Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure

Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (ドラゴンボール 魔訶不思議大冒険, Doragon Bōru: Makafushigi Dai-Bōken) is the third movie based on the Dragon Ball series, released on July 9, 1988. The movie is an alternate retelling of the "Tien Shinhan Saga" along with the "Red Ribbon", "General Blue" and "Mercenary Tao" sagas, with the characters of Chiaotzu and Tien Shinhan being changed into Emperor and servant rather than martial-artist students. Notably, this film does not have any new characters, but minor characters in the series appear in different roles.

Dubbing History
The movie was first dubbed by Harmony Gold to extend Curse of the Blood Rubies into a double feature. Creative re-writing was done to merge the two movies closer together. An example of this being dialogue implying that Pilaf, Mai, and Shu (called Oculi, Feminah, and Chao in their dub of the TV series) were all former servants to King Gurumes from the first movie.

The movie was later dubbed by FUNimation using their in-house dubbing cast in Dallas, Texas. Compared to their Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle dub, the casting was more reflective of the final casting choices made during Dragon Ball Z.

Video Releases

 * Release was part of 4-pack with the other Dragon Ball movies