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Summaries
Here are summaries for all types of Dragonball media. I DID NOT WRITE ANY OF THESE.
All of these are written by Curtis Hoffman. His work is being reposted for everyone to see, no profit is made.
(...even though he's been gone from the Dragonball fandom since the 90s)
Dragonball GT
Dragonball GT Episode 1
(Aired 2/07/96)
Nazo no DB Shuugen!! Gokuu wa kodomo ni!?
The mysterious Dragonballs appear!! Gokuu becomes a child!?
Gokuu and Uubu are in Kami-sama's palace, training and smashing away at
each other. Around 10 years have passed since the end of Dragon Ball Z,
and Uubu looks to be a very strong teenager now. The damage to the
Palace is enormous, and Mr. Popo and Dende are getting nervous over it.
Meanwhile Pilaf, Shuu and Mai (all three of them looking really old now)
are in a set of robots, climbing the outside of the Palace. When they
get inside, they eventually locate all seven Dragon Balls (lying in a
skeleton-filled urn.) These are the Ultimate Dragon Balls, created by
the the Namek child that had come to Earth long ago. After making the
Ultimate Dragon Balls, the Namek child purified himself to become
Kami-sama. The concentrated evil turned into the Great Demon King
Piccolo. The Ultimate Dragon Balls (also called the Black Star Dragon
Balls) is rumored to be better than Kami-sama's set.
Eventually, Uubu and Gokuu finish their training, step out into the
open, and collapse. Dende and Mr. Popo heal them. Everyone trades
greetings and words of thanks. Uubu and Gokuu promise to get together a
year later to fight again. Then, Uubu flies off to return to his own
life.
Before Pilaf can summon Shenlon, Shuu is overcome with emotion at
getting this far for the first time, and Mai reminds them that this is
about the point where they always get interrupted. Pilaf hopes to avoid
all interruptions this time. Pilaf is again dreaming of world
domination, and he summons Shenlon. The Ultimate Shenlon is yellow, and
REALLY big. Meanwhile, Gokuu empties Dende's larder; still hungry, he
wanders the Palace and notices that the sky has suddenly turned dark.
Confused, Gokuu tries to find out what's going on, and happens upon
Pilaf. Gokuu is surprised to see Pilaf after so many decades, and he
marvels over this. Pilaf rages that Gokuu is so big now, and he orders
his robots to launch missiles at Gokuu. Gokuu easily catches the
missiles, and Pilaf insanely wishes that Gokuu was small again, and
therefore easier to defeat.
Shenlon says "So be it", and Gokuu is turned into a child once more.
Shenlon claims that the wish has been fulfilled, and all 7 Balls fly off
in separate directions. Dende and Mr. Popo arrive, and are shocked to
see Gokuu transformed.
[Commercial Break.]
Kaiou-sama telepathically tells Dende and crew that only the Ultimate
Dragon Balls can be used to reverse the wish, and the Balls have been
scattered across the galaxy. Gokuu is taking being a kid in stride, and
since there's nothing else that he can do at this point, he decides to
fly down to Earth to get something more to eat. In Satan City, Pan (who
is now a young girl, and dressed like a "slacker" version of Beederu)
and a potential boyfriend are wandering the streets. Pan wants to go to
a movie, and the boyfriend wants to keep pressing against her. Meanwhile
Kamesennin has hit the city as well, and is trying to track down Pan (he
makes sure that he bumps into the tushes of every pretty woman along the
way.)
However, there is a hostage situation at a bank near the theater, and
the police have cordoned off the area. The bad guys have fun shooting
up cars and terrorizing the police. The police had decided to send in a
disguised police woman to give the villains meals spiked with knockout
drops. Unfortunately, the villains expected this, and they feed the
food to a hostage cop -- the cop passes out. The villains continue to
blow up the city. The resulting shockwaves disturb Gokuu's meal at a
nearby Chinese restaurant. He comes out to see what is wrong.
Gokuu anticipates being able to beat up baddies, but is thwarted by Pan,
who tells the little boy to not get in the way. Pan beats the snot out
of the bad guys as Gokuu watches. The potential boyfriend becomes
scared of Pan's prowess, and runs away (not the first time this has
happened, either.) Then, Kamesennin arrives and both children yell out
his name. Kamesennin quickly believes that this is a weird little
Gokuu, but Pan thinks that there is something wrong here. (It's been a
long time since anyone's seen Gokuu, or since he's seen any of them.)
