Planet Ritto

Planet Ritto
リット星 (ritto-sei)
English Name(s)	[Unnamed] (FUNi/Dub) Litt (FUNi/Simmons) Lilliput (Viz) Litt (Bandai Namco)
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 291 (Mention)
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Z Episode 74 (Mention) Dragon Ball Z Episode 110 (Shown?)
Locational Data
Area	Universe 7

Ritto is a fictional celestial body in the Dragon Ball franchise, located within Universe 7 with inhabitants that would be considered small. Ritto is first mentioned in chapter 291 of the original Dragon Ball manga series, released 11 September 1990 in the 1990 #41 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.

General Overview

Vegeta suggests that Kuririn and Son Gohan wear the armor meant for the people of the planet Ritto.

Following the defeat of Ginyu, and with Son Goku placed in a rejuvenation chamber, Vegeta provides Kuririn and Son Gohan with battle jackets from Freeza's ship. He states that these are smaller-sized versions made for the people of Planet Ritto (リット星人間 ritto-sei-ningen).

In filler material within Dragon Ball Z television series episode 110, Vegeta continues his search for Son Goku out in space. Having arrived on a(n unspecified) planet that he believes "Kakarrot" has recently been on, Vegeta slaughters an entire army consisting of what appears to be a large group of the same race of beings. The sole remaining member of the race — a beak-faced, green/brown-ish alien wearing an arm blaster and armor akin to Freeza's forces — refers to his group as people from the planet Ritto (リット星人 ritto-seijin); this could perhaps be adapted as "Rittons".

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  In search of Son Goku, Vegeta arrives on an unspecified planet filled with Rittons
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  The final Ritton slaughtered by Vegeta

Name

The planet's name of "Ritto" (リット ritto) has historically been assumed in western fandom to be a play on the Japanese approximation of the English word "little" (リトル ritoru), particularly alongside Vegeta's description of the specific armor in question being smaller (ちび chibi). Viz's English translation of the Dragon Ball manga adapts this as "the planet Lilliput", referencing the nation of the same name from Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, which features inhabitants one-twelfth the size of a standard human being. The race goes unnamed in FUNimation's various English dubs of the show (with dialog talking around the situation without actually naming them), while the company's official subtitle script translation by Steven J. Simmons goes with "Litt" as the planet's name.

Contrary to this accepted wisdom, the name is more likely intended to be a play on 鶏 (tori), the character for which specifically refers to chicken meat (as opposed to the standard tori "bird" kanji of 鳥). Freeza's underlings are generally named for "food items that one puts inside [a refrigerator]"; this, combined with the later anime character designs featuring beaks, suggests a play on "tori" (similar to the "Rito" race in the Legend of Zelda series of video games by Nintendo).

English Video Game Names

In the 2004 western-developed video game Dragon Ball Z: Sagas, certain characters (Son Goku, Son Gohan, Vegeta, and Future Trunks) can be equipped with "RIT Armor" (with shoulder pads) and "RIT Armor Variant" (without shoulder pads) model options. This armor matches that provided to Son Gohan and Kuririn in chapter 291 and later worn by these same characters in the series. The name "RIT" is therefore likely an alternate transliteration of the original リット (ritto), with the game's developers and writers perhaps working without knowledge of prior adaptations/spellings/changes.

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  Son Gohan with the "RIT Armor" character model option in Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
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  Future Trunks with the "RIT Armor Variant" character model option in Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
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  Son Goku wearing the "RIT Armor Variant" in Dragon Ball Z: Sagas

In the "Z Encyclopedia" within the English version of the video game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, the planet's name is localized as "Litt":

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  Reference to the planet in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

Notes

In translating information from Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia on his fan website The Ultimate DBZ Information Site in the 1990s, Greg Werner erroneously posited that Planet Ritto was home to the orphans that Son Gohan, Kuririn, and Bulma meet in episode 39 of the Dragon Ball Z television series:

Rito Sei-jin "People of planet Rito*- I'm not totally sure but I believe the people of Rito are the orphans that Gohan, Kuririn and Buruma meet in outer space. All of the adults on the planet were killed by Freeza's men and the children escaped on a large mirrored space ship.
— Greg Werner, The Ultimate DBZ Information Site

This misinformation remains oft-repeated and unsourced within lesser Dragon Ball fandom documentation projects. The book's entry simply states that the battle jackets Vegeta provides to Son Gohan and Kuririn are those for the people of the planet Ritto:

フリーザとの戦いに備えて、ベジータが悟飯とクリリンに与えた戦闘用ジャケットは、小柄なリット星人のものだった。

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The battle jackets that Vegeta gave to Gohan and Kuririn in preparation for the fight with Freeza were those of the people from Planet Ritto.
— Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia