They eventually faced each other in a tournament match after winning the match, Goku is shocked to realize that his opponent was in fact Chi-Chi, who had grown up as he had. Chi-Chi is angry that Goku had never come back to keep his promise to marry her, which he had completely forgotten about. Years later, Chi-Chi resurfaced as a competitor at the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budôkai martial arts tournament and kept her identity concealed. She would meet Goku again at the beginning of the Red Ribbon Army Saga, when he would visit her to search for one of the Dragon Balls, which at the time was being sought by both Emperor Pilaf and Colonel Silver of the Red Ribbon Army. Chi-Chi and Goku's interactions would continually display Goku's naivety about love and emotions Chi-Chi tells Goku that when she becomes older, he will be the person to take her hand in marriage, to which he agrees, thinking that "marriage" was a kind of food. When Goku ignorantly patted Chi-Chi's crotch with his foot to determine her gender, she instinctively reacted by smacking Goku, but then became bashful and believed that Goku liked her.
After an awkward encounter with Yamcha, she later meets Goku, who offered her to ride with him on his flying nimbus cloud.
Appearances Dragon Ball Ĭhi-Chi first appears as an unnamed child running away from a dinosaur, which she later decapitates with a blade attachment on her helmet. Chung worked extensively with her stunt double for the scene, which involved mimicking each other's movements in conjunction with the use of CGI body replacement technology, or engaging with an imaginary version of herself.
An important scene in the movie involves Chi-Chi fighting a duplicate of herself, the development of which Chung described as a "technical, meticulous process" which took three days to film. In the Ocean dub, she was voiced by Andrea Libman as a child and by Laara Sadiq and Lisa Ann Beley respectively as an adult.Ĭhi-Chi is portrayed by American actress Jamie Chung in the American live-action film Dragonball Evolution her voice was dubbed over by Ami Koshimizu in the Japanese version of the film. In the Funimation English dub, she is voiced by Laura Bailey as a child and Cynthia Cranz as an adult.
Portrayal Ĭhi-Chi is voiced by Mayumi Shō in the Japanese version of the series up until Dragon Ball Z episode 88, from which point she is voiced by Naoko Watanabe. This was after one of the animators asked Toriyama if he preferred either Bulma or Chi-Chi. (laughs) In the middle of the comic, I started to think, “I don't want to draw her anymore,” and, sort of as a way of spiting myself, I decided, “you’ll have to draw her if she gets married to Goku, so marry them off!” So, I drew her as a kind of punishment. To be honest, I'm really not fond of Chi-Chi as a character. Toriyama had expressed disdain for the character in a 2003 interview by saying: Her original swimsuit style costume was based on a costume earlier manga character from the same creator called Pola from Pola & Roid. Lisa Nguyen from TheGamer suggested that her name was changed for Latin American localizations because the word "chi chi" is used as vulgar slang for female bodily fluids or genitalia in the region. For example, she is known as Kika in Portuguese dub. Typically portrayed as the shrewish wife of series protagonist Son Goku and the overprotective mother of Son Gohan and Son Goten, Chi-Chi is considered to be one of the most prominent female characters in the franchise, and is featured consistently in merchandise and in cosplay by Dragon Ball fandom.Ĭhi-Chi is known by different names in other language localizations of the Dragon Ball anime adaptation. Created by Akira Toriyama, she first appears in Chapter #11 of the Dragon Ball manga entitled ".And into the Fire!". Chi-Chi as she appears in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotĭragon Ball Chapter 11 - ".And into the Fire!" Ĭhi-Chi, sometimes written as Chi Chi, is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball media franchise.