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- Bulma first encounters Goku when her Dragon Radar detects his Four-Star Dragon Ball. What’s important to remember about this meeting is that Goku had no idea of the Dragon Balls’ true purpose or power.
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Jun 16, 2024 · Bulma first encounters Goku when her Dragon Radar detects his Four-Star Dragon Ball. What’s important to remember about this meeting is that Goku had no idea of the Dragon Balls’ true purpose or power. Goku views his Four-Star Dragon Ball as an emotional memento that he believes contains Grandpa Gohan’s spirit.
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Nov 3, 2021 · First meeting when Goku was just eleven and Bulma was only a teenager, the pair's dynamic started off on the wrong foot, leading to an epic misunderstanding before they joined up to scour the world for the mythical Dragon Balls and summon the Eternal Dragon for a magical wish.
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Bulma (ブルマ, Buruma, lit. "Blooma") is an engineer, second daughter of Capsule Corporation founder Dr. Brief and his wife Bikini, the younger sister of Tights, and Goku's first friend. After dating Yamcha in their teen years, she would marry Vegeta in adulthood and give birth to their two children, Trunks and Bulla. A technological genius who can turn her talents to almost any field and understand alien technology near-effortlessly, her inventions have been invaluable to Goku and the rest of the Dragon Team. Her most notable invention is the Dragon Radar.
Bulma is the most significant female character in the series. Aside from Goku himself, Bulma is the single longest-running character in the entire franchise, being introduced in the first Dragon Ball chapter and episode, maintaining a prominent role until the end of the series.
Bulma's original incarnation was the Princess of the Flower Country from Akira Toriyama's one-shot Dragon Boy, the predecessor to Dragon Ball, with her appearance also taking inspiration from the character Plamo from The Adventures of Tongpoo, another Toriyama one-shot.
In Toriyama's first draft of Dragon Ball, Bulma's design was significantly different, giving her the appearance of a western girl. During the second draft Bulma had the braided ponytail that she had in her first appearance but older looking with a different styled dress. The third draft gave her the name of Pinchi and had exactly the same design as the final draft but her clothes her tight black pants with a shirt that had her shoulders exposed.
Throughout the entire series, Bulma has changed her appearance more than any other character, going through a total of 18 different hairstyles. Her hair color varies between appearances, having been colored purple, blue, and turquoise. Her hairstyle was shoulder-length as a teenager. Many of the clothes she is seen wearing often bear her name or the Capsule Corporation logo on it.
Bulma had a youthful and tender appearance in her teen years, such as with her light-colored skin. In her teen years her bust measurement was 85cm, her waist measurement was 58cm, and her hip measurement was 84cm. According to Zuno, her bust measurement as an adult was 87.2cm before breastfeeding, and 83.4cm after.
In her initial appearance, Bulma had her hair in a braided ponytail with a red ribbon and wore a very short pink dress with her name on it with blue sneakers and purple socks. Due to wetting her panties when being captured by a pterodactyl, her clothes are quickly changed to a pair of boots, gray pants and a blue jacket with a white tank top underneath with her hair unchanged.
When she was staying the night in her Capsule House she wore a pink nightgown with one side of her hair in a pigtail and adds a pair of pink socks and blue sneakers to it when she was forced to take Turtle to the beach. After coming back from the beach, Bulma is briefly seen in a white shirt and pants with brown shoes and gloves when attempting to ride Goku's Flying Nimbus.
When dealing with Oolong in Aru Village, Bulma is seen in one of her more consistent appearances featuring her hair down and wearing a pair of brown short shorts, red and white shoes, pink socks, a red jacket with a white shirt underneath and a red hat with her name on it.
Since she loses her Capsules at a river, she is forced to wear a Bunny Costume since she thinks the previous outfit got too dirty for her to wear. She wears the Bunny costume until she gets a pair of gypsy styled clothes at Monster Carrot's Village. The gypsy clothes consisted of her hair in a ponytail while wearing a white suit with a red waistband, a golden collar, a small blue jacket, gold armlets, and red sandals. She wears this outfit until she gets back to West City.
Bulma has a temperamental personality while being very tomboyish and girly at the same time. While known for her extreme intellect, Bulma is quite spoiled and vain, using her beauty as an excuse for doing and getting whatever she wants; this sort of behavior seemingly prevented her from being able to ride the Flying Nimbus. While in stressful conditions, she becomes frightened easily and gets angry toward everyone, including her allies. Bulma tends to have a great deal of concern over her hygiene, complaining when circumstances prevent her from taking a bath or replenishing her beauty supplies, even when it is the least of her worries, such as when stranded in the wilderness. At times, her wanton outbursts have landed her and her friends in deeper trouble.
