How old is bulma in gt

Like Goku, Vegeta's Saiyan physiology kept him from noticeably aging, although he did make a few aesthetic changes to his hair — notably, he was not seen after the GT time skip. Whether he continued working at Capsule Corp or became a full-time adventurer is unknown, but he certainly seemed to enjoy the latter more than the former. Pan at that point had retired from fighting , but had been training Goku Jr.

When Pan tried to catch up to him, however, Goku already disappeared, headed off to parts unknown. Physically, however, Goku resembled his young adult self from the beginning of Dragon Ball GT , which is fairly notable, as he had last appeared de-aged to childhood.

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What episode does the Tournament of Power start? General What episode does the Tournament of Power start? How old is Goten? Goten How old is Goten? Is Broly Canon? Broly Is Broly Canon? While known for her extreme intellect, Bulma is considerably spoiled and vain, using her great beauty as an excuse for her selfish behavior. Her selfishness prevented her from being able to ride the Flying Nimbus.

While in stressful conditions, she becomes frightened easily and gets angry toward everyone including her allies. Bulma tends to have a great deal of concern over her hygiene, frequently complaining when circumstances prevent her from taking a bubble bath or replenishing her beauty supplies, even when her hygiene is the least of her worries such as being stranded in the wilderness.

Despite her temperament, Bulma often displays friendliness and helpfulness towards others. She tends to approach major situations rationally, often making crucial decisions on her own, and she tends to be very persistent in achieving her goals.

As she gets more mature, Bulma focuses on becoming a great scientist and helps out by creating and fixing inventions that help the Dragon Team and her family. She is shown to be very witty, usually teasing her friends, apart of being happy and easy-going. In the Japanese version, she even refers to Goku and Krillin by the Japanese suffix "-Kun," indicating she is very close to them.

Bulma enjoys strawberries, [6] attractive boys and bubble baths. While dealing in certain social dilemmas, Bulma sometimes has to deal with using her sex appeal to get what she wants. Though she shows a strong dislike to perverted men, she herself got infatuated towards any attractive guy she saw even in her early adulthood, even during the time she was dating Yamcha, whom she claimed she was in love with and intended to marry.

On a related note regarding her being infatuated with any attractive guy she saw, sometimes her infatuation can cause her to flirt with a guy in a very crass manner, as demonstrated by when she encountered General Blue before learning his true sexual orientation where she grabbed his arm, licked it, and also meowed like a cat. However, she loses interest in him due to his lack of commitment to her and becomes more committed to her relationship with Vegeta.

At times, she doesn't watch her mouth, which gets her into trouble. On a similar note, she also had a severe lack of tolerance towards Yamcha being approached by other women when she was still dating him, as she initially broke up with him when she thought Yamcha was cheating on her for Hasky, and when Maron attempted to flirt with Yamcha a second time, she stormed over to the two and proceeded to furiously scold Maron though the latter bit ended up backfiring when Chi-Chi's timed arrival to scold Maron resulted in Maron expressing at amusement at the "two middle-aged ladies" [referring to Bulma and Chi-Chi] and caused the two to get into a furious argument over their ages.

Despite their rocky start and quarrelsome natures, Bulma tends to have a unanimous relationship with Vegeta, which increasingly improves after they get married. Bulma tends to take control over Vegeta and often berates him for his rude behavior, yet she takes pleasure in teasing him.

Although they can argue often and despite him being a former enemy to the Z Fighters, Bulma is very devoted to Vegeta and truly loves him, even taking great pride at being his wife. After becoming a mother, Bulma is a very loving one towards her son and daughter, even though she demonstrated some irresponsibility when she took Trunks to the Androids battlefield when he was a baby, but she later learns from this mistake.

One of Bulma's most interesting relationships is her friendship with Goku, having known the Saiyan for the majority of his life and becoming his first, and one of his closest, friends. Initially, she expressed frustration and annoyance towards his lack of hygiene, manners, and knowledge of the world and sought to only use him as protection whenever they encountered serious trouble when looking for the Dragon Balls.

But soon, Bulma came to warm up to and care for Goku as a dear friend, their relationship being akin to that of an older sister-younger brother. As they grew up together, Bulma would assist Goku whenever he needed it and often showed great concerned for him whenever a task seemed too big or if he was in danger of being killed, though she would still get annoyed with his immature tendencies and forgetfulness and Goku has often shown to fear her temper to the point of being submissive and obedient to her.

