Dragon Ball Episode 3

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The Turtle Hermit's Kinto-Un
Japanese English
亀仙人のキント雲 Kame-Sen'nin no Kinto-Un
Air Date	12 March 1986 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	1st Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 3 (Pages 8-End) Dragon Ball Chapter 4 (Pages 1-13)
TV Rating	24.1%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Keiji Terui
Art	Tadanao Tsuji
Animation	Masayuki Uchiyama
Director	Kazuhisa Takenōchi
FUNimation English Dub
Title	The Nimbus Cloud of Roshi
Air Date	23 September 1995 (BLT) 22 August 2001

"The Turtle Hermit's Kinto-Un" is the third episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 12 March 1986, receiving a ratings share of 24.1%. The episode was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Takenouchi Kazuhisa.

Synopsis

The party safely reaches the sea. In thanks, the turtle brings back an old man from the far side of the ocean who calls himself the Turtle Hermit! In gratitude for saving his turtle, the Turtle Hermit presents Goku with the Kinto-Un, which can fly as one wills it. Only the owner of a pure heart can ride on Kinto-Un, but the simple Goku manages to ride it! Meanwhile Bulma manages to obtain the Turtle Hermit's Three-Star Ball by promising to show him her panties!!

Summary

Prologue

Son Goku carries Turtle on his back while Bulma rides beside them on her motorcycle. The group have temporarily delayed their hunt for the Dragon Balls to return Turtle to the sea. He offers to walk, but Bulma insists that Goku carry him; otherwise it would take a month for them to make it. They have only two more kilometers to go. Unknown to them, a sinister presence looks on from afar.

Part A

As the trio approach, a bear bandit (dressed as a samurai) blocks the road and demands that they turn over the "delicious" Turtle. He looks menacing with a scar over one eye. Bulma, terrified for her life, tells Goku to hand over Turtle to the thief. Goku refuses and sticks his tongue out at the imposing figure. The bear attacks as Bulma flees. Goku tells Turtle to get down as he dodges the first swipe from the bear's gigantic sword. Goku dodges blow after blow, finally landing on the bear's sword. With a single attack from his Jan-Ken, the bear is knocked unconscious. Goku says that it is time to go... but not before asking Turtle if he is as delicious as the bear said. Turtle assures Goku that he tastes terrible.

A short time later, the three arrive at the beach. Goku is amazed at how much water there is, although he still thinks of it as a large river. As Turtle paddles out to sea, he asks Goku to stay for a while so that he can be given a gift in return. As they wait, Goku discovers that ocean water is salty while Bulma complains that she did not bring a bathing suit.

Elsewhere, Pilaf rides through an adoring crowd on a white horse. His castle shines in the distance. As the crowd parts at his approach, Pilaf chuckles while holding the One-Star Ball; it was all a daydream of his life after he wishes for world domination. Shuu and Mai rush in and report that their information was false and that they did not find a Dragon Ball in the valley, only wolves. Pilaf is about to send them out to search further, but a phone rings: someone on the other end informs him that the Turtle Hermit has one of the Dragon Balls. The hermit is 250 kilometers south-southeast of the city. This time, Pilaf will come along to make sure his agents finish the job.

Later that day, as Bulma scribbles in the sand and Goku builds a sandcastle, Turtle returns with a friend on his back: an old man known as the Turtle Hermit. Bulma is not impressed by the "geezer" and even Goku questions who the "old-timer" is. He introduces himself as the Turtle Hermit and asks Turtle which one of them helped him. Turtle says Goku. The hermit offers to give Goku a reward and summons the Immortal Phoenix... until Turtle reminds him that the phoenix died of bird poisoning the previous year. The hermit had intended to give Goku eternal life, but he thinks of another suitable reward. He thinks for a moment, then calls for an alternate reward: Kinto'un!

