# Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle is a 1987 Japanese animated fantasy martial arts adventure film and the second anime feature film based on the Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama. It was originally released in Japan on July 18 at the "Toei Manga Matsuri" film festival as part of a quadruple feature along with the first Saint Seiya film and the film versions of Hikari Sentai Maskman and Choujinki Metalder. An English dub by Funimation was released in 1998. It was preceded by Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies and followed by Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure.

## Plot

Long ago, in an age where darkness still roams the Earth, a mysterious castle stands among the "five mountains" that are called the 'Devil's Hand' . There, according to the legend, the beautiful "Sleeping Princess" is lying within the confines of the castle walls guarded by the blackest and most sinister master of the underworld.
Years later, eleven-year-old Goku arrives at Kame House to seek training with Master Roshi, and to learn more martial arts skills. He finds Roshi watching the exercise program featuring the girls (which the Turtle Hermit likes) and gets his attention. But while discussing their training plans over lunch, Goku and Roshi noticed a little monk approaching the island on a rowboat. After jumping off his boat and landing on Roshi's island, the monk identify himself as Krillin and also beg Roshi to train him. When Roshi refused, Krillin succeeded to make him change his mind by giving him magazines as a bribe. Krillin also meets Goku, who could not tell the difference of how men shaved their heads and made themselves balded. After telling the boys the origin of the Sleeping Princess who is apparently held captive in the Devil's Hand by a vampire-like count named Lucifer, Roshi sends them on a quest far to the west to retrieve her with one rule: whoever brings back the Sleeping Princess will become Master Roshi's student. Meanwhile, a mean blonde-haired girl named Launch also discovered the information of the Sleeping Princess and planned to take her. The boys continued on their way to the Devil's Hand as Krillin uses all the standard tricks to prevent Goku from catching up, but he outsmarts them without giving up. A little later, Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha, and Puar — who are on summer vacation — also meet Roshi and ask where Goku is. Roshi says that he and Krillin have gone far to the Devil's Hand (pretending it as an amusement park or a tourist attraction), so the gang fly in Bulma's Capsule jet to the castle. At sunset, Goku and Krillin finally approached the Devil's Hand itself and went inside. Unknown to the boys, Launch also entered, willing to steal the Sleeping Princess away for herself.
When the gang near the castle as night falls in, the jet is attacked by ogres, causing it to crash down, and Bulma is taken to the Devil's Hand. After waking up in a bedroom, Bulma meets Lucifer himself and his butler Igor who seemingly treat her as a guest and show her to the ogre convention of the Sleeping Princess. Lucifer then revealed his true dark nature to Bulma and have her tied to a chair she sat on with vines, intending Igor to drain her of her blood through a giant syringe in order to awake the Sleeping Princess. Hearing Bulma's screams for help, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar went to the Sleeping Princess' convention, and (in disguise as ogres through Oolong and Puar's shape-shifting) wait for their opportunity to rescue their friend. Goku and Krillin ran into and fight the ogres and monsters, including a giant devil called Ghastel who is then eaten by a swamp monster while attacking them, until they drop in straight onto the bedchamber of the Sleeping Princess which they only find as a giant jewel, disrupting the convention. Then Launch arrives on her motorcycle, takes the Sleeping Princess and drives away. As Goku and Krillin chase Launch without noticing Bulma and the others, Oolong's shape-shifting wears out after five minutes, making Puar change back to herself after she sees in shock that Oolong is back to his normal self. Their disguise ruined, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar are then captured. As Launch blast her way through the ogres by firing her machine gun at them, her hair tickles her nose and she sneezes. Changed into a nice blue-haired version of herself, Launch fell off her motorcycle and landed on the ground, confused of what she is doing. Goku recovered the Sleeping Princess, but Lucifer appeared with the ogres, holding Krillin. After being given a warning which would lead to Krillin's death as a consequence, Goku forcibly returns the Sleeping Princess to Lucifer and demands his friend's release. But instead, Goku gets a beating from the ogres after a pink little devil paralyzed him by biting his tail, the source of his weakness, much to Krillin's despair over him.
Later, Lucifer uses the light of the full moon to power up the Sleeping Princess, successfully awakening her. Outside the Devil's Hand, the gang including a battered and bruised Goku is encased in a giant wall of rock. But Goku looked at the Moon and transformed into a Great Ape, smashing the wall and releasing the gang. The rampaging Goku then chases the gang, picking up Launch and attempting to devour her. Yamcha and Krillin grabbed hold of Goku's tail, weakening the Great Ape and allowing Puar to shape-shift into a pair of scissors and cut it off. Goku returns to his normal but naked self, but he did not remember anything of what he had done in his monstrous form. He also panics when he finds his tail gone, but quickly forgets about it. Back inside the castle, Lucifer inserted the Sleeping Princess in a laser cannon and prepared it to destroy the rising sun despite Bulma's pleas. Suddenly, Goku (wearing Oolong's overall pants), Krillin and Yamcha came to the rescue. While the boys fight Lucifer, Yamcha kills Igor and frees Bulma. Just as Lucifer activates the laser cannon, Goku uses the Kamehameha wave to damage it, causing the castle to collapse in the process. While the gang made a run for it, the falling cannon kills Lucifer by blasting him, the Sleeping Princess disappeared and the Devil's Hand is half-destroyed. After the sun is up with no harm, the gang is saved and Krillin acts contrite, although he does not actually apologize to Goku for his behavior. The gang then posed for peace as the unseen camera photographed them and the Devil's Hand. The two boys return to Kame House with Launch, and Roshi is very pleased. Thinking the boys have passed the test on Launch as if she were a Sleeping Princess, he takes them both on as students while he brought Launch with him to his house. At one moment, Goku and Krillin were happy with their time for training, but it then began wrong when Launch changes into her bad self with a sneeze and drives Roshi out of his house. She fires at Roshi, Goku, Krillin and Turtle until a passing fly makes her sneeze again, turning her back to her good self. Launch apologized for her actions as the surprised group then walked back from her a little bit.

