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Krillin / クリリン

From: DragonBall

Krillin is one of Goku’s oldest friends, meeting him when they train withMaster Roshi.  He is generally a comedy relief character, providing one-liners and humour during tense moments.  His weakness compared to the other main characters is made up in his ability to trick enemies to his advantage.

Little is known about Krillin’s life prior to meeting Goku but he came from a monastery to seek training to help him beat up his enemies.  Thinking of himself as Goku’s rival, the two slowly become friends during their training rituals.  Compared to characters like Gohan, Piccolo and Vegeta, Krillin represents a human outlook on the events in DragonBall, often being the only one to comment on absurd and outlandish situations.

Possibly the strongest human in existence, Krillin was given opportunities unlike any other regular human, including having his full potential unlocked by the Namekian Elder Guru.  His ability in ki attacks is surpassed by very few.  During the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament another lifelong friend, Yamcha mentions to his daughter Marron that he is the strongest human alive.

Due to his place in the story as a main human character, Krillin is killed more than anyone else in the entire series.  His “first” death at the hands of King Piccolo’s aide Tamborine, brings tears to even Blonde Lunch, a character usually perceived as hard-nosed and unable to care about people around her.

When Goku’s evil brother Raditz comes to Earth, Krillin is one of the fighters that notices his presence through detecting his ki.  Devastated by Goku’s death and the kidnapping of his son Gohan Jr, Krillin and the other fighters train with the Guardian of the Earth, Kami.  When Nappa and Vegeta arrive on Earth, he becomes enraged at Yamcha’s death.  When Goku and Vegeta are evenly matched and Vegeta attempts to escape,  Krillin attempts to finish him with a ki attack, but allows him to escape at Goku’s wishes.

Krillin is quick to offer his support to Goku and head to Namek to search for the rumoured Namekian Dragon Balls.  There, he, Gohan and Bulma try to track the Balls with Bulma’s Dragon Radar.  When Goku arrives on Namek and has his body stolen by Captain Ginyu, Krillin, despite knowing Goku for several years, can not tell him apart from the real Goku.

After reluctantly joining forces with Vegeta to fight Frieza, Krillin is impaled on Frieza’s horns but is healed by the young Namekian Dende, who later comes to Earth as its new Guardian.  Despite this assistance, Krillin is later murdered by a telekinetic attack that explodes his body.

After Goku defeats Frieza, Krillin is revived and settles into a hopefully more peaceful life on earth.  Later, he gets his first girlfriend, Marron, although this story only appears as anime filler and this Marron has no resemblance to her.

When the Androids predicted by Future Trunks are unleashed on the Earth, Krillin steps up to fight them.  However, he is not a match to their power despite his training efforts.  Bulma creates a device that will remotely shut down the Androids’ bodies and tasks Krillin with activating it within range.  Determined to follow through, but hesitating at the last minute, Krillin sees how frightened #18 is and remembers the kiss she gave him.  Deciding that it’s possible to work with the human side of her his decision to not kill her draws a parallel to Goku’s second chance given to Vegeta.

At the Cell Games, Krillin fought one of Cell’s offspring, Cell Jr.  Returning to Kami’s Lookout, with #18’s injured body, he makes a wish to Shenron to remove the bombs in the Androids’ bodies.  Hearing this act of kindness, #18 thanks him for his wish, showing that she may harbour feelings for him.  At some point during the following 3-4 years they have a daughter called Marron.  She is approximately 3 years old during her first appearance seven years after the Cell Games.

Krillin also makes small efforts to fight Majin Buu, but at this point his strength is thoroughly outclassed by enemy strengths.  He is turned into food and eaten along with the other friends and family of the earth’s fighters.

Krillin appears in DragonBall GT with an aged appearance.  He does not fight much but is killed by Super Android #17.  #18, devastated by his death, goes mad with rage and attacks him.  Shortly thereafter he is revived and during his last appearance he has a friendly sparring match with Goku.  To both of their surprise, wins.  Goku then suddenly disappears leaving Krillin confused.

Krillin’s name is similar in almost every dub of the show, with the biggest differences being his Harmony Gold dub name, Bongo, and his Arabic name, Shehab, which translates to “comet”.

Krillin does not have a nose, a fact that he forgets when fighting against Bacterian, in the World Martial Arts Tournament.  Bacterian gains the upper hand on his opponents with his terrible body odour.