Despite her temper, Bulma frequently displays friendliness and helpfulness towards others. She also tends to seek out excitement and adventure despite her haughtiness and sheltered upbringing. When calm, she tends to approach major situations rationally, often making crucial decisions on her own, and is very persistent in achieving her goals. As she gets more mature, Bulma focuses on becoming a great scientist and helps out by creating and fixing inventions that help the Dragon Team and her family. She is shown to be very witty, usually teasing her friends, a part of being chipper and easygoing. In Japanese, she even refers to Goku and Krillin by the Japanese suffix "-kun," indicating she feels very close to them.
Bulma enjoys strawberries, attractive boys and bubble baths. Though she shows a strong dislike towards perverted men, she would not hesitate from taking advantage of them; she has been known to use her sex appeal for self-gain on occasion and would herself become infatuated with men she'd just met based entirely on their looks. This happened even during times when she was dating Yamcha, whom she claimed to intend to marry. Hypocritically, her infatuation would also sometimes cause her to flirt in a very crass manner, as demonstrated with General Blue, having grabbed his arm and licked it while meowing like a cat. She also had zero tolerance towards Yamcha being approached by other women when she was still dating him; she broke up with him when she thought he was cheating on her with Hasky, and again when she saw Maron attempting to flirt with him. She later lost interest in Yamcha due to his lack of commitment and showed greater commitment and maturity herself in her relationship with Vegeta.
Despite their rocky start and quarrelsome natures, Bulma has a unanimous relationship with Vegeta, which further improves after their marriage. Bulma tends to boss Vegeta around and often berates him for his rudeness, goading him into further argument, though they both seem to glean some bizarre fulfillment in their rapport, and she in particular takes pleasure in teasing him. Although they argue often and despite him being a former enemy, Bulma is very devoted to Vegeta and truly loves him, taking great pride in being his wife. After becoming a mother, Bulma is a loving one towards her children, though she doesn't hesitate to lay down the law when Trunks misbehaves.
Bitter breakup and marriage to Vegeta notwithstanding, Bulma and Yamcha still care for each other as longtime friends, enough so that the former openly wept in the latter's arms at the news of Vegeta's death battling Buu. By the time of Super, Bulma clearly still considers him an important part of her life, enough to have him at every one of their frequent parties, and happily lets him hold baby Bulla (though Vegeta was not amused when Yamcha made her cry).
One of Bulma's most interesting relationships is her friendship with Goku, having known him for the majority of his life and becoming his first and among closest friends. Initially, she expressed frustration and annoyance towards his lack of hygiene, manners, and knowledge of the world, and sought only to use him as protection whenever they encountered trouble while looking for the Dragon Balls. Soon after however, Bulma came to warm up and care for Goku, their relationship being akin to that of an older sister and younger brother. As they grew up together into adulthood, Bulma showed great concern for him whenever he was in serious danger and would assist him whenever he needed it, despite never-abating irritation at his unrelenting immaturity. Bulma's faith and trust in Goku's abilities has shown to be absolute to the point where she often displays more confidence in him than Vegeta, such as in the battles with Majin Buu as well as Goku Black and Future Zamasu. Bulma's companionship with Goku also extends to his family, being a good friend of Chi-Chi's and showing a great deal of warmth to their sons Gohan and Goten.
1.Dragon Ball chapter 1, "Bloomers and the Monkey King"
2.Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, 2013
3.Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, 2022
4.Dragon Ball episode 1, "The Secret of the Dragon Balls"
5.Dragon Ball Z, episode 89 Frieza's Boast
6.Dragon Ball chapter 2, "No Balls!"
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Oct 2, 2020 · Bulma already has the Five-Star Dragon Ball by the time she meets Goku, offering no chance to see how she actually got the Dragon Ball.
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- Dragon Ball Saga. Expand Tweet. Bulma was born in the year 733. Six years later, in 739, she met Jaco for the first time. A born genius, she is able to help him fix his spaceship.
- Frieza Saga. Dragon Ball Z began in the year 761. It was around this time that Bulma shared a romantic relationship with Yamcha. A year later, the Battle on Planet Namek takes place.
- Android Saga. Expand Tweet. After Namek, Bulma returns to Earth, now aged 29. Again, two years later, the Android Saga rolled around. Future Trunks arrived and warned the Z Warriors of the threat of the androids.
- Cell Saga. Expand Tweet. In the year 766, Bulma became a mom at 33. She gave birth to baby Trunks, whose name she kept a secret for the time being. A year later, in 767, the Androids and Cell arrived.
Back at Goku's House, Goku agrees to accompany Bulma on her journey to collect the Dragon Balls. She explains to Goku that she can detect them using her Dragon Radar . She uses her capsules to spawn a motorcycle that causes Goku to become shocked she's doing witchcraft.
Feb 26, 2018 · Goku’s never even seen a girl before he runs into blue-haired Bulma, which is actually what sets the quest in motion. A chance meeting sends the pair across the world for the legendary Dragon...