## New characters
### Lucifer (ルシフェル, Rushiferu)

    The ruler of the Devil's Castle.

### Ghastel (ガステル, Gasuteru)

    A giant red demon who dwells within Devil's Castle.

## Cast

| Character name | Voice actor | Voice actor | Voice actor | Voice actor |
| Character name | Japanese | English | English | English |
| Character name | Japanese | Creative Products Corp. (c. 1996) | Funimation (1998) | Unknown/AB Groupe (c. 2003) |
| Goku | Masako Nozawa | Nesty Calvo Ramirez | Ceyli Delgadillo | Jodi Forrest |
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Kririn | Krillin | Clearin |
| Kuririn | Mayumi Tanaka | Apollo Abraham | Laurie Steele | Sharon Mann |
| Lunch | Mami Koyama | Ethel Lizano (bad) Mitch Frankenberger Pellicer (good) | Launch | Jodi Forrest |
| Lunch | Mami Koyama | Ethel Lizano (bad) Mitch Frankenberger Pellicer (good) | Christine Marten (bad) Monika Antonelli (good) | Jodi Forrest |
| Yamcha | Tōru Furuya | Apollo Abraham | Christopher Sabat | Sharon Mann |
| Bulma | Hiromi Tsuru | Ethel Lizano | Leslie Alexander | Bloomer |
| Bulma | Hiromi Tsuru | Ethel Lizano | Leslie Alexander | Sharon Mann |
| Oolong | Naoki Tatsuta | Apollo Abraham | Brad Jackson | David Gasman |
| Puar | Naoko Watanabe | Mitch Frankenberger Pellicer | Monika Antonelli | Jodi Forrest |
| Kame-Sen'nin | Kōhei Miyauchi | Master Buten | Master Roshi | Ed Marcus |
| Kame-Sen'nin | Kōhei Miyauchi | Nesty Calvo Ramirez | Mike McFarland | Ed Marcus |
| Turtle | Daisuke Gōri | — | Christopher Sabat | Paul Bandey |
| Lucifer (ルシフェル, Rushiferu) | Nachi Nozawa | Ray Buyco | Mike McFarland | Paul Bandey |
| Ghastel (ガステル, Gasuteru) | Daisuke Gōri | Unknown | Mike McFarland | David Gasman |
| Butler (執事, Shitsuji) | Shōzō Iizuka | Apollo Abraham | Igor | Ed Marcus |
| Butler (執事, Shitsuji) | Shōzō Iizuka | Apollo Abraham | Christopher Sabat | Ed Marcus |
| Goblins | Kazuo Oka Ikuya Sawaki Masato Hirano Kazumi Tanaka [ja] | | | Paul Bandey David Gasman Ed Marcus |
| Fitness Instructor | Yoko Kawanami [ja] | — | Leslie Alexander | Sharon Mann |
| Little Pink Creature | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Ed Marcus |
| Narrator | Jōji Yanami | Nesty Calvo Ramirez | Christopher Sabat | Ed Marcus |