השעון מתקתק והזמן אוזל – הטורניר ממש בעוד כמה ימים! גוקו פוגש חבר שמנסה לעזור לו לתפוס את הטיסה האחרונה לטורניר, האם הוא יספיק?! גוקו תמהר!

The 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai at last opens! When Kuririn and Yamcha arrive at the tournament grounds, the Turtle Hermit’s rival the Crane Hermit and his disciples Chiaotzu and Tenshinhan appear before them! The Crane Hermit leaves after saying some dreadfully insulting things! Meanwhile, Goku is nowhere to be found, and the tournament registration deadline has almost come! As everyone worries, Goku appears in the nick of time!! The friends enjoy their three-year reunion!

The tournament preliminaries have begun! Kuririn and Yamcha naturally advance through their respective brackets. Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu show up there, and rile them up with their bold demeanor. Sparks fly between the Turtle Hermit and the Crane Hermit’s disciples before the matches have even begun. Tenshinhan easily wins during his first appearance in the preliminaries, displaying a mere fraction of his bottomless ability! And then Goku’s turn has finally come! His opponent is King Chapa, well known as a master!!

Goku’s match against King Chapa begins! It seems that even Goku was having a difficult fight, but he brushed King Chapa’s attacks aside like they were nothing and achieved a sweeping victory!! Afterwards, Goku and the others continue to do well at advancing in the preliminaries! And Jackie Chun, the champion of the previous tournament, naturally advances as well! Meanwhile, Tenshinhan cruelly defeats Namu, who had fought against Goku in the semi-finals during the previous tournament! Goku and co. plus Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu thus ended up all participating in the main tournament!

A lottery takes place to decide the match opponents out of the eight contestants who have survived into the main tournament. Tenshinhan uses Chiaotzu’s psychic powers to fix the match combinations as he sees fit! Because of this, the first match becomes a match of Yamcha versus Tenshinhan!! Yamcha harbors an extraordinary animosity towards the provocative Tenshinhan! When the match then starts, it becomes a white-hot offensive and defensive battle, with neither side giving an inch!!

Yamcha and Tenshinhan violently clash! Yamcha uses the Shin Roga fu-fu ken against Tenshinhan, but is gradually pushed back and is in a pinch. As his final hand, Yamcha fires a Kamehameha!! But Tenshinhan deflects the Kamehameha and defeats the faltering Yamcha in midair! Furthermore, he strikes the already unconscious Yamcha with a finishing blow! Goku burns with intense anger at the coldhearted Tenshinhan!!

The Manwolf, who goes up against Jackie Chun in the second match, seems to harbor a grudge towards Jackie for some reason! The cause of this turns out to be because Jackie destroyed the moon with a Kamehameha in the previous tournament. Since then the Manwolf, who transforms into a human when he looks at the moon, has been unable to return to being a human. Jackie handles the Manwolf with ease and wins the match!! He then chooses Kuririn’s head to stand in for the moon, and restores the Manwolf to being human.

The third match becomes a showdown between Kuririn and Chiaotzu! Kuririn is bewildered by Chiaotzu’s strange techniques!! Flying freely through the air, Chiaotzu fires a “Dodonpa“, the same technique used by the assassin Tao Pai-pai! It turns out that Tao Pai-pai is actually the Crane Hermit’s younger brother!! After learning that Goku defeated Tao Pai-pai, the Crane Hermit orders Chiaotzu to kill Kuririn! Cornered, Kuririn resolves to using a Kamehameha!!

The Kamehameha that Kuririn fired hits Chiaotzu head-on! Angered, Chiaotzu uses his psychic powers to prevent Kuririn from moving, and attacks him! But Kuririn realizes that Chiaotzu releases his psychic powers through his hands, and instantly throws out a math question! He then defeats Chiaotzu as Chiaotzu tries to use his hands to do the calculations!! That night, Goku is attacked by the Crane Hermit! However, Tenshinhan enters and stops him, vowing that he will defeat Goku in their match!!

Goku’s turn has come at last! His opponent is the popular action star, contestant Panputto! But Panputto’s manager is afraid of Goku’s strength, and right before the match he tricks Goku and takes him away! As Goku is on the verge of losing by default, through Lunch’s help he barely manages to make it to the match on time! The match then begins, and Goku wins in the blink of an eye! Goku has already acquired strength above the level of an ordinary human!!

The first match of the semi-finals ends up being a matchup of Jackie Chun versus Tenshinhan! Before the match, the two both burn with fierce fighting spirit!! The match then begins! Jackie uses a multi-fold Zanzouken, but Tenshinhan splendidly breaks through it!! Having made light of Jackie, Tenshinhan is overwhelmed by his strength! Meanwhile, seeing that Tenshinhan possess power greater than he imagined, Jackie begins to feel that a new age is coming!!

הקרב המותח בין טינשן האן לג'קי צ'אן ממשיך! במהלך הקרב מתנהלת שיחה בין השניים, מה ג'קי צ'אן מציע לטינשן האן, ומה משניהם ינצח?!

לאחר פרישתו של ג'קי צ'אן מהתחרות, טינשן האן לא מפסיק לעשות חושבים... גוקו וקרירין עולים לקרב השישי, ונלחמים זה בזה! מי מהם יפתח את הקרב ויוביל? ומה טינשן האן חושב?!

הקרב בין גוקו לקרירין ממשיך! הקרב המדהים מעורר את תלמידיו של צורו סנין, ואפילו מאסטר רושי בעצמו מופתע! קרירין לא נלחם הכי "נקי" וגוקו כרגיל תמים! האם קרירין ינצח בעזרת תרגיל מלוכלך? ומה טינשן האן חושב על גוקו עכשיו?!

מתוך 182 לוחמים אשר התחרו בטנקאיצ'י בודוקאי, רק 2 נותרו ועלו לגמר! הלוא הם גוקו וטינשן האן! הקרב המותח אשר כולם חיכינו לו מגיע.

קרב הגמר בתחרות הטנקאיצ'י בודוקאי, אשר התחיל לטובת טינשן האן, מתהפך פעמים רבות. גוקו, שמבין שרצונו של טינשן הוא להרוג אותו, נלחם בכל כוחו ומפתיע את טינשן. אך משהו מסתורי קורה במהלך הקרב.

תרגיל מלוכלך אחר תרגיל מלוכלך! מה קורה לגוקו במהלך הטורניר?! האם בעזרת זה טינשן האן יצליח לנצח אותו?

To test Goku’s ability, Tenshinhan uses his still even more secret technique, the Shiyou-ken! Two arms appear from his back, and Tenshinhan attacks with all four arms!! But Goku continues his attack without even flinching! In order to decide the match, Tenshinhan resolves to use his ultimate secret technique, the Kikouhou (Energy Cannon)! It’s a frightful technique that has destructive power many levels greater than the Kamehameha! The arena is then completely blown away by the Kikouhou!!

סופה של התחרות כבר כאן, וטינשן האן משתמש במתקפה המטורפת שלו כדי להביס את גוקו. גוקו לא נשאר אדיש למצב, אבל... מה ינצח את התחרות, והאם מילותיו של רושי נכנסו לראשו של טינשן האן?