Dragon Ball Super Episode 44
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| The Seal of Planet Potaufeu — Secret of the Unleashed "Superhuman Water"! | |||
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| Air Date | 22 May 2016 (Fuji TV) | ||
| Opening | Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic! | ||
| Eyecatch |
Part A: Goku Part B: Vegeta | ||
| Ending | Forever Dreaming | ||
| Episode Data | |||
| TV Rating | 5.2% | ||
| Format | 16:9 (NTSC) | ||
| Main Staff Credits | |||
| Scenario | Yoshifumi Fukushima | ||
| Art |
Sei'ichiro Sugiura Shinji Saito | ||
| Animation |
Yūichi Karasawa Yui Kinoshita Tomoko Kusunoki | ||
| Director | Kazuya Karasawa | ||
| Toei Simulcast Subs | |||
| Title |
Planet Potaufeu's Seal. The Secret of the "Superhuman Water" Unleashed! | ||
| Simulcast | 26 November 2016 | ||
| FUNimation English Dub | |||
| Title |
The Seal of Planet Pot-au-feu—Secrets of the Unleashed Superhuman Water! | ||
| Air Date | 16 December, 2017 (Toonami) | ||
| FUNimation English Subs | |||
| Title |
The Seal of Planet Pot-au-feu--Secrets of the Unleashed Superhuman Water! | ||
| Subtitles | Steven J Simmons | ||
| Sub Debut | Dragon Ball Super Part 4 | ||
| Release Date | 19 June 2018 | ||
"The Seal of Planet Potaufeu — Secret of the Unleashed 'Superhuman Water'!" is the forty-fourth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 22 May 2016. It was written by Yoshifumi Fukushima and directed by Kazuya Karasawa.
Synopsis
Summary
On a far off world, a strange panda-like man is practicing kung-fu when a group of aliens arrive. "So, you've come at last."
On Earth, Monaka's delivery spaceship arrives at Capsule Corporation. It turns out Bulma has ordered more of the space sweets Jaco brought to the victory party. She thanks Monaka, and asks if he could help her out with her latest experiment since no one else is around. Monaka is hesitant, saying he still needs to make a delivery to Planet Potaufeu, but Bulma assures him this will not take long. While Monaka is inside helping with Bulma's incomprehensible experiment, Trunks and Goten return from an outing and spot Monaka's ship. Seeing that Monaka is not around and has even left the cargo hold open, the two go inside and check out the packages Monaka is delivering.
Trunks's eyes immediately go to a sword, while Goten messes around with a doll that quickly inflates to an enormous size. Trunks uses his sword to deflate the doll, but in the confusion the cargo hold door closes. Trunks considers simply smashing their way out, but figures it would not be good of them to break Monaka's ship, so the two decide to wait it out. Unfortunately, when Monaka does return, he immediately takes off into space without even checking the cargo hold. Goten and Trunks yell for help, but he cannot hear them from the driver's seat.
Flying through space, Monaka listens to a radio DJ announcing the start of the 13th Galactic Pants Conference, where the galaxy's various pant makers will attempt to create a unified galactic system of pants sizes. Next up, the DJ reads a letter from a listener whose pen name is "Grand Ponta", a space deliveryman who says how excited he gets when a package is labeled "Fragile: Handle with Care". Meanwhile in the cargo hold, Trunks and Goten are getting kind of cold...
Monaka finally arrives on Planet Potaufeu, and discovers the frozen boys in the cargo hold. As he helps them warm up again, he explains where they are, though Trunks has never heard of the planet before. The panda-like alien from before appears. It turns out he is an old friend of Monaka's named Potage, and Monaka has come to deliver him his copy of Space Martial Arts Monthly. While the two are getting caught up, the purple aliens from before appear, clearly looking for a fight.
Potage squares off against them, but while he is able to strike an impressive-looking fighting pose, he quickly proves no match. During the battle, the odd pacifier-like object Potage wears on a string around his neck falls on the ground, but he does not realize this at the time. Goten and Trunks step in and fend off the attackers, but as they retreat, their leader notices the pacifier lying on the ground.
