30.01.2024
The Weekly ☆ Character Showcase is an article series where we introduce one character from the Dragon Ball universe each week. For the 142nd installment, we are taking a closer look at Bulma's mom!
Wife of the genius scientist Dr. Brief and mother of Bulma.
Always smiling, she's got a cheerful, go-at-your-own-pace sort of personality.
When young Goku was in the midst of his battle for the Dragon Balls against the Red Ribbon Army, he visits the Capsule Corporation, where Bulma grew up, to repair the Dragon Radar.
As Bulma was showing Goku the effects of the Micro-Band her mom suddenly appeared, and then stepped on her daughter who had shrunk to a size smaller than her mom's heels!
(Tale 69)
She kept blabbing to Goku all about Bulma's business like her fights with Yamcha, causing her daughter to see red.
(Tale 69)
Smiling, she says to Bulma, now exasperated, "Must you be so rebellious, dear?"
(Tale 69)
When Bulma's mom came to see the spaceship bound for Planet Namek that Goku had entrusted to Dr. Brief, she was overjoyed to see Goku all grown up.
After taking Goku by the arm she invites him out saying, "We should go out for drinks... after you beat up those Saiyans!"
(Tale 251)
During the Cell Saga, Bulma's mom looks at her daughter strangely when her daughter had come by asking her to babysit because, as Bulma explained, "I'm going to see my baby all grown up!"
(Tale 358)
"Dragon Ball" Tale 69
Dr. Brief (Husband)
Tights (Eldest Daughter)
Bulma (Youngest Daughter)
Her name that was kept secret for so long is... Panchy?!
Panchy (a continuation in the family tradition of undergarment-based names) wasn't given a name in the manga and was always simply referred to as Bulma's mom. In an interview Akira Toriyama said jokingly, "if I were to have named her at the time, it would have probably been 'Panchy'".
(Dragon Ball Complete Edition: Official Guide "Dragon Ball FOREVER: Android Arc ~ Majin Buu Arc")
→Preview: Scroll down to the comments for a hint about who next week's character will be!
*All comic images are from the Japanese version.
This site includes machine-translated texts. Please be aware that you might find some unusual expressions that are difficult to understand.
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