Mermaid

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Mermaid
人魚 (Ningyo)
Manga Anime
Name Pun	Mermaid
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 25
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Episode 14
Japanese VA	Sumi Shimamoto
Funimation VA	Julie Franklin

The Mermaid is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. The Mermaid makes her debut in chapter 25, published in the 1985 #25 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Biography

The Turtle Hermit is disappointed when Goku arrives at Kame House for training without Bulma, so he tells Goku he must find another pichi-pichi gal before he will train him. First, Goku brings back a giant body-builder woman, so the old man attempts to teach Goku the difference between a pretty woman and a not-pretty woman. On Goku's second attempt, he brings back the Mermaid.

This dialogue is somewhat censored in many Viz editions, but it is not in the original Viz Monthly Comics (top).

The Mermaid can ride Kinto-un, meaning she is pure of heart. The Turtle Hermit is nervous about meeting the new lady, so he tells Goku to ask her for her panties. Goku does not know what that means, but the old man says she will know. Goku goes to ask her, and then returns to tell Muten Rōshi that she is only wearing a shirt; she is not wearing any panties. This causes the old man to suffer from a nosebleed. He wants to get a look at this, so he approaches Kinto'un, only to find that the pichi-pichi gal is a mermaid! He is disappointed, but hopes to console himself with a poke at her boobs. He asks her permission to do this and she punches him in the face, jumping back into the ocean. Goku decides that "panties" (ぱんち panchi) must mean "punch" (パンチ panchi), and the Turtle Hermit nervously agrees.

Name

The Mermaid is simply called 人魚 (ningyo), the Japanese word for "mermaid". Her shirt reads "Pie Pie", an interpretive phonetic romanization of ぱいぱい (pai pai) which is a diminution of おっぱい (oppai), a Japanese word for "breasts". When the Turtle Hermit rode to Mount Frypan to put out the fire, in the anime version, he sang pai pai to himself repeatedly as he spun on Baby Gamera's back, looking forward to the chance to poke Bulma's boobs.

Performance

The Mermaid is voiced by Sumi Shimamoto in her sole credited role for the Dragon Ball franchise. In the Funimation English dub, the Mermaid is voiced by Julie Franklin, who also voices Mai in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT.