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Aru Village
	Anime Manga
English Name(s)	Aru Village
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 5
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Z Episode 4
Appears in	Manga & Anime; (Named in Anime Only)
Locational Data
Planet	Earth
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Aru Village is a small community in the original Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama, appearing solely in Chapters 5 and 6. The name of the village is obstructed in the original manga, but a full name was created for it in the anime adaptation. Son Goku and Bulma visit the village on their first Dragon Ball hunt in Age 749.

General Overview

Aru Village is a small collection of at least twelve numbered houses around a central square located in eastern part of the main continent of Earth (section B-4). (In the manga, the houses are numbered with twelve the highest number seen, while the houses are not numbered in the anime adaptation.) In contrast to Bulma's capsule houses and Oolong's mansion, the village is depicted as primitive with manual water pumps outside and no visible technology in the houses. Daizenshuu 3 says that Sherman Priest is the village's mayor, but this is not directly indicated in the manga or anime.^[1]

Around Age 749, the town is attacked by the "demon" Oolong who kidnaps several girls (Hedge, Hogg, and Lee) and plans to take more. Son Goku and Bulma arrive while searching for a Dragon Ball and agree to help out. They successfully rescue the girls in exchange for the Six-Star Ball which had been kept in the town by Grandma Paozu.

Important Residents

Grandma Paozu
Hedge
Hogg
Lee
Oolong (lives in a manor just outside the village)
Sherman Priest

Name

In the original manga, only the word "Village" in English is visible on a sign at the entrance to the community. In the anime, the full sign reading "Aru Village" is seen. The sign is broken during Oolong's attempt to kidnap Sherman Priest's daughter.^[2] Although written in English on an entrance sign as if to denote a proper name, in Japanese "aru" (ある) is an article meaning "a" or "some". The humor is in the tension between the name appearing to be proper and the content of the name being generic, essentially a town named "A Town". Whether or not this was intended to be a "real" name for the village or just a throwaway joke (in the style of several place names in Dr. Slump) is unknown.

In the Famicom game Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokuden: Totsugeki-Hen, the village is renamed "Yan-Yan Village". Like with the anime, this decision keeps Toriyama's use of the word "Village" in the name but selects a different prefix.^[3]

Production

TBD (at some point)

Notes

TBD

External Links

TBD

References

↑ "Library of Adventure". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 3: TV Animation Part 1. Japan: Shueisha, 04 September 1995. ISBN 4-08-782753-4. (pp. 139)
↑ "The Kidnapping Demon, Oolong". Dragon Ball. Episode 4. Japan: Fuji TV, 19 March 1986.
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[1] "Library of Adventure". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 3: TV Animation Part 1. Japan: Shueisha, 04 September 1995. ISBN 4-08-782753-4. (pp. 139)

[2] "The Kidnapping Demon, Oolong". Dragon Ball. Episode 4. Japan: Fuji TV, 19 March 1986.

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 ==General Overview==
-Aru Village is a small collection of numbered houses around a central square; twelve is the highest house number depicted in the manga although not all numbers are visible. (In the [[Dragon Ball (anime)|anime adaptation]], the houses are not numbered.) In contrast to [[Bulma]]'s [[capsule]] houses and [[Oolong]]'s mansion, the village is depicted as primitive with manual water pumps outside and no visible technology in the houses. ''[[Daizenshuu 3]]'' says that [[Sherman Priest]] is the village's mayor, but this is not directly indicated in the manga or anime.<ref>{{Cite guidebook|Title="Library of Adventure"|Book=7|Page=pp. 139}}</ref>
+Aru Village is a small collection of at least twelve numbered houses around a central square located in eastern part of the main continent of [[Earth]] (section B-4). (In the manga, the houses are numbered with twelve the highest number seen, while  the houses are not numbered in the [[Dragon Ball (anime)|anime adaptation]].) In contrast to [[Bulma]]'s [[capsule]] houses and [[Oolong]]'s mansion, the village is depicted as primitive with manual water pumps outside and no visible technology in the houses. ''[[Daizenshuu 3]]'' says that [[Sherman Priest]] is the village's mayor, but this is not directly indicated in the manga or anime.<ref>{{Cite guidebook|Title="Library of Adventure"|Book=7|Page=pp. 139}}</ref>
 Around [[Age 749]], the town is attacked by the "demon" Oolong who kidnaps several girls ([[Hedge]], [[Hogg]], and [[Lee]]) and plans to take more. [[Son Goku]] and [[Bulma]] arrive while searching for a [[Dragon Balls|Dragon Ball]] and agree to help out. They successfully rescue the girls in exchange for the Six-Star Ball which had been kept in the town by [[Grandma Paozu]].