Even after they had both become adults, Bulma remained good friends with Goku even though she expressed irritation at him often being quick to fight someone and his habit of not taking things seriously enough. Despite this, Bulma's faith and trust in Goku whenever it came to combat has shown to be absolute to the point where she often displays more confidence in him than even her own husband, Vegeta; such as the battles with Majin Buu as well as Goku Black and Future Zamasu.

Bulma's companionship with Goku also extends to his family, being a good friend of Chi-Chis and showing a great deal of warmness to his sons Gohan and Goten, even after the former grows up. As she got older, Bulma was shown to have some irritation towards her fellow Z-Fighters for constantly relying on the Dragon Balls to revive people when dealing with a threat.

This eventually came to a head when Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks were sealed inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber when fighting Super Buu, where she called them out on their stating they'll revive Goten and Trunks with the Dragon Balls in case they get killed, especially when Goten and Trunks were children also calling the rest of the Z-Fighters cowards in the Japanese dub , after Krillin suggested that Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks commit suicide and then revive them.

Though she is not a fighter, Bulma can be violent when angered and defend herself if need be. Several characters such as Krillin, Gohan, Goku and even to some extent Vegeta, are shown to fear her violent temper.

When it seemed Frieza had been destroyed by the Large Spirit Bomb Krillin freaked when he remembered they had left Bulma all alone on Namek and Krillin even suggested that an angry Bulma is more terrifying than Frieza. Much later, Goku freaked out when he realized he had forgotten it was Bulma's birthday and even suggested she might be more terrifying than Beerus.

Also, Vegeta adamantly refused to go training with Goku during Bulma's pregnancy because he feared she would never forgive him, although it's more likely that Vegeta wanted to be there for Bulma in this unsure time.

Even though she has noble qualities, she puts too high of an emphasis on her appearance, which is possibly one of the reasons why the Nimbus Cloud wouldn't allow her to ride on it. As she grew older, she became so paranoid about losing her good looks that she went so far as to collect the Dragon Balls simply to make herself look 5 years younger, as in Dragon Ball Super: Broly , she had already collected 6 out of 7 of the Dragon Balls.

It's also implied that she'd done this a few times before. She even angrily slapped the God of Destruction Beerus for ruining her party however this was partially due to her belief that Beerus was a friend of her husband's. Fortunately, Beerus responded by simply slapping her right back, causing Vegeta to angrily attack Beerus in order to defend his wife. Over time, even Beerus came to fear her temper and often tries to avoid saying anything that will anger her. When she finally comes face-to-face with Frieza after his revival and confronts him along with the Dragon Team and Jaco , Bulma bravely confronts Frieza, to the point of even addressing the tyrant impolitely and rudely.

However, her confidence and bravado were shown to due to her belief that Gohan and the other Z Fighters were stronger than Frieza and quickly lost her bravado to the point she began speaking politely to Frieza when Gohan and Piccolo pointed out that Frieza had become far stronger than he was previously. She even attempted to get Frieza to wait for Goku, but when Frieza agreed to wait only ten seconds for Goku to appear, she lost her temper and called him a stingy jerk and in the Funimation dub even said "Screw you!

On that note, in the Japanese version, she was shown to use very coarse language at times, with a very notable example of this being the aforementioned interaction with Frieza, where she demanded bluntly that Vegeta and Goku return to Earth immediately due to Frieza having returned from the dead, while describing him as being an "evil, rotten, [censored]ing asshole", with Frieza taking offense to the last part of the description the Funimation dub tones this down to have Bulma refer to Frieza as an evil scumbag instead.

In Dragon Ball Legends , the teenage Bulma from the period before the summer vacation in which she first went hunting for the Dragon Balls and met Goku, finds herself in the present era of Age during the Tournament of Time which was secretly set up by Beerus, Whis, and King Kai to fulfill the demands of the tournament's mysterious Mastermind who had kidnapped Shin to force the gods of Universe 7 to comply. King Kai informs Bulma and the other participates in the tournament brought together from different dimensions, eras, and timelines about the tournament, claiming that the winner will be granted the opportunity to make a wish to Super Shenron which unbeknownst to them is a lie as it is currently not possible due to the Super Dragon Balls having been previously used in the aftermath of the Tournament of Power and are currently inert as a result.