The group goes to Gokuu's house, and everyone speculates over whether
the original Dragon Balls can restore Gokuu, until Kaiou-sama calls in to
mention a problem he'd missed before. It seems that the Ultimate Dragon
Balls are MUCH stronger than any of the other Earth sets. Having been
used, the Ultimate Dragon Balls put a lot of stress on the planet. They
must be gathered together again within one year, or the Earth will
explode. Everyone is shocked at this.
And so, Gokuu's new adventure begins.
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Note: the new opening credit song is standard Japanese pop, and seems to
be aimed more towards the fans of magical girls shows. This might be
one sign that the producers are shifting the show away from the
traditional DB audience.
This summary is the copyright of Curtis H. Hoffmann, April 1996.
Dragonball GT Episode 2
(Aired 2/14/96)
Shuyaku wa watashi! Pan uchuu ni tobitatsu!!
I am the Leader! Pan Flies into Space!!
The episode starts with a straight-laced Future Trucks
being escorted
to his office as president of Capsule Corp. However,
he can't stand the
attention from his staff, or the pressures of a desk
job, and he manages
to escape out a window (again.) Meanwhile, Pan is
interrupting Goten's
phone call to a new girlfriend.
The rest of the family is upset at the idea of Gokuu
going off to
face danger alone, so Gohan volunteers to go with. Pan
wants to join
them, but Chi Chi tries to scare the girl off with
ghost stories. (The
key to the events that follow is -- Gokuu likes being
a kid again, while
Pan is desperately trying to be accepted as an adult.
Pan is disgusted
with her grandfather's behavior, and refuses to take
orders from him.
Pan will constantly take on the role of "parent" from
this point on.)
At Capsule Corp., Bulma comments on the fact that her
space ship is
not all that big -- it can only hold three people.
Outside, a thug is
watching the building, waiting for some girl to step
out where he can
grab her. Vejiita, now sporting more of an "old punk"
look, with a flat
top and a mustache, is dismissed by the thug's partner
as being a lousy
kidnap victim. The rest of the heroes work on prepping
the ship; all
except Pan, who is rebuffed by all of them.
Frustrated, Pan kicks the
wall of the ship, damaging one of the engines (she
covers the dent with
a parts cart.) Pan leaves, but can't avoid being
tailed by a bored
Gokuu. Ultimately, Pan flies off just as the thug
leaps forward. Gokuu
gets kidnapped.
[Commercial Break.]
At Mr. Satan's martial arts school, Satan is watching
in horror as
Pan trashes his entire class. The girl wants to keep
fighting, but
Satan is the only fighter left, and he claims to have
a cold.
Elsewhere, Gokuu is being fed lots of food, as the
first thug tries to
get his friend to use the boy in their fiendish plot
(the meal comes
to 700,000 zenni.) The second thug calls Capsule
Corp., and tries to
talk Bulma into paying a ransom. Unfortunately, the
thug's phone card
runs out first. Bulma wonders why Gokuu keeps getting
into weird
situations.) Pan and Satan go to a cafe, where the
girl complains about
always being treated as a child, while she tries drink
black coffee (she
hates the taste) and Satan chows down on a parfait.
Satan TRIES to
build up Pan's feelings, but succumbs to the need to
hug his "cute
little grand daughter".
The two thugs keep trying to ransom Gokuu, but the
next phone call is
to Vejiita. Vejiita tells them to do what they want to
the boy. At the
end of the day, the thugs are disheartened, and Gokuu
wants to go back
home. The second thug wants to make one more phone
call. They stop in
an area devoid of phone booths, so Gokuu flies off to
get a phone for
them. Thug 2 finally believes Thug 1's claim that Pan
had flown away
from him that morning. When Gokuu returns with the
booth, the thugs
drive away in terror.
Later, Trunks is again escaping from his office, when
he is
interrupted by Vejiita. Vejiita now knows about
Gokuu's planned space
trip, and he wants Goten and Trunks to go along with,
for the
experience. (Bulma can take care of Capsule Corp. on
her own, and
Goten's date is beneath notice.)
It's now time for the big launch. Trunks and Gokuu
enter the ship,
but Goten receives a call from his girlfriend and he
stands outside to
talk on his cellular phone. Beederu asks Gohan when
Pan is, and Gohan
answers "with Bra." But, Bra is standing next to
Vejiita (Bra is quite
a knock-out), and Pan is nowhere in sight. Inside the
ship, Pan is
waiting for Gokuu and Trunks to enter. She presses the
ignition switch
-- the ship leaps into space. Goten is left behind, to
meet his date.
And, a loose component falls from the ship and lands
by Bulma's feet.
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NOTE: The two kidnappers look somewhat like the
villians in the movie
"Home Alone". It's possible that this was deliberate.
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This summary is the copyright of Curtis H. Hoffmann,
May 1996.