Ginyu Assault

Ginyu Assault
Japanese Name	ついに直ちょく接せつ対たい決けつ！！ギニュー隊たい長ちょうのおでましだ
Romaji name	Tsui ni Chokusetsu Taiketsu!! Ginyū Taichō no Odemashi da
Literal Name	At Last, a Direct Confrontation!! Captain Ginyu Takes the Field
Series
Saga	Captain Ginyu Saga
Episode #	68
Chapter counterpart	Jheese and Butta With Allies Like These... Ginyu Steps In
Japanese airdate	November 21, 1990
English airdate	September 13, 1999
Previous episode	A Legend Revealed
Next episode	Incredible Force!

"Ginyu Assault" (ついに直ちょく接せつ対たい決けつ！！ギニュー隊たい長ちょうのおでましだ, Tsui ni Chokusetsu Taiketsu!! Ginyū Taichō no Odemashi da, lit. "At Last, a Direct Confrontation!! Captain Ginyu Takes the Field") is the first episode of the Captain Ginyu Saga and the sixty-eighth overall episode in the uncut Dragon Ball Z series. This episode first aired in Japan on November 21, 1990. Its original American airdate was September 13, 1999.

Summary

Vegeta executes Burter

Burter can not believe that someone was faster than him. Engulfed in rage, Burter started to attack Goku head on. Jeice also enters the fight. This only leads to Goku slipping out of the way and Jeice ends up punching Burter in the mouth on accident, and Burter ends up kneeing Jeice in the stomach on accident. Then, Goku knocks out Burter with the Kaio-ken Finish. With that, Jeice leaves the scene in order to get his boss, Captain Ginyu.

Frieza's soldiers bury the Dragon Balls

Vegeta then kills Burter and Recoome with a couple of attacks, breaking Burter's neck and blasting Recoome. He then told Goku that he is too soft and that he should not give anyone compassion when on the battlefield. Goku refuses to accept his words.

Captain Ginyu wants to face Goku after Jeice alerts him of the threat

Vegeta also thought that Frieza had already made his wish for immortality. However, Krillin and Goku disagreed as firstly when you call upon the Dragon, large thunder, dark clouds and raging winds occur. Also, there is a password for summoning the Dragon that only the Nameks know.

Meanwhile, at Frieza's Spaceship, Jeice tells Captain Ginyu what happened. Captain Ginyu could not believe that his Ginyu Force could have been destroyed. Captain Ginyu then tells Jeice that if he wants his job back as part of the Ginyu force, he would first have to show the militants some Ginyu style and so they did. After that, they left for the battlefield. Goku and the others notice their incoming and when they arrive Captain Ginyu reads Goku's power level as only being 5,000 but realises that it isn't his true power. Goku tells Gohan and Krillin to use the Dragon Radar to find the abandoned Dragon Balls and asks for Vegeta's assistance in the battle against Captain Ginyu and Jeice but Vegeta leaves Goku behind as Captain Ginyu goes in on the attack.

Major Events

• Burter is defeated by Goku.
• Burter and Recoome are killed by Vegeta.

Battles

• Goku vs. Burter and Jeice

Appearances

Characters Goku Gohan Krillin Vegeta Bulma Frieza

Captain Ginyu Jeice Burter Recoome Grand Elder Guru Dende

Locations

• Namek

Objects

• Scouter
• Battle Armor
• Namekian Dragon Ball
• Frieza's Spaceship
• Frieza's Hover Pod

Bruce Faulconer Tracks

• "The Saga Continues" - Prologue and Title Card
• "Call Out the Dragon" - When Captain Ginyu prods the Namekian Dragon Balls (remastered version).
• "Ginyu Force Theme" - When Captain Ginyu and Jeice head back to Goku and the others.

Differences from the manga

• In the anime, Frieza's soldiers continue to try out for a spot in the Ginyu Force with Captain Ginyu ordering them to dig up and hide the Dragon Balls. In the manga, the soldiers are not present in the scene and Captain Ginyu orders Jeice to hide the Dragon Balls instead.
• Bulma wondering whether Goku has arrived on Namek yet and if he may have forgotten about her is exclusive to the anime.

Trivia

• The characters' voices change, as Funimation takes over vocal production. Even after FUNimation redubbed the earlier episodes, and parts of this episode years later, several voices are different.
• In the original version of the dub, Christopher Sabat attempts to imitate Brian Drummond's raspy performance as Vegeta, due to the dub picking up from the original Saban dub. Over the next few episodes this slowly wanes until Vegeta's voice becomes much deeper in pitch. In the remastered version, Sabat's lines are re-recorded to be consistent with his recognized Vegeta voice.
• For their release of the Captain Ginyu Saga, Funimation did not include recaps or even the lone next episode preview that are usually found on their individual discs. This is because episodes 54-56 aired in a slightly edited form on Toonami to make up for the place at which episode 53 had been edited to stop. To make up for this, Funimation created new recaps for half of the Captain Ginyu Saga until the footage began to sync up to the Japanese version by episode 57. Therefore, the recaps seen in the TV version of episodes 54-56 are different from the recaps seen on later DVD and Blu-ray releases.
• As mentioned before, approximately eight minutes of the beginning of this episode (as seen on the Captain Ginyu: Assault DVD) is actually leftover footage from the previous episode. Funimation had to include the rest of episode 53 that Saban had left on the chopping block, giving the uncut version of episode 54 a runtime of about 30 minutes instead of the usual 23.
• When Jeice tries to tell Captain Ginyu what happened, Ginyu asked "Where are Burter and Recoome?", but does not ask about Guldo. It is possible he suspected he would die and did not care. However he did later mention his name when listing his squad members that died.
• This is the first episode to feature the new Faulconer Productions score, replacing Saban's soundtrack from the first two English dub seasons as well as replacing Nathan Johnson's score from the first 67 uncut episodes. This would last all the way to the final episode of Dragon Ball Z.
• In Funimation's original English dub of this episode, Burter is in disbelief at Goku's speed. When he states that no one's that fast, Jeice says "apparently, he is, mate." When Burter mentions this later to Goku, Goku partially echoes the line by saying "well, apparently, I am." Because the DVD releases correspond to the original Japanese episodes and not the FUNimation TV edits, Goku's line is intact but Jeice's earlier one is not, ruining the joke.
• A few changes are made in the remastered dub:
  • Before the eyecatch, Jeice's added lines are redone. Also, before he and Ginyu take off, he makes an added grunt while gritting his teeth and says "I hear you, Captain."
  • The Closing Theme playing after the episode title card is edited to fit with the panning shot that was cut in the original dub.
  • Before the eyecatch during Ginyu's scene, the original dub music is replaced with "Finding The Capsule", "Call Out the Dragon" and the unreleased "Angry Vegeta" theme.
• This episode premiered on Cartoon Network's Toonami exactly three years to the day that "The Arrival of Raditz" premiered in syndication on September 13, 1996. Furthermore, both episodes marked the debut of their respective dubs ("Arrival" for the Ocean dub, and "Ginyu Assault" for the Funimation dub).

Gallery

Burter and Jeice Burter and Jeice attack Goku dominates Burter Goku kicks Burter Goku elbows Burter Goku elbows Burter Burter elbowed on the back of the head Burter knocked out Kaio-ken Finish Goku stands victorious over Burter Vegeta fires an energy wave to finish off an unconscious Recoome Krillin explains to Vegeta why the Dragon Balls still haven't been used Frieza's soldiers Goku Ginyu sees Goku as a unique warrior, whom he can test his true power on Ginyu exploiting an off-guard Goku Goku Gohan and Krillin flying

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