Dragon Ball Episode 12

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The Wish to Shenlong
Japanese English
神龍への願い Shenron e no Negai
Air Date	14 May 1986 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch	1st Eyecatch
Ending	I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters	Dragon Ball Chapter 20 Dragon Ball Chapter 21
TV Rating	24.0%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshiki Inoue
Art	Yūji Ikeda
Animation	Yukio Ebisawa
Storyboard	Toshihiko Arisako
Director	Yoshihiro Ueda
FUNimation English Dub
Title	A Wish to the Eternal Dragon
Air Date	25 November 1995 (BLT) 04 September 2001 (redub)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	The Wish to Shen Long
Subtitles	Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut	The Saga of Goku (Australia) Dragon Ball Season One (US)
Release Date	10 March 2004 (Australia) 15 September 2009 (US)

"The Wish to Shenlong" is the twelfth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 14 May 1986, receiving a ratings share of 24.0%. The episode was written by Toshiki Inoue and directed by Yoshihiro Ueda.

Synopsis

Shenlong finally appears! With his sights set on world domination, Pilaf tries to speak his wish!! But because Oolong said "give me a girl's panties!" one moment sooner, his wish was the one that ended up being granted! Having granted the wish, Shenlong returns again to the Dragon Balls, and they scatter to the four winds. Enraged, Pilaf imprisons Goku and the others in a room covered in fortified glass and iron plates, intending to kill them with the sun's hot rays, but...?!

Summary

Prologue

Pilaf summons Shenlong. Yamcha and Bulma encourage Pu'er and Oolong to hurry, while Goku jumps up and down, too short to see through the hole that he blasted with his Kamehameha. The world is in grave danger!

Part A

Pu'er and Oolong hold on to each other as Shenlong appears. They were too late to steal the Dragon Balls. Yamcha and Bulma think it is all over, while Goku begs them to let him see what is going on. Pilaf celebrates the arrival of this moment, fantasizing about world domination while Shenlong forms in the sky. Eventually, Shenlong descends to ask Pilaf if he is the one who summoned him. Pilaf confirms this, and Shenlong asks him for his wish. Meanwhile, Oolong and Pu'er have returned to their normal forms; they gape at Shenlong in fear, while Shuu and Mai do the same near Pilaf. Yamcha curses their fate, to be ruled over by Pilaf; Bulma is frustrated that they worked so hard, only for it to come to this. Oolong tells Pu'er they should take this opportunity to get away, and Pu'er agrees.

Oolong's wish to Shenlong is granted.

Pilaf struggles to tell Shenlong his wish. With Yamcha and Bulma distracted by their gloom, Goku finally gets to climb the wall and get a look at Shenlong, who he thinks is huge. Pilaf still cannot seem to get the words out. Goku tries another Kamehameha, but it does not do anything; he is so hungry that he has no strength left. Then he remembers how bad he wants to meet the Dragon, so he gets up his nerve to try again. Shenlong is getting impatient with Pilaf, who is still tongue-tied, and Oolong and Pu'er are still frozen in place. But Oolong gets an idea: he just needs to say something before Pilaf does. As Oolong rushes toward Shenlong, Pilaf manages to get out the words "I wish for world..." but Oolong beats him, asking for a girl's panties. Everyone gapes, including Goku and the gang who have now escaped their prison thanks to the last Kamehameha. Then a shooting star crosses the sky, and a pair of panties falls on Oolong's upturned face. Yamcha cheers, and Bulma remarks that Oolong's perverted nature finally proved useful.

Pilaf is incensed. Shenlong bids them farewell, and disappears. The Dragon Balls scatter across the sky one by one. Goku notices this, and Bulma explains that they always scatter after a wish is granted. Goku realizes that means his Grandpa's Dragon Ball is gone, too. Oolong has fixed the panties over his head with his ears through the leg holes; he is still celebrating his victory when Pilaf orders Mai and Shuu to go after him. Oolong runs, Mai and Shuu on his tail, and then Pilaf notices that the others have also escaped, so he orders them captured as well. Mai opens fire on them; Bulma and Yamcha run, but Goku is hungry and out of strength, so Yamcha goes back for him, reminding him that hunger will not matter if he is dead.