Krillin and Goku are the only two characters seen in the anime to use the Spirit Bomb attack. 

Krillin is seen on the This Is album cover, released by popular group The Who.

Despite being three years younger than Yamcha, Krillin ages at a much faster rate.  At 54 years old in DragonBall GT, Krillin looks much more aged than the 57 year old Yamcha.

Akira Toriyama stated in one of the DragonBall Daizenshuu that Krillin’s favourite food is Chinese buffet.

His Japanese voice actor is Mayumi Tanaka who is now known for voicing the character Luffy in the One Piece anime.

チチ　（孫　チチ）　/　Chi-Chi (Son Chi-Chi)

Name meaning: Milk (literally breasts and father)

From: DragonBall

Chi-Chi is first introduced in the early chapters of the DragonBall manga.  She is a human girl, the daughter of the Ox King and an unknown mother.  In her first appearance she is being chased by a viscous dinosaur, but uses the blade on her helmet to decapitate it and a laser to destroy the body.  While she is not helpless, she doesn’t appear to like violence, showing fear until a pivotal moment where she unleashes large fighting potential.  This trait is later shown in her son, Gohan, where he blanks out in dangerous situations, letting his innate Saiya defences protect him, then being unaware of his ability.

Chi-Chi is one of the few characters in DragonBall that is pure enough to ride Goku’s Nimbus Cloud unaided.  In contrast to Krillin, Bulma and Master Roshi, who need to hold onto Goku, shrink themselves or simply cannot set foot on the vehicle, Chi-Chi happily sits with Goku, showing her pure nature.

When Chi-Chi first meets Goku, she, as a pre-pubescent girl, becomes obsessed with the idea of marrying him.  She even thought that then-villlain Yamcha was boyfriend material when they first met, simply because he was handsome and falsely confessed his love for her to cover his initial physical attack against her.  Being the daughter of the Ox King gave her a fearsome reputation that Goku was unaware of, which heightened her feelings for him.  When Goku “pat-pat”ted her genitals to confirm whether she was a male or not, she thought he was hitting on her.  She made Goku promise to marry her and he agreed, thinking “marriage” was a type of food.

Chi-Chi later reveals in DragonBall Z that her and Goku’s first date had ended in a sparring match.  Chi-Chi, having forced Goku to take her out, had flirted with him, asking him what he would like to do.  Goku suggested a fight, since it was his favourite thing to do and while she was initially surprised, Chi-Chi found herself enjoying it a lot, proving to be a good match for him.  Chi-Chi remarked that it was a great first date, though it is unsure if she and Goku continued sparring throughout their marriage.

Goku and Chi-Chi meet again during the Red Ribbon Army’s reign of terror.  Chi-Chi and her father hastily prepare a wedding when they are informed by a psychic that Goku is returning to their village.  Colonel Silver attacks the village and Goku and Chi-Chi team up to stop their advance, with Chi-Chi defeating a number of soldiers single-handedly.  When Goku goes to leave, Chi-Chi asks him about their wedding and Goku assures her that he will “try it next time” (still thinking marriage is a food).

At the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, Chi-Chi enters the competition and stops by Goku to greet him.  When Goku doesn’t recognize her, she becomes mad and insults him.  She later tells him that if he beats her in the final that she will reveal her identity to him, although Oolong and Master Roshi have already realised who she is.  Goku beats her with the air pressure force of one punch and is surprised to discover her identity.

Asked again about the wedding, Goku states that he has no idea what marriage is, but keeps his promise and proposes to her in front of the attending crowd.  Chi-Chi tells Goku that she loves him and kisses him on the cheek.  She also apologizes to Yamcha for his long-forgotten and unrequited love confession and says she hopes he finds someone soon (which irritates Bulma).

Goku and Chi-Chi’s wedding is the natural conclusion of the DragonBall series, with Chi-Chi donning her mother’s wedding dress for the occasion.  The anime continues the story somewhat, with the newlyweds embarking on short adventures before the DragonBall anime came to a conclusion.  During the several years that the manga and anime did not cover, Chi-Chi gave birth to her first son, Gohan Jr, who was named for Goku’s adoptive grandfather.

