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Showdown! Arale vs Blue
Japanese
Dragon Ball Episode 57 (Japanese)
English
Dragon Ball Episode 57 (English)
対決!アラレVSブルー
Taiketsu! Arare Tai Burū
Air Date 08 April 1987 (Fuji TV)
Opening Mystical Adventure!
Eyecatch 2nd Eyecatch
Ending I'll Give You Romance
Episode Data
Chapters Dragon Ball Chapter 83
TV Rating 24.0%
Format 4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario Keiji Terui
Art Tatsuo Yamamoto
Animation Minoru Maeda
Director Minoru Okazaki
FUNimation English Dub
Title Arale vs. Blue
Air Date 24 October 2002 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title A Face-off! Arale vs. Blue
Subtitles Clyde Mandelin
Sub Debut General Blue Saga
Release Date 23 September 2003
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"Showdown! Arale vs Blue" is the fifty-seventh episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 08 April 1987, receiving a ratings share of 24.0%. It was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Minoru Okazaki.

Synopsis

Dr. Senbe's eldest son Turbo-kun fixes the Dragon Radar. Blue then appears, takes Arale as a hostage, and steals the Dragon Radar, using his physic powers to immobilize Goku!! At this time, Arale uses amazing power to send Blue flying!! However, even though the Dragon Balls are returned, the Dragon Radar was sent flying along with Blue. Goku receives a newly made Dragon Radar from Turbo, and leaves Penguin Village behind.

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
Arale Norimaki Mami Koyama Meredith McCoy
General Blue Toshio Furukawa Sonny Strait
Narrator Jōji Yanami Brice Armstrong
Senbe Norimaki Kenji Utsumi
Midori Mariko Mukai Unknown
King Nikochan Hiroshi Ōtake Justin Cook
Follower Shigeru Chiba Unknown
Akane Kimidori Kazuko Sugiyama Laura Bailey
Suppaman Tesshō Genda Dameon Clarke

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 57: Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
First usage in Dragon Ball.
Catalogue Scene Catalogue/Title Tonality Releases
OP Opening Mystical Adventure
(TV Size)
F Minor Daizenshuu 2:1
K-302 Recap K-302 C Minor Unreleased
K-24 Title Card C3 F Minor Daizenshuu 2:14(a)
Dr-8 Senbe tinkers with the Dragon Radar Dr-8 C Major Unreleased
Dr-9 Alien scavengers Dr-9 C Minor
K-144 Blue approaches Senbe's house K-144 C Minor
K-16 Looking for the Dragon Ball G2 D Minor Daizenshuu 2:4(d)
Dr-10 Penguin Village Police Dr-10 F Major Unreleased
K-140 Blue hides K-140 F Minor
K-125 Blue holds Arale at knifepoint M114 C+ Daizenshuu 2:16(b)
K-139 Blue paralyzes Goku K-139 F Minor Unreleased
K-13 Eyecatch A C2B-2 F Minor Daizenshuu 2:19(e)
K-12 Eyecatch B C4 Daizenshuu 2:23(e)
K-124 Blue steals the radar K-124 Unreleased
K-144 Blue punches Goku K-144 C Minor
K-89 Blue tries to kill Goku K-89 F Minor
Dr-11 Arale attacks Dr-11 (Wai Wai World) D♭ Major
Dr-12 Arale chases Blue Dr-12 (Wai Wai World) C Major
Dr-13 Alien scavengers Dr-13 E Minor Slump Ongakushū #14(c)
Dr-14 The police attack the aliens Dr-14 D Minor Unreleased
K-80 Goku lost the Dragon Radar K-80 F Major
K-43 Goku leaves on Kinto'un K-43
K-19 Ending narration K-19
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. Two of the Dr. Slump tunes are variations on the anime's first opening song, "Wai Wai World".

External Links

References

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