A yellow cloud flies down and lands at their feet. Goku inspects it, at first thinking that it is some kind of food. The Turtle Hermit explains that the cloud is a form of transportation; you can ride on it, but only if you are a good person. He demonstrates by jumping on it, only to fall through and crash into the sand. As Turtle comforts his embarrassed master, Goku leaps on a shouts out for joy. He can ride it!

Part B

In their airplane, Pilaf, Shuu, and Mai fly over the ocean until the locate what they are looking for Kame House, the island home of the Turtle Hermit. Shuu and Mai prepare to sneak in, but Pilaf shouts out "telegram!" and waits to see if anyone answers. No one seems to be home and Shuu suggests that they break a window to get in. Pilaf has an Open-All Key to use and uses it on the door, only to lock it by mistake.

Back at the beach, Goku practices flying on Kinto'un and the Turtle Hermit is impressed that he has the hang of it already. Bulma asks is she can have one as well, so the hermit asks Turtle whether she helped him or not. Turtle replies "no", but Bulma counters that she did give him some saltwater. The hermit says that while he cannot give her another Kinto'un, he could give her something else... if she shows him her panties. Turtle is aghast at the impropriety and understands now why the hermit could not ride the cloud. Bulma reluctantly agrees and flashes him, not realizing that Goku removed her panties the night before. The Turtle Hermit gets more of a show than he expected. He thinks about what he could give her, but Bulma notices that he wears the Three-Star Ball around his neck. He claims that he found it at the bottom of the sea around 100 years ago. Bulma calls over Goku who agrees that it is a Dragon Ball; they had seen one far to the south of their location and this must be it. The Hermit says that he hadn't decided that she could keep it yet, but Bulma flashes her "panties" several more times until he agrees. The hermit and Turtle return to the ocean as Bulma and Goku continue searching for the other Dragon Balls.

Bulma and Goku return to the capsule house. In her haste to catch up to Goku, Bulma had left it standing rather than taking it with them. She goes inside to change... and screams when she realizes that she wasn't wearing any panties. Goku comforts her that she can still live without a "peepee or balls" and she realizes that he was the one that removed them. Bulma shoots Goku with an Uzi for the indiscretion.

At Kame House, Pilaf, Mai, and Shuu have torn the place apart looking for the rumored Dragon Ball while a Crocodile suns himself outside. Pilaf emerges from the house and threatens to turn the croc into a handbag if he doesn't reveal where the Turtle Hermit went. The croc responds that he went to the beach just this morning. Just then, the Turtle Hermit arrives. They ask him where the Dragon Ball is and he tells them that he gave it to a "pichi-pichi girl" and a monkey-boy. Shuu and Mai recognize the boy's description as the one that encountered at Dragon Valley and they quickly set off. Pilaf transforms the airplane into a ship and asks the Turtle Hermit for a push. The hermit obliges, but not before knocking a hole in the side of the hull. As they sail away, Shuu questions why they would have changed to a ship at all; Pilaf just tells him to shut up.

At the Capsule house, Bulma asks if she can ride Kinto'un. Goku says that she could, if she were pure enough. Insulted, Bulma tries to jump on and falls straight through. Bulma questions what she could have done to be judged as not good enough by the cloud. On the ocean, Pilaf's boat takes on water and sinks beneath the waves.

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
Turtle Hermit	Kōhei Miyauchi	Unknown	Mike McFarland
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Don Brown	Chuck Huber
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Doug Parker	Chris Cason
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Teryl Rothery	Julie Franklin
Turtle	Daisuke Gōri	Unknown	Christopher R. Sabat
Crocodile	Masaharu Satō	Unknown	Unknown
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. In addition, Robotoriyama has a single speaking line, but is uncredited. He may have been voiced by Isamu Tanonaka, the voice of the character in Dr. Slump, but this is unconfirmed.

