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"Pilaf and His Minions" is track #12 on both the Dragon Ball Ongakushū and disc #2 of the Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z Daizenshuu BGM collection. It is a suite of three musical tracks composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi for the Dragon Ball anime.
Booklet Notes
These notes were included with the Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z Daizenshuu compact disc release.
Now then, the ones who appeared as the villains of early Dragon Ball were the Pilaf Gang. Pilaf, who is driven by his plot to become "King of the World", is collecting the Dragon Balls with his lackeys. Because of that, he gets entangled with Goku & co., and their relative incompetence means that they often end up as comic relief.
J5 is the theme of Pilaf's minions, Shuu and Mai, but in spite of them being an evil group bent on world domination, it ends up as a comical piece. Here, H11, which was also included in Track 9, "Strong Ambition", reappears, but this time we believe it was to give the image of Pilaf's palace in the middle of the desert; in fact, it was actually used in that sort of scene. Then lastly, it becomes a comedic chase with Goku & co.; the theme for this is I4.
It is unclear why they refer to K-53 as "H11"; it bears no real resemblance to H11. K-53 does have a companion track, though: K-120, a short unreleased track. Sometimes K-53 is referred to as "H11 version 2".
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