Don Kia

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Don Kia
ドン・キアー (Don Kiā)
Don Kia counts his money.
English Name(s)	Don Kee (Funi dub) Don Kia (Funi subs)
Name Pun	Merchant
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball GT Episode 3
Created by	Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
Japanese VA	Kōji Totani
Funimation VA	Jakie Cabe
Personal Data
Home Planet	Planet Imegga
Title	King

Don Kia is a fictional character in the Japanese animated series Dragon Ball GT. Don Kia makes his debut in episode 3 which debuted on Fuji TV on 21 February 1996.

Biography

Don Kia's weekly audience.

Don Kia is the ruler of Planet Imegga. He gives audience to his subjects once a week at Kia Palace. The residents of Imegga have to borrow everything from Don Kia, and the only thing they can own is their children. The rental fees are high and normal people cannot afford it, forcing the residents of Imegga into taking desperate measures to make money. Travelers from other planets make easy targets for these scheming merchants, as Trunks, Goku, and Pan discover when they make an emergency landing on the planet. When they go to the city to buy parts for their spaceship, they are overrun with scammers, and while they are gone, their spaceship is stolen.

In Kia Palace, Gel and Shila tell Don Kia that they have recovered the spaceship discovered by the security team in a desert to the east. The ship appears on a screen, and Shila tells Don Kia that they have never seen a ship of this type before, so it must come from an unknown planet. Don Kia only wants to know whether it has any value, and when Shila tells him it does not, he wants to know whether there are any cute girls in the crew who could be marketed to talent producers, but Gel informs him there was no one aboard. Don Kia tells them to disassemble the ship so it can be sold as scrap. Before this can be done, however, the Earth trio infiltrates the palace and retrieves their spaceship, causing a lot of damage in the process.

Don Kia calculates the damages.

Don Kia reprimands Gel and Shila for the stolen spaceship and damaged dock; for as much as he pays them to be bodyguards, they are worthless. Behind him, his principal bodyguard Redict is offended, so Don Kia turns around to assure Redict that he was only talking about Gel and Shila. They apologize, but Don Kia calculates the damage to the dock and tells them it will come out of their pay. He asks about the interlopers, and Shila tells him they were caught on the surveillance cameras, so he takes a look at the screen, surmising they plan to repair the ship and escape. He resolves not to let that happen.

After learning how Don Kia captures space travelers and forces them into servitude, the Earth trio presents themselves to Gel and Shila for arrest. The police take them to the palace; Don Kia is counting his money when he receives word that they were captured, but then the trio enters his chamber, telling him the guards are "asleep"; they have all been knocked unconscious below. Pan attacks, but Don Kia captures her in a force field that electrocutes the others when they try to approach. He then triggers machine guns to fire on her. When the dust clears, Redict is standing there, and he tells Don Kia that these are not the kind of opponents that can be defeated with such weapons. Don Kia asks him to take care of them, but Redict reminds him not to order him around. He fights for himself.

Redict fights Goku, but he is injured and defeated. Don Kia is distressed; he tries to give Redict a big pile of money to try again to defeat them, but Redict knocks him and his money aside, promising Goku as he departs that he is going to win next time. The trio approaches Don Kia, who apologizes, telling them he will do anything they ask if they spare his life, so Pan tells him to abolish the planet's rental system. The trio delivers a giant safe full of the inhabitants' contracts, which they are free to rip up, and also their spaceships will be returned. Then the Earth trio repairs their spaceship and departs Imegga.

Name

Don Kia (ドン・キアー) is derived from akindo (商人), meaning "merchant" (sometimes pronounced shōnin). The katakana spelling of akindo is アキンド; Don Kia's name is simply akindo spelled backwards, with an elongation added to the a (ア) syllable.

Production

Nakatsuru design.

Don Kia was designed by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, the head character designer for Dragon Ball GT.

Performance

Don Kia is voiced by Kōji Totani, who voiced several minor roles throughout Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z including Dracula Man and Kewi. In the Funimation English dub, Don Kia is voiced by Jakie Cabe, who voiced the Saber Tiger in episode 1 of Dragon Ball Z.