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What Nobody Realized About The First Dragon Ball Episode
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Dragonball aired on TV for the first
time on February 10th 1986 what happened
next was a franchise that we redefine
anime and manga forever it all began
with Dragonball in the very first
episode where go qu meets Bulma fans
know the story well enough
Bulma meets a strange boy in the woods
and finds out he has one of the seven
dragonballs pretty simple right but what
if there are more Easter eggs that even
diehard fans missed well that's what
we're here for join as we look into what
some might have missed about the first
Dragonball episode
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for those unfamiliar with the first
episode let's bring you up to speed
Dragonball begins on Mount posy where go
ku lives alone away from the modern life
we're introduced by a narration to a
young boy who lives in the mountains
along with his grandpa this boy has
communed with nature and has attained
great strength through rigorous training
this young boy is Goku Goku begins his
day by collecting firewood
he throws a massive stump in the air and
with one powerful blow he breaks the
stump into pieces and they immediately
fall into a pile after he completes his
chores he looks for something to eat
after outrunning a saber-toothed tiger
he decides to use his tail to catch a
massive tuna for lunch he knocks it out
cold and drags it back to his home to
eat at the same time young Bulma is hot
on the trail of a dragon ball which Goku
is keeping as a memento from his grandpa
while Goku is walking with the giant
tuna he caught he's hit by Bulma driving
in her car on the country road Bulma
is shocked that she hit him and that
he's okay Goku ever the fighter mistakes
bulma's car for a giant beast anythings
Bulma is a goblin of some kind with his
super strength Goku manages to throw the
car onto its site totaling it Bulma
emerges and shoots Goku in retaliation
but oddly enough bullets don't affect
him our two heroes meet and after some
very rude poking and prodding Goku
determines that Bulma is not a threat
and leads her back to his house where he
and his grandpa live boma finds out that
Goku's grandpa is actually the 4-star
Dragonball Bulma explains to Goku what
Dragon Balls are and how she's on a
quest to collect them she shows that she
already has two and that there are seven
in total
Goku everdene ieave child thinks bulma's
to Dragon Balls are also grandpa's at
the same time we're introduced to
Emperor pilaf who is also after the
Dragonball is to take over the world
Bulma convinces Goku to accompany her in
order to search for the other Dragon
Balls
while Goku is reluctant to join Bulma it
would give Goku the opportunity to train
and become stronger along the way Bulma
is captured by a pterodactyl and we see
just how strong Goku really is taking
out the giant monster with one swing of
his power pole after Bulma is saved the
two head off to the west where the next
Dragon Ball is said to be
located according to bulma's dragon
radar it's the beginning of your
standard epic adventure our two heroes
go off on a quest towards some goal and
are met with an opposing force in order
to try and stop them however the first
episode of Dragon Ball has more to it
than you would think
while later franchises would not adopt
this kind of story line the entire pilaf
saga of Dragon Ball mirrored Journey to
the West a 16th century Ming era story
that tells the story of a Buddhist monk
who travels with a cast of mythical
figures in order to attain the original
Buddhist scriptures for his country one
of the figures aiding the Buddhist monk
Tripitaka is Sun Wukong The Monkey King
the similarities are pretty clear the
extending pole the tail the Nimbus cloud
Sam Goku was obviously inspired by Sun
Wukong while he would not get the Nimbus
cloud until later on in the anime
sangoku does have remarkable strength
combat skills and the extending power
pole even though his design is heavily
based on The Monkey King in the early
episodes Goku actually resembles another
character one from Japanese folklore
instead Kintaro Kintaro often referred
to as the Golden Boy is a figure from
Japanese folklore he's said to be a
child with superhuman strength and lives
in the mountains communing with nature
one of the things he's known for is
battling a giant carp in the river and
what do we see Goku doing in the first
episode he's kicking the crap out of a
giant carp for lunch also just like in
Journey to the West Balma requests
Goku's aid because Bulma simply cannot
defend herself against the many dangers
that lie ahead
she is also far from a Buddhist monk
offering Goku a peek under her skirt for
a chance to snag his Dragon Ball this is
a fun piece of trivia for the next anime
quiz bowl but you clicked on this video
for some really nitpicky stuff right so
why don't I get in the weeds and talk
about some of the differences between
the anime and the manga
okay so Dragon Ball was first published
September 19 1985 and the anime was
first released less than a year later in
1986 admittedly there are not a lot of
meaningful differences but we'll cover
them here in the beginning when Goku
punches the wooden stump for firewood in
the anime they fall neatly stacked in a
pile in the manga they're all scattered
about and Goku has to pick them up the
a wanted to embellish Goku skills a bit
I went over how Bulma hit Goku with her
car when they first met but in the manga
that actually never happened
Bulma stops in front of Goku this would
later be read conned in the episode true
colors of the masked man where there is
a flashback and it shows Bulma not
hitting Goku so which is it well you
could say that this is the Greedo shot
first the Dragon Ball finally in the
anime we're introduced to peel off in
