Dragon Ball GT ep 57 - Strength Overwhelming!! The Dragon Who Rules the Evil Dragons

Sixteen years ago...

Today...

San Shen Long, born of the selfless wish to give Boo a place in the world...

... now faces off against Son Goku, the very man who made that wish.

In order to save the world from an impending apocalypse, Goku must face each of the seven Evil Dragons, born of the Minus energy cast off from the overuse of the Dragon Balls. Only in beating them and claiming their Dragon Balls for himself can the Earth be spared from this crisis. And after San Shen Long used dirty tricks to trap Goku, who was freed by his honorable brother Si Shen Long, Goku has announced that he'll beat San Shen Long in five seconds.

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Using his usual dirty tactics, San Shen Long picks up Pan and uses her as a shield again Goku's Kamehameha. The five seconds pass, and San gloats that, here he is, still alive. Then, he does this...

Uh.

Now, San Shen Long was "born" 16 years ago, though he remained dormant in the Three-Star Ball until a few days ago. Yet he says he's Si Shen Long's elder brother, who is 37 years old. Were the Dragons themselves always a part of their specific ball, and it's only the Minus energy that awoke them? Are they eternal like Shen Long? Or are they only a few days old?

Ah, fuck it. It's GT, no one cares.

(There's a pedo for every Dragon Ball. Horrifying, yet at least thematic.)

San Shen Long tries to turn the tide in his favor by attacking Goku while he guards Pan. Unfortunately for San Shen Long, you never, ever fuck with an angry grandpa.

Goku aims another Kamehameha at San...

... who hides between Si Shen Long this time...

... then ice-eye-beams Goku frozen solid...

... again.

However, Goku puts a ki barrier around himself this time, making him immune to the effects of San Shen Long's clever little ice attack.

San Shen Long quickly realizes he's totally fucked.

And promptly begins begging for his life.

In exchange for his life, San Shen Long offers up the Three-Star Dragon Ball. Goku is unsure to take the deal until Si Shen Long, with a great deal of pity, asks Goku to consider it. Since Si and Goku are basically battle boyfriends now, Goku agrees, but only if San Shen Long leaves here and never returns.

Goku really should have learned from Raditz, never trust a big bro's crocodile tears.

San Shen Long uses his moment to ice his fingers over and slash at Goku's eyes -- making our hero go blind.

With his opponent's eyes out of the game, San Shen Long makes to finish off Goku, once and for all.

It doesn't work out.

Even blind, Goku can still follow San Shen Long's ki. And that's enough to punch him through the chest, and then punch him a second time with a Ryuken, causing him to fucking explode.

Si Shen Long picks up the now-cleansed Three-Star Dragon Ball, taking it and the other four Goku and Pan collected by over to Goku. He puts them at Goku's feet as Goku tries to clean his eyes with water; It's no good, he's still completely blind. Along with the Dragon Balls, Si Shen Long gives Goku a bottle with a tonic he says will cure Goku's sight (um, where were you keeping that Si? And why?) and that they'll meet again when that time comes, to finish their bout.

"I guess I owe you another one, huh?"

"Sure enough, I'm just too soft."

(Good lord you two are gay.)

But before Si Shen Long and Goku can make sweet sweet love to each other can fly off to do something totally straight, someone appears out of the shadows; Shooting Si Shen Long in the back, and conveniently destroying the eye tonic in the process.

"You're pathetic if you're unable to kill even a single wounded monkey."

(Sorry but not really.)

Si Shen Long is killed in an instant, his Four-Star Dragon Ball clearing up of the black smoke within it. Goku's fist clinches furiously as the one who did it is one of Si Shen Long's own kind. The strongest of the Evil Dragons... Yi Shen Long, the One-Star Dragon.

"Ain't you guys on the same side?! It was so easy for you to kill him, like he was some kind of worm! You'll pay for that... I'll make sure you pay for that!"

"You're going to make me pay? Who was it that gave me life? It was you, Son Goku! We were born because of your overuse of the Dragon Balls. The Earth being disrupted; This is your fault! After having been helped out by the Dragon Balls so many times... don't ask for anything now."

"... I feel sorry about it, too! It's like the Elderly Kaioshin said... we shouldn't use the Dragon Balls unduly."

"But that's different from this! I'm still going to defeat you with my own hands!"

"That's easier said than done."

Yi Shen Long is on a completely different level than anyone else Goku has faced so far -- has ever faced, in fact. Even as a Super Saiyan 4, Goku can do nothing but try to get away from Yi's relentless attacks.

In short, Yi Shen Long is fucking awesome and he's voiced so fucking well by Hidekatsu Shibata, who we've met before on Dragon Ball as Chapa-o. (For Naruto fans, he's the Third Hokage. For One Piece fans, he's motherfucking Dragon. For Fairy Tail fans, he's your goddamn narrator and you're welcome.) It's honestly one of the coolest performances I've ever heard, and he only shows up after the commercial break of this episode. I'm so fucking hype for the rest.

But um, anyway, the fight.

Goku tries to take on Yi Shen Long by going straight to the nuclear solution - the x10 Kamehameha.

It doesn't work out.

It really doesn't work out.