Goku looks at a dog and only sees dinner.

On the ground, Mai tells Shuu they are trying to escape using the castle wall, so Shuu offers to call his dogs. He whistles, and in the kennels, the dogs come to life. Pu'er tells Oolong they should wait for Yamcha and the others, but Oolong thinks they should get away, and worry about rescuing them later. Pu'er doubts Oolong's sincerity, but at that moment, the dogs burst out of the ground right next to them. Oolong tells Pu'er to run. The others run through the castle, Yamcha dragging Goku along. Bulma worries they will encounter more traps, but Yamcha tells her they cannot just jump down from the walls. Dogs drop out of the ceiling in front of them; this was exactly what Bulma feared. Yamcha tries to rouse Goku, but Goku only complains about being hungry, so Yamcha tosses him to the dogs. The gamble works: all Goku can see is food! He attacks his would-be dinner with enthusiasm, and Yamcha joins in with his Rōga Fū-Fū Ken. Oolong and Pu'er barely manage to stay ahead of their dogs, but Goku and Yamcha manage to dispense with most of theirs, and they all run for the exit, with more dogs on their tail.

Part B

Yamcha and Goku continue to attack dogs within the castle, this time in a dining hall. Outside, Pu'er and Oolong continue to run from their dogs, and then they somehow fall inside the castle. Back in the dining hall, Goku tries to use Nyoi-bō to propel them upward to a window, but they cannot get close enough, and they all fall over. Meanwhile, Oolong and Pu'er decide to transform into birds to get out of the castle, but then Bulma, Yamcha, and Goku fall on top of them. Yamcha gets up and tries to get Goku up as well, since the dogs are coming, but Goku has gone back to complaining about his hunger. Just then, Mai and Shuu drop in and hold Bulma hostage, while Pilaf laughs from above.

Goku fails to break the glass ceiling.

Goku and the others are locked in a cell again, this time with walls reinforced with steel. Goku thinks the ceiling is open, but Bulma tells him it is tempered glass. He thinks he can break it with his head, but when he jumps up and tries, he only manages to injure himself. Yamcha reminds everyone that if they do not get out, they will be killed, and they can forget about gathering the Dragon Balls again. Bulma tells them it will be a while before they can collect them, anyway. They will be stones for another year, undetectable by the Dragon Radar. Yamcha cannot believe he will have to be afraid of girls for a whole year longer.

Pilaf's house of cards.

There is no television screen in this cell, but Pilaf's voice comes through a loudspeaker. For interfering with his quest for world domination, he has decided to put all of them to death, slowly. When the sun rises, the tempered glass ceiling combined with the afternoon sun will turn their cell into a toaster oven and cook them. He tells them he is looking forward to tomorrow. Bulma did not bring any suntan oil and worries what this will do to her skin; Oolong reminds her that she is actually going to die. Bulma wails that she is too young to become a mummy; Oolong wails that he does not want to be roast pig; Yamcha whines about his dream of getting married; Pu'er needs to pee; Goku is hungry. Pilaf tells them that this is what they deserve. Yamcha tries punching the walls to no avail; Goku tries another Kamehameha, but nothing works. Pilaf boasts that the steel walls are 300 millimeters thick, and even a cannon could not crack the tempered glass ceiling. Yamcha realizes it is hopeless, and Pilaf boasts again that only death awaits those who get in his way. Pilaf builds a house of cards, and tells Mai and Shuu it is time for bed. The sun tomorrow will be hot, a billion times hotter than his coffee, which he pours on the house of cards, destroying it.

Pu'er looks at the full moon.

In the cell, Goku wakes up from a nap and looks at his morose companions. Oolong says they are going to die in here. Bulma says she hates dying. Oolong tells her everyone hates dying. Then he looks up, and notices Pu'er has flown up to the glass ceiling. He asks Pu'er what he is doing up there, and Pu'er says he is looking at the moon. Oolong wonders how Pu'er can think of something so carefree at a time like this, and Pu'er explains that it is a beautiful full moon, and he just wants to look at something pretty before he dies. Oolong warns Pu'er not to say things like that; it is bad luck.

