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InaShikaCho!   He’s got the head of a boar and the antlers of a moose and the wings of a butterfly.   Not real clear on what his body is more like.   Definitely not a butterfly body, that’s for sure, but I think it’s like a moose body on boar legs? 

Funimation always spells it as one word with three capital letters, while the subtitles spell it “Inashika Cho”.   I’m gonna look this up, because I always assumed the name was some sort of portmanteau of Japanese or Chinese words for the three different animals.   Please enjoy this pleasant music until I get back.

Okay, so here’s a plot twist for you: If you google “InoShikaCho” the first hit is the Dragon Ball Wiki, but the second result is the Naruto Wiki.  Apparently there’s a technique in Naruto called “Formation InoShikaCho”.    It’s actually named after a term from the card game Koi-Koi.   There’s a certain combination of cards named Inoshikacho, which indeed translates into “boar, deer, butterfly”.   Okay, and that’s why the title card for this episode displays three playing cards.   Not sure how they switched the deer with what is clearly a moose.   Maybe “shika” refers to both animals.   Let’s move on.

Goku’s wandering around hungry when he sees a family in a runaway vehicle.  It looks like half a motorcycle hitched to a trailer, so you tell me what it’s called.    He leaps into action and stops the thing with a bamboo tree.   The grateful family tells him that their brakes went out while they were trying to flee the vicious Inoshikacho.  

Just like the title of this cartoon!    Goku wants to fight the Inoshikacho, but they warn him that it’s super dangerous.   Well that only encourages him.   

No one really spells out that Inoshikacho is a chimera of three different animals.   Now that I see the guy, I’m satisfied that he has deer antlers and not moose antlers, so I guess it’s just the title card that messed up.   It’s probably just as well that Goku doesn’t get a description of the guy, or he’d probably want to eat him.   Goku’s pretty hungry.

Meanwhile, Krillin and Yamcha are sparring at Kame House while Bulma complains that Master Roshi isn’t teaching them anything.  Look, lady, the whole idea is they wear those heavy shells and delivery milk or fight bees or whatever it was.   He didn’t teach Goku anything either and he turned out okay.  The real question is why he’s letting them spar at Kame House instead of their usual regimen.

Bulma checks out the book Roshi is looking at, and shockingly it isn’t porn.   It’s actually a photo album with pictures from Roshi’s younger days.   This one is him with the Crane Hermit, who is holding a baby Inoshikacho. 

They start out pretty docile, but when they get upset, they’re hard to deal with.  Bulma asks where the Inoshikacho is now, and Roshi admits that he moved away soon after these photos were taken, so he has no idea.  

Well, we know, because when Goku heads to the village to find it, he discovers that someone else is way ahead of him.   Two martial artists already showed up and hired themselves out to the village to capture the beast.   Look, they’ve already got it cornered.

Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?   Tien and Chiaotzu?   But this is the Fortuneteller Baba Saga!  Yeah, these two haven’t been introduced in the manga just yet, but here’s a sneak preview of these guys.  They kick the Inoshikacho a couple of times and it goes down surprisingly easy.

The villagers are super grateful for the boys’ help, but T&C don’t care about that as long as they get their reward money.   Chiaotzu’s all about the dollah-dollah. 

Since they’re in a hurry to leave, Tien offers to dispose of the Inoshikacho corpse on their way out.  

And Chiaotzu helps himself to this corn that’s also hanging from somebody’s roof.   Chiaotzu’s also about that corny-corny.

Meanwhile, Goku’s just minding his own business, fishing with his tail because he’s still hungry.  As far as he knows, that whole Inoshikocho business is over with.   I’m kind of surprised he didn’t introduce himself to Tien and ask to spar with him, though.   Maybe he did and Tien brushed him off.

Then he smells something good, and follows his nose to... What’s this?!   Inoshikacho is alive??????   And eating corn on the cob with Tien and Chiaotzu????????????   The same martial artists who were hired to kill him???????   Is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis what I’ve been paying for?

Yeah, so this is your basic “Martial-artists-pretend-to-kill-a-monster-but-they’re-really-in-cahoots” scam.   Goku doesn’t even understand that, but Tien’s convinced that he’s exposed their sweet racket, so now he’s gotta die.    At first, Chiaotzu squares up to fight him, but Tien tells him to back off and let him handle this.    Goku has no idea how lucky he is.    Tien just wants to kill him, but Chiaotzu would have devoured his soul.

