Daizenshuu 2:21(c)
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 117