Potage thanks them, and explains that those aliens were evildoers who had come to steal the planet's "dormant power", which it is his duty to protect. He reaches for the pacifier hanging from his neck, discovering at last it is no longer there. Panicked, he asks the others to help him find it again. Monaka passed out while watching the fight, so they leave him behind. Looking around, they fail to find the pacifier, at which point the lead evildoer and his men appear and reveal that they have it. Even worse, they have taken Monaka hostage!
Trunks and co. allow themselves to be tied up. It turns out that the "planet's dormant power" which the evildoers are after is the so-called "Superhuman Water", said to multiply one's power hundreds of times. The pacifier is the key to unsealing this water, which lies inside some nearby ruins. However, Potage claims that the Superhuman Water does not actually exist, and that they will simply be "swallowed up" if they undo the seal. Unmoved, the leader uses the pacifier to unlock the seal... but screams at what he finds inside.
Back on Earth, Bulma has discovered via Capsule Corporation's security cameras that Trunks and Goten went off in Monaka's ship, and asks Jaco to go bring them back. Remembering how Monaka mentioned he still had a delivery to make to Planet Potaufeu, she figures that they must be there. However, Jaco says that Potaufeu should be uninhabited, and besides, he is much too busy to bother with this right now. He is on the trail of the villainous Sautéan Gryll, a wanted criminal. Jaco holds up a picture of Gryll, who is clearly the leader of the gang attacking Planet Potaufeu.
Bulma blackmails Jaco into helping her by threatening to reveal how Jaco defaced a photo of the Galactic King, something that could get him fired. She also insists Vegeta go, and the two take off. Bulma next calls Chi-Chi to inform her of the situation, and Chi-Chi regrets that Goku is off training with Kaiō at a time like this. On Kaiō's planet we see that Goku is indeed training hard; in fact, he says his power is back to normal. Kaiō says that since Goku's ki disorder is healed, he should go train at Beerus's planet rather than here, but Goku says that Whis has apparently gone off somewhere, leaving him unable to travel to Beerus's.
On Planet Potaufeu, Trunks and the others are fleeing from Gryll and his men. Vegeta and Jaco arrive in the nick of time. Jaco recognizes Gryll, while Vegeta makes short work of Gryll's henchmen, who strangely dissolve into a purple liquid. Vegeta prepares to face off against Gryll himself, but the liquid mass the henchmen have become engulfs him, then spits him back out. Vegeta realizes that he has lost his power, while the liquid mass reforms into a copy of Vegeta...
Episode Notes
- Planet Potaufeu's name (ポトフ星; potofu-sei) is taken directly from "pot-au-feu", a French beef stew.
- Potage shares his name with a type of French soup (ポタージュ potāju).
- The Sautéans (ソテー人 sotē-jin) get their name directly from the French sauté (ソテー sotē), a method of cooking food.
- Gryll's name (グリール guriiru) is likely taken from the word "grill" (グリル guriru). Jaco even refers to him as the Sautéan Gryll, a clear pun on "sauté grill".
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.
Copy-Vegeta is voiced by Masakazu Morita, the voice of Whis. Morita's first Dragon Ball role, however, was Tarble, Vegeta's younger brother. In the Funimation English dub, Copy-Vegeta is voiced by Brian Drummond, the first English voice of Vegeta. He was replaced by Christopher Sabat when Funimation replaced the Ocean Studios cast with their own, in-house cast.
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: Yoshifumi Fukushima
- Director: Kazuya Karasawa
- Animation Supervisor: Yūichi Karasawa, Yui Kinoshita, Tomoko Kusunoki
- Art Director: Sei'ichiro Sugiura, Shinji Saito
- Key Animation: Yūichi Karasawa, Kazuhiko Abe, Mika Kimura, Masahiko Maruyama, Shunsuke Matsuo, Mai Fujiwara, Yong-ce Tu, Satsuki Aizu, Yōko Yasuda, Chiori Matsuda, Kenji Fukazawa, Rika Kan'no, Yasuko Chiba, Hiroshi Hariki, Yuki Tsugihashi, Hiroaki Ikeda, Aki Yamauchi, Kei'ichi Sugiura, Taka'aki Aritsubo, Mayumi Funakoshi, Yasunori Matsuki, Akane Imada
- Makiko Hayase, Shōko Muroyama, Nozomi Sakamoto, Miki Nonaka, Yūri Kajiwara, Sae Kawasaki, Kanako Baba, Maiko Ōnishi, Arisa Shima, Ayaka Nozaki, Hiroaki Takagi, Kyōsuke Matsui, Kanari Yamada, Takanori Yamamoto, Yukina Iwai, Shinobi Chikada, Ryōun Tsuchiya, Yukino Nakaho, Kōhei Hashimoto, Kenatrō Fujihara
- Assistant Animation Supervisor: Chihiro Tanaka
- In-Between Animation, Digital Coloring: Toei Animation Philippines, Buyū, A-Line, Studio cj
- Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
- Assistant Director: Kazuya Karasawa
- Assistant Production Manager: Takeshi Sawamori
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 "Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic" is performed by Kazuya Yoshii, and the ending song "Forever Dreaming" is performed by Czecho No Republic.
