Master Sergeant Murasaki

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Master Sergeant Murasaki
ムラサキ曹長 (Murasaki-sōchō)
Manga Anime Master Sergeant Murasaki (Anime)
Name Pun	Purple
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 58
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Episode 36
Japanese VA	Takeshi Aono
Funimation VA	Duncan Brannan
Personal Data
Occupation	Soldier in the Red Ribbon Army
Relationship Data
Family	Master Sergeant Murasaki's Siblings

Master Sergeant Murasaki is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. Murasaki makes his debut in chapter 58, published in the 1986 #08 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Biography

Master Sergeant Murasaki is a ninja and a high-ranking member of the Red Ribbon Army, specifically the White Corps led by General White. In Age 750, the White Corps operates from Muscle Tower, where they hold the mayor from Jingle Village hostage in order to force the villagers to help them search for a Dragon Ball.

Intending to free the mayor, Son Goku storms Muscle Tower. White and Murasaki watch on a monitor as Goku fights four grunts on the second floor. When Goku defeats the last one by using the Zanzō-Ken, Murasaki is impressed that the kid can use what he calls the Art of Division (分身の術 Bunshin no Jutsu). Goku has a hard fight against Sergeant Metallic on the third floor, until Metallic's battery runs out and Murasaki has to hurry to the fourth floor to lie in wait for Goku.

Covered in grass and trees, the fourth floor looks like a forest. Murasaki hides among the trees as he throws kunai and shuriken at Goku, who instantly figures out where the ninja is and knocks him out of the trees with a rock. Murasaki assumes this to have been pure luck and attempts to camouflage himself a number of times, but fails to stay hidden.

Goku bests Murasaki in a contest of speed by countering the ninja's caltrops with a pair of geta, and in a contest of strength as his Nyoi-Bō breaks the Legendary Blade "Sasanishiki". Murasaki finally gets a solid hit in by tricking Goku with his Boomerang Shuriken, but the boy survives and uses Murasaki's regular shuriken against him. The ninja shields himself repeatedly with tatami mats, but ends up with a shuriken in his forehead anyway. Murasaki tries to get away from Goku by using mizugumo to glide across an artificial river filled with piranhas, but Goku simply leaps across it.

Finally, Murasaki pretends to perform the aforementioned Bunshin no Jutsu, as his four brothers come out wielding various weapons. Assuming they are illusions, Goku is confused at first, but has no trouble dispatching them once Murasaki reveals they are quintuplets. At his wits' end, Murasaki runs to open a cage containing Artificial Human No. 8 and orders him to destroy Goku. No. 8 refuses, however, saying he dislikes doing bad things. When No. 8 keeps refusing, Murasaki threatens to blow him up using a remote controller. Goku smashes the remote, though, and knocks Murasaki out with a Jan-Ken Gū.

Neither Murasaki nor his siblings appear again in the manga. In the anime, No. 8 punches Muscle Tower until it crumbles, but Murasaki survives and crawls out of the debris. He follows Goku, No. 8 and Sno, who are headed to Dr. Frappe's house to have the explosive device within No. 8's body removed. Murasaki threatens to kill Sno unless Dr. Frappe cooperates with him to take Goku's Dragon Balls. Sno screams and No. 8 runs to her aid, but Murasaki escapes on a snowmobile. Goku chases after him and fires a Kamehameha, causing an avalanche that buries Murasaki. By the time he manages to dig himself out, the explosive device has been removed from No. 8's body. Goku throws it off into the distance, where it explodes after happening to land on Murasaki's face.

Name

ムラサキ (Murasaki) is a katakana rendering of the Japanese word for purple.

Similarly, the names of Murasaki's siblings, コン (Kon), チャ (Cha), アカ (Aka) and アオ (Ao), are katakana renderings of the Japanese words for navy blue, brown, red and blue (sometimes used for green) respectively.

Performance

Master Sergeant Murasaki is played by Takeshi Aono, who would go on to voice the Demon King Piccolo and Earth's God as well.