"New Ally, New Problem" (悟空が大接近！フリーザの包囲網をぶち破れ Gokū ga Daisekkin! Furīza no Hōimō o Buchiyabure, lit. "Goku on Final Approach! Smash through Freeza's Dragnet") is the twenty-seventh episode of the Namek Saga and the sixty-second overall episode in the uncut Dragon Ball Z series. This episode first aired in Japan on September 19, 1990. Its original American airdate was September 29, 2005.
Summary[]
Goku approaches Planet Namek
Frieza tells the Ginyu Force their mission: find the Dragon Balls and capture Vegeta. The Ginyu Force check their scouters and track Vegeta, along with two other sources of high energy. Frieza informs them that it is just two weaklings from Earth. Guldo remembers when Vegeta insulted him on one of Frieza's planets. He almost attacked Vegeta, but Frieza had blasted him from behind and stopped him from doing it. Guldo begins to taste revenge, as the Ginyu Force perform a routine warm up and take off to fulfill their mission.
Meanwhile, Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan race against the clock to unite the Dragon Balls and make Vegeta immortal so he could successfully battle the Ginyu Force. In space, Goku wakes up, brushes his teeth, washes his face and dresses in a fresh uniform. He then waits patiently, as his ship is just ten minutes away from Namek.
The Ginyu Force finds Vegeta and the Earthlings
Back on Namek, Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan have reunited the Dragon Balls, but Krillin's last-minute hesitancy allows the Ginyu Force to find them. Gohan is almost petrified in fear upon noticing the squad's power levels, and Krillin berates himself for not listening to Vegeta. In an attempt to separate the Dragon Balls again, Vegeta throws the one in his grasp far away from the group. However, in the time it takes Gohan and Krillin to turn around to follow the ball's path, Burter has already retrieved it.
Realizing they don't stand a chance of fleeing, Vegeta orders Krillin to destroy his Dragon Ball. Once again, their attempts to stop the Ginyu Force are foiled as Guldo uses his powers to freeze that moment in time and retrieve the ball. Vegeta, seeing this, realises that the rumors about Guldo are true. Krillin suggests that they run, but the Saiyan prince declares it pointless, and that fighting is their only way out. Vegeta resigns himself to a fight, while Recoome, Jeice, Burter and Guldo play Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who gets which opponent. As they repeatedly reach a tie, Gohan asks Vegeta if they should take the opportunity to escape. In the end, it is Recoome who wins the "reward" of fighting Vegeta, and it is Guldo who will face Gohan and Krillin. Vegeta tells them that they will have to use their heads as a direct assault won't work on him. Vegeta admits that considering the situation, they really could use Goku's help right now. Captain Ginyu takes off with the Dragon Balls in tow, while Guldo, Krillin and Gohan step up to have their fight first.
Krillin and Gohan crank up to full power, shocking the Ginyu Force that they were concealing their power.
Major Events[]
- The Ginyu Force intercept the trio of Vegeta, Gohan and Krillin.
- Gohan and Krillin prepare to fight Guldo.
Appearances[]
Characters[]
Locations[]
Objects[]
- Scouter
- Battle Armor
- Capsule Corporation Spaceship
- Gravity Machine
- Namekian Dragon Ball
- Frieza's Hover Pod
- Frieza's Spaceship
Differences from the manga[]
- The Ginyu Force's briefing from Frieza is expanded in the anime; Besides Ginyu himself, Jeice was the only other member in the manga who spoke when delivering the new scouters to their lord. The anime has Recoome and Burter gossip about how Vegeta's ego grew out of hand to the point of his betraying the Frieza Force with Guldo especially incensed at the traitor. In addition, Frieza's comment on how while Vegeta has grown more powerful, his strength should still be no match for the team's, is anime only. Ginyu also asks what they should do with the Earthlings (Gohan and Krillin) before Frieza gives the order to kill them, which does not occur in the manga, and the other members besides Guldo are ecstatic when they get approval.
- The flashback sequence involving Vegeta and Guldo is exclusive to the anime.
- The Ginyus' warm up routine is expanded in the anime with an entire formation choreographed and involves them shouting while pumping their fists upon flying off, much to Frieza's bemusement. The manga only showed them huddling around each other before immediately taking off with no reaction from Frieza being depicted.
- In the manga, Goku finds his new uniform in a picnic-style bag that King Kai apparently sent to him, while in the anime Goku picks this outfit out of a closet full of matching uniforms in his ship's bedroom.
- Gohan and Krillin refusing to give Vegeta the Dragon Ball before the Ginyu Force arrived is anime only. In the manga, the Ginyu Force arrived right after they arrived at Vegeta's hideout.
- The Ginyu Force are shown to laugh at Vegeta's helplessness after sarcastically greeting him when they block his path to the remaining five Dragon Balls and again after Burter catches the One-Star Ball Vegeta attempted to throw away. Neither of those instances was in the manga.
- Ginyu's line about having to kill Vegeta first in response to the latter not intending to surrender his own two Dragon Balls is replaced in the anime with Guldo stepping up and sneering that Vegeta is helpless before them without Frieza to protect him as a result of the addition the history between both of them in the adaptation. As such, Krillin's musing on Guldo not being all that powerful compared to the other Ginyu Force members is moved to slightly later in the scene and the villain's posture is completely different.
- In the manga, when Ginyu concedes to take the Dragon Balls to Frieza and leaves the others to deal with the Z-Fighters, he conditions that the winner of the Rock-Paper-Scissors will get Vegeta while the runner-up gets Gohan and Krillin as a set. The anime merely has him order the others to decide amongst themselves with Rock-Paper-Scissors on who gets the other two. Guldo is the one to condition Vegeta as "1st Prize" whereas Recoome states that the "two munchkins" will be a set.
- During the Rock-Paper-Scissors showdown in the manga, Jeice and Burter, are shown despondent that they were eliminated from fighting (Jeice shown with his back to the circle whereas Burter waves his arm in frustration). This is not depicted in the anime, where they plus Guldo and Recoome continuously play until Recoome wins it all.
Trivia[]
- During Guldo's flashback, Vegeta does not have his tail. This is due to the flashback using the design then being used in the present-day story rather than his original design from the Vegeta Saga, which featured a tail and skirt-pads to his armor.
- Goku's Turtle School Uniform with the Go (悟) kanji on both the front and back of his outer shirt makes its debut in this episode (though it also debuted in Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, which was released theatrically in Japan two months before this episode premiered). In the Funimation dub, Goku implies that Dr. Brief created his new uniform instead of King Kai (which would make sense, since Dr. Brief created Goku's whole spaceship). However, Goku doesn't say this in either the Japanese version or Dragon Ball Z Kai. It becomes his third and final Turtle School uniform with a kanji as his primary outfit.
Gallery[]
 The Ginyu Force  Vegeta and Guldo in a flashback  The Ginyu Force  Captain Ginyu smirking  Guldo challenging the trio  Vegeta, terrified by the Ginyu Force  The Ginyu Force  Vegeta faces Guldo  The Ginyu Force deciding who will fight Vegeta  Vegeta advises Krillin and Gohan on how to battle Guldo  Krillin and Gohan power up against Guldo |
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