Chi-Chi

, sometimes written as Chi Chi, is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball media franchise. Created by Akira Toriyama, she first appears in Chapter #11 of the Dragon Ball manga entitled "...And into the Fire!". Typically portrayed as the fiery 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. Development Chi-Chi is known by different names in other language localizations of the Dragon Ball anime adaptation. For example, she is known as "Quica" in Brazilian Portuguese dub, and in Latin-American Spanish dub as "Milk". 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 breasts or urine in the regions. Her original swimsuit style costume was based on a costume earlier manga character from the same creator called Pola from Pola & Roid. Toriyama had jokingly expressed slight disdain for the character in a 2003 interview by saying: This was after one of the animators asked Toriyama if he preferred either Bulma or Chi-Chi. Portrayal Chi-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. In the Funimation English dub, she is voiced by Laura Bailey as a child and Cynthia Cranz as an adult. 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.