Dragonball GT Episode 30 (Aired 11/13/96)
Gokuu shoumetsu!? Ora wa shinjimatta da Gokuu Has Passed On!? "I'm Dead."
Buu spits out Satan -- he revels in his new freedom until succumbing to gravity. Pan is crying over Gokuu's death. Vejiita-Baby takes his position on a floating stone throne, and Dende hands over the Dragon Balls. Since he has everything else that he wants, Vejiita-Baby summons Shenlon and wishes for a planet to be placed next to Earth that is just like Plant used to be. (Buu asks if it is night already.) Planet is created complete with buildings, but with no people. Shenlon bids them farewell and the Balls fly away.
Pan collapses, realizing that Earth will explode when one year is up, and Satan panicks at this thought. Buu is more blase, having been through this before, and thinking that things can be fixed afterwards. Satan tells Pan that while they are still alive, that she should remain cheerful. But, her silent cries are heard by Gokuu and he wakes up. A small blue-skinned, big headed dwarf named Suguro appears and hassles Gokuu ("Suguro-ku" could be "6 again", or "I am the best.")
The rest of this exchange has Gokuu claiming that he is "Gokuu", not some kid. Suguro is the host of a parody of Japanese game shows. Gokuu isn't dead yet, but that will be determined by the outcome of the game. They each take turns throwing a die and moving on a 3-D game board. Suguro is friends with the creature posing as the die, so he keeps landing on the good squares, while Gokuu hits the bad ones (often, the bad squares include having to answer questions that Gokuu doesn't understand.) But, while the penalty for a wrong answer is death, Gokuu keeps evading the traps. (Suguro has been in this purgatory for millions of years. There haven't been any visitors for a long while, which has given Suguro lots of free time.) Gokuu initially thinks that the game will be fun, which is why he decides to play along.
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Turns out that Kaiou-bit had tried to rescue Gokuu in the previous episode, but the Revenge Death Ball had disrupted his teleport and he'd lost Gokuu while warping. Kaiou-bit teleports to Dai Kaiou-shin's planet (where the old coot is fishing) to ask for help. However, even Dai Kaiou-shin can't do anything about Suguro-ku (the name of the purgatory), so he tells Kaiou-bit to stop interferring with his fishing.
On Earth, Vejiita-Baby and his minions gather at Capsule Corp., where Bulma is unveiling her giant machine (purpose is to get the minions to New Plant, but the operation is unknown. The machine looks like a big black version of the Capsule Corp. building.) Pan sees Trunks with the others and yells out, but Satan stops her and says that Trunks has also been controlled. Pan cries some more.
(In the first square of the game, Gokuu has to return to START. In the second, he has to answer questions he doesn't understand. In the third, he has to keep from shedding tears -- from chopped onions and from a giant hypodermic needle wielded by Chichi. Later, he has to jump to floating islands over a lava pit on command. Gokuu asks why he's the only one to get the bad squares, and Suguro answers that it's a matter of luck.
The narrator sums up the situation, and Vejiita-Baby claims that the galaxy is now his for the taking. The narrator yells out for Gokuu to hurry -- this is no time for games.
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