Chi-Chi becomes a protective mother of her son, possibly because of her own mother’s early death and her wish for childhood normalcy that she never had for herself.  Young Gohan studies rigorously and is forbidden from fighting and training with his father, although he keeps the tail he was born with.  Unbeknownst to Goku or Chi-Chi, the Saiya’s tail causes them to become Giant Apes when looking at the full moon, but Goku states that they “go to bed early” and thus have never seen a full moon.

When Gohan is kidnapped by Goku’s brother Raditz, Chi-Chi believes that her husband is staying out late on purpose and rushes over to Kame House with her father in tow.  The pair are horrified to learn of Goku’s death and Gohan’s kidnapping by his rival Piccolo, although Chi-Chi appears to accept this rather well and does not rescue her son.  A year later, when Prince Vegeta and Nappa arrive on earth, she arms herself with a multitude of weapons intending to fight alongside her resurrected husband and allies.  She harboured some resentment towards Goku for allowing Gohan to fight Vegeta, although it had been Piccolo’s plan, and ignored him when they arrived at the post-battle scene.  Despite her anger, she did in fact care for Goku at Wukong Hospital while allowing Gohan to travel to the Namekian homeworld with Krillin and Bulma.  She attempted to follow them later on but was thwarted by dilapidated space travel machinery.

Chi-Chi continues to encourage Gohan in his academic studies, even going so far as to hire him a private tutor.  This ends abruptly when the instructor insults her husband and she beats him with her bare hands.  She grudgingly accepts Piccolo into her home when he stays with Goku and Gohan to train and patiently deals with being injured on a regular basis while her husband and son get used to their Super Saiya forms.  She reluctantly allows Gohan to train for the battle with Cell, but forces Goku and Piccolo to get their driver’s licences so they can contribute to the household.

Chi-Chi nurses Goku when he falls ill with his heart virus and is widowed when he is killed during the battle with Cell.  She later gives birth to Goku’s second son whom she calls Goten.  In contrast to her upbringing of Gohan, she trains Goten on a regular basis, although she doesn’t allow him to become a Super Saiyan.  Gohan is surprised at Goten’s abilities when he finally begins training his brother in secret with future wife, Videl.

Chi-Chi has an ongoing friendship with Bulma and later Android #18 and Videl.  Her friendship with Bulma often extends to rivalry similar to the pair’s husbands, with them bickering over who has the strongest son.  These rivalries are all in fun, as the pair will fiercely defend the other from verbal of physical attack.

Chi-Chi is briefly reunited with Goku at the World Martial Arts Tournament, however, when the evil Majin Buu is released, she is evacuated to the assumed safety of Kami’s Lookout along with other friends of the “Z-fighters”.  When the Lookout is breached by Buu, she boldly slaps him in the face and lectures him on his behaviour.  Chi-Chi is turned into an egg and stepped on in front of Goten.

Chi-Chi, along with other kindhearted people of the earth, is revived and supplies energy to Goku’s final Spirit Bomb that finally destroys Buu.  In DragonBall GT, she is shown to have frustration at Goku’s constant childlike mind, remarking that life with her husband is “much of the same” even when he is transformed into his child state by an ageing Emperor Pilaf.

She retains some authority over her two strong sons, slapping Goten for insolence when he is possessed by Baby, although she does not realise that he is not himself.  She goes into battle with Syn Shenron, deciding that she has nothing to lose.

Chi-Chi was one of a few characters to survive the Androids assault on the planet in Future Trunks’ timeline.  She is shown to have aged heavily in comparison to her regular self, likely due to the stress of losing her husband and her only son constantly battling the Androids.

Chi-Chi is voiced by Mayumi Sho and Naoko Watanabe at various points in the series and in gaming media.

Her name is revealed to be a pun on “milk” in the Japanese DragonBall FOREVER book.  The word “chichi” in Japanese can also mean breasts or even refer to the word for “father”.

The armour that Chi-Chi wears resembles the clothing Pola wears in Pola & Roid.

Her hair was intended to be blue, but was made black in the anime.

As an adult, all the clothing Chi-Chi wears is based on Chinese dresses or martial arts uniforms.

Her favourite food is the Chinese chimaki, a type of rice ball.  Her favourite occupation is farming and she particularly likes tractors.

(Source: dragonball.wikia.com)

“Lunch” by DarkYamatoman

This artwork featured both “sides” of the character Lunch/Launch.

Lunch-themed Bento boxes by Misako and maria.

