Ginyu Assault

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==
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.
Vegeta then kills the unconscious Burter and Recoome despite Goku's protests, 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.
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. Furious, Captain Ginyu announces four newly open slots on the Ginyu Force's roster, seemingly stripping a perplexed Jeice of his position for his cowardice, unless he can demonstrate a proper pose to the other soldiers. Although Ginyu and Jeice successfully pose dramatically, both of them realize their cooridination is meaningless without their lost allies to compliment, further inciting Ginyu's rage and causing him to fly off for revenge, with Jeice quickly following. 
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. Although Vegeta seemingly complies, he immediately deserts Goku 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. However, this redubbing only lasts until the end of the Garlic Jr. Saga, where afterwards, Vegeta’s lines are those of the original in-house dub that aired on Toonami in the early 2000s. It would not be until the Majin Buu saga until Vegeta’s English voice sounded the same as it is today.
*The Season Two remastered box set redubbed several characters for vocal consistency with the previous 67 episodes that were redubbed years later after Pioneer lost the home video distribution rights. Vegeta and Krillin were given full redubs whilst Gohan was only given a partial redo. Ginyu, Burter, and Dende's original voices, Dale Kelly, Mark Britten, and Ceyli Delgadillo had long departed from Funimation and were recast with Brice Armstrong, Christopher Sabat, and Laura Bailey respectively. Recoome was given some groans when Goku laments Jeice left him and Burter behind whereas he was previously silent.
*Due to Funimation's censorship edits being more relaxed than those of the Saban edit, blood now regularly appeared on characters as a result of fighting, and the actual fights are much less edited for violence. The recaps featured on the Toonami premiers even featured previously unseen unedited scenes, such as an unresponsive Gohan being visibly bloodied while being fed a Senzu Bean by Goku, which had previously had the blood digitally painted away.
*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, in the remastered version, 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 "Vegeta Angry" 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).
*When posing for the other soldiers, Ginyu and Jeice's poses mimic those of Kamen Rider 1 and Kamen Rider 2 from the 1971 Tokusatsu series Kamen Rider, which introduced the very idea of posing to transform in modern Japanese Tokusatsu. Jeice and Ginyu's movements are mirror flipped from the actual routines however, and their final positions are not from said routines.
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