As Bulma is not a fighter, Jaco of the present era is tasked by Beerus with protecting her as his background as a Galactic Patrolman and Bulma knowing him since childhood makes him the perfect person to keep her out of trouble. While she is aware of the Saiyans and Frieza Force like her counterpart, she is unfamiliar with Goku due to having not met his younger counterpart yet.

She wonders about her future self, though Jaco refuses to allow them to meet to preserve history and because he knows the present Bulma would call him out on allowing such a thing due to her awareness of it being a violation of Galactic Law, as Jaco has been a vocal critic of the use of the Time Machine created by Future Bulma.

As a result, Bulma is unaware of her present counterpart's marriage to Vegeta or that she is the mother of two half-Saiyan children. Due to her youth, she is less comfortable with the larger than life conflict caused by the tournament and lacks her counterpart's faith in Goku due to him being a perfect stranger to her.

This leads to Bulma humorously wondering if Goku is her future husband after learning he knows her, but Jaco quickly refutes the notion without elaborating it should be noted Bulma Youth finds adult Goku attractive during her pre-battle dialogue in Dragon Ball Legends though they are also familiar with Kid Goku as they are shocked he grew up to be " kinda of a hottie " as she puts it.

As present Goku is older than her, Bulma calls him Mr. Goku at first rather than simply Goku, who insists she just call him Goku. Due to Shallot being the first Saiyan she befriends during the tournament, Bulma's relationship with him resembles her counterpart's relationship with Goku, though due to Shallot being older than Kid Goku, it is implied she may be somewhat attracted to him and seemingly attempts to flirt with him at times, though it is unclear if this is just her toying with him as Shallot makes it clear he has no interest in her romantically.

Additionally, the teenage Bulma initially dislikes the pre-Vegeta Saga Prince Vegeta due to his personality, with Jaco finding some of her comments about Vegeta humorous due to his awareness of their counterparts' marriage though he avoids revealing anything about it to her teenage counterpart or Vegeta. Vegeta in turn dislikes Bulma's loud mouth to the point he demands Shallot shut off his communicator though Shallot cheekily points out he is unable to due to his lack of knowledge regarding such technology thus Vegeta is forced to put up with her commentary.

After meeting Vegeta in person and due to him and Nappa acting as mentors to Zahha, Shallot, and Kid Gohan, she is more tolerant of the two Saiyans, even suggesting Vegeta came back to the Capitol due to getting lonely camping out in the wilderness without her indicating she shares her counterpart's attraction to Vegeta once she gets to know him better though continues to disapprove of Vegeta's evil ways and even tries to stop him and Shallot from fighting due to the damage it could cause to the Capitol if they continued, though fortunately Beerus backed her up and forced Vegeta to leave with Nappa.

After joining Team Beerus with Shallot, Bulma supports the team in a manner similar to the way her counterpart supports the Dragon Team. Though she fails to understand the Saiyans obsession with fighting, she does her best to support Shallot, even bringing him food when he skips a meal to continue training to become a Super Saiyan, though when he points out the amount of food she and Jaco brought was barely enough for a snack she retorts by sarcastically calling him "Master Shallot" as she dislikes being treated like a maid.

She also mistakes Turles for Goku which results in her being kidnapped by the rogue Frieza Force faction lead by Frost and Turles. Fortunately for her, they kidnap her so she can assist their ally Dr. Gero who has been helping Turles perfect the Fruit of the Tree of Might that he has been supplying to Frost's army in exchange for gathering genes for Dr.

Eventually she is rescued by Shallot, Vegeta, and Nappa who begrudgingly teamed up with Frieza to rescue her and Goku takes her back to the Capitol via Instant Transmission. Bulma admonishes Goku for letting Turles go, refusing to accept his excuse that it was to honor Shallot's work to defeat him. Like her counterpart has done in the past, she questions how Goku can risk the fate of Earth like that and even notes it sounds like he's brainwashed her counterpart when he notes her present self would have faith in him to deal with whatever threat they were dealing with.

After learning that Vegeta and Nappa have been killed from Shallot following his recovery, she is shocked and saddened by their deaths, causing Whis to remind Beerus that unlike the present Bulma, she is lacks her counterpart's familiarity and experience with the deaths of loved ones and having the Dragon Balls around to fix things, showing she is more sensitive to death of people she has come to know during the Tournament.

