Mai

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Mai
マイ (Mai)
Manga Anime Mai (Anime)
English Name(s)	Mai
Name Pun	Shumai
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 18
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Episode 1
Japanese VA	Eiko Yamada
Canadian VA	Teryl Rothery
Funimation VA	Julie Franklin (DB) Colleen Clinkenbeard (Battle of Gods, Resurrection 'F', Super)
Personal Data
Birth	[Age 729 or 730]
Occupation	Pilaf Gang Member

Mai is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. Mai makes her debut in chapter 18, published in the 1985 #18 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Biography

Main articles: Pilaf Gang and Future Mai

As a member of the Pilaf Gang, the vast majority of her actions are taken as part of that group. In Future Trunks's timeline, however, it seems that Pilaf and Shuu have died, so Future Mai's actions are independent of the Gang. A more detailed account of Mai's exploits can therefore be found on the Pilaf Gang and Future Mai pages.

When Bulma and Goku set out on their first hunt for the Dragon Balls, the Pilaf Gang serves as the antagonist. In the manga, they are the holders of the One-Star Ball, which is the last ball left for Bulma and Goku to obtain. In the anime, they are introduced in episode 1 and serve as antagonists throughout the arc.

The Pilaf Gang all sleep together in Pilaf's Castle. Only Pilaf has a special canopy bed.

In the manga, the story begins when Bulma and Goku enter Pilaf's territory to find the last ball. On Mai's orders, Shuu uses a mech suit to steal Bulma's bag which contains five of the Dragon Balls, but he inadvertently leaves behind the Dragon Radar and the Four-Star Ball which is on Goku's person. Goku and friends enter Pilaf's castle and are lured into a trap. On Mai's suggestion, they incapacitate Goku and co. using sleeping gas, and Mai finds Goku's ball while Shuu cares for Pilaf who had entered without a gas mask and passed out. With Goku and friends imprisoned again, Pilaf calls Shenlong, but Goku has blown a small hole in the castle wall with a Kamehameha, and the shapeshifters Oolong and Pu'er are loose. Before Pilaf can speak his wish, Oolong wishes for a pair of panties. Shenlong grants Oolong's wish and departs. Pilaf is overcome with rage and locks Goku and co. up again, this time in a room with a tempered glass ceiling that will slow-bake the whole group when the sun rises. However the moon is full, causing Goku to transform into a Great Ape. He destroys the prison and eventually the entire castle, reaching directly into the room where Mai sleeps in between Shuu and Pilaf.

The Gang escapes with their lives, but their home is destroyed, and those events will continue to haunt them for decades to come. Their next attempt to find the Dragon Balls leads them back to Goku. The Pilaf Gang once again holds the final ball, which they have protected in a case that cloaks the ball from the Dragon Radar. They have fancy new mech suits called Pilaf Machines, and via satellite surveillance, they have discovered that Goku's weakness is his tail. They immediately hop in their car and head in Goku's direction, not bothering to watch the rest of his fight with Grandpa Gohan. They plan to ambush Goku, but they do not know that the Fortuneteller Crone is telling Goku the location of the final ball. When Goku lands atop their car to ask for their ball, Mai nearly wrecks the car, but she manages to stop safely on the side of the road. Pilaf offers to duel Goku 3-to-1 for a swap: their one ball for his six balls. Goku happily accepts, and when they discover that his tail has been torn off—they burn off his pants to be sure—they try to combine their abilities in a mech merge. Goku disables the torso—Mai's mech—with a Kamehameha. Shuu and Pilaf convert to "Ostrich Mode", and Mai abandons her mech and hops on as they run away. Goku runs after them, so they fire a torpedo at him. He catches the torpedo and throws it back at them. Goku approaches the wreckage and demands their Dragon Ball, which Pilaf hands over, and Shuu's clothes too.

Shenlong makes the Gang into babies just before the death of Piccolo in Future Trunks's timeline.

The Gang is not seen in the Dragon Ball Z anime, but we know a bit about what they are doing during that time thanks to Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and a Dragon Ball Super bonus chapter from Toyotarō. The bonus chapter tells the story of how the Pilaf Gang wished for youth in Future Trunks's timeline, just before Piccolo is killed by the artificial humans. The main timeline wish is mentioned in Battle of Gods without much detail, but we can surmise that the wish is made before Piccolo merges with God in the main timeline of the story because Pilaf does not know that Shenlong can grant more than one wish in Dragon Ball Super Episode 19. The phrasing of the wish in the bonus chapter turns the whole Gang into babies, making them about the same physical age as Trunks; this chronology fits with the apparent age of the Pilaf Gang in the final two Dragon Ball Z films and Dragon Ball Super.

In Battle of Gods, the Pilaf Gang hunts for the Dragon Balls at Capsule Corporation during Bulma's birthday party. Mai notices a room marked "bingo tournament prizes", and inside they find an assortment of hams, an airplane, a castle, a pipe organ, a giant diamond, and all seven Dragon Balls. They are interrupted by Trunks and Goten, who reminds them of Goku. They panic and flee the room, but Mai has managed to steal the giant diamond and the Four-Star Ball. On the way out, she appears to suffer from guilt, and she gives the diamond to Trunks. Goten asks Trunks who the cute girl was, and Trunks lies to Goten and boasts that Mai is his girlfriend.

Mai contemplates holding hands with Trunks in Battle of Gods.

