Majin Buu (魔人ブウ, Majin Bū, also translated as Majin Boo), is a fictional supervillain and later superhero who first appears in the Dragon Ball manga created by Akira Toriyama. As the manga was adapted to anime, it was split into two sub-series; Buu appears in the second sub-series called Dragon Ball Z, and a third anime-only sub-series called Dragon Ball GT. Following the success of Dragon Ball, he also makes a minor reappearance in Toriyama's se...
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Majin Buu (魔人ブウ, Majin Bū, also translated as Majin Boo), is a fictional supervillain and later superhero who first appears in the Dragon Ball manga created by Akira Toriyama. As the manga was adapted to anime, it was split into two sub-series; Buu appears in the second sub-series called Dragon Ball Z, and a third anime-only sub-series called Dragon Ball GT. Following the success of Dragon Ball, he also makes a minor reappearance in Toriyama's self-parody called Neko Majin Z.
Like many Dragon Ball characters, Buu's name is part of a joke. When placed with his creator Bibidi and his son Babidi, the names phonetically form the phrase, "Bibidi Babidi Buu" — a parody of the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" — featured in Disney's Cinderella.
Buu is introduced in the series in chapter #460 Majin Buu's Appearance (魔人ブウ出現か！？, Majin Bū Shutsugen ka!?) first published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on March 14, 1994. Here he is presented as an innocent looking pudgy pink genie-like creature. Later in...
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