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 film 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 jokingly expressed slight 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 the 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.