Dragon Ball Punny Names

Punny Names  Although he is perhaps known best as a master of action, Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama is a self-proclaimed humor manga artist at heart. So it comes as no suprise that many of the names in Dragonball are puns. For example, all of Piccolo Daimao's henchmen are named for musical instruments and the Ginyu Force are all named for dairy products. Since the story is loosely based on the Chinese collection of legends, The Journey West, there are also a lot of names based on Chinese mythology, too. NAME   PUN Bulma   Buruma (bloomers) are tight gym shorts worn by Japanese school Girls Dr. Briefs   A kind of men's underwear Oolong   A common type of Chinese Tea Yamcha   Yamucha is another word for dim sum. (Chinese Appetisers) Pu'ar   Pu erh is a special kind of Chinese tea that is formed into bricks Tenshinhan   Tenshin are Chinese Deserts Jackie Chun   A pun on Jackie Chan Chaozu   another reading for his name is gyoza, or pot stickers Kinto'un   Kinton is boiled, mashed yellow sweet potatoes with chestnuts Gohan   Boiled rice or a meal Goku   Translates as air Goten   Translates as sky Saiyan   rearrange the syllables to make the word yasai, meaning vegetables. Raditz   Raddish Vegeta   Vegetable Nappa   a general term for greens and a type of cabbage Kakkarot   an interesting mutation of the word carrot Namek   add 'uji' and you have namekuji, meaning slug Dende   add 'n' and you have denden; denden-mushi is snail in Japanese Cargo   add 'es' and you have escargot, the French word for edible snails Nail   Nails (Hammer and nails) Mr. Satan   Named after the American word for Satan Videl   Re-arranged spells Devil Ginew   Japanese for Milk Guldo   Japanese for Yogurt Recoom   Japanese for cream Jees   Comes from the American word for Cheese Baata   Comes from the American word for Butter