| Dragon Ball Super Episode 44: Norihito Sumitomo Original Soundtrack | ||||
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| Catalogue | Scene | Title | Tonality | Release |
| OP | Opening | Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic! (TV Size) | D Major | DBS 1.1 #01 |
| S-401 | Recap | CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA (Days of Battle) | B♭ Major | DBS 1.1 #34 |
| S-402 | Episode Title Card | Sub-Title (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!) | D Major | DBS 1.1 #40 |
| S-444 | Potage trains on Potaufeu | Inescapable Fear | A Minor | DBS 1.2 #10 |
| S-403 | Special delivery at Capsule Corp. | Under the Blue Sky | C Major | DBS 1.1 #18 |
| S-458 | Goten and Trunks return | Pleasant Days | DBS 1.2 #01 | |
| S-468 | Radio Galaxy | Believe in Yourself†[a] | A Major | DBS 1.1 #03 |
| S-440 | Potage and Monaka reunite | Mysterious Alien #2 | C Minor | DBS 1.2 #29 |
| S-412 | Potage squares up | Where's Goku?! | D Major | DBS 1.1 #17 |
| S-454 | The Superhuman Water | Regret | G Minor | DBS 1.2 #19 |
| S-409 | Eyecatch A | Eyecatch A (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!) | D Major | DBS 1.1 #38 |
| S-410 | Eyecatch B | Eyecatch B (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!) | DBS 1.1 #39 | |
| S-459 | Galactic King doodle | Here's Jaco! | F Major | DBS 1.2 #25 |
| S-434 | Pursuit on Potaufeu | A Strong Enemy Appears | A Minor | DBS 1.1 #05 |
| S-427 | Vegeta is attacked | A Tough Battle | G Minor | DBS 1.1 #06 |
| ED | Ending | Forever Dreaming (TV Size) | D♭ Major | Theme Songs #05 |
| S-416 | Next Episode Preview | Preview B (Toward Tomorrow) | A Major | DBS 1.1 #36 |
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. Simulcast dates reflect regional time zones.
Japan
- Dragon Ball Super Box 4 Blu-ray (Toei) 04 October 2016
- Toei Channel On-Demand
North America
Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were added to Funimation's streaming service a few weeks after the Toonami broadcast.
- Dragon Ball Super Part 4 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation) 19 June 2018
- Crunchyroll Simulcast (multi-region, sub only) 26 November 2016
- Funimation Now Simulcast (sub or dub) 26 November 2016
- VRV Simulcast (sub only) 30 March 2017
- Adult Swim On-Demand (dub only)
- Digital purchase (Simmons subtitles)
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom was originally covered by the now-defunct Daisuki streaming service until Crunchyroll added the UK to their Dragon Ball Super coverage area on 30 May 2017.
- Dragon Ball Super Part 4 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation-MangaUK) 06 August 2018
- Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 27 November 2016
Australia and New Zealand
Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were added to AnimeLab's streaming service around the time of the Madman home video release.
- Dragon Ball Super Part 4 (Funimation-Madman) 15 August 2018
- Dragon Ball Super Collection 1 (Madman) 05 December 2018
- AnimeLab Streaming (sub or dub) 27 November 2016
- Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 27 November 2016
- Digital purchase: iTunes (dub)
External Links
Notes
- ↑ The "Preview C" cut of "Believe In Yourself" is used in Dragon Ball Super Episode 1, but this is the first time the main track is used.
References
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