Dragon Ball Z Episode 170
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| The Relaxation of the Fighters... The Girl, The Lie, and Gohan's Decision | |||
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| Air Date | 13 January 1993 (Fuji TV) | ||
| Opening | CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA | ||
| Eyecatch | 1st Eyecatch | ||
| Ending | Come Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power! | ||
| Episode Data | |||
| Chapters | None (Filler Episode) | ||
| TV Rating | 19.9% | ||
| Format | 4:3 (NTSC) | ||
| Main Staff Credits | |||
| Scenario | Katsuyuki Sumisawa | ||
| Art | Tomoko Yoshida | ||
| Animation | Masahiro Shimanuki | ||
| Director | Hiroki Shibata | ||
| FUNimation English Dub | |||
| Title | A Girl Named Lime | ||
| Air Date | 16 November 2000 (Cartoon Network) | ||
"The Relaxation of the Fighters... The Girl, The Lie, and Gohan's Decision" is the one hundred and seventieth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Z. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 13 January 1993, receiving a ratings share of 19.9%. It was written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa and directed by Hiroki Shibata.
Synopsis
After going out to shop in Chazke Village Gohan meets the girl Lime, whose parents were killed by Cell, and the elderly Lao, who opposes Bourbon, the man who runs the village. Taking money from the villagers to construct a shelter dome from Cell, Bourbon plots to charge a high entry fee to refugees from the big city! The dome is soon finished, and as Lao battles with Bourbon's henchmen, Bourbon's bodyguard Tao Pai-pai appears. However, Tao Pai-pai abandons his job when he learns that Gohan is Goku's child. Gohan destroys the dome, since it can't defend against Cell.
Summary
Part A
Somewhere in the wilderness, a young girl climbs a tree branch over rushing rapids to collect a single fruit from the end of the branch. The branch snaps under her weight, sending her to the waters below. She struggles and cries out for help. Just before she is swept under the rapids, Son Gohan flies down and rescues her. While carrying her to land, Gohan brushes the young woman's breast-- she screams and calls him a pervert and runs off, much to his confusion. Gohan continues his flight; he is searching for village where he can shop for some supplies, but the first five that he has come across are already abandoned thanks to Cell. He doesn't feel comfortable stealing, even from an abandoned shop.
He arrives at the sixth, Chazke Village a town that resembles the American Old West with a mysterious building on the outskirts. Gohan finds an open shop, but it is being robbed by some thugs who claim to be "Bourbon's men". The tell the shopkeeper that if he cooperates, he may be given access to the "shelter dome" erected outside of town, but the shopkeeper is dismissive and does not believe the dome will do anyone any good. The local people are being forced to build the dome by Bourbon and his men. Gohan arrives and asks to buy some seasoning; the thugs insist that there isn't any, but the owner is happy to sell him some. In retaliation, the thugs begin to trash the store. Before they can do much damage, a voice rings out from outside, "Cell is here!" The men panic and run to the shelter, leaving Gohan and the shopkeeper alone. The alarm is being raised by Lime, the girl that Gohan rescued at the river, but it was all a ruse to chase the thugs out of the shop.
Some time later, Gohan is with Lime and the shopkeeper at his house at the edge of the village. Gohan can see the shelter dome and learns that several hundred people from the village and nearby cities are inside already. The residents believe they are safe because Cell attacked this town once already and he does not, according to the rumor, attack the same place twice. Imperfect Cell had attacked the village several days before, while he was powering up in preparation to fight the androids. Lime's parents had been killed in the attack. The shopkeeper does not believe anyone will be able to win the Cell Games in eight more days and he hopes to just live out the remaining days in peace. Gohan offers to help the old man chop firewood, throwing it up in the air to break it much like his father did as a child, but he is distracted at the last moment and the logs clunk him on the head. Lime offers him an axe to use instead. Gohan chops the wood with the axe, seeming to exert no effort at all to do it. The old man stands amazed.
Back at his house, Son Goku is resting while Kuririn looks on impatiently. He asks if it is okay that Goku is resting when there is so little time left.
Inside the dome, some thugs are threatening the inhabitants who are carrying boxes of supplies into the dome. One cracks a whip to keep them moving. In a nearby room, Bourbon yells at the two thugs from the store for running away from such an easy ruse. His plan is to survive Cell's attack in the shelter dome then emerge as a powerful and wealthy man. Tao Pai-pai arrives and complains of being bored; he needs someone to kill. He offers to kill anyone Bourbon wants for 50 million zeni, but he refuses saying that he will have plenty of people to kill soon.
Part B
On God's Temple, Future Trunks, Tenshinhan, and Vegeta are waiting for Piccolo to emerge from the Room of Spirit and Time. Inside the room, Piccolo is struggling with his training and hallucinates Perfect Cell taunting him for his inferiority. Piccolo powers up and creates a doppelgänger to fight, battling until both are exhausted and the clone disappears.
