Dragon Ball Episode 54

Run Away, Run Away!! The Great Escape
	Japanese English
逃げろや逃げろ！！大脱出; Nigero ya Nigero!! Dai-Dasshutsu
逃げろや逃げろ！！大脱出; Nigero ya Nigero!! Dai-Dasshutsu
Air Date	11 March 1987 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	2nd Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 79 (3-End); Dragon Ball Chapter 80 (1-5)
TV Rating	21.7%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Keiji Terui
Art	Shigenori Takada
Animation	Masayuki Uchiyama
Director	Kazuhisa Takeno'uchi
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Escape From Pirate Cave
Air Date	21 October 2002 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	Run! Run! The Great Escape
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	General Blue Saga
Release Date	23 September 2003
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"Run Away, Run Away!! The Great Escape" is the fifty-fourth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 11 March 1987, receiving a ratings share of 21.7%. It was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Kazuhisa Takeno'uchi.

Synopsis

Just as the cave is about to collapse, Goku appears at the sea-bottom dock!! He has with him the mouse he owes his life to. Bulma launches the submarine, but it runs out of gas and stops. The sea-bottom canal is collapsing! Goku's Kamehameha pushes the submarine to safety!! They return to Kame House with a pirate diamond. However, Blue has tenaciously survived, and follows them!! What's more, Lunch takes the diamond and leaves after changing into her violent form.

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast.

Character	Cast
Character	Japanese	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Stephanie Nadolny
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Laurie Steele
Lunch	Mami Koyama	Meredith McCoy
Turtle Hermit	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Commander Red	Kenji Utsumi	Josh Martin
General Blue	Toshio Furukawa	Sonny Strait
Assistant Black	Masaharu Satō	Christopher R. Sabat
Kame (Turtle)	Daisuke Gōri	Christopher R. Sabat
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Brice Armstrong

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 Takeno'uchi
Animation Supervisor: Masayuki Uchiyama
Art Director: Shigenori Takada

Key Animation: Akio Katada, Tai'ichirō Ohara, Yasuhiro Kinda, Naotoshi Shida
Special Effects: Hiro Yamamoto
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.^[1]

**^† First usage in *Dragon Ball*.**
Dragon Ball Episode 54: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-55	Recap: staring down the barrel	G9		Daizenshuu 2:8(c)
K-133	Recap: escape from the cave	M118		Daizenshuu 2:17(b)
K-24	Title Card	C3		Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-149	Waiting for Goku?	M107		Daizenshuu 2:20(a)
K-83	Goku makes it out	A10		Daizenshuu 2:3(d)
K-82	Taking the sub down	K-82	E˚⁷	Unreleased
K-99	The minisub is pummeled	K-99	F Minor	Unreleased
K-57	Escape tunnel?	I18		Daizenshuu 2:2(c)
K-98	Kamehameha	M13		Daizenshuu 2:14(b)
K-75	On the island	K-75	F Major	Unreleased
K-110	Kuririn regrets the treasure	K-110	F Major	Unreleased
K-13	Eyecatch A	C2B-2	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-144	Blue swims	K-144	C Minor	Unreleased
K-38	Flying to Kame House	M10	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:7(a)
K-144	A Blue execution	K-144	C Minor	Unreleased
K-39	Kame House	J17-B^[a]	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:6(b)
U-306	The Turtle Hermit's Drama CD	U-306^†	G Minor	Unreleased
K-93	Blonde Lunch demands the diamond	K-93	F Minor
K-304	Blue searches for Kame House	K-304	C Minor
K-137	Blue jumps	M109	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:18(b)
K-124	Blue prepares to attack	K-124	F Minor	Unreleased
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 54

Notelist

↑ J17-B is sped up from the usual 74 BPM to about 96 BPM. The pitch is unaffected.

References

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

[2] J17-B is sped up from the usual 74 BPM to about 96 BPM. The pitch is unaffected.

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

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