I decided to group together the character names that appear within the Dragon Ball manga, just to see what would happen. Preliminary results are: 1) All of the Red Ribbon main characters are colors, with the exception of Zombie #8 (Hatchan), and the robot Metallic (which could be considered a color.) 2) All of Piccolo's minions are musical instruments. 3) Most of the martial arts masters (excepting Mutaito) are animal-related. 4) There's a preponderance of food names, puns, and a couple of outside references. Notes: (Sousei -- Commander-in-chief Murasaki == Is the name of the Shogun -- General author of the famous Hosa -- Adviser "The Tale of Genji" Taisa -- Lieutenant Gunsou -- Sargeant Souchou -- Chancellor) Foods: Colors: Instruments: ------ ------- ------------ Yamcha -- a dish Silver Piccolo Oolong -- a tea Red Sousui Piano Puuaru -- Another tea White Shogun Tamborine Pilaf -- a dish Blue Shogun Cymbol Son Gohan -- rice or "supper" Black Hosa Drum Tenshinhan -- a dish Yellow Taisa Chao-zu -- "gyouza" Violet Taisa Shuu & Mai -- "Pot stickers" Metallic Gunsou Vejiita -- Vegetable Murasaki (purple) Souchou Ranchi -- Lunch Tao-pie-pie (Peach-white-white) Karin -- A Chinese quince Karintou -- Fried dough cookies (tou could be "sugar" or "tower") Bora -- A grey mullet (a fish) Pan -- Bread Marron -- Chestnut paste Scrambled food Numbers (Androids) -------------- ------------------ Kakarot -- Carrot #8, #16 -- #20 Jiisu -- Juice, or Cheese Baata -- Butter Ginyuu -- Beef (Gyuniku) or Milk (Gyunyuu) Gurudo -- Gourd or yogurt Rikuum -- Cream Radditz -- Raddish Zarbon -- Zabon, a citrus fruit Dodoria -- Durian, a disgusting Middle Eastern fruit Animals: -------- Kamesennin Mutenroushi -- Turtle Master Tsurusennin -- Crane Master Senpyou -- Is a Cat Temperature-related: ------------------- Freeza -- Freezer Cold -- Cold (Freeza's father) Cooler -- Freeza's brother (in one movie) Clothing: -------- Buruma -- Bloomers Briefs -- Pants (Buruma's father) Trunks -- Short pants, cut-offs Bra -- Bra (Buruma's daughter) References & Puns: ------------------ Son Gokuu -- Original Monkey King Kushami -- A sneeze Kuririn -- "kurikuri"; from an obscure Japanese fixed phrase that translates to "a priest's shaved head." Uranai Baba -- Old fortune-telling granny Yajirobee -- A kind of spinner toy, held between finger and thumb Chichi -- Breast/tit. Mr. Satan -- The western "devil" Beederu -- Which could be written as "Videl", switching "vi" and "de" gives us "devil". Jackie Chun -- Jackie Chan Shenlon -- (Shen lon) Chinese for "the godly dragon" Cheng Long is Jackie Chan's Mandarin name Dr. Gero -- Sound of throwing up, and also the "ribbit" sound made by frogs Cell -- Biological cell Bibi-di -- Babi-di |- Disney movie song lyric/magic spell Buu | Darbura -- Kaiou-sama -- Mr. World King Kaiou-shin -- God of the World Kings Dai Kaiou-shin -- Big God of the World Kings Enmadaiou-sama -- Traditional name of the gate keeper god that determines where the dead are to go in the after-life. Mutaito -- Could simply be "a master (of some activity)" Moukekko -- "I'm fine." Otoko Suki -- "I like men." Names that I need help with: ---------------------------- Upa (Bora's father (or vice versa, I forget)) Assistance from: Gautama Buddha Rika -- Curtis Hoffmann