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| Chi-Chi | |
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| チチ (Chi-Chi) | |
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Manga  Anime  | |
| Name Pun | "milk" or "breast" |
| Manga Debut | Dragon Ball Chapter 11 |
| Anime Debut | Dragon Ball Episode 7 |
| Japanese VA |
Mayumi Shō (DB & Z 1-66) Naoko Watanabe (Z 88-291, GT, Kai) |
| Funimation VA |
Laura Bailey (Child) Cynthia Cranz (Adult) |
| Personal Data | |
| Birth | 05 November, Age 737[1][2] |
| Death |
08 May, Age 774[4] Age 779[5] (Reversed) |
| Height | 163 cm[3] |
| Weight | 50 kg[3] |
| Occupation | Housewife |
| Relationship Data | |
| Family | Ox Demon King (father) |
| Spouse | Son Goku |
| Children |
Son Gohan Son Goten |
Chi-Chi is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. Chi-Chi makes her debut in chapter 11, published in the 1985 #11 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. A skilled fighter who becomes a doting wife and mother, Chi-Chi is one of the principal female characters of the series.
Biography
Name
Chi-Chi's name is derived from the Japanese term for "milk" or "breast", 乳 (chichi), but spelled phonetically using katakana as チチ. Chi-Chi's name pun may be cow-related to mark her as the daughter of the Ox Demon King.[6]
Production
Unlike many of the other early Dragon Ball characters, Chi-Chi is only lightly adapted from her analogue in Journey to the West. In the original story, the Ox Demon King (Chinese: 牛魔王, Niú mówáng; Japanese: Gyūmaō) has a son, the Red Boy (Chinese: 紅孩兒, Hóng hái'ér; Japanese: Kōgaiji), rather than a daughter. The Red Boy, a powerful martial artist who possesses the power of inextinguishable fire, becomes Sun Wukong's adversary. The Monkey King is forced to fight against his friend the Ox Demon King and his wife to steal the Bansho Fan (芭蕉扇, Bashō-sen) so that he can put out the fires on Flaming Mountain (adapted as Mount Frypan) and fight his rival. Sun Wukong is tricked by a fake fan and is nearly defeated.[7] While Toriyama borrowed characters and elements of this section of the manga from the Red Boy story, Chi-Chi herself is an original creation with little resemblance to the original work.
As Toriyama was developing his ideas for Dragon Ball, he drew prototype stories that incorporated elements that he would later reuse. Chi-Chi was not directly based on a character that appeared in these prototypes, but her character design shares elements of two of Toriyama's one-shot characters. Chi-Chi's childhood outfit, introduced with her first appearance in chapter 11, resembles a stereotypical pulp warrior-woman including sexual (but non-practical) armor such as an exaggerated brassier, bikini-like lower garment, and cape.[8] This design closely resembles Pola from Toriyama's one-shot Pola & Roid, released in 1981.[9] Chi-Chi's overall look may also incorporate elements from the Princess of the Flower Country from his Dragon Boy one-shot in 1983 including her hair style and Chinese-style dress.[10] While Pola used her sex-appeal as an integral part of her character, Chi-Chi is portrayed as an innocent child despite her dress, closer in personality to the Princess. The anime continued to use this initial design for her character in her filler episode appearances until Toriyama debuted her adult design in chapter 137.[11]
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Pola from Pola & Roid may have served as one inspiration for Chi-Chi's early design. -
The Princess from Dragon Boy also resembles Chi-Chi. -
Chi-Chi's childhood design appears to fuse aspects of both characters. -
Chi-Chi's young adult depiction reinforces the Chinese elements of her design.
