Kuririn

Kuririn
クリリン (Kuririn)
Manga Anime
English Name(s)	Krillin (Ocean/FUNimation) Kuririn (Viz)
Name Pun	Kuri (chestnut), Shaolin
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 25
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Episode 14
Japanese VA	Mayumi Tanaka
Canadian VA	Terry Klassen
Funimation VA	Laurie Steele (Child) Sonny Strait (Adult)
Personal Data
Birth	29 October, Age 736
Death	07 May, Age 753 24 December, Age 763 08 May, Age 774 After 07 May, Age 789
Height	153 cm
Weight	45 kg
Classification	Human-Type Earthing Martial Artist
Universe	Universe 7
Occupation	Police Officer
Notable Skills	Kamehameha Kienzan Taiyō-Ken
Relationship Data
Spouse	Artificial Human No. 18
Children	Marron (Daughter)
Relatives	Artificial Human No. 17 (Brother-in-Law) No. 17's Wife (Sister-in-Law) No. 17's Children (Nieces and Nephews)

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

Biography

Childhood

Kuririn spends eight years training at Ōrin Temple before seeking out Muten Rōshi, also known as the Turtle Hermit. He arrives at Muten Rōshi's island in Age 749, saying he has come from a village in the far East. Though reluctant to train him at first, the Turtle Hermit is persuaded once Kuririn gifts him a dirty magazine. He orders Kuririn and his other student, Son Goku, to go find him a girl, but Kuririn is not pure-hearted enough to ride Kinto'un. He resorts to clinging to Goku's back, and after introducing Lunch to the Turtle Hermit, their training begins.

Kuririn sees Goku as a rival at first, but bonds with him during the eight months of training before the Turtle Hermit enters his two pupils into the Tenka'ichi Budōkai. In the preliminary matches, Kuririn faces one of his former classmates from Ōrin Temple. Having been bullied by him in the past, Kuririn is nervous, but he is able to win with ease thanks to the Turtle Hermit's training. He and Goku both make it to the final eight, where Kuririn faces Bacterian, a martial artist who has never bathed in his life. His stench and disgusting attacks make it difficult for Kuririn to fight back, until Goku reminds him he has no nose. Kuririn loses his next match against Jackie Chun, however, a mysterious old man who goes on to fight Goku in the final match. When the full moon comes out during that showdown, Kuririn witnesses Goku's Great Ape transformation for the first time. It is undone when Jackie Chun blows up the moon with a Kamehameha, the Turtle Hermit's signature technique.

After the tournament, Goku goes off to look for his grandfather's keepsake, one of the seven Dragon Balls that, when gathered together, grant the collector a single wish. Kuririn considers going with him, but he cannot ride Kinto'un. Instead, he goes back to Kame House until Goku shows up again. His friend Bulma's Dragon Radar indicates that one of the Dragon Balls is somewhere in the ocean, so Bulma and Goku have come to lend the Turtle Hermit's submarine. Kuririn comes with them on this underwater adventure, and they end up fighting the Red Ribbon Army's General Blue in a cave. Goku eventually chases after him, and Kuririn and the others do not hear from him until they learn he is attacking the Red Ribbon Army's headquarters. Everyone goes over there intending to help out, but when they get there, Goku has already defeated the army. Wanting to get some training in to catch back up to Goku, Kuririn joins him on his visit to the Fortuneteller Crone. They want her to divine the location of the last Dragon Ball, but they have to fight her five champions first. Kuririn fights Dracula Man, a kickboxer who can turn into a bat, but suffers too much blood loss to continue fighting. He helps Yamcha during his match by pulling Bulma's top down in front of the Turtle Hermit, causing the latter to spurt blood from his nose all over Yamcha's invisible opponent. Goku eventually beats the Crone's final champion and manages to get his wish from the Dragon Balls to resurrect a friend who was killed by an assassin working for the Red Ribbon Army.

During the next three years, Yamcha trains alongside Kuririn under the Turtle Hermit, while Goku is off on a solitary training journey. They meet again at the next Tenka'ichi Budōkai, where they are opposed by the Crane Hermit and his pupils. Kuririn's first opponent is Chiaotzu, against whom he manages to perform his first Kamehameha. He then faces Goku in the semi-finals, and manages to get a hold of Goku's weak point - his tail - but Goku has trained to overcome that weakness and defeats Kuririn instead. After the final match, which Goku narrowly loses to Tenshinhan, Kuririn goes to fetch Goku's stuff, but encounters a demon who kills him. Upon being resurrected by the Dragon Balls, Kuririn learns that Goku defeated the demon and his boss, the Demon King Piccolo, and is currently training under God.

