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Ranfan (ランファン Ranfan) is a competitor in the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament.
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Appearance[]
Ranfan's manga colors shown in concept art by Toriyama
Ranfan wears a sleeveless shirt, a pair of sweatpants and sneakers. Underneath, she wears a frilly pink ruffled lace bra and matching bikini panties. The color of her shirt, pants, and sneakers are different between the manga and the anime: her shirt is pink while her pants are gray and sneakers are black in the manga, and her shirt is blue, pants are green, and shoes are red in the anime. Her hair is also colored differently: it is orange in the manga, and purple in the anime. She has a mole on her left cheek.
Personality[]
Ranfan has a very flirtatious personality as she winks and sweet talks when she needs to. She seems to not mind showing off her body to gain an advantage as shown in her fight against Nam. Though she seems somewhat antagonistic in the fight she is shown to not be a bad person after losing the fight as she even helps find Goku when he was missing before his fight against Giran. She apparently dislikes "little twerps" and has a hobby of collecting underwear.[4]
Biography[]
Dragon Ball[]
Tournament Saga[]
"What's the matter Nam, don't you like what you see?" |
Ranfan
Ranfan was one of the eight fighters to make it to the quarter finals in the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament and the only female fighter. She was constantly being bugged by Jackie Chun hitting on her. Ranfan drew number six and ended up fighting against Nam.
Ranfan in her match against Nam
In the battle, she got a couple good hits on Nam and used all her feminine charm to distract him and almost got him out of the ring when she stripped down to her lingerie, shocking him. Nam was only able to defeat her by closing his eyes and attacking her without "looking upon her womanly flesh". Right after she is defeated, Jackie Chun, under the guise of seeing if she is all right, places his hands on her panties to "check for a heartbeat".
After her defeat in the tournament, she is one of four fighters who stay around to watch the final round and she is the one who finally finds Goku sleeping before his match with Giran.
Sometime after the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament, she marries a man named Trunks and becomes a housewife.[1]
King Piccolo Saga[]
After King Piccolo's resurrection, Ranfan is listed as one of the many targets on the World Martial Arts Tournament image roster for Tambourine's mission to murder the martial artists, though it is never revealed if she was slain.
Dragon Ball Z[]
Cell Saga[]
Ranfan in Dragon Ball Z
Ranfan makes a cameo appearance when Roshi explains he did not do too bad with the ladies.[6]
Power[]
- Manga & Anime
Ranfan was shown to have some martial arts skill and was strong enough to hurt a formidable opponent like Nam. However, she depends mainly on using her good looks to seduce her opponents and then taking advantage of the opportunity in order to win.
- Statements by authors and guidebooks
The movie pamphlet for Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might states that Ranfan has a power level of 80.
Techniques and Special Abilities[]
Aside from her martial arts skills, her only abilities are with the attractiveness of herself:
Ranfan's Heat Fist
- Flirt[1] – Ranfan gives someone a loving look and dazzles them. Also, Ranfan shrieks when someone is about to hit her, then hits them when they go to help her.
- Heat Fist – She uses air friction to heat her fist and deliver extra damage when punching.
- Seduction Attack - Ranfan uses her attractiveness to seduce the opponent causing them to lower their guard allowing her hit the opponent with her Heat Fist. Her Super Attack in Dokkan Battle.
- Stripping – Ranfan strips down to her pink panties and pink bra to shock male opponents.
- Giant Heart – A giant heart that expands outward, hitting the opponent. Used in Dragon Ball: Origins.
- Hearts Spinning – Either pink hearts that spin clockwise around her, or red hearts that spin anticlockwise and more quickly around her. Used in Dragon Ball: Origins.
- Small Hearts – One or three hearts that she fires directly at the opponent. Used in Dragon Ball: Origins.
- Hikou - In Dokkan Battle, she uses a jetpack to fly due to her inability to use ki based Flight.
