Lunch (Dragon Ball)
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| Japanese | ランチ |
| Romaji | Ranchi |
| Anime Name | Launch |
| Manga Name | Lunch Ranchi |
| Alternate Name(s) | Marilynn Kushami Miss Lunch |
| First Appearance | Volume 3 (Issue 26) (Manga) Episode 15 of Dragonball (Anime) |
| Appears in | Image:One Star DB.svg 
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| Race | Human |
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Lunch is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z and the anime Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. She is known as Launch in the FUNimation dub and she is known as Marilynn in an English-language Dragon Ball dub from the 1980's. Her seiyū is Mami Koyama. In the English dub she is voiced by Meredith McCoy.
Lunch is Muten-Rôshi's busty house maid, retrieved by the young Goku and Kuririn in order to receive martial-arts training from him (his requirement was to "bring him a pretty girl"). She has dissociative identity disorder; whenever she sneezes, she switches between a sweet innocent girl with blue hair, and a blonde who commits crimes for fun and is quick to respond with gunfire when angered (pulling a machine-gun out from nowhere when needed). Neither of Lunch’s personalities remembers what the other says or does, and it is never said if the evil side knows of the innocent self; however, the innocent Lunch is aware of her evil side (although she doesn't really seem very concerned over her presence).
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[edit] Background
[edit] Dragon Ball
As Goku and Kuririn fly off on Kinto'un (Flying Nimbus) to find a "pretty girl" for Roshi, a blond-haired woman on a motorbike is being chased by the police; she had robbed a train and was fleeing with the money when they caught up. As she attempts to escape, a strand of her hair tickles her nose, causing her to sneeze and revert to her blue-haired form, quickly losing control of the bike and crashing. The officers close in on the confused girl (who has no memory of her other self's actions), and her terrified screams draw Goku and Kuririn, who quickly beat up the "attackers" and bring the grateful girl to the Kame House, where she agreed to work for Roshi as his maid.
Lunch is happy to carry out her work for Roshi, never realizing that the ancient pervert is constantly trying to grab, poke, rub or catch a glimpse of her breasts, panties, or bra. However, many of his schemes are foiled—if not by his own mistakes, then when Lunch's nose gets tickled and she sneezes, causing her to change into her violent half.
Her transformations come in handy during the 22nd and 23rd Tenka-ichi Budōkai, when she would clear the crowd and allow her friends to get up in front.
[edit] Dragon Ball Z
Lunch is often shown in the original Dragon Ball, and develops a crush on Tenshinhan, which continues into the early Dragon Ball Z episodes; however, as with other side characters, she eventually tapers off to nothingness as the storyline shifts focus to the Saiyans.
She tries to have a relationship with Tenshinhan, but his constant training makes it fail. After the death of Tenshinhan, she became very depressed. She wasn't shown again until much later. She reappears as her innocent self in the last episodes of DBZ to give her energy to Goku for his Ultimate Spirit Bomb (Genki Dama). She seems to have aged quite a bit and working as a truck driver.
Lunch's final appearance in the manga was actually during a filler scene in the Freeza Saga, the only instance where she appeared after the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai. Such filler scenes were inserts to the chapters found in Weekly Shonen Jump 1991 #3 and #4. Since they were only gag-manga done at the request of the magazine, resulting in each author from those two issues contributing holiday-themed gag-manga inserts, they weren't considered canon and were never included in the Tankobon (compilation volume).
[edit] Other appearances
In "Goku's Traffic Safety", Goku is heading to West City to attend Bulma's birthday party, and on the way he ends up learning the rules for getting through traffic. The movie was for children to watch so it would teach them how to get across a pedestrian crossing. Guest characters include an appearance from Lunch as a policewoman, she had the personality of Normal Lunch, but with the blonde hair.
In "Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle", Lunch (in her evil, blonde state) arrives to steal the Sleeping Princess -- which is really a giant jewel. Everyone is captured and encased in a wall of rock. It is the night of a full moon, and the moonlight is used to power the jewel. The moonlight also turns Goku Oozaru (Giant Ape), and everyone escapes. Goku and Kuririn return to Kame House with Lunch, and Muten Rōshi takes them both on as students.
In "Mystical Adventure", Bulma, Oolong, Lunch and Pu'er are looking for the Dragon Balls, so Bulma can wish for a boyfriend.
She doesn't appear at all in Dragon Ball GT except at the end of the series when the dramatic flashback of the three Dragon Ball Series is shown as Goku is leaving the Tenka-ichi Budōkai 100 years later.
In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, Lunch continues to appear until the end of the series, always looking for Tenshinhan. In addition to that she also sells capsules in the Skill Shop, switching between her good and evil side randomly.
[edit] Weapons and vehicles
Lunch's arsenal is carried via Hoi-Poi Capsules (or Dynocapsules); this was revealed in the Piccolo-Daimao Saga, opening a capsule to use a pistol and a machine pistol to clear away a crowd so that Bulma and the others could get a better seat for the Tenka-ichi Budōkai. It is highly conceivable then, that Lunch could have an entire arsenal of weaponry at her disposal, all within the size-reducing capsules. Here now is what was revealed to be in her possession.
- Lunch's Bazooka - The bazooka was an anti-tank weapon used by the United States Armed Forces in World War II. It was nicknamed "bazooka" from a vague resemblance to the musical instrument of the same name. Lunch uses a bazooka to stop a train that she is about to rob, though it is only mentioned she robbed a train in the manga.
- Lunch's Machine Gun - Muten Roshi gives Lunch some lingerie to change into, and after she changes she sneezes. She quickly pulls out machine gun and fills the boys full of bullets for making her wear such a thing. This gun is also used during the saloon scene at the beginning of the episode 15, appearing much sooner in the anime than it does in the manga.
- Lunch's Shotgun - This is a short barreled pump-action shotgun that Lunch tries to use against the police that are chasing her. Fortunately she doesn't get the chance to use it, as she sneezes just before she is about to shoot.
- One-Wheeled Bike - Lunch is seen driving the "S-Cargo" one-wheeled bike as she's being chased by the police after robbing a bank. The name itself is a pun, with "escargot" being the French word for "snail". The bike's design actually resembles a snail.
