Episode Information

Episode Summary

As Beerus and Whis head toward North Kaiō’s planet, Kaiō is desperate to prevent Goku from meeting Beerus. He suggests Goku leave to attend Bulma’s birthday party, but Goku is only interested in training and wonders why Kaiō is suddenly acting so suspicious. Meanwhile, Bulma’s friends and family are enjoying themselves on her luxurious cruise ship. Bulma is upset that Goku and Vegeta are not there, and gets even more annoyed when Kuririn asks about her age. No. 18 is obsessed with the extravagant bingo tournament prizes, which include a plane and even a castle. She is determined to get second place! Below deck, Goten and Trunks run through the ship’s kitchen and come to the enormous room where the tournament prizes are being stored. Goten is amazed at the prizes, but Trunks goes on to show him the secret top prize, which is protected by a high-tech security system of Bulma’s own invention. Goten is amazed at how impenetrable it is, but Trunks simply unplugs the security system, revealing the Dragon Balls.

On a small desert island, Pilaf is fishing while Shuu and Mai dig for buried treasure. Despite the clear instructions of the treasure map they obtained, they have had no success, and their boat is likewise in poor condition. Bulma’s cruise ship happens to be nearing Pilaf’s island, and with the security system deactivated by Trunks, the Dragon Balls suddenly appear as blips on Pilaf’s Dragon Radar, right as Pilaf gets a big fish on the line. In his excitement and confusion he drops the radar into the sea, then loses the fish, too. Trunks reactivates the security system, so by the time Pilaf manages to retrieve the radar, it no longer detects the Dragon Balls. Shuu and Mai think Pilaf was simply imagining things, but he insists they set out for the approaching cruise ship. Their rickety boat begins filling with water halfway there, and to make matters worse, a shark suddenly attacks. The trio manage to grab on to the side of the cruise ship and hang on for dear life, before Goten and Trunks notice them and toss a rope ladder their way. Now on board the ship, Pilaf keeps quiet about his search for the Dragon Balls, and even turns down any offer of food despite the trio’s extreme hunger, but he finally succumbs before too long and they all eat happily.

At Capsule Corp., Vegeta continues his training in the gravity chamber, where now even 150 times gravity provides him little challenge. The gravity suddenly reverts to normal as a secretary comes in to inform him that he has a message from Bulma. Vegeta is still uninterested in the party, and so Bulma chews him out over the phone. Back on Kaiō’s planet, Kaiō repaints his damaged house, while Goku fires a Kamehameha which quickly circles around the planet and comes straight back at him. He successfully blocks his own Kamehameha, but the impact causes Kaiō’s house to collapse. Exasperated, Kaiō says that this endless obsession with getting stronger is precisely why Goku can’t be allowed to meet Beerus. Goku’s curious: who’s Beerus? Having accidentally let it slip, Kaiō has no choice but to explain: though Beerus governs destruction and is therefore necessary to maintain the balance of the universe, he is fickle and destroys whatever annoys him. Kaiō hastily hides Goku inside his house, but it is too late. Whis and Beerus arrive on his planet in a puff of smoke!

Episode Notes

• At the end of the previous episode, Whis says it will take about 26 minutes to reach North Kaiō’s planet, which Beerus complains is long enough to watch a regular anime episode. Whether intentional or not, when Beerus and Whis finally arrive at North Kaiō’s planet at the end of this episode, it has actually taken them an entire episode of Dragon Ball Super to do so.

Staff & Cast Notes

• The episode’s script was written by Makoto Koyama, son of veteran Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z series composer and script writer Takao Koyama. His only previous involvement with the Dragon Ball franchise was providing the script for the 2011 “Episode of Bardock” feature.

Episode Credits

All credits listed below are as originally presented in the episode. The credit structure used in Dragon Ball Super is actually quite simple; the staff involved with the production of the series as a whole are listed in the opening credits and the staff involved with this specific episode are listed in the ending credits. All original credit errors have been corrected to maintain accurate spellings throughout the site. For more information and a complete listing of the series staff, visit the Production Guide.

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