Back at the village, the shopkeeper is looking for the seasonings for Gohan but suddenly realizes that he and Lime have snuck off, after Gohan chopped a gigantic pile of firewood for them both. The pair are snacking on some apples and enjoying the company of animals in the forest. Lime sees that Gohan has a peaceful demeanor and believes that he doesn't fight, unlike her grandfather. He used to be a martial arts master and even fought in a Tenka’ichi Budōkai. Nearby, they hear the sound of fireworks going off and believe that is the signal that the shelter dome is complete. They go and watch as Bourbon stands on a pedestal as hundreds of people, some flying in on airliners, wait to enter the facility. While he is talking, Lime calls out that Cell is coming once again and the assembled population begin to panic and stampede the building. Bourbon climbs over everyone and orders the doors closed, leaving the people outside to be killed by "Cell". The people scream to be allowed in, but the thugs from the store discover Gohan and Lime hiding in the bushes. As the people complain that they paid money to be allowed in, Bourbon shouts over a loud speaker from inside that it is just too bad. When he learns that it was just Lime playing a trick on all of them, he opens the doors again.
Bourbon yells at Lime for playing her trick, but Gohan interrupts and says that she is not the only one in the wrong. As Gohan claims that the shelter will not protect them from Cell, Bourbon calls on his men to shut the boy up. Before they can attack, Lime's grandfather comes and easily defeats the thugs. Bourbon calls out Tao Pai-pai to kill the old man and they fight. It seems an even match at first, but Tao Pai-pai draws the first blood with his knife-hand and is able to outmatch the old man. Even so, he calls out to Gohan not to attack. Gohan wonders if he knows who he is. Tao Pai-pai prepares to finish the old man off with a super dodon-pa, but Gohan is able to run in and absorb the blast. Tao pai-pai thinks he recognizes the kid and asks his name. When Gohan replies that he is Son Goku's son, Tao Pai-pai flashes back to his defeat at Korin Tower. He announces that he is quitting and flies off on a tree. Bourbon, in a panic, asks Gohan for protection from the crowd. Gohan instead fires a single ki blast that destroys the whole shelter. He claims that if someone of his level could destroy the shelter so easily, it would not stand a chance against Cell. Gohan announces to the crowd not to worry: someone will defeat Cell in eight days. Goku flies in looking for Gohan. Chi-Chi is furious that he never returned from his shopping trip, but Lime and her grandfather have gathered all of his supplies for him already. The old man tells Goku that he knows that he and Gohan have unusual power and that they should visit again.
As Goku and Gohan fly home, Cell stands alone at the Cell Games tournament grounds waiting for his challengers.
Cast
The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast.
| Character | Cast | |
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| Son Goku | Masako Nozawa | Sean Schemmel |
| Son Gohan | Stephanie Nadolny | |
| Piccolo | Toshio Furukawa | Christopher R. Sabat |
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Sonny Strait |
| Vegeta | Ryō Horikawa | Christopher R. Sabat |
| Cell | Norio Wakamoto | Dameon Clarke |
| Tao Pai-pai | Yukimasa Kishino | Kent Williams |
| Lao Chu | Masaharu Satō | Unknown |
| Lime | Yuka Koyama | Kara Edwards |
| Bourbon | Hirohiko Kakegawa | Unknown |
| Hoodlum A | Hiroyuki Satō | Unknown |
| Hoodlum B | Bin Shimada | Unknown |
| Narration | Jōji Yanami | Kyle Hebert |
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: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
- Director (Storyboard): Hiroki Shibata
- Animation Supervisor: Masahiro Shimanuki
- Art Director: Tomoko Yoshida
- Key Animation: Seigasha, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Yōko Iizuka, Masako Misumi, Kazuya Hisada, Naoki Tate
- Special Effects: Yukari Hashimoto
- Assistant Director: Akihiko Yamaguchi
- Production Progression: Kazumi Fujioka
Items
Setting
- Chazke Village and the nearby wilderness
- Bourbon's shelter dome
- Lime's house
- Goku's House at Mount Paozu
- Karin Holy Land (flashback only)
Variations
Notes
Production
- The building of the shelter dome and the status of the village is difficult to reconcile against the series timeline. By this point, it is only six days since Cell first surfaced in public and two since his announcement of the Cell Games. Cell's attack on the village must have happened sometime within those four days and the shelter dome built immediately after. Although Bourbon used near-slave labor from the village to complete the job quickly, it is difficult to fit the idea, subjugation of the population, and completion of the dome within four days. Bourbon may have used an existing structure or a capsule-building as a base, but this is not revealed in the episode itself. Other aspects of the episode also suggest a longer timeline including Lime's peace with her parents' deaths, the superstition that Cell only attacks a town once, and the implication that Lao Chu has been at odds with Bourbon's gang for some time.
Tidbits
- This is Tao Pai-pai's first appearance since Dragon Ball Episode 136. He retains his cyborg design from that previous appearance.
- Including the movies, this is Piccolo's 150th episode appearance. He is the eighth character to reach that milestone (after Goku, Bulma, the Turtle Hermit, Yamcha, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, and Gohan).
- Characters who look just like Sherman Priest and the grandmother from Aru Village can be seen in the crowd near the the shelter dome.
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