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
• Director (Storyboard): Kazuhisa Takenōchi
• Animation Supervisor: Masayuki Uchiyama
• Art Director: Tadanao Tsuji

• Key Animation: Tai'ichirō Ohara, Yoriko Shirosu, 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 3: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-35	Taking along Umigame	I17†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:2(a)
K-29	Spying on the travelers	I21	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:8(d)
K-24	Title Card	C3		Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-36	The Kuma Mercenary	I20†		Daizenshuu 2:2(b)
K-37	Goku fights fearlessly	I19†	D Minor	Daizenshuu 2:13(d)
K-3	This isn't Penguin Village	H3		Daizenshuu 2:7(c)
K-38	Arrival at the sea	M10†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:7(a)
K-27	Pilaf's daydream	K-27		Daizenshuu 2:5(b)
K-30	The Pilaf Gang sets out	I22	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:2(d)
K-39	Enter the Turtle Hermit	J17-B†	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:6(b)
K-40	Goku can ride Kinto'un!	K-40†		Unreleased
K-12	Eyecatch A	C2B-2	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-11	Eyecatch B	C4	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-41	Pilaf spots Kame Island	G13†		Daizenshuu 2:5(c)
K-42	Running up to the door	K-42†	A˚7	Unreleased
K-43	Goku's test run of Kinto'un	K-43†	F Major
K-44	The Turtle Hermit's Dragon Ball	K-44†	C+
K-45	Back to the capsule house	K-45†	F Major
K-46	Pilaf at Kame House	K-46†	F Minor
K-47	Dash into the plane!	K-47†	F Major
K-22	The sinking plane	K-22
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.

Items

• Hoi Poi Capsules
  • Bulma continues to ride her "Kawasaki" motorcycle from the previous episode.
  • Capsule #1 house
• Nyoi-bō
• Dragon Balls
  • One-Star Ball (still in Pilaf's Castle)
  • Three-Star Ball (being worn by the Turtle Hermit). He discovered it at the bottom of the ocean approximately 100 years ago, circa Age 649.
• Kinto'un

Setting

• September 2, Age 749
  • Bulma, Goku, and Turtle have trekked 120 km to the coastline since the previous episode. Because Bulma is still wearing hie nightshirt from the previous episode, it is implied to be later the same day. They fight the bear bandit 2 km from the beach and then walk the remaining distance.
  • Kame House, the first appearance in the series
  • The capsule house/campsite near Dragon Valley

Variations

• When Umigame promises to return with a reward for Goku, Bulma wonders if he will not bring a tamatebako. Clyde Mandelin replaces this with Pandora's Box in his subtitles for Funimation, and in the Funimation dub, Bulma says, "What kind of gift could a turtle have, huh?"

Tidbits

This episode makes infrequent use of onscreen text and word bubbles, a practice that would be abandoned as the series progressed.

• Goku uses his first named attack of the series, the Jan-Ken (rock, paper, scissors attack) while defending himself from the bear bandit.
• Robotoriyama makes his first cameo appearance of the series on the beach where Goku and Bulma deliver Turtle. He remarks that he is not in Penguin Village, a reference to the Dr. Slump manga and anime where Robotoriyama made more frequent cameo appearances.
• This episode includes a reference to Urashima Tarō, a popular Japanese folk tale where a young man rescues a turtle and receives a reward. Urashima rides the turtle's back to a palace under the sea where he is entertained by a princess. When he leaves, she gives him a box (玉手箱 tamatebako, "jeweled hand box") and warns him never to open it. When Urashima returns home, many years have passed and everyone he knows is gone. He opens the tamatebako, and in a puff of smoke, he becomes an old man. (Akira Toriyama simply makes the old man into the turtle's reward.)
  • The Turtle Hermit briefly sings a folk song version of this story while approaching the beach. The song, also titled 浦島太郎 (Urashima Tarō) was first published in 1911 and was written by an anonymous author.
• Bulma channels her inner Arale by drawing a picture of poop in the sand while she waits for the Turtle's return.
• This episode includes the first appearance of the Turtle Hermit, Kinto'un, and Kame House.

Background Text

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  A mortified Bulma is surrounded by the phrase ノーパンだった (nopan datta, English: "no panties") after showing off more than she intended to the Turtle Hermit.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Episode 3