One of the fighters in Murasaki's flashback resembles Spade from Fist of the North Star.

However, he appears to have his left hand intact despite it having been destroyed by Goku's Power Pole in the previous episode.

At the start of the episode, Major Metallitron can be seen through General White's viewscreen.

This too does not happen in the manga as he notices him in the pond immediately.

Goku searches the house near the pond that Murasaki is hiding in to find a stew and a hidden stash of Dirty Magazines in the anime.

In the anime, when Goku knocks Murasaki out of the tree, he drops a photo of two women in their underwear then frantically demands it back when Goku picks it up.

General White's description and his visions of Ninja Murasaki defeating other Ninja are exclusive to the anime.

Suno's appearance where she prays for Goku is exclusive to the anime.

Goku faces the Ninja Murasaki on the fourth floor.

Goku dodges it, but it comes back and hits him on the back of his head. Goku accepts, but Ninja Murasaki has a metal boomerang behind his back and throws it at Goku. Then he challenges Goku to fight him unarmed. Goku slices his sword and Ninja Murasaki yells at him. Goku then pulls it out and Ninja Murasaki is in pain.

He starts to scream in pain and jump around. Then Ninja Murasaki lands on the pole, as it goes up his behind. Ninja Murasaki jumps into the air and is about to lunge at Goku, but Goku sticks his Power Pole into the ground and moves away. They then start to fight, as Murasaki pulls out his sword and Goku uses his Power Pole. They keep running until Ninja Murasaki is out of breath. Murasaki after landing on Goku's Power Pole Goku then runs back into the house, where he finds some sandals. He throws spikes onto the ground and Goku steps on them. Ninja Murasaki is surprised that Goku is catching up. Murasaki tells Goku to follow him, to see if he could keep up, so Goku runs after him. Ninja Murasaki jumps out of the water and yells at Goku because he burnt his tongue. He takes the teapot and pours it down the pipe. Goku goes back into the house and gets a teapot off of the stove. He then goes back outside to see a pipe underwater. He walks into a house and looks under a board to see a lot of dirty magazines. He looks everywhere for Ninja Murasaki, but can't seem to find him. Once he finished, he immediately starts searching for Murasaki. He opens his eyes, to see that Ninja Murasaki is about to hide under a hollow rock. Goku counts to twenty-five but gets stuck on twenty-six. Then, Murasaki asks Goku to close his eyes and count to thirty, while Ninja Murasaki hides.

Murasaki swallowing the hot water Goku poured into the pipe he is breathing from Then Ninja Murasaki says that he can never find him, but Goku finds him behind a flag. Then Ninja Murasaki starts jumping around quickly, but Goku hits him with the rock into a tree. Goku picks up a rock and says that it is his turn. Goku then realizes where it is coming from and barely dodges Murasaki's kunai. The lights come on and a forest is revealed. Kunai start flying towards Goku, but he dodges all of them. He walks around complaining about how dark it is. Goku goes up the stairs onto the 4th floor of the Muscle Tower.

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