She continues to support Shallot and reveals she is aware of the location of Dr. Gero's hideout having heard about it from her father and suggests they search there despite Goku pointing out the lab was destroyed long ago, though he intuition proves accurate as Shallot encounters one of the Android 19s mass produced by the mad scientist. Gero using the genes collected by Turles. However due to her inexperience compared to her adult counterpart she fails to notice Android 16's Android Bomb thus allowing him to utilize his Last Resort to stop Cell's teammate Bojack during the Super Cell Games , though 16 us thankful for this as he sacrifices himself putting his faith in Teen Gohan, Shallot, and their allies to defeat New Cell.

Bulma also ends up meeting the teenage Future Trunks from shortly after Future Gohan's death who allies himself with Team Beerus to ensure her safety, though conceals his identity as the son of Future Bulma, though she does become aware that Vegeta is his father due to Teen Future Trunks encountering Majin Vegeta who's evil actions she disapproves of much like her counterpart, though she forgives him once Shallot reminds Vegeta of his Saiyan pride and he turns on the Mastermind.

Bulma is horrified when the Mastermind is revealed to be none other than their ally Zahha, who was acting as a double agent the whole time. However she and Jaco do their best to protect the unconscious Shallot and carry him away to safety while Goku, Adult Gohan, and Beerus confront Zahha and his allies Zamasu and Goku Black. Fortunately, they are helped by Champa and Vados as Beerus had asked them to. Champa insists that they will not find anything at where the Ice Continent used to be due to Zahha using Hakai via the prototype Super Dragon Ball he had created from the pieces he had stored in Shallot and Giblet before the Tournament began.

However she, Shallot, and Jaco are determined to see for themselves and journey to the Ice Continent, despite Shallot's conflicted feelings about confronting Zahha. Fortunately, Champa sends Hit to stop Shallot from rushing ahead in his current state of mind, which inadvertently saves him, Bulma, and Jaco.

Eventually Majin Vegeta arrives to provide backup and manages to help Shallot deal with his conflicting emotions regarding Zahha, helping him realizes he has to fight to stop Zahha's plans with Bulma thankful for him helping Shallot as she knows Zahha's betrayal had hit Shallot the hardest due to their closeness. Main article: Jaco the Galactic Patrolman.

At Age , ten years before the events in the Emperor Pilaf Saga, Bulma who is just five years old visits with her family on Omori's island. Bulma helps fix Jaco's spaceship without anyone noticing, and demonstrates an intelligence that impresses both Jaco and Omori. Bulma carries with her a laser gun that she designed herself and says it was made because she thought Jaco was an evil alien.

Ten years later, Bulma graduates from university and is in search of mysterious, mythical balls that can grant whatever wish their finder desires.

Main article: Emperor Pilaf Saga. At the age of 16, [4] [5] she found the two-star Dragon Ball in her basement. She created the Dragon Radar to find the other Dragon Balls so she can wish for a lifetime supply of strawberries, but later decides she wants to wish for the perfect boyfriend instead.

She began her quest for the other balls during her summer vacation and after a couple of days, she found the Five-Star Dragon Ball in the North Valley. Nine days later, she went to Mount Paozu to find the next Dragon Ball when she accidentally hit a young boy named Goku with her car.

Bulma was the first girl Goku had ever seen and even more so, the second human Goku had ever seen, after his guardian, Grandpa Gohan , who had died. After Goku took Bulma to his house , she finds out that he has the four-star Dragon Ball, and explains the legend and power behind them. After failing to seduce Goku for the Dragon Ball, she decides to become traveling partners with him to which he agrees, though she deliberately neglected to tell him that the Dragon Balls scatter after the wish is made.

Later that night when camping in a Capsule House in Skull Valley , Bulma ends up introducing Goku to several elements that he was deprived of in his isolation such as technology, bathing and even the anatomy of women by accident. The next morning, Goku finds a sea Turtle lost and decides to walk him back to the beach, which Bulma unhappily agrees to since she does not want to be left alone and defenseless. After an encounter with a Bear Thief , they got him to the beach and met Master Roshi , who gave Goku the Flying Nimbus for bringing him back.

