Bulma
Bulma (Japanese: ブルマ, Hepburn: Buruma) is a fictional character featured in the Dragon Ball franchise, first appearing in the manga series created by Akira Toriyama. She debuted in the first chapter "Bulma and Son Goku", published in Weekly Shōnen 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 | |
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| Dragon Ball character | |
Sketch of Bulma by Akira Toriyama | |
| First appearance | Dragon Ball chapter #1 Bulma and Son Goku, December 3, 1984 (Weekly Shōnen Jump 1984 #51) |
| Created by | Akira Toriyama |
| Portrayed by | Emmy Rossum (Dragonball Evolution) |
| Voiced by | Japanese Hiromi Tsuru (1986–2017) Aya Hisakawa (2018–present) English
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| In-universe information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Inventor, engineer and CEO of Capsule Corporation |
| Family | Dr. Brief (father) Panchy (mother) |
| Spouse | Vegeta |
| Children | Trunks Bulla |
| Relatives | King Vegeta (father-in-law, deceased) Tarble (brother-in-law) Tights (sister) Vegeta Jr. (descendant; Dragon Ball GT) |
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. Being the daughter of a brilliant scientist, Bulma is also a scientific genius, as well as an inventor and engineer. Along with creating the Dragon Radar, a device that detects the energy signal emitted by a Dragon Ball, Bulma's role as an inventor becomes important at several points in the series; including the time machine that brings her future son Trunks to the past.