Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains

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Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains
ツルマイツブリ山 (Tsurumaitsuburi-Zan)
Appears in	Dragon Ball Z Movie 2
Locational Data
Area	Universe 7
Planet	Earth

The Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains are the location of Doctor Uiro's lab. They were featured in Dragon Ball Z Movie 2 which premiered as part of the 1990 Spring Toei Anime Fair on 15 March 1990.

Piccolo trains in the Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains, having heard of their reputation as eternal walls of ice, and Oolong has heard that the snow on the mountains will not melt under any kind of heat.

Overview

Fifty years past, Doctor Uiro's lab was buried in the ice of the Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains after a sudden weather shift caught him and his assistant, Doctor Kochin, by surprise. It was thought that they had both been killed, but Doctor Uiro's brain remained under the ice, and Doctor Kochin was able to escape and search for the Dragon Balls to unearth the buried lab. The mountains are partially destroyed in the final battle between Uiro and Son Goku.

Name

The Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains are likely named after Tsuruma Park (鶴舞公園 Tsuruma Kōen) in Nagoya, Japan, and perhaps also maimai-tsuburi (マイマイツブリ), another word for snail (蝸牛 katatsumuri). Akira Toriyama is from Nagoya, and the anime's head writer Takao Koyama decided to name all of the film's characters after Nagoya food.

次の「この世で〜」に登場した敵キャラの名前は、ういろう、名古屋コーチン、きしめん、エビフライ、みそカツと、すべて名古屋名物からつけたもの。こんなシャレっぽい名前は、ほとんど、脚本家の小山高生氏が考えているのだ。

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The enemies who appeared in "The Strongest Guy in the World" all got their names from Nagoya specialties, such as uirō, Nagoya kochin, kishimen, ebi-fry, and misokatsu. These name puns were thought of by scenario writer Takao Koyama.
— Daizenshuu 6

鳥山先生の出身地である名古屋物などから命名された。ウイローはお菓子のういろう、コーチンはニワトリの名古屋コーチンから。そのほかはキシメン、名古屋人の好物というエビフライ、ミンカツからだ。バイオメンは、バイオ工学で作られたから。

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They are named after things from Nagoya, Akira Toriyama's birthplace. Dr. Uiro is from Uiro sweets, and Kochin is from Nagoya Cochin. The others are kishimen, Nagoya's favorite fried shrimp, and misokatsu. Biomen are made by biotechnology.
— Daizenshuu 10

The Tsurumai-Tsuburi Mountains are never mentioned in the Daizenshuu, but the Nagoya theme is suggestive. The Namekians are generally named after snails, and Piccolo is the first to name the mountains in the film.

Pioneer-Funimation dub CCs.

The Funimation dub spelling of "Tsurumai-Tsuburi" is unknown. The closed captions on the Pioneer release of Dragon Ball Z Movie 2 read "Zulmyzubri", which seems to be a flawed audio transcription rather than something from the Funimation scripts. "Tsumisumbri" has been used by fans; this probably also originates with a flawed transcription.