Dragon Ball Super Episode 104

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A Faster-Than-Light Battle Begins! Goku and Hit’s Joint Front!!
Japanese English
超絶光速バトル勃発！悟空とヒットの共同戦線！！ Chōzetsu Kōsoku Batoru Boppatsu! Gokū to Hitto no Kyōdō Sensen!!
Air Date	20 August 2017 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Limit-Break x Survivor
Ending	Far Away
Episode Data
TV Rating	5.0%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshio Yoshitaka
Art	Sei'ichiro Sugiura Shinji Saito
Animation	Chihiro Tanaka Hiroyuki Itai
Storyboard	Katsuhiko Nishijima
Director	Takao Iwai
Toei Simulcast Subs
Title	The Ultimate High Speed Battle Begins! Goku and Hit Join Forces!!
Simulcast	19 August 2017 (US)
FUNimation English Dub
Title	A Transcendent Light-Speed Battle Erupts! Goku and Hit's United Front!!
Air Date	30 March 2019 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	A Transcendent Light-Speed Battle Erupts! Goku and Hit's United Front!!
Subtitles	Steven J Simmons
Sub Debut	Dragon Ball Super Part 8
Release Date	02 July 2019

"A Faster-Than-Light Battle Begins! Goku and Hit’s Joint Front!!" is the one hundred and fourth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 20 August 2017, receiving a ratings share of 5.0%. It was written by Toshio Yoshitaka and directed by Takao Iwai.

Synopsis

Contestants continue to be eliminated in the Tournament of Power! Thanks to the efforts of Universe 7's Son Gohan, Universe 10's warriors are wiped out. Universe 10 is annihilated. At that time in the arena, a battle begins between two of the mightiest warriors, Universe 6's Hit and Universe 11's Dispo. Hit is forced into a hard fight. Dispo blocks Hit's movements with bullets of light, and one-sidedly pummels him. Dispo claims he can counter Hit's "Time Skip", but Goku appears there and a fierce battle unfolds! Goku becomes Super Saiyan God and stands before Dispo, saying his body is throbbing. He helps out Hit, who's at a disadvantage against Universe 11...?!

Summary

The Pride Trooper Dispo introduces himself to Hit, declaring that he's come to beat Hit's Time Skip for the sake of his universe. On the sidelines, Caulifla reassures Kale that there's no need for them to help Hit out; he's sure to beat the tar out of his opponent. Yet when they square off, Dispo manages to land a solid blow to Hit's face. Champa is alarmed, but he writes it off as a fluke. He notices that Dispo resembles Beerus, but objects when Vados points out this means Champa looks like him too, claiming that his face is far more "fashionable" than theirs.

Dispo is impressed that Hit has still managed to keep his cool after that first attack, but Hit's confidence displeases him. They go at it again, and Dispo lands a second attack. Champa is now panicking over Dispo's speed, and asks Vados if she could see Dispo's attack. While Vados could, it was too fast for the two Omni-Kings, so the Great Priest helpfully explains how their GodPads allow them to watch slowed-down replay footage of the match.

Observing the fight, Toppo brags that Dispo is battle-hardened to the point that he's now faster than sound and light. Baffled, to Hit it appears as if Dispo is using Time Skip against him. But it doesn't take him long to figure out the truth: Dispo attacks at incredible speed immediately before he can use his Time Skip. In fact, Dispo explains that he can momentarily move thousands of times faster than normal, although this still leaves unanswered how he knows exactly when Hit is about to use Time Skip.

For their next round, Hit doesn't even try to guard against Dispo's attack, which lands the same as before. Now though, Hit has figured out that Dispo is listening for the sound his muscles make as they tense up before he uses Time Skip. Champa figures they should make lots of noise to drown out the sound of Hit's muscles, but Vados points out that Dispo can probably pick out different frequencies to distinguish his target sound from any background noise.

Hit abandons trying to use Time Skip and engages Dispo in hand-to-hand combat instead. While it looks like Hit's getting pummeled, Toppo can tell that he's actually adjusting to Dispo's speed and dodging to avoid any critical damage. This suggests Hit's letting the attacks land on purpose, which may mean he's plotting some sort of trap. Toppo therefore orders the Pride Trooper Kunsi to go help Dispo out, while Jiren continues watching the fight in silence.

As Hit continues to be knocked around by Dispo, he is at last pushed right up to the edge of the arena. Dispo closes in for the finishing blow, but passes straight through Hit as if he were a hologram (the same dimension-hopping technique he used in his rematch with Goku), and ends up falling out of the arena himself. Just as it looks like Dispo is finished, Kunsi steps in and saves him with his energy ropes (being made from his own energy, these don't violate tournament rules against using weapons).

• DBS 104 Preview Images
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Dispo and Kunsi now team up against Hit, but when it looks like he's had it, Goku joins the fight…in Super Saiyan God form. Using this form means that Goku is faster than in his regular Super Saiyan form, but can still conserve his stamina better than with Super Saiyan Blue. While Hit objects that Dispo is his prey, Goku is itching to fight someone so strong, and dares Hit to stop him. Goku goes off to fight Dispo, while Hit is literally roped into fighting Kunsi.

Though Dispo moves too fast for Goku to even have time to teleport, Goku soon figures out that he tends to move in a straight line. This means that as long as Goku times things right, he can counter Dispo by temporarily transforming into Super Saiyan Blue to maximize his power and speed. Meanwhile, Kunsi covers the ground around himself with landmine-like energy ropes to prevent Hit from approaching, but Hit simply attacks Kunsi from afar using the same shockwave-like attack he used against Goku during their rematch.

When Goku and Dispo's fight happens to bring them close to Hit and Kunsi, Hit insists that he and Goku trade partners. Going after Dispo again, this time Hit manages to successfully attack him by first making the same noise as when he does Time Skip, then using another attack to catch him off-guard. For his part, Goku handles Kunsi by going Super Saiyan Blue and going right over all his landmine ropes, whose explosions fail to harm him. He counters Kunsi's energy blasts and gets in close to mercilessly attack him.

Hit's tactics continue to confuse Dispo, who can now no longer tell if he's about to use his Time Skip for real or is only pretending. Even this sort of momentary hesitation makes all the difference in so fast a battle. With Dispo beaten to a pulp, Hit gives him the ultimatum of jumping out of the arena himself or being thrown out. Dispo refuses to surrender, but Kunsi again saves him from a ring-out. He tells Dispo to retreat and recover, and plans to cover Dispo's escape by taking Hit down with him. However, Hit doesn't waste much time knocking Kunsi out of the arena.

Now Universe 11 is down to only three warriors, but with two of them being Toppo and Jiren, their Kaiōshin Cae isn't too worried. Dispo vows vengeance in the name of justice, but Toppo says that they should drop the hero act; here there is no good or evil, only survival. Hit decides to pay back Goku's help by letting him go without fighting him. Goku is still determined to defeat Dispo himself, and vows to finally settle the score with Hit if they both can survive to the end of the tournament.

35 minutes remain in the Tournament of Power.

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 (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Seán Schemmel
Kaiōshin	Shin'ichirō Ōta	Kent Williams
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
Omni-King	Satomi Kōrogi	Sarah Wiedenheft
Great Priest	Masaya Takatsuka	Josh Grelle
Cae	Taishi Murata	Aaron Roberts
Champa	Mitsuo Iwata	Jason Liebrecht
Vermoud	Masami Kikuchi	Markus Lloyd
Vados	Yuriko Yamaguchi	Caitlin Glass
Markarita	Ai Sasaki	Jamie Marchi
Hit	Kazuhiro Yamaji	Matthew Mercer
Caulifla	Yuka Komatsu	Elizabeth Maxwell
Kale	Yukana	Dawn Bennett
Jiren	Eiji Hanawa	Patrick Seitz
Toppo	Kenji Nomura	Ray Hurd
Dispo	Bin Shimada	Christopher Dontrell Piper
Narration	Naoki Tatsuta	Doc Morgan
Kunsi		Chris Long
Obni		Randy Pearlman

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: Toshio Yoshitaka
• Storyboard: Katsuhiko Nishijima
• Director: Takao Iwai
• Animation Supervisor: Chihiro Tanaka, Hiroyuki Itai
• Art Director: Sei'ichiro Sugiura, Shinji Saito

• Key Animation: Hitoshi Inaba, Atsushi Nikaidō, Nobuyoshi Sasakado, Hiroyuki Itai, Yong-ce Tu, Miyako Tsuji, Miyuki Yokoyama, A-Line, Toei Animation Philippines
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Kana Shinohara
• Assistant Production Manager: Katsunori Kobayashi

Music

Main article: Dragon Ball Super Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this episode. The background music is composed by Norihito Sumitomo, and our in-house catalogue numbers apply to tracks composed or arranged by him. The opening song "Limit-Break × Survivor" is performed by Kiyoshi Hikawa, and the ending song "Far Away" is performed by LACCO TOWER.

^†First usage in the Dragon Ball franchise.

