Senin, 26 November 2012

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

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