Lunch / ランチ

From: DragonBall

Lunch is one of Goku’s companions.  Goku and Krilllin rescued her from pursuing policemen.  Unbeknownst to both the boys and Lunch herself, she has a bad tempered alternate personality who often commits crimes for the fun of it.  She resembles Police Officer Polly Buckets from Dr. Slump - who is a trigger happy policewoman.

When she has blue hair, Lunch is sweet-natured, quiet and caring but this is not to say her other personality is heartless.  Even Lunch’s Blonde form becomes quite close to Goku and Krillin, even becoming upset when Krillin is killed at the World Martial Arts Tournament.

Lunch’s two personalities alternate whenever she sneezes.  It’s unknown whether she was born with this ability or developed it at some point.  In the early days of English DragonBall fandom, her Blonde form was nicknamed “Kusami”, the Japanese expression for a sneeze.  Neither form remembers the other’s actions but it appears that Blonde Lunch’s character is slowly bought under control.

For a time Lunch lives with Master Roshi and Turtle at Kame House and is completely unaware of his constant perversions against her.  Blonde Lunch however, is more switched on and will not hesitate to resort to gunfire to those who irritate her.

Blonde Lunch was originally a felon in Brown Country, an area of earth that resembles a town from the Old West.  Blonde Lunch is their most wanted criminal, with a bounty of $2 000 000 Zeni, the currency of the series.  After coming to live with Goku, Krillin and Master Roshi, Lunch spends eight months cooking and cleaning leading up to the World Martial Arts Tournament.  Even after the Tournament, she remains living with them, her Blonde form making a deal with Master Roshi that she will not shoot him as long as he does what she says. 

She later proves to be a worthy adversary for even the Red Ribbon Army as she beats a soldier that invades their island.  Later, she joins them at the next World Martial Arts Tournament where she meets Tien Shinhan.  Although she dislikes him to begin with, she becomes attracted to him.  Their relationship is largely one-sided, with Tien Shinhan finding her Blonde form annoying, although he does still try and protect her.  After his death she drowns her sorrows in a bar.

Although she doesn’t appear often during the later parts of the manga and most of the DragonBall Z anime, she’s implied to have kept following Tien Shinhan and is seen at the end of the series giving her energy to Goku’s final Spirit Bomb against Buu.

She doesn’t appear much in DragonBall GT, but her outfit changes slightly, she appears aged and is present at the closing scenes of the show.

Lunch’s lack of appearance in later parts of the manga is due to Toriyama forgetting that she existed.  While he did reintroduce her in a brief comedic strip printed during the battle with Frieza, he later said that she didn’t make a full return due to possible confusion between her and the Super Saiyan forms of several other characters.

While Lunch’s outfit changes often, her red ribbon, fingerless gloves and tank top are staples of nearly all her outfits.

Although Lunch ages during the DragonBall series, her appearance during the 2008 anime Yo! Son Goku and his friends return!! she looks closer to her earlier appearances and looks like she aged backwards.  For this anime’s promotional poster, she is shown in her Blonde form, but it doesn’t appear in the actual show.

Lunch shares appearance characteristics with Ayla from Chrono Trigger - another character Toriyama designed.  She also looks similar to the Traffic Agent Lady from the 1988 Public Service film, Goku’s Traffic Safety.  This character is also voiced by the same voice actress.

Lunch is voiced by Mami Koyama and in several dubs, Lunch’s two forms have different voice actresses.

In the Harmony Gold dub, she is called Marilynn.

(Source: dragonball.wikia.com)

Jasmine and Oonaan / ジャスミン と ウンナン

From: DragonBall

These two meet Goku in Octagon Village, which is also where Oolong grew up.  Goku confuses both of them for Oolong.

Goku leaves Chi-Chi and Fortuneteller Baba at the Bansho Spa so they can relax.  Baba convinces Chi-Chi to join her in the springs but before she can undress, the change room is crushed by the weight of pigs including Jasmine and Oonaan trying to peek at her through gaps in the structure.  All the inhabitants of Octagon Village have a large perverted streak.

Goku discovers the likeness of the Bansho Fan at the bottom of the spa.  He removes it, which drains the spring revealing instructions on how to make the Bansho Fan.

Jasmine’s name is derived from Jasmine Tea.  Oonaan’s comes from Yunnan Tea.