Dragon Ball Super Episode 104: Norihito Sumitomo Original Soundtrack
Catalogue	Scene	Title	Tonality	Release
OP	Opening	Limit-Break × Survivor (TV Size)	B Minor	DBS 2.1 #01
S-401	Recap	CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA (Days of Battle)	B♭ Major	DBS 1.1 #34
S-515	Episode Title Card	Sub-Title (Limit-Break × Survivor)	A Minor	Unreleased
S-267	Dyspo challenges Hit	Unsettled City	D Minor	Kai TFC #26
S-463	Champa and Beerus assess Dyspo	Mysterious Alien #1	C Minor	DBS 1.2 #08
S-529	Champa panics; Vermoud laughs	Shady Scheme	D Minor	DBS 2.2 #01
S-222	Dyspo gloats	S-222	D♭ Major	Unreleased (Kai)
S-251	Hit attacks	Reviving Majin Buu	B Minor	Kai TFC #28
S-549	Hit's trap	A Fearsome Foe†	C Minor	DBS 2.2 #19
S-517	Eyecatch A	Eyecatch A (Limit-Break × Survivor)		Unreleased
S-518	Eyecatch B	Eyecatch B (Limit-Break × Survivor)	B Minor
S-243	Kunsi saves Dyspo	S-243	A Minor	Unreleased (Kai)
S-427	Hit vs Dyspo	A Tough Battle	G Minor	DBS 1.1 #06
S-435	Goku cuts in	The Birth of a God	E Major	DBS 1.1 #30
S-527	Goku attacks Dyspo	The Wall Before One's Eyes	G Minor	DBS 2.1 #28
S-550	Hit vs Dyspo; Goku vs Kunsi	The Power to Resist†	F Minor	DBS 2.2 #20
S-452	Hit closes in	The Terror of Freeza's Army	F♯ Minor	DBS 1.2 #09
S-550	Toppo's speech; Goku's challenge	Universe 7 in Trouble†	A Minor	DBS 2.1 #25
ED	Ending	Far Away (TV Size)	E Major	Theme Songs #11
S-519	Next Episode Preview	Limit-Break x Survivor (Preview)	B Minor	DBS 2.2 #16

Production

FujiTV preview image, before post-processing. See the final preview images above for the finished version of this same frame with the trademark flame aura.

This episode marks the first return of Super Saiyan God in the anime since Goku's ritual time ran out in Dragon Ball Super Episode 13. The form had already returned in Chapter 13 of the manga, and even Vegeta had used it in Chapter 22, but many fans questioned whether the form would ever return in the anime, which led to a lot of skepticism when that month's Animage summaries were leaked on 06 August 2017.

Universe 11's Dispo battles Universe 6's Hit. Dispo blocks Hit's movements with bullets of light, and one-sidedly pummels him. Seeing this, Goku becomes Super Saiyan God and stands before Dispo, saying his body is throbbing.
— Episode 104 summary, Animage (September 2017)

Fans on Twitter questioned Toshio Yoshitaka, who was known to have written the episode, but even after his confirmation that it was not an error, some still doubted whether he understood the question. A fan hacked the preview image for Episode 104 from the FujiTV website on 10 August 2017, and even then, the lack of the trademark flame aura led some to believe that it was fake, or that this would be a special variation on the God form. These doubts and questions were finally resolved in the Next Episode Preview following the broadcast of Dragon Ball Super Episode 103 on 13 August 2017.

Both Goku and Vegeta use the Super Saiyan God form in Dragon Ball Super: Broly. According to Shueisha Dragon Ball Room director Akio Iyoku, the initial movie ideas were pitched to Akira Toriyama in the spring of 2017, with the first draft scenario being completed in May. Producer Norihiro Hayashida stated that the scenario was delivered to Toei for production in June 2017. Based on what we know about the production schedule of Dragon Ball Super at this time—that is, an absolute minimum of three to four months from script to broadcast—it is likely that Episode 104 had already been written by the time it was decided to use the Super Saiyan God form in Broly.

Availability

This episode has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both streaming and physical formats. "Simulcast" streaming services (even Funimation) use the Toei Animation subtitles rather than the Funimation subtitles by Steven J. Simmons, while digital purchase platforms use the Simmons subtitles that are provided on the Funimation DVDs and Blu-rays.

Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were to Funimation's streaming service a few weeks after the dub broadcast, and to AnimeLab around the time of the Madman home video release. Simulcast dates reflect regional time zones.

Japan

• Dragon Ball Super Box 9 Blu-ray (Toei) 06 January 2018
• Toei Channel On-Demand

North America

• Dragon Ball Super Part 8 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation) 02 July 2019
• Crunchyroll Simulcast (multi-region, sub only) 19 August 2017
• Funimation Now Simulcast (sub or dub) 19 August 2017
• VRV Simulcast (sub only) 19 August 2017
• Adult Swim On-Demand (dub only)
• Digital purchase (Simmons subtitles)
  • Amazon (dub and sub sold separately)
  • Microsoft (dub and sub sold separately)
  • Google Play (dub)

United Kingdom

• Dragon Ball Super Part 8 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation-MangaUK) 28 October 2019
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 20 August 2017

Australia and New Zealand

• Dragon Ball Super Part 8 (Funimation-Madman) 04 September 2019
• Dragon Ball Super Collection 2 (Madman) 09 October 2019
• AnimeLab Streaming (sub or dub) 20 August 2017
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 20 August 2017
• Digital purchase: iTunes (dub)

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Super Episode 104