Bulma, who saw Master Roshi's Three-Star Dragon Ball, got it from him in exchange for showing him her panties which she did not know were not on at the time because Goku removed them while she was sleeping that morning. Only later, she discovers that her underwear is gone and gets furious as Goku admits after being explained what panties are that he took them off.

When the two continue their journey, Bulma tries to use the Flying Nimbus but was rejected since she is not pure-hearted. Three days later, Bulma and Goku ended up in Aru Village which was under the rule of a shapeshifter named, Oolong , who kidnapped the young daughters of the villagers.

Bulma was given the six-star Dragon Ball by an old lady in the village for coming up with a plan to have Goku defeat Oolong. Bulma forced Oolong to come with them on their journey since his shapeshifting ability can come in handy. The journey became hard for when they reached the Diablo Desert and lost her capsules after traveling through a river on a boat just before. While in the desert, she met Yamcha , who she develops a crush on.

After spending the night in Oolong's House-Wagon , she was forced to wear a Bunny costume , because it was the only clean clothes around she had to wear. Bulma had Oolong take her place in her shape, but Bulma got angry when he went overboard and exposed her breasts to him as well. While on their way to the final Dragon Ball, they end up getting supplies at a town.

While there, Bulma is mistaken for a member of the Rabbit Mob because she is still wearing the bunny suit Oolong gave her. After getting new clothes, she is not feared by the townsfolk anymore with one shopper becoming angry at her for pulling such a stunt.

After Goku defeats two members of the mob they call their boss Monster Carrot , who turns Bulma into a carrot after she makes physical contact with him. Goku got help from Yamcha and Puar who have been secretly following them the whole time to defeat Monster Carrot and have Bulma turned back into a human.

The gang got back on track to their last, one-star Dragon Ball which was in the possession of Emperor Pilaf who has the desire to use them to rule the world. Bulma and the others had to get a ride from Yamcha and Puar to Pilaf's Castle since they had their previous car destroyed by Pilaf's minion Shu and five of their Dragon Balls stolen by him. While travelling, Bulma cosies up to Yamcha who can barely keep his mind straight.

While in Pilaf's Castle the gang was trapped in a room where Pilaf was able to steal the last ball from them that Goku had on. Oolong was able to save the world by stopping Pilaf from making his wish by shouting his wish for panties just a fraction of a second before Pilaf's request for world domination.

However, the Dragon Ball Gang was put into a cell to be fried the next morning. Bulma and the others were able to escape when Goku looked at the Full Moon , transformed into a Great Ape and broke them out. The next morning, Bulma becomes disappointed that she did not get her wish, but decides to hook up with Yamcha and head back to her home in West City. Main article: Tournament Saga.

On their way back their airplane crashes into a jungle where they are forced to walk. While back at West City, Bulma and Yamcha start to date. She cheers Yamcha on while watching him defeat an entire dojo of fighters to train for the upcoming World Martial Arts Tournament. During the time Bulma decides to go visit Goku at Kame House but found that the house was moved to a different location.

A month later, when coming home from grocery shopping, Bulma almost gets run over by a truck but is saved when Yamcha returns and saves her. Bulma becomes disappointed at him for being gone for so long and not contacting her. Afterward, she takes Yamcha to her house and gets him cleaned up.

During the Elimination Rounds, Bulma used Oolong to help her get a good view into the room so she can watch Yamcha fight. When the Tournament started she got a front row seat. While Goku did an excellent job in the Tournament, Bulma proudly took credit for being the one to discover him. After Goku lost the final round against Jackie Chun who was really Master Roshi in disguise Bulma and the rest of the gang ate dinner and began to leave back home but she was unfortunately stranded in the desert again when Yamcha's car broke down and was caught in a sandstorm bringing them back to the World Tournament Arena where they started.

She begins to dislike Yamcha due to his popularity with other women. Goku meets back up with her in front of her house at Capsule Corporation one day when she ditched school and came home early. Goku came to have Bulma repair the Dragon Radar that got broken while traveling.

Feeling bored with life in West City, she decides to join Goku and collect the Dragon Balls once more. Before Goku had arrived, she had made a new device, the Micro Band , so she can shrink and travel with him in his shirt while he is on the Flying Nimbus. Just before leaving, Bulma decides to show Goku around the city. While traveling through the city, Goku and Bulma come across Yamcha, Oolong, and Puar, who decide to come along with them to Dream Land.

