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Fear the Shining Eyes
Japanese
Dragon Ball Episode 53 (Japanese)
English
Dragon Ball Episode 53 (English)
恐怖の光る眼
Kyōfu no Hikaru Me
Air Date 04 March 1987 (Fuji TV)
Opening Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch 2nd Eyecatch
Ending I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters Dragon Ball Chapter 77 (12-End)
Dragon Ball Chapter 78
Dragon Ball Chapter 79 (1-2)
TV Rating 26.6%
Format 4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario Michiru Shimada
Art Tatsuo Yamamoto
Animation Mitsuo Shindō
Director Daisuke Nishio
FUNimation English Dub
Title Blue, Black and Blue
Air Date 15 March 2002 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title The Eyes that Sparkle with Terror
Subtitles Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut General Blue Saga
Release Date 23 September 2003
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"Fear the Shining Eyes" is the fifty-third episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 04 March 1987, receiving a ratings share of 26.6%. It was written by Michiru Shimada and directed by Daisuke Nishio.

Synopsis

Goku overwhelmingly dominates in his battle against Blue! Beaten about, Blue uses his psychic powers to paralyze Goku, and pulls out a rifle! Goku is in a pinch!! But Blue is surprised by a mouse that passes by, and his psychic powers are undone! Counterattacking, Goku KO's Blue!! Bulma and Kuririn try to escape in a pirate submarine, and Goku follows after them once he's found the Dragon Ball. The cave is about to collapse.

Cast

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

Character Cast
Japanese English (FUNimation)
Son Goku Masako Nozawa Stephanie Nadolny
General Blue Toshio Furukawa Sonny Strait
Bulma Hiromi Tsuru Tiffany Vollmer
Kuririn Mayumi Tanaka Laurie Steele
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.

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 53: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
* First usage in the Dragon Ball TV series.
Catalogue Scene Catalogue/Title Tonality Releases
OP Opening Mystical Adventure
(TV Size)
F Minor Daizenshuu 2:1
K-145 Recap: the key M119 F♯˚7 Daizenshuu 2:16(d)
K-304 Recap: Blue emerges K-304 C Minor Unreleased
K-124 Blue's telekinesis K-124 F Minor
K-24 Title Card C3 Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
K-78 The pirate cave collapses K-78 Unreleased
K-144 Blue threatens Goku K-144 C Minor
K-146 Blue vs Goku M108 Daizenshuu 2:17(a)
K-144 Blue's psychic powers K-144 Unreleased
K-125 Bulma frets M114 C+ Daizenshuu 2:16(b)
K-13 Eyecatch A C2B-2 F Minor Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12 Eyecatch B C4 Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-36 The statue crumbles I20 Daizenshuu 2:2(b)
K-29 Goku swims down I21 Daizenshuu 2:8(d)
K-133 Bulma and Kuririn run M118 Daizenshuu 2:17(b)
K-44 The Dragon Ball K-44 C+ Unreleased
K-88 Goku swims up for air K-88 F Minor Unreleased
K-116 Blue finds more treasure K-116 C Minor
K-129 Goku runs for the sub M121 F Minor Daizenshuu 2:23(c)
K-257 Ending narration M261* Daizenshuu 5:2(d)
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

References

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