
In my case, I feel that it isn’t good to insert too much narration. Bulma and Goku were the first pair of characters which were introduced in the manga and Toriyama stated that he subsequently introduced other characters in pairs because "that way, I’m able to explain the characters and their relationship to each other through their interactions. Along with creating the Dragon Radar, a device that detects the energy signal emitted by a Dragon Ball, Bulma's role as an inventor becomes important at several points in the series including the time machine that brings her future son Trunks to the past.īulma is loosely based on the character Tang Sanzang from the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. Being the daughter of a brilliant scientist, Bulma is also a scientific genius, as well as an inventor and engineer. Brief, the founder of the Capsule Corporation, a company that creates special small capsules that shrink and hold objects of various sizes for easy storage. She debuted in the first chapter Bulma and Son Goku ( ブルマと孫悟空, Buruma to Son Gokū), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on Jissue 51, meeting Goku and recruiting him as her bodyguard to travel and find the wish-granting Dragon Balls. Inventor, Engineer and CEO of Capsule Corporationīulma ( Japanese: ブルマ, Hepburn: Buruma) is a character featured in the Dragon Ball franchise, first appearing in the manga series created by Akira Toriyama.
