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.
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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.
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Additional Voices[]
Harmony Gold Dub
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FUNimation Dub
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Notes[]
- Harmony Gold's infamous referral to Korin as "Whiskers the Wonder Cat" is from their dub of this movie.
- This was the last time Ceyli Delgadillo voiced Kid Goku. She was replaced by Stephanie Nadolny for Funimation's dub of the Dragon Ball series.
- Emperor Pilaf, Mai, and Shu are voiced by Mike McFarland, Cynthia Cranz, and Brian Thomas respectively, as this movie was dubbed prior to the casting of Chuck Huber, Julie Franklin, and Chris Cason as the characters in Dragon Ball.
- Shenron has no dialogue in the Creative and AB Groupe versions.
- General Blue does not appear in the Filipino English version; all of his scenes were cut from the film, possibly due to time constraints.
- The Malaysian English dub of this film by Speedy Video features unusual name replacements for the characters, as it seems to have been translated from a Cantonese version of the film. For example, Goku is “Monkey Boy” and Yamcha is “Uncle Happy”. This dub is also notable for having a replacement score, though unlike their dub of Bojack Unbound, all of the music used is from Shunsuke Kikuchi’s score.
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Dub | Region | Country | |
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| Regal Home Video | 199? | 
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Creative | NTSC | Philippines | 
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| Speedy Video | 1998 | 
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Speedy | PAL | Malaysia | 
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| FUNimation Entertainment | 2000 |
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FUNimation | NTSC | United States | 
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- Release was part of 4-pack with the other Dragon Ball movies
External Links[]
- Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
- Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