Outside, Mai shows the Four-Star Ball to her cohorts, telling them that she used the diamond as a distraction. They can demand one million Zenni for the Dragon Ball. Goten tells Bulma about Trunks's "girlfriend", and as they look and point in the Gang's direction, Pilaf recognizes Bulma from back then. Between her and Goten, things are not looking good. Trunks comes over and explains his situation to Mai; he pretended that she was his girlfriend, and now his mom wants to meet Mai, so will she pretend to be his girlfriend? Mai asks what she would have to do, and he suggests they hold hands and stuff. Mai tells her cohorts that she is not comfortable holding hands with a boy she has just met, but they remind her about the Dragon Balls. Mai agrees, and the Gang joins Trunks at a table. Bulma asks Mai how old she is, and Mai tells her she is 41 (see the Age section below). Pilaf tells her not to tease the adults like that. Soon after, the fighting begins and Trunks and Goten take the Gang to safety. After the fight, Mai holds hands with Trunks in a palm tree.

The Pilaf Gang runs from a shark in Dragon Ball Super Episode 4.

There is no romance in the Dragon Ball Super version of the story. The Pilaf Gang is destitute, and they are searching for treasure on a small island when Bulma's cruise ship comes their way with the Dragon Balls. The gang makes their way onto the ship with some difficulty, but they are so hungry that the food offered to them by Trunks and Goten distracts them from their usual priority. Besides, the Dragon Radar still shows nothing, so when they are full, they start packing up their food. After the fighting begins, they hurriedly escape in a lifeboat at Pilaf's direction, but when Shenlong is called, Pilaf decides to go back. Bulma's party has broken up, but Whis brings them to a place where they can eat in peace. They sleep through the rest of the battle, and when they depart, Pilaf vows they will find the Dragon Balls again.

The Pilaf Gang finds Freeza's eye in Dragon Ball Super Episode 19.

When Sorbet and Tagoma travel to Earth for the Dragon Balls, they find the Pilaf Gang via surveillance and take their collected Dragon Balls by force. In Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', the Gang has to guide them to the last ball using the Dragon Radar; in the anime, they have just found the last ball when Sorbet and Tagoma arrive. Pilaf summons Shenlong, extracting a promise from Sorbet that he will not kill them. Sorbet wishes to resurrect Freeza; Shenlong is not willing to restore Freeza's body as he has done for others, so Freeza arrives in pieces. An eye falls near the terrified Pilaf Gang. Shenlong asks for their second wish, and as Sorbet decides what he will wish for, Shuu asks for one million Zenni. In the anime, Shenlong offers two more wishes, so Mai follows up Shuu's wish with her own wish, for the best ice cream in the world. Shenlong packs the ice cream in ice as a freebie. Sorbet wants to take revenge on the Gang, but Tagoma urges him to hurry and help him collect the pieces before the Saiyans arrive. As they are leaving Earth, Pilaf presents Sorbet with the eye they left behind. Sorbet thanks them and promises to return...with Freeza and his army. In the anime, Pilaf considers using Shuu's money to build a spaceship so they can escape Earth, but in the end, they all decide to go out for Mongolian barbecue.

The Pilaf Gang does not appear in the God of Destruction Champa arc in the anime, but this arc marks their first appearance in the Dragon Ball Super manga. This arc began in the manga before the anime had finished with Resurrection 'F'. The Gang makes their manga debut on the Cube transporting the Universe 7 fighters and their supporters to the God of Destruction Invitational Tournament. Mai is very curious when she overhears Beerus and Bulma discussing the Super Dragon Balls; Shuu wonders if they are big, and Pilaf thinks they might be as big as watermelons. The Gang is frightened when they see Goku on the Cube, but they are impressed when they find out that the Super Dragon Balls are a lot bigger than watermelons, and they are occasionally seen thereafter on the stands throughout the tournament.

Age

Mai gives her age as 41 in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. The film takes place in Age 778, the year before Pan was born. Bulma was born in Age 733, which would make her 45 years old at the time of Battle of Gods. That date and age matches up with the sum of time stamps given throughout Dragon Ball, but Bulma mysteriously gives her age as 38 in the film.

This might be because Battle of Gods was originally supposed to be set at Kuririn and No. 18's wedding, which occurred in Age 770. If we take Bulma's given age as an honest mistake by the scriptwriters, or perhaps a nascent detail that was deliberately preserved as a gag where Bulma lies about her age (or subtracts years she has wished off her age), then the wedding date in Age 770 would make Bulma 37, assuming the wedding takes place after Bulma's birthday in August. Still not quite right, but closer.

If we are to believe that Mai is 41 in August 778, though, she would have been born in 736 or 737, which would make her 12 years old when the Pilaf Gang originally enters the story in September 749. Mai is clearly an adult at that time, late teens at the youngest. If her given age is an artifact of the original script which was supposed to take place in Age 770, then Mai would have been born around 729 or 730, making her 19 or 20 years old when she is introduced in Dragon Ball Chapter 18.

It is therefore very likely that the scriptwriters based Mai's given age in Battle of Gods on Bulma's given age. Mai's official birth year was never given, so the writers probably guessed that she was a few years older than Bulma's 16 when the Pilaf Gang was introduced in Age 749. If Bulma is 38, then Mai must be about 41. Assuming that Mai was 19 or 20 years old when she was introduced September 749, then she should be 48 or 49 years old in August 778 when Battle of Gods takes place, and around 50 by the time the Future Trunks arc begins. Future Mai is 17 years older than that.

Pilaf made the wish for youth that turned them into babies in May 767, when Mai would have been 36-37, so Pilaf wished about 35-36 years off her apparent age. Mai should be about 60 years old in Dragon Ball GT.