Manga Appearances[]
Video Game Appearances[]
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokuden: Totsugeki-Hen
- Dragon Ball RPG: Shōnen-hen
- Dragon Ball: Origins
- Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
Ranfan as she appears in Origins
Ranfan makes a minor appearance in Super Gokuden: Totsugeki-Hen.
She also appears in Shōnen-hen.
She appears as a boss in two bonus chapters of Origins. First in "Chapter 8-8: The Tournament Begins", which can only be unlocked after defeating Jackie Chun at the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament and in which Goku fights her in an exhibition match after the final of the tournament. Then, in "Chapter 6-6: Pilaf Must Be Stopped", where Emperor Pilaf gets Ranfan to join him in his castle after the 21st World Tournament and terrorize a nearby village with her and his gang. In this video game, Ranfan has three attacks: a giant heart that expands outward, hearts spinning around her (either pink hearts that spin clockwise or red hearts that spin counterclockwise and more quickly), and some hearts (one or three) she can fire directly at the opponent.
Forbidden Seduction Tactic Ranfan card from Dokkan Battle
In Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans, Ranfan is mentioned by a martial arts fan who had a crush on her.
In Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Ranfan's hair style appears as custom hair option Type 34 for female Saiyans and Earthlings.
She appears as a playable character in Dokkan Battle who can be acquired through World Tournament Summons. Like most other characters that lack the ability to use Flight she uses a jetpack to fly. She also featured on the Charming Dream Girls Dragon Ball Heroines card acquired during an April Fool's Event. While she still seduces her opponents with her Seduction Attack, she remains fully clothed presumably due wearing a jetpack to fly making stripping impractical. Alternately it could have been omitted due it's risque nature.
Voice Actors[]
- Japanese: Yoko Kawanami
- English:
- Spanish:
- Latin American Spanish dub: Carola Vázquez
- Castilian Spanish dub: Rosalía Baños
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese dub: Isabel de Sá
- European Portuguese dub: Cristina Cavalinhos
Battles[]
- Dragon Ball
- Ranfan vs. Nam
Trivia[]
Renault Citroën, the Ranfan-lookalike in Dr. Slump.
- Her name comes from a Japanese abbreviation for "lingerie and foundation garments".
- In the U.S. broadcast edit version, the stripping was excluded. Instead, the scene of one of Nam's failed attacks is shown followed by her twitching foot to show she was knocked out. This is strangely not edited in recaps, which clearly show her in her bra and panties. The uncut English episodes show the fight in full.
- A character from Dr. Slump named Renault Citroën shares the same design and fighting style as Ranfan. She easily beats Senbei with her looks alone, but when they do not work against Arale (as she is a female robot), she quickly gives up. Ranfan also looks very similar to another recurring character from Dr. Slump, Trampire.
- Ranfan was 23 years old during the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament.
- Ranfan is the only competitor in the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament to not make any physical appearance after the tournament.
- Drawn by Akira Toriyama, Prima Donna (ビビアン, Vivian) is a character from Dragon Quest IV who seems to be inspired by Ranfan. The similarities become stronger by the fact that they were both conceived to be tournament opponents.
- Ranfan's hobby is collecting underwear.[4]
- Ranfan dislikes little twerps.[4]
Gallery[]
 Ranfan winking at Roshi  Jackie Chun flirts with Ranfan  Ranfan  Nam vs. Ranfan  Ranfan kicks Nam  Ranfan winks  Ranfan's innovative stripping technique  Ranfan's seductive stripping technique  Ranfan's seductive stripping technique  Roshi rubs Ranfan  Ranfan's cameo in Dragon Ball Z  Charming Dream Girls Dragon Ball Heroines card featuring Ranfan in Dokkan Battle |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Daizenshuu 7, 1996
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 DBZGT Legacy > Complete Character Guide: R. dbzgtlegacy.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ranfan profile. kanzentai.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Dragon Ball: Adventure Special, 1987
- ↑ Dragon Ball: Origins, 2008
- ↑ Dragon Ball Z episode 140, "Seized with Fear"
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