Oolong / ウーロン

From: DragonBall

Oolong is a shape-shifting humanoid pig who meets Goku and Bulma during their first quest to find the Dragon Balls.  He is based loosely on the character Zhu Bajie/Zhu Wuneng aka “Pigsy” from Journey to the West.  He was prototyped in Toriyama’s earlier manga Dragon Boy, in the character Binyao - a shape-shifter with a bad attitude.  This type of character was also seen in the Donbe from Dr. Slump.

He was born in Octagon Village - a village filled with other humanoid pigs who shared his perverted desire to steal panties and other things.  He attended Shapeshifting Academy with Pu’ar, whom he bullied relentlessly.  He was later expelled for stealing the teacher’s panties which is why he can’t hold a form for more than 5 minutes.

While a major character throughout the early DragonBall stories, Oolong is relegated to a sideline character by the arrival of Goku’s Saiyan brother, Raditz.  This is mostly due to his strength not being able to match new threats to earth and he takes a back seat to the new main characters.

Oolong first met Goku in Aru Village - which he terrorised for money and girls that would become his brides.  Using his shape-shifting abilities he extorted cash from the villagers and kidnapped their young girls.  Because of the large form he took, the villagers never thought to fight back.  When Goku was set up to take the place of a bride he fought Oolong and won quickly.

Oolong led the villagers to his mansion where it was discovered that the girls had been pampered with expensive clothes, jewellery, food and more.  While Oolong had given off a terrifying aura to the villagers, in private he was easily pushed around and the girls had used him to get nice things for themselves.

Joining Bulma and Goku (albeit regretfully), Oolong travelled with them but made numerous escape attempts.  Each time he did, he would get lured back by Bulma tying her panties to a fishing line or using her Pee Pee Candy to stop him running away.  She uses Oolong’s transformation ability to bargain with Master Roshi to put the fire on Fire Mountain/Fry Pan Mountain.

While Oolong is usually cowardly he does have moments of bravery.  He intervenes during Emperor Pilaf’s wish to Shenron and stops the world from being taken over.  He has good deduction skills, identifying Chi-Chi as Goku’s mysterious opponent at the World Martial Arts Tournament.  When her identity is revealed and everyone is shocked, he remarks “I told you so!”.  He is also the first to think that Goku might not be human - which is revealed when Raditz arrives on earth.

Oolong is often depicted wearing a Chinese Communist uniform.  It’s thought that the design was a subtle message from Toriyama, and his character is also a parody of Mao Tse-Tung (aka Chairman Mao) as a literal “Communist Pig”.  With Oolong’s materialistic existence (surrounded by wealth and women) matching that of many Communist leaders this is likely intentional but Toriyama has never made an official statement on the fact.  It’s possible his outfit is based purely on the semi-Chinese setting DragonBall started in.

Oolong appears in two of the three live action DragonBall movies.  In the Korean film Fight Son Goku, Win Son Goku he is portrayed by an actor in a costume resembling his manga counterpart.  In DragonBall: The Magic Begins he is portrayed by a human and called “Piggy”.

Oolong’s name, like Pu’ar and Yamcha, comes from Oolong Tea.

In DragonBall GT, the character Zoonama lives in a very similar manner to early Oolong.  Zoonama terrorises villagers by threatening to make earthquakes if they don’t give him brides.  In this instance, Trunks plays what was Goku’s role in the original series - dressing up as a woman to infiltrate his scheme.

When Oolong transforms into a handsome man in Aru Village, he resembles Senbei Norimaki making his “serious face” (which Senbei can only hold for 3 minutes).

Dub names given to Oolong include MaoMao, Oscar, Pudgy and Goret.

He is voiced by Naoki Tatsuta, who is known for many other roles in anime and video games.  Tatsuta voiced Nurikabe in GeGeGe no Kitaro, Dr. Yuuri Kelllerman in Cowboy BeBop, Robita in Astro Boy and Sokolov in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.  He also voiced Porky Pig in various Japanese dubs of Loony Tunes.

(Source: dragonball.wikia.com)

Pu’ar fanart (DragonBall)

Artists: 朕(ちん）, てけんぐ, カンコ, まとま, もず 

Wolf Hurricane - Yamcha image song performed by Tohru Furuya.

This song was performed “by Yamcha” as sung by his Japanese voice actor.  Lyrics can be found here: Anime Lyrics.Com

Pu’ar seen smoking in the Chinese film DragonBall: Fight Son Goku, Win Son Goku.

Pretty badass.