his minions he's seen entering a tomb
and retrieving a Dragonball it's here
where one of his minions my explains the
lore of the Dragon Balls and how you
need all seven in order to summon
Shenron in the manga peel off and his
minions are not introduced until Goku
goes to peel offs castle in the manga
chapter the Dragon Balls are stolen on a
fun side note this would be our first
glimpse at the wish-granting dragon
Shenron however he would not be properly
introduced until the episode the penalty
is pinball while some edits are made to
liven things up in the anime oftentimes
things will be added to fill time the
pilaf introduction in the first anime
episode served that purpose but there
was an additional scene that was added
to fill the runtime there's a scene
where Goku is looking for food and eats
an apple in a tree he tosses the core
aside and it lands on the saber-toothed
tiger
this causes it to chase Goku around
until he dives into the river this
doesn't happen at all in the manga
however this is mirrored in Dragon Ball
Z when the same thing happens to Gohan
the contrast in their personalities is
apparent while Goku is jovial and
carefree Gohan was terrified and ran for
his life not quite like father like son
is it this may come as a surprise but
Dragon Ball is actually pretty old
almost 35 years old in fact so it would
make sense that there would be more than
one dub of the anime dubbing back then
was more or less an afterthought and
there weren't that many companies around
to dumb anime today we can expect a
large portion of American dubs to be
done by Funimation
there a common name in the anime
community but they were not always the
powerhouse dubbing studio they were
actually founded back in 1994 and got
the rights to dub Dragon Ball in 1995
back then Funimation simply did not have
the manpower they do now and couldn't
dub dragon ball on their own
so they joined with another company to
complete the dub Funimation partnered
with ocean group to create what is
commonly referred to as the BLT dubs BLT
was a production company responsible for
dubbing the first 13 episodes as well as
a few of the movies and specials since
they were responsible for dubbing the
first episode I'll be talking about BLT
a lot in the next segment as most of you
probably know dubbing an anime involves
a lot more than simply translating
Japanese to English and having English
voice actors replaced the Japanese ones
anyone who's watched for kids dubbed
anime can tell you that scenes are often
changed characters removed and
censorship is a plenty the BLT dubs did
plenty of that with the first episode
for starters Goku skinny dips when he
goes fishing for the giant carp as you
would naturally do if you lived alone on
a mountain and no one was around however
in the BLT dub they edited in underwear
for him while he's fishing and swimming
now while they will censor outright
nudity the good people at BLT will still
keep underwear in when Goku lifts a
Bulma skirt to see if she has a tail or
not normally her underwear is white with
pink dots but in the BLT dub they're
pink to match her skirt weird edit but
all right whatever you need to do in
these dubs often they'll slice in scenes
from future episodes and to exposition
scenes when my is explaining to peel-off
how the Dragon Balls work scenes from
the episode wish from the eternal dragon
are played additionally when Bulma is
explaining to Goku how dangerous their
journey will be Goku has a daydream and
clips from various episodes are shown
briefly scenes are pulled from the
Nimbus cloud of Roshi the Ox King on
Fire Mountain and the movie Dragon Ball
curse of the blood rubies what's even
stranger is that footage from the movie
doesn't even appear in the anime series
since it was a separate non canonical
film English dubs were notorious for
taking entire scenes out of anime this
was done to help localize the show to an
American audience or to appease the
standards and practices division Dragon
Ball was no exception the scene where
Bulma shoots Goku with a gun is
completely taken out of the BLT dub
additionally the scene where Bulma lifts
her skirt to offer Goku to touch her is
also completely removed which makes
sense if they want to market the show to
children
however they kept the scene of Goku
lifting a Bulma skirt so the message is
a little mixed there what will also
happen with dubs is they'll include
character dialog from characters the
anime hasn't even introduced yet in the
beginning when we were shown mount ponzu
we here grandpa Gohan's voice dubbed
over saying his last words before he
dies grandpa
Gohan wouldn't debut in the anime until
the mysterious fifth men sometimes the
opposite can happen in a dub too when a
character who talked no longer does in
the original Japanese dub the carp Goku
catches talks to him but in the English
dub he doesn't it's probably for the
best that potential meals don't talk
it makes things kind of awkward finally
a dub can sometimes make plot holes
within the story in the BLT dub Bulma
explains that she needs to get the seven
Dragon Balls before that crazy Emperor
does implying she already knows pilaf is
after the Dragon Balls however we see
that he gets his first dragon ball just
as Bulma and Goku are talking an odd
addition for sure especially since the
two groups don't know about one another
until they meet there would be more
edits and changes to the original
Japanese dub that BLT would do
subsequently they would not be the last
company to dub Dragon Ball either as
Funimation would also have their try at
it along with other production companies
throughout the world and those were just
some of the differences in little-known
easter eggs in the first episode of
Dragon Ball the number of things changed
in the BLT dub was surprising which
added surprised you the most
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