Changes: Piccolo Closes In

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"If you want the Dragon Balls, Piccolo, you'll have to come down here!"
— Master Roshi daring King Piccolo to face him.

Piccolo Closes In (がんばれっ!孫悟空!!, Ganbare! Son Goku!!) is the ninth episode of the King Piccolo Saga and the one hundred tenth episode in the Dragon Ball series. The episode first aired on May 4, 1988.

Summary

TheOriginalMasenko1 — King Piccolo fires the Makosen to finish off Goku

After a few more hits, King Piccolo critically wounds Goku with one of his most powerful beams and takes his Dragon Ball. King Piccolo makes his way to get the rest of the Dragon Balls. In his state, Goku requests Yajirobe to take him to Korin Tower.

Meanwhile, Chiaotzu finds the fifth Dragon Ball. Master Roshi decides that they should head towards King Piccolo, to get the other two balls. Yajirobe tells Goku the story of King Piccolo. Roshi takes to the ground and hides the Dragon Balls he collected. King Piccolo swallows his two Dragon Balls, thwarting Roshi's plan to steal them. To prevent Tien Shinhan from fighting, Roshi paralyzes him. King Piccolo jumps down Pilaf's Flying Base to face Roshi.

Differences from the manga

Piccolo and his kind have five fingers in the anime but only four in the manga
It was not raining during Goku and Piccolo's fight in the manga. This also applies to Roshi, Tien, and Chiaotzu's finding of the three-star ball in a field (in a filler scene from the last episode, it was stuck under a large rock until Roshi lost it when being crushed by the rock).
Piccolo beating on Goku at the start of the episode did not occur in the manga.
In the manga, when Yajirobe is asking Goku for directions, a man riding a bike can be seen looking shocked at the aircar veering off the road. The man is not present in the anime.
The visual account that accompanies Yajirobe's explanation to Goku about King Piccolo's backstory isn't in the manga.

Trivia

This episode had the lowest rating for the Dragon Ball anime series on Fuji TV, with 13.7% rating share.
In the Japanese version and the manga, Yajirobe considered eating the supposedly dead Goku only to quickly write it off as being too disrespectful. This was excluded from the English versions.
In the English version, Piccolo proclaims that with all seven Dragon Balls, his youth will be restored. Before, in "Enter King Piccolo", he had said his desire was for eternal youth. It's likely that the wording was a mistranslation by Funimation, as the English manga makes it consistently clear that the desired wish is eternal youth.
Despite having met Roshi on his home island back in "The Nimbus Cloud of Roshi", Pilaf, Mai, and Shu do not appear to recognize him here (though the aforementioned scene was filler).

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 *In the Japanese version and the manga, Yajirobe considered eating the supposedly dead Goku only to quickly write it off as being too disrespectful. This was excluded from the English versions.
 *In the English version, Piccolo proclaims that with all seven Dragon Balls, his youth will be restored. Before, in "[[Enter King Piccolo]]", he had said his desire was for eternal youth. It's likely that the wording was a mistranslation by Funimation, as the English manga makes it consistently clear that the desired wish is eternal youth.
+*Despite having met Roshi on his home island back in "[[The Nimbus Cloud of Roshi]]", Pilaf, Mai, and Shu do not appear to recognize him here (though the aforementioned scene was filler).
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