Adulthood

Ma Junior is Kuririn's opponent at the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai, who pushes him to his limits until Kuririn forfeits. This "Ma Junior" turns out to be the reincarnation of Piccolo, and Goku defeats him in the final match. Goku also gets engaged to Chi-Chi during this tournament, and shows up at Kame House five years later with a son, Son Gohan. This son gets kidnapped by Goku's alien brother Raditz, who reveals Goku is not an Earthling, but a Saiyan. Goku goes after him and by the time Kuririn gets to the battlefield, he finds him laying on the ground, dying. Raditz also gets killed, but not before he gets a message out to his two fellow bloodthirsty Saiyans out in space. They will come to Earth looking for the Dragon Balls, and Kuririn ends up training under God in preparation. The Earthlings suffer many casualties fighting the Saiyans. Yamcha falls to a Saibaiman, after which Kuririn takes revenge by blowing up most of the remaining Saibaimen, and Chiaotzu, Tenshinhan, and Piccolo die fighting Nappa. The resurrected Goku turns the battle around, but ends up asking Kuririn to let Vegeta go, desiring to fight him again later.

What with God being Piccolo's other half who created the Dragon Balls, losing Piccolo also means losing them. Kuririn overheard the Saiyans mentioning something about Planet Namek also having Dragon Balls, though, so he, Gohan, and Bulma head over there. But so does Vegeta, as well as the galactic tyrant Freeza and his men. The latter group is terrorizing Namekian villages, and Kuririn and Gohan prevent them from killing a Namekian child called Dende. Dende introduces the Earthlings to the Eldest Namekian, who draws out their hidden power. Their newfound strength is not enough to beat Freeza's Ginyu Special Force, though, not even when teamed up with Vegeta. Goku recovers from his battle on Earth and helps defeat the Ginyu Special Force, and the Earthlings manage to get their wish to restore Earth's Dragon Balls. The next fight is against Freeza himself, who ends up killing Kuririn, but that act triggers Goku's transformation into a Super Saiyan, giving him the power to defeat Freeza.

Kuririn gets revived once again, and the next threat comes in the form of Artificial Humans created by Doctor Gero, who wants revenge on Goku for taking down the Red Ribbon Army. Gero gets killed by his own creation, Artificial Human No. 17, and Kuririn notices that No. 17 and No. 18 choose not to kill Vegeta and several others after defeating them. Kuririn wonders if these artificial humans are decent enough that he can ask them not to go after Goku, but they say they need a purpose in life and go looking for him anyway, but not before No. 18 kisses Kuririn on the cheek. While he and his friends evacuate Goku, who is bedridden with a heart disease, another of Doctor Gero's creations shows up: Cell, a monster who seeks to absorb No. 17 and No. 18 in order to reach his "perfect" form. Kuririn takes some blueprints found in Gero's lab to Bulma, who builds an Emergency Shutdown Controller that can stop No. 17 and No. 18. Though Cell absorbs No. 17, Kuririn gets an opportunity to shut down No. 18. He has developed feelings for her, however, and chooses to destroy the controller instead. Cell absorbs No. 18, but ends up regurgitating her when a powered-up Gohan weakens him. Kuririn guards the unconscious No. 18 while Gohan defeats Cell, and makes a wish upon the Dragon Balls to remove the bomb inside her body.

Seven years pass, by which time Kuririn and No. 18 are married and have a daughter called Marron. Kuririn takes part in the 25th Tenka'ichi Budōkai and easily defeats Puntar, but the tournament gets interrupted by the sorcerer Bobbidi's plot to reawaken Majin Boo. One of his henchmen, Dabra, turns Kuririn to stone with his petrifying saliva, but this gets undone when Dabra is killed by Boo. While Majin Boo goes around wreaking havoc upon the Earth, Kuririn and the others evacuate to God's Temple, where Son Goten and Trunks train to master Fusion. When they do, they combine into Gotenks and fight Boo, but do not manage to kill him. Boo turns almost everyone at God's Temple, including Kuririn and his family, into chocolate and eats them. Everyone is soon revived, however, and Vegeta telepathically calls out to them to donate ki to Goku's Genki-Dama, which ends up finishing Boo off.

Name

Kuririn's name is a pun on the Japanese word "kuri" (栗), meaning chestnut, and Shaolin, a type of monk.

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