Bulma

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Baros stays at Bulma's home in West City and guides her through the Divine Martial Battle Art and Divine Martial Bone-Tempering Art. Once she senses ki, her energy grows quickly, though she initially has no fighting techniques or combat experience. Sparring with Baros helps her develop both 142 143.

Years after Baros leaves Earth, Bulma encounters Bardock and asks whether Baros has returned. They reunite when Baros appears, and he later explains the wider universe and the importance of battle power to her. Bulma and her parents subsequently travel to the Divine Martial Battle Star, where Baros plans for her to work with Dr. Brief and Kamos on research. During the journey to Namek, she also begins training regularly in the ship's Gravity Room 230 231 252 256.

On Namek, the Grand Elder unlocks Bulma's latent potential. Later, as Empress of the Divine Martial Battle Star, she continues scientific work alongside her cultivation 265 266 940 1416.

Appearance

Bulma is described as having a delicate build despite her considerable strength. When Trunks arrives from another timeline, Tights notices that he shares Bulma's blue hair and resembles her around the eyebrows 1092 1095.

• She appears remarkably youthful to the visiting Trunks, who thinks she looks about eighteen 1098.
• She wears work clothes while visiting a Divine Martial Battle Star research planet 1416.

Personality

Bulma is curious about the universe and its technology, but she also chooses to train rather than rely solely on her scientific abilities. She asks to accompany Baros to his world despite the dangers he describes, and later becomes a regular user of the Emperor Star's Gravity Room 231 256.

She is protective of her older sister Tights: she warns her that a contact-lens Scouter could injure her eyes, then demonstrates why a low reading does not mean its subject is weak. News of Tights's death leaves Bulma distraught 1085 1092 1093.

Abilities & Skills

Ki and combat

• Senses and uses ki; learns the Ki Blast under Baros 143.
• Learns the Flight Technique in less than three days and subsequently masters it 143.
• Gains sparring experience with Baros, although her early training does not include life-and-death battles. Even later, she is described as not especially skilled at fighting relative to her battle power 143 515.

Immortal Dao cultivation

• Cultivates immortal arts and uses true qi; her later cultivation reaches Peak Golden Immortal 960 1093 1429.
• Can conceal her aura. Tights's Scouter briefly reads 174,619 before Bulma gathers her true qi and drops its reading back to 1; the displayed figure is not presented as her full power 1093.
• Uses Ice Phoenix – Sealing the Heavens to freeze the entire moon 1093 1094.

Scientific research

• Helps Dr. Brief, Kamos, and other scientists improve a Power Level Scouter model to detect readings as high as one million 526.
• Creates a detector used by Saiyans to locate Super Dragon Balls in Universe 6 1000.
• Studies Time Machine technology with Dr. Brief and others, who replicate machines limited to travel between parallel timelines 1095.
• Reviews the Artificial Saiyan project with Dr. Brief and agrees to seek Baros's approval; Baros later authorizes it 1419 1428 1429.

Equipment and Projects

• Dragon Radar — Bulma recognizes her own device when Bardock has it 229.
• Power Level Scouters — She helps improve their detection range and understands the danger of building one into contact lenses 526 1092.
• Blutz Wave Generator Vehicle — Baros gives it to Bulma for study and asks her to work with the science institute on a version usable by ordinary Super Saiyans; completion is not documented here 907.

Relationships

• Baros — Her mentor and husband. He guides her early training, supports her research, and praises her later cultivation 142 143 1091 1094.
• Dr. Brief — Her father and fellow scientist; they collaborate on Saiyan technology and discuss Android research 252 526 1419.
• Tights — Her older sister. Bulma grieves her death, helps bring her back with the Dragon Balls, and later demonstrates the limits of Tights's Scouter 1085 1091 1092 1093.
• The Grand Elder — Unlocks Bulma's latent potential on Namek 265 266.
• Nie Xiaoqian — Calls Bulma “Big Sister”; Bulma welcomes her and takes her shopping 525.

Other Timelines

• A future Bulma develops a Time Machine and helps restore her devastated Earth. She also creates a Universe Shuttle for Baros; these achievements belong to that future time-space, not necessarily to the Empress of the Divine Martial Battle Star 741 821.
• The Empress meets Trunks from another timeline, but tells him she is not his mother: in her world, she never knew Vegeta, who was absorbed by Majin Buu 1097 1098.
• Other parallel timelines also contain versions of Bulma. They should not be conflated with the Empress or with one another 1435 1638 1693.