Notable Skills
In Chi-Chi's earliest appearances, she is depicted as a capable fighter and is able to dispatch a dinosaur using the weapons in her helmet. This helmet features a detachable "mohawk" boomerang that Chi-Chi can throw, as well as a gem for firing laser beams. In this first encounter, Chi-Chi decapitates the dinosaur with the boomerang then completely destroys its body using her laser.[12] These features, and Chi-Chi's pose while using them, closely resemble those of the main character in Ultraseven, a sequel to Ultraman released in 1967. In that series, the boomerang attack was referred to as the "Eye Slugger" (アイスラッガー Ai Suraggā), while the laser beam was called the "Emerium Ray".[13] Despite her skills, she was easily overcome by Yamcha who was able to dodge her helmet-blasts and knock her unconscious. Later in an anime-only sequence scripted by Keiji Terui in episode 32, Chi-Chi is powerful enough to defeat nearly a dozen Red Ribbon Army soldiers under the command of Colonel Silver, although she was distraught by the battle. This group even managed to capture her father, the Ox Demon King, a former pupil of the Turtle Hermit.[14]
Several years later, Chi-Chi enters the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai. She enters anonymously, with her official spot in the tournament roster listed as 匿名希望 (tokunakinozomu), meaning "name withheld by request". She is able to defeat her preliminary opponents and is seeded into the tournament with a first-round battle against Son Goku[15] Chi-chi puts up a good fight, so much so that the Turtle Hermit recognizes her technique as being from his own style, but Goku defeats her easily. So as not to hit her directly, he pushes her out of the ring using only a shockwave.[16] Although Chi-Chi primarily focuses on being a wife and mother, she appears to have kept up her skills enough train Son Goten while his older brother was busy.[17]
In both her childhood and young adult appearances, Chi-Chi has been depicted as being pure enough of heart that she could ride the Kintoun. She is only of only a handful of characters depicted who could still ride it as an adult.[18]
Red Blazing Aura
In anime-only material first seen in the Garlic Jr. Saga (episode 109 of Dragon Ball Z), Chi-Chi is enveloped by a red glow when she becomes angry. This is seen again in episode 75 of Dragon Ball Super. This "technique" is not given a name on screen or in Japanese reference material, but it is referred to as "Red Blazing Aura" in the Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game. It may have been a stylistic choice adopted by the animators to demonstrate Chi-Chi's rage, connecting her "rage boost" with that depicted by her son, Gohan, in the manga and anime. It may also be a visual reference to her husband's Kaiō-ken technique.
Performance
Chi-Chi was performed initially by Mayumi Shō who voiced her from her first appearance up until Dragon Ball Z episode 66 in late 1990. She was subsequently replaced on the series and nearly all subsequent character work by Naoko Watanabe. Watanabe had previously performed as Pu'er, Snow, and other characters before taking on Chi-Chi as well.
Notes
TBD
External Links
References
- ↑ "Character Biography Data". Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1986 #37. Japan: Shueisha, 12 August 1986. (pp. 19-21)
"Character Biography Data" (01 December 2014). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 20 March 2019. - ↑ "Chronological Table of DB World". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia. Japan: Shueisha, 05 February 1996. ISBN 4-08-782757-7. (pp. 20-21)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Human Racial Dictionary". Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia. Japan: Shueisha, 09 May 2013. ISBN 978-4-08-782499-5. (pp. 92)
- ↑ "Chronological Table of DB World". Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia. Japan: Shueisha, 05 February 1996. ISBN 4-08-782757-7. (pp. 32-33)
- ↑ "Akira Toriyama Returns With a Brief Comment! The Freeza Revival Project". Dragon Ball: Volume “F”. Japan: Shueisha, 18 April 2015. (p. 25)
- ↑ TODO: Herm's guide cites DF, track down the reference.
- ↑ TODO: Cite Journey to the West chapters and verify.
- ↑ TODO: cite chapter 11
- ↑ TODO: Cite "Pola & Roid"
- ↑ TODO: Cite Dragon Boy
- ↑ TODO: cite chapter 137
- ↑ TODO: Cite chapter 11
- ↑ FIXME: Add Japanese
- ↑ TODO: DB Episode 32
- ↑ TODO: Ch168
- ↑ TODO: Ch 171
- ↑ TODO: Ch 427
- ↑ TODO: Cite Ch12? where she rides it with Goku as a kid and at the end of the 23rd tournament when she rides it again.