Chi-Chi

Chi-Chi
チチ (Chi-Chi)
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	November 5, Age 737
Death	May 8, Age 774
Height	163 cm
Weight	50 kg
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.

Name

Chi-Chi's name is derived from the Japanese term for "milk", 乳 (chichi), but spelled phonetically using katakana as チチ. Chi-Chi's name pun, and that of her father the Ox Demon King, are derived from terms relating to cows.

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 Son 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. Son Wukong is tricked by a fake fan and is nearly defeated. 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. This design closely resembles Pola from Toriyama's one-shot Pola & Roid, released in 1981. 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. 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.

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  Pola from Pola & Roid may have served as one inspiration for Chi-Chi's early design.
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  The Princess from Dragon Boy also resembles Chi-Chi.
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  Chi-Chi's childhood design appears to fuse aspects of both characters.
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  Chi-Chi's young adult depiction reinforces the Chinese elements of her design.

Notable Skills

Chi-Chi wields her helmet's laser beam while striking an Ultraseven pose.

The original "Emerium Beam" pose from Ultraseven

In Chi-Chi's earliest appearances, she is depicted as a capable fighter and is easily able to dispatch a dinosaur using her special 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. 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". Despite her skills, she was easily overcome by Yamcha who was able to dodge her helmet-blasts and knock her unconscious.

Performance

A list or description of the various voice actors that portrayed the character.

Notes

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