vomi It is a character that bears that name for a very specific circumstance and that perhaps many do not find so pleasant. Although he is a character that many discovered until the premiere of the recent movie of Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroin reality its history, presence and transcendence goes further.
It is a semantic curiosity that we are going to share here, but it will help us to better understand the logic in which Akira Toriyama Create and name your characters, intertwining them with each other. Either because of their parentage, their personal ties, or their connection to the plot.
Dragon Ball is a work that at this point already has a fairly wide gallery of characters from the moment of the publication of its first story back in the now distant 1984.
But to be honest, since then we already saw a bit of the dynamics of this mangaka to name his characters. We have the clearest example with Bulma, Trunks and Bulla, where the phonetics of their names and etymologies allude to underwear.
Well, with the character we are analyzing now there is a similar story.
Vomi and the scatological origin of his name
With Vomi we have a peculiar casesince it is a character created by Toriyama that had existed for a while in other products of this franchise. She, strictly speaking, is the wife of Dr. Gero and the mother of Gevo, as well as the grandmother of Dr. Hedo. She in turn serves as the base model for Android 21.
Although many knew her until her appearance in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the reality is that she debuted in her android form earlier in Dragon Ball FighterZ and in her human form in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, where she is shown as an employee of the Capsule Corp.
The interesting thing comes when we analyze the semantic tree of all the characters with which it is related. Where the name of Dr. Gero is the onomatopoeia that the Japanese use to illustrate the action of vomiting.
While Gevo, the human version of Android 16, is also another onomatopoeia with which that same act of nausea and retching is represented.
As you well suspect, then, the name of Vomi alludes directly to the English name of that same act: Vomit. So its name in Spanish in the strict sense would be “Vomito”.