Dragon Ball Episode 48
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| General Blue Commences His Assault!! | |||
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| Air Date | 28 January 1987 (Fuji TV) | ||
| Opening | Mystical Adventure! | ||
| Eyecatch | 2nd Eyecatch | ||
| Insert Song | Red Ribbon Army | ||
| Ending | I'll Give You Romance | ||
| Episode Data | |||
| Chapters | Dragon Ball Chapter 72 (1-13) | ||
| TV Rating | 27.1% | ||
| Format | 4:3 (NTSC) | ||
| Main Staff Credits | |||
| Scenario | Toshiki Inoue | ||
| Art | Tatsuo Yamamoto | ||
| Animation | Tomekichi Takeuchi | ||
| Director | Yoshihiro Ueda | ||
| FUNimation English Dub | |||
| Title | Deep Blue Sea | ||
| Air Date | 08 March 2002 (Toonami) | ||
| FUNimation English Subs | |||
| Title | General Blue Begins Attacking!! | ||
| Subtitles | Clyde Mandelin | ||
| Sub Debut | General Blue Saga | ||
| Release Date | 23 September 2003 | ||
"General Blue Commences His Assault!!" is the forty-eighth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 28 January 1987, receiving a ratings share of 27.1%. It was written by Toshiki Inoue and directed by Yoshihiro Ueda.
Synopsis
In addition to his group pursuing Goku and the others, General Blue launches a detached group to attack Kame House. They believe that Kame-Sen'nin is the scientist who created the Dragon Radar. Going after the Dragon Ball which fell into the sea-bottom chasm, Goku and the others enter the cavity in the chasm from the other side, and discover a cave. General Blue's submarine then suddenly attacks! Bulma and Kuririn panic when they learn that the ones attacking them are the Red Ribbon Army!! Blue's submarine pursues Goku and the others as they flee into the cave!!
Cast
The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast.
| Character | Cast | |
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| Japanese | English (FUNimation) | |
| Son Goku | Masako Nozawa | Stephanie Nadolny |
| Bulma | Hiromi Tsuru | Tiffany Vollmer |
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Laurie Steele |
| Lunch | Mami Koyama | Meredith McCoy |
| Kame-Sen'nin | Kōhei Miyauchi | Mike McFarland |
| Commander Red | Kenji Utsumi | Josh Martin |
| General Blue | Toshio Furukawa | Sonny Strait |
| Assistant Black | Masaharu Satō | Christopher R. Sabat |
| Tiger | Ikuya Sawaki | Unknown |
| Dock | Kōzō Shioya | Unknown |
| 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: Toshiki Inoue
- Director (Storyboard): Yoshihiro Ueda
- Animation Supervisor: Tomekichi Takeuchi
- Art Director: Tatsuo Yamamoto
- Key Animation: Yōko Iizuka, Masahiro Shimanuki, Masako Misumi, Yoshiya Kibayashi
- Special Effects: Masayuki Nakajima
- 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.[1]
| Dragon Ball Episode 48: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST | ||||
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| Catalogue | Scene | Catalogue/Title | Tonality | Releases |
| OP | Opening | Mystical Adventure (TV Size) |
F Minor | Daizenshuu 2:1 |
| K-34 | Prologue | A9 | Daizenshuu 2:13(b) | |
| K-24 | Title Card | C3 | Daizenshuu 2:14(a) | |
| K-138 | Red Ribbon Headquarters | K-138 | Unreleased | |
| K-45 | Back at Kame House | K-45 | F Major | |
| K-44 | Lunch finds the Dragon Balls | K-44 | C+ | |
| K-144 | Blue spies | K-144 | C Minor | |
| K-16 | Under the sea | G2 | D Minor | Daizenshuu 2:4(d) |
| K-76 | The Dragon Ball is closer | K-76 | C Major | Unreleased |
| K-302 | Back at Blue's base | K-302 | C Minor | |
| K-146 | Scramble! | M108 | Daizenshuu 2:17(a) | |
| K-13 | Eyecatch A | C2B-2 | F Minor | Daizenshuu 2:19(e) |
| K-12 | Eyecatch B | C4 | Daizenshuu 2:23(e) | |
| K-63 | Searching for the Dragon Ball | K-63 | Daizenshuu 2:6(c) | |
| K-82 | Goku spots a crevice | K-82 | E˚7 | Unreleased |
| Insert | Blue's troops set out | Red Ribbon Army† | D Minor | Daizenshuu 1:11 |
| K-16 | Turtle Hermit comeuppance | G2 | Daizenshuu 2:4(d) | |
| K-142 | Red Ribbon sub encroaches | K-142 | F Minor | Unreleased |
| K-94 | Goku explains his Red Ribbon problem | K-94 | ||
| K-149 | Submarine chase | M107 | Daizenshuu 2:20(a) | |
| K-125 | Blue's mini-sub | M114 | C+ | Daizenshuu 2:16(b) |
| 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. The insert song "Red Ribbon Army" is performed by Wonderland Gang.
External Links
References
- ↑ "The DragonBall BGM Daizenshuu" (11 June 2008). The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant. Retrieved: 30 June 2019.
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