It is common that the design of bats in video games are based on Oolong's bat transformation.īears are big furry creatures that usually eat meat. In Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury, the vampire enemies have the ability to turn into bats. Another bat is seen in Break Wasteland.īats are common enemies in the video games Dragon Ball: Dragon Daihikyou, Dragon Ball: Shenron no Nazo, Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure, Dragon Ball: Origins, Dragon Ball: Origins 2, and Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans. In Dragon Ball Z, a bat is seen in Diablo Desert when Chi-Chi and Ox-King travel through it to go to Kame House, and ask Roshi about her son (who is training under Piccolo at Break Wasteland). Bats are inside of Pilaf's Castle, as shown in ' The Dragon Balls are Stolen!' Fangs the Vampire has the vampiric ability to turn into a bat. In Dragon Ball Online, it is stated that an ethnologist named Doctor Hunbalt releases the Animal Data, a catalogue of animals of the Earth, in Age 974.Ī Bat is show outside Bulma's Capsule House when Bulma discovers that Goku's tail is not fake.

Dogs in particular have an image of being more loyal and purer than humans, so he says he make good use of them (like King Furry or the World Tournament Chairman). In an interview, Akira Toriyama stated that the reason why he draws animal-type characters so often, is because he likes animals, but basically, it is because it is easy to do a greater number of variations.

This is likely due to the more serious tone the series began taking. Slump, the Dragon Ball manga, and Dragon Ball Online, humanoid animals were very common, but they do not appear as much in Dragon Ball Z. Some animals are capable of speaking Human dialect without even being anthropomorphic, such as Turtle or the dolphin who gives Goku and Chi-Chi directions to Kame House. Man-Wolf, one of the eight finalists of the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament, is part animal as well as part Human.

Other significant anthropomorphic animals in the franchise include Captain Yellow (a high-ranking member of the Red Ribbon Army who is a tiger), Korin (a cat deity who lives atop Korin Tower), and King Furry (the King of the Earth, who is a dog). It is common to see anthropomorphic animals living among humans as city residents the two most recurring animal characters being Puar and Oolong. In the Dragon Ball series, 17% of sapient Earthlings are animal-type.

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