Then Goku remembers something: there is a really big monster that comes out on nights when there is a full moon! Bulma laughs at him, and asks him if it is a werewolf. Then she tells him to stop wasting time saying stupid things and think of a way to escape. Goku insists he is not lying; this monster killed his Grandpa! It stepped on him and flattened him. Yamcha cannot believe that the great martial artist could die like this; that must be a strong monster! Goku says it destroyed their house, and a lot of trees too! Oolong asks what the monster looks like, but Goku says he is always asleep when it comes, so he does not know. Oolong wants to know how Goku slept through his house being destroyed, but Goku does not know. He remembers that his Grandpa always used to tell him not to look at the full moon. All at once, the others realize the truth. Goku goes on: he does not understand what him looking at the moon could have to do with anything, but he wonders if that monster will show up here, too, since the moon is full. Goku's friends cower as far away from him as they can get, and Goku asks them what is wrong. Bulma asks him if he looked at the full moon on the night his Grandpa died, and Goku confirms that he accidentally looked at it when he went outside to pee. Goku's friends are terrified, and Yamcha says he always knew Goku was not an ordinary boy. Bulma tries to convince herself that it was just a coincidence.

Great Ape Goku shatters the glass ceiling.

Goku asks them what they are talking about, and Oolong says they should test it. They will know for sure if he looks at the full moon. But Bulma thinks that, if by some chance it really is true, they will all be in danger. Oolong admits this is true, and Yamcha is relieved they prevented this danger. They cannot let him look at the moon! Bulma tells Goku not to look at the moon, pointing at it, and he turns around to look, realizing his mistake too late. Oolong asks him if he feels funny, and he turns back around, asking what Oolong means. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief, and Bulma says she told them there was no way it was true. But then, something snaps in Goku's head. His stare becomes vacant. His heart beats louder. His body begins to grow larger. His clothes rip to shreds, and fangs grow. He transforms into a Great Ape, breaking the glass ceiling of the cell. Pilaf's Castle rumbles, disturbing the Pilaf Gang's sleep. Shuu and Mai sit up, wondering what is going on and why they are making so much noise. Goku breaks completely through and begins destroying the castle. Even the writer is frightened out of his wits! What will happen?! He does not know!

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
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Jim Conrad	Brice Armstrong
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Ted Cole	Christopher R. Sabat
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Alec Willows	Brad Jackson
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe	Cathy Weseluck	Monika Antonelli
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Don Brown	Chuck Huber
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Doug Parker	Chris Cason
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Teryl Rothery	Julie Franklin
Shenlong	Kenji Utsumi	Doug Parker	Christopher R. Sabat

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.

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: Toshiki Inoue
• Storyboard: Toshihiko Arisako
• Director: Yoshihiro Ueda
• Animation Supervisor: Yukio Ebisawa
• Art Director: Yūji Ikeda

• Key Animation: Yukio Ebisawa, Mari Tominaga, Satoru Kusuda
• 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 12: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
OP	Opening	Mystical Adventure (TV Size)	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:1
K-76	Events re-animated	K-76		Unreleased
K-100	Shenlong Appears Title Card	J6	E˚7	Daizenshuu 2:11(a)
K-101	Pilaf's daydream	M18†	D Minor	Daizenshuu 2:15(a)
K-98	The daydream continues	M13	Skewed	Daizenshuu 2:14(b)
K-82	All looks hopeless	K-82	F˚	Unreleased
K-102	Oolong's special panties	K-102†	F Major
K-103	Pilaf's revenge	K-103†	F Minor
K-77	The dogs answer Shuu's call	K-77	C ♯˚7
K-78	Goku gets it together	K-78	F Minor
K-13	Eyecatch A	C2B-2	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12	Eyecatch B	C4	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-99	The great escape	K-99	F Minor	Unreleased
K-41	Bulma held hostage	G13	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:5(c)
K-63	Pilaf's slow-cooker	K-63		Daizenshuu 2:6(c)
K-28	Despair	G12		Daizenshuu 2:13(c)
K-104	Pu'er admires the moon	K-104†	F Major	Unreleased
K-93	Everyone suspects Goku	K-93	F Minor
K-88	Goku transforms	K-88
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 12