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Karin-sama of Karin Tower
Japanese
Dragon Ball Episode 61 (Japanese)
English
Dragon Ball Episode 61 (English)
カリン塔のカリン様
Karin Tō no Karin-sama
Air Date 6 May 1987 (Fuji TV)
Opening Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch 2nd Eyecatch
Ending I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters Dragon Ball Chapter 87 (14)
Dragon Ball Chapter 88
TV Rating 24.8%
Format 4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario Michiru Shimada
Art Tatsuo Yamamoto
Animation Tomekichi Takeuchi
Director Yoshihiro Ueda
FUNimation English Dub
Title Korin Tower
Air Date 4 November 2002 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title Karin-sama of Karin Tower
Subtitles Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut Commander Red Saga
Release Date 11 November 2003
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"Karin-sama of Karin Tower" is the sixty-first episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 6 May 1987, receiving a ratings share of 24.8%. It was written by Michiru Shimada and directed by Yoshihiro Ueda.

Synopsis

Goku struggles his way to the top of the tower, and there he meets the cat sage Karin, who has the appearance of a cat. In order to drink the Super Holy Water that will multiple his power many times over, Goku must actually steal the jar that contains the Super Holy Water from Karin-sama! Goku pursues Karin-sama with all his might, but is unable to even touch the jar!! Karin-sama says that the only one to have ever drunk the Super Holy Water was Muten Roshi, 300 years ago. Yet Karin-sama says it took him three years to manage to drink the water!!

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
Upa Mitsuko Horie Kara Edwards
Turtle Hermit Kōhei Miyauchi Mike McFarland
Tao Pai-pai Chikao Ōtsuka Kent Williams
Cat Hermit Ichirō Nagai Christopher R. Sabat
Bulma Hiromi Tsuru Tiffany Vollmer
Kuririn Mayumi Tanaka Laurie Steele
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.

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.[1]

Dragon Ball Episode 61: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
First usage in Dragon Ball.
Catalogue Scene Catalogue/Title Tonality Releases
OP Opening Mystical Adventure
(TV Size)
F Minor Daizenshuu 2:1
K-315 Recap M309 Daizenshuu 2:18(a)
K-24 Title Card C3 Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-320 Still climbing M317 F Major Daizenshuu 2:19(a)
K-128 Goku's vision of Chi-Chi M116 Daizenshuu 2:26(a)
K-321 Centipede of the Future K-321 D Minor Unreleased
K-27 Back in the village K-27 F Major Daizenshuu 2:5(b)
K-311 Assassinate the assassin M312 F Minor Daizenshuu 2:22(a)
K-318 Tao's hotel K-318 Unreleased
K-314 Tao's bath K-314 G+
K-13 Eyecatch A C2B-2 F Minor Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12 Eyecatch B C4 Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-318 Upa waits for Goku K-318 Unreleased
K-309 Up the Tower... K-309 F Major
K-322 Goku moves on the water M306 7 Daizenshuu 2:19(b)
K-317 Goku vs. Karin M308 7 Daizenshuu 2:21(c)
K-319 Muten Rōshi rides the storm K-319 F Minor Unreleased
K-62 Three years K-62
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

References

  1. "The DragonBall BGM Daizenshuu" (11 June 2008). The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant. Retrieved: 30 June 2019.