Goku's Traffic Safety

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Goku's Traffic Safety
悟空の交通安全 Gokū no Kōtsū Anzen
Premiere Date	June 1988
Running Time	14 minutes 45 seconds
Main Staff Credits
Art	Toshiaki Marumori
Animation	Masayuki Uchiyama
Director	Mitsuo Hashimoto
Production	Toei Animation

Goku's Traffic Safety is the second of two educational shorts produced based on the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball. This short may have aired in schools or on television, although the first wide release may have been the Dragon Box DVD release in 2004. The short was written by Keiji Terui and directed by Mitsuo Hashimoto. This short does not fit into established continuity but appears to take place sometime after the Red Ribbon Army arc.

Summary

It's Bulma's birthday and Goku is on his way from Mount Paozu to West City for her party! Heading out of the mountains he runs into some trouble with a tiger, but after some persuasion he gets the tiger to give him some directions (only Goku would leave to the city without actually knowing where he's going). Goku leaves the tiger in a predicament (hanging over a canyon), and proceeds to leap into the ocean, swimming his way towards Bulma's house. Meanwhile, already in West City, Kuririn and the Turtle Hermit are also having trouble making their way to Capsule Corp Headquarters. They duck into an alley to check their directions, and as they're debating which way to go, a young boy playing with a remote control car can almost gets hit by a truck! The truck driver curses out the kid and a policewoman runs over to see that everybody's all right. The policewoman explains to the boy that you should always look left and right before entering onto the street, and judging by the skid marks left behind the truck, she also scolds the driver for speeding. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity, Kuririn asks the officer how to get to Bulma's house.

At Capsule Corp., Oolong is preparing the food as Bulma sits at the kitchen table and dictates to him what he should be doing. Just as they begin to get into a tiff, the doorbell rings as Yamcha and Pu'er have arrived. Meanwhile, Goku has finally gotten out of the ocean and is now running through the farmlands and into the outskirts of the city. He arrives at a major highway and sees Sno trying to hitch a ride on the other side of the road. Goku tries asking if he's arrived in West City yet, but Sno is having trouble hearing him, so Goku just goes ahead and runs across the highway almost causing a major accident. The horrified Sno explains to him that you should always check left and right before crossing the road and only cross busy streets at crosswalks. Goku doesn't seem very interested and reiterates that he's looking for West City, and Sno tells him that she's also headed to West City.

Back at Capsule Corp., Kuririn and the Turtle Hermit arrive and find that Yamcha has also been recruited into cooking. Meanwhile, Goku and Sno begin walking through the fields towards the city, as Sno explains that she's meeting with her relatives, and Goku explains that he's attending a birthday party. Sno realizes that Goku doesn't even have a gift for his friend, so once they get into the city Sno tries directing Goku to a department store. Completely ignoring what Sno had taught him about traffic safety, Goku runs right out into the street again, almost getting hit by a car. The policewoman from earlier sees all this and comes over to explain that you can only cross in the city when the walk signals are blue. Goku begins to cross, but the officer stops him again, explaining that once the light begins to flash it means that it's about to turn red and you shouldn't start to cross. Goku is still uninterested, but the officer explains that the rules must be obeyed for everybody's safety. Goku finally seems to understand!

Back at Capsule Corp., everybody's getting upset as they're waiting for Goku to arrive before they start eating dinner. Meanwhile, back in the city, Sno spots the people she was meeting and the young boy from their group runs across the street to greet her. As he's running across the street he is about to get hit by a car, but Goku manages to save him with the Nyoi-Bō. Once again the policewoman shows up, and Goku asks her how to get to Bulma's house. Finally arriving at Bulma's house, Goku is stuffing his face much to the dismay of everybody else. Goku tries to lighten the mood by asking if they know all the traffic rules, which sets everybody off into a big brawl! Goku and the Turtle Hermit address us directly (talking to the screen), and make sure that we understand the importance of the traffic rules. They then all chase Goku into the street and the Policewoman blows her whistle and everyone salutes! The traffic safety parody of "Mystical Adventure!" begins to play!

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese short. 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
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa
Turtle Hermit	Kōhei Miyauchi
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya
Pu'er	Naoko Watanabe
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta
Policewoman	Mami Koyama
Sno	Naoko Watanabe

Main Staff

The following list provides the main staff responsible for the production of this short as credited in its respective ending credits.

• Planning: Haruki Asakawa
• Script: Keiji Terui
• Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
• Photography: Motoaki Ikenoue
• Art Director: Toshiaki Marumori
• Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
• Animation: Masayuki Uchiyama

Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this special. 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 The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant.

^† First usage in Dragon Ball.

"Goku's Traffic Safety": Shunsuke Kikuchi OST
Catalogue	Scene	Catalogue/Title	Tonality	Releases
K-5	Toei logo	B2-B	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:4(a)
K-48	Title Card	K-48	F Minor	Unreleased
K-33	Goku meets a tiger	A3		Daizenshuu 2:3(a)
K-89	The tiger attacks	K-89		Unreleased
K-58	Goku runs and swims	K-58	F Major
K-220	Bear threatens child	K-220	F Minor
K-45	Capsule Corporation	K-45	F Major
K-31	Goku swims and runs	A7	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:5(a)
K-111	Goku hops across the highway	I4	F Major	Daizenshuu 2:12(c)
K-45	Kuririn and the Turtle Hermit ring the doorbell	K-45		Unreleased
U-506	Traffic stop	U-506†
K-64	Bulma & co. wait for Goku	B3		Daizenshuu 2:4(e)
K-326	Goku eats	A11	F Minor	Daizenshuu 2:10(f)
ED	Ending	Mystical Adventure! (Nozawa-Tanaka)†		Unreleased

This special version of the OP "Mystical Adventure!", used here as the ED, is performed by Masako Nozawa and Mayumi Tanaka, the voices of Goku and Kuririn.

Tidbits

• This short was produced around episode 114 of the original anime. Although the anime featured Son Goku's adventures with a recently rejuvenated Demon King Piccolo, the short itself appears to have taken place much earlier in the series.
• The Policewoman may be an alternate version of Lunch as she uses her character model and voice actor. Namu also cameos.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Movie Guide - Traffic Safety Special