Aru Village

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

Aru Village is a small community in the original Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama, appearing solely in Chapter 5. 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

TBD

Important Residents

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

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. 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".

Production

TBD

Notes

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External Links

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