37 Facts About Bulma

Bulma is a fictional character featured in the Dragon Ball franchise, first appearing in the manga series created by Akira Toriyama.

Bulma debuted in the first chapter "Bulma and Son Goku", published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on June 19,1984, issue 51, meeting Goku and recruiting him as her bodyguard to travel and find the wish-granting Dragon Balls.

Bulma is the daughter of Dr 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.

Bulma is presented as an extraordinarily intelligent individual, being able to create technology capable of feats beyond contemporary science.

Bulma is loosely based on the character Tang Sanzang from the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West.

Bulma's hair is usually depicted in a shade of fuchsia, although in the first chapter and the anime her hair is turquoise.

Bulma sometimes wears clothing with either her name on it or the Capsule Corporation logo.

Bulma's mother is never named in the original series, being referred to only as "Bulma's Mother".

Bulma was voiced by Hiromi Tsuru in all Japanese media until her death in November 2017.

Bulma said that all her previous roles were well-behaved characters, but Bulma was easy to play because she is down-to-earth.

In Funimation's in house English dub, Bulma is voiced by Tiffany Vollmer in the original Dragon Ball series.

Bulma is introduced as the teenaged inventor of the Dragon Radar, a device used to detect the Dragon Balls that she is searching for.

Bulma was hoping to use the Dragon Balls to wish for the perfect boyfriend.

Bulma then asks him to loan it for her in exchange for taking him in her travels.

In need of a spaceship, Mr Popo reveals one to Bulma, which had been the ship Kami had used to travel to Earth when he was a boy.

Several years before the arrival of the Androids, Bulma ends her relationship with Yamcha and begins a relationship with Vegeta that leads to the birth of their son, Trunks.

Bulma used Dr Gero's stolen blueprints to build a detonator to destroy the Androids, but Krillin broke it after realizing his feelings for Android 18.

Bulma spends most of her life devoted to building a time machine, attempting to prevent the devastation brought by the Androids.

Bulma is very protective of Trunks and hates the idea of him fighting, but nevertheless allows him to travel to the past to deliver Goku an antidote for a heart virus that claimed his life in the alternate timeline.

Seven years after the battle against the Androids, Bulma helps Gohan by making a watch which automatically changes his clothes into a super-hero costume so he could fight crime, without his real identity being known.

Bulma is revived by the Porunga, along with the rest of the Earth, and gives her energy to Goku to eliminate Majin Buu once and for all.

The alternate timeline version of Bulma is killed by Goku Black.

Bulma later accompanies Goku and Vegeta during the events of Dragon Ball Super: Broly when Frieza is trying to use Earth's Dragon Balls, revealed to have been using the wishes as a form of cosmetic surgery to maintain her youthful appearance.

Bulma appears in eight Dragon Ball Z films; in the first movie, Bulma makes a brief appearance when using the Dragon Radar to find Gohan after his abduction by Garlic Jr.

Ginyu uses the machine to utter the name of his technique Body Change, allowing him to switch bodies with Bulma and leave her trapped in the frog's body.

Bulma manages to stay around him as he looks for Frieza and the two encounter Gohan, Krillin and Piccolo while they're watching Goku and Frieza fight, Gohan realizing the change just as Ginyu attempts to switch bodies with Piccolo and Bulma receives her body back when Gohan throws her in the way of the technique.

Bulma is then blown away from the battlefield and later uses Ginyu to try finding out how the battle is progressing.

Bulma usually appears as a non-playable character in cut scenes for most Dragon Ball video games, such as Advanced Adventure, Budokai and Budokai 3.

In Budokai 2, Bulma sells capsules in the Skill Shop.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Bulma appears in the Options Mode explaining how the various game settings work.

Bulma is a Help Koma in Jump Ultimate Stars; giving more SP for collected coins to the Battle Koma she is attached to.

Bulma is an assist character in Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden, firing a gun.

Bulma has been portrayed by Jeannie Hsieh in the unofficial live-action Dragon Ball movie Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins.

Bulma was featured in the 1990 unofficial Korean adaptation where she was played by Lee Ju Hee.

Bulma appeared in the live-action film Dragonball Evolution, portrayed by Emmy Rossum.

Bulma has a cameo in the 2006 Dragon Ball and One Piece crossover, Cross Epoch.

Bulma is partnered up with the character Nami and the two act as a pair of space pirates.