13 Facts About Mr Popo

Mr Popo is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.

Mr Popo first appears in the one hundred sixty-third chapter of the Dragon Ball manga, published in 1988.

Mr Popo was initially envisioned by series creator Akira Toriyama as a reptilian humanoid with a chicken-like beak that had several variant designs, including one sketch with curly hair, though all of which were ultimately discarded.

The early concept art sketches of Mr Popo are included in the 30th Anniversary Dragon Ball Super History Book published in 2016.

Mr Popo is voiced by Toku Nishio in the original series and Yasuhiko Kawazu in Kai.

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Mr Popo tends to an ancient butterfly garden that he cultivated thousands of years prior to the events of the series.

In Dragon Ball, Popo is far stronger than Son Goku when he first arrives at Kami's Palace.

Some techniques Goku developed under the tutelage of Mr Popo include the Chou Kamehameha, a more lethal version of his signature attack.

Mr Popo then serves Dende as his attendant upon the latter's ascension as Earth's new guardian deity later in the narrative.

Mr Popo has demonstrated the ability to magically create objects from seemingly out of thin air, for example a flying carpet which he uses as transportation in the anime story arc Garlic Junior Saga, though the character is depicted as capable of flight or levitation using ki.

For many African Americans who grew up watching Dragon Ball anime, Mr Popo is regarded as the only notable example of black representation in the series.

Mr Popo suggested that such stereotypical characters could adversely affect the malleable self-image of black children, and noted to her bemusement that "racist stereotypes that would shock Americans don't raise an eyebrow in much of Asia".

In 2001, the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University declared that Mr Popo is an example of a racist caricature in modern fiction.