At Dream Land, Bulma decides to be moody the whole time because of her fight with Yamcha and walk around by herself. When she decides that she wanted to apologize to Yamcha, she sees what looks like Yamcha holding another woman, however, Yamcha was actually trying to disarm a scimitar from Hasky.

Angry at Yamcha for his "infidelity", Bulma whacks him with a pot, knocking him out and allowing Hasky to escape. Bulma and Goku end up flying to an island that is right near the location of a Dragon Ball that is located in the ocean.

When Bulma finds out that she did not have a submarine capsule on her, Goku goes off to find the ball underwater by himself, leaving Bulma on the island. Bulma wanders the island not knowing that it was a base for the Red Ribbon Army. While wandering the island, she comes across two soldiers who were attracted to her. Since they were on an island in the middle of nowhere, the two soldiers wanted to take advantage of her, but Bulma ran from them.

This made them angry, so they got into their planes and started shooting at Bulma, but Goku came by just in time to defeated the soldiers and save her. Seeing that the ball was very deep underwater, they went to Kame House to see Master Roshi and got a submarine in exchange for her Micro Band for perverted reasons on Roshi's part. When they began to go off into the ocean, Krillin decided to come along and help them. While searching in the ocean, they were chased by the submarine of General Blue into a Pirate Cave that was the site of some hidden treasure.

While sneaking through the cave, they came across a trap that shot arrows by touching any of the black holes that were littered all over the hallway. Goku and Krillin were able to jump over all of them, but Bulma had to hang upside down on to Goku's Power Pole as it slowly brought her through the hall.

During the fight, Bulma and Krillin left and went ahead of Goku, who decided to stay and fight the robot. At the end of the hall, they had no choice but to strip to their underwear and swim the rest of the way. When Bulma and Krillin found a room filled with the treasure, they encountered General Blue.

Bulma stayed and watched Krillin fight against General Blue. Just as Krillin was losing, Goku caught up and took him on. When Blue released his telekinesis on Goku, Bulma tried to seduce General Blue with her body , but it failed because General Blue is not interested in women.

After Goku was able to defeat General Blue, Bulma and Krillin went to escape the cave as it was crumbling and Goku went to quickly find the Dragon Ball. When they got back to the surface, Bulma shows Krillin and Goku that she hid a diamond from the treasure in her underpants while they were still in there. Bulma uses the diamond to pay Roshi back for not returning his submarine, but Launch reverted to her bad form and stole it.

General Blue shows up at Kame House and has everybody tied up using his telekinesis while he takes the Dragon Balls and escapes leaving a bomb behind to kill them. Launch returned just in time to save them by untying Goku so he can throw the bomb and catch up to General Blue. At that point, Bulma decides to end traveling with Goku and stay at Kame House for the time being.

While Goku was out continuing his quest for his Dragon Ball, Bulma took the Micro Band back from Roshi, since he was using it for perverted reasons. While Goku was training at the top of Korin Tower , he looked through one of the water jugs and saw Bulma and Krillin cooking at Roshi's house, where she accidentally burned her finger on the stove. Another time Goku looked through the Jug, she was seen teaching Roshi, Launch, and Krillin how to do aerobics.

While she was Roshi's house, she was using what little resources he had laying around to make a Scouting Plane and another Dragon Radar to track Goku down. Bulma decided to make a phone using spare parts around the house so she can call Yamcha and have him take everyone to Goku. When everyone gets to the Red Ribbon Army Base to meet Goku, they are late only to find the Goku easily beat all of them.

In Dragon Ball Z, the Super Saiyan Goku would of course age with these time jumps, making him older in the later sagas that exist in Dragon Ball canon. Here's how old Goku is in each Dragon Ball saga to date.

When his journey begins, Goku is stated to be 14 years old despite his youthful appearance. Dragon Ball later retconned Goku being 11 years old, with the explanation being that he had trouble counting when asked his age at the start of the Pilaf saga.

In the same year, he engages in a search for the Dragon Balls that brings him and his allies into heated conflicts with the Red Ribbon Army, General Blue, and Mercenary Tao. It was also during this time that he met the prophetic Fortuneteller Baba. As the years pass in the Dragon Ball canon, Goku keeps himself busy with his training and his adventures.

When Goku is 15, he enters the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament and loses in a memorable showdown with Tien who would later go to be a member of the Z-Warriors.