Aru Village
| Aru Village | |
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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 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 numbered houses around a central square; twelve is the highest house number depicted in the manga although not all numbers are visible. (In the 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.[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.
- ↑ FIXME