So yeah, Tien’s really good at martial arts.  So is Goku, but he’s too hungry to fight back effectively, as this episode has reminded up like fifty times.  We get it, we’re not really seeing a sneak preview of the 22nd Budokai because neither fighter was prepared.    Goku’s had all day to find food, though.   It’s not like he’s picky either.    If he can’t find a wolf or a centipede in the middle of nowhere than that’s his own damn fault.

Goku still manages to dodge Tien’s attacks, so Tien kicks a tree instead and it crashes on top of Goku, who lacks the strength to hold it up.  

Tien decides to just leave Goku pinned under the tree and let him die of exposure.   I think I’ve talked about this before, but it really exposes Tien’s conflicted nature.   Yeah this sounds like a really cruel way to kill a guy, but it also shows us that Tien lacks the killer instinct to finish Goku off himself.  When Mercenary Tao failed to kill Goku, it was because he was too arrogant and careless to check the body for a pulse.   When Tien fails to kill Goku, it’s because he doesn’t have the stomach to reach down and break Goku’s neck with his bare hands. 

I’ll even go you one better and speculate that this is why Goku was somehow able to dodge all of Tien’s strikes.   In his head, he was trying to kill Goku, but his heart wasn’t into it, so he wasn’t putting his all into those attacks.  I’m not saying that Tien hasn’t killed before, or that he wouldn’t have killed a weaker target in this situation, but we know he’s strong enough to kill Goku and he definitely didn’t kill Goku, which says to me that something’s holding him back. 

As for Chiaotzu, he’s easy either way.    He’s got his money, he’s got his corn, he doesn’t mind peacing out and leaving Goku to die.

Meanwhile, Bulma wakes up from a nightmare involving Goku getting impaled on Inoshikacho’s antlers.   

Yamcha and Krillin don’t know what the big deal is.

As for the real Goku, he’s just fine.   He wakes up in the home of a girl named Tanmen, who feeds him.  I’m a little unclear on how he escaped from that tree, but the point is that he survived and he’s totally fine now that he’s got some food in him.   Goku explains Tien’s scam to Tanmen, and she’s pretty upset about it.

Meanwhile, Tien and Chiaotzu have already moved on to the next town.   Inoshikacho is wreaking havoc, and they’re just waitng for the right time to move in.   “I hope they have corn,” Chiaotzu says.   “They will,” Tien replies.

On his way after Tien, Goku runs into the same family as before.   Turns out they left the first village and took refuge in the very one that Inoshikacho is terrorizing right now.   Goku resolves to settle their has this time. 

By the time Goku arrives, T&C have already “captured” Inoshikacho and have it trussed up.  

But Goku comes along and tickles the supposedly “dead” monster and reveals that he’s still alive.   This proves that Tien and Chiaotzu are in choots with Inoshikacho!

But wait!  Tien puts a burning piece of wood under Inoshikacho, which proves he’s NOT in cahoots.   Would he allow an accomplice to suffer and die like this?   On the other hand, Goku takes pity on the creature and frees him, which Tien uses to “prove” that Goku’s the one who’s in cahoots with Inoshikacho!   

That trick fools the villagers into turning on Goku, but it also turns Inoshikacho against Tien.  He shoots him a dirty look as Goku comforts him, and the boys realize that Inoshikacho might never trust them again.

Goku doesn’t want to fight the villagers, and Inoshikacho is still hurt from his burn, so Goku has to pick him up and take him away to Tanmen’s village for help.

I think this is something that’s often overlooked whenever there’s discourse about Goku being a good husband or father.    He hardly knows Inoshikacho, other than the fact that he was a bad guy until about ten minutes ago, but he’s still carrying him all the way to the next town, just to get him some medical attention.   The argument I’ve seen is that Goku thinks about his wife and sons no differently from anyone else he knows, but that still goes a long, long way.   Personally, I think Goku loves his wife a lot more than Inoshikacho here, but even if this were as far as it goes, Goku would still be a great husband.   Most guys wouldn’t carry their wives several miles at night to save them from an angry mob.

Eventually Tanmen convinces the mob from the other village that Goku’s on the level, and everyone agrees to forgive Inoshikacho.   Inoshikacho, in turn, promises to be good, and he starts helping out around town and being a cool friend.   When Goku mentions that he’s training for the Tenkaichi Tournament, Inoshikacho offers to spar with him.   The narrator suggests that this is a big deal, since Inoshikacho knows how Tien fights, so this’ll be good preparation for Goku.   That might be overselling it a little, but it’s definitely a nice gesture.  

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