Bulma (Japanese: ブルマ, Hepburn: Buruma) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball franchise, first appearing in the original manga series created by Akira Toriyama.

Bulma is presented as an extraordinarily intelligent individual, being able to create technology capable of feats beyond contemporary science.

"[5] The author also claimed that when the series started, his editor at the time, Kazuhiko Torishima, wanted Bulma and Goku to form a romantic relationship.

When asked about the first time Bulma's hairstyle changed, Toriyama said it was to show that three years had passed and because he personally liked girls with short hair.

[1] In Funimation's in house English dub, Bulma is voiced by Tiffany Vollmer in the original Dragon Ball series.

[16] After Vollmer retired from voice acting, she was replaced by Monica Rial starting from Dragon Ball Z Kai.

[18] As the search progresses, Bulma and Goku meet Master Roshi after finding his pet turtle; Oolong, a shapeshifting pig who is terrorizing a village; and Yamcha, and his shapeshifting cat companion Pu'ar, a desert bandit who Bulma soon finds herself attracted to, and who she eventually starts a romantic relationship with.

After Goku and Piccolo kill him, Bulma takes the Scouter (スカウター, Sukautā) from Raditz and fixes it to find the power levels of people in human numbers.

[19] After Goku defeats the Saiyans, Bulma volunteers to travel to Piccolo's home planet Namek and use the Namekian Dragon Balls to restore Yamcha and the others back to life.

She is very protective of Trunks and hates the idea of him fighting, but nevertheless allows him to travel to the past to deliver Goku an antidote for a heart virus that claimed his life in the alternate timeline.

[22] Seven years after the battle against the Androids, Bulma helps Gohan by making a watch which automatically changes his clothes into a super-hero costume so he could fight crime, without his real identity being known.

Bulma is revived by the Porunga, along with the rest of the Earth, and gives her energy to Goku to eliminate Majin Buu once and for all.

[25] She would soon learn of the resurrected Frieza's advance on Earth from her old friend Jaco (ティリメンテンピボッシ • ジャコ, Tirimentenpibosshi Jako) during the second half of the first season and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', narrowly escapes being when Frieza destroys Earth thanks to Whis rewinding the event so he can quickly be killed.

After an unsuccessful attempt, Bulma travels with them to the timeline, showing Trunks a recording of Piccolo performing the Evil Containment Wave and fighting with and being injured by Zamasu.

[29] Bulma tries creating a time machine, only for Beerus to destroy it[30] and she later summons Beerus to quell a perceived threat from Arale and then satisfies his taste by using Senbei's Reality Machine and viewers of the award ceremony she was attending to imagine the most tasteful food they could think of.

It is also revealed that Bulla's birth is the result of Whis using his divine powers to hasten her conception, allowing Vegeta to participate in the tournament without worry.

Bulma appears in eight Dragon Ball Z films; in the first movie, Bulma makes a brief appearance when using the Dragon Radar to find Gohan after his abduction by Garlic Jr.'s henchman;[33] in the second, she is used as leverage by Kochin to get Master Roshi to come back to the lair of Dr. Wheelo, where she is forced to accompany him as well;[34] in the third, she is seen camping with Oolong and Krillin before the Tree of Might is planted and later appears at Goku's home;[35] in the fourth, Bulma's mind is probed by Lord Slug to aid in his quest to secure the Dragon Balls, her losing consciousness thereafter;[36] in the eighth, she makes a small appearance at the beginning, attending a picnic with the other characters;[37] in the ninth, Bulma watches a fighting tournament with Chi-Chi and Trunks while baring her midriff in a yellow tank crop top with short-shorts, a yellow headband, and a pearl necklace; arguing with Chi-Chi during the shared viewing;[38] in the twelfth, Bulma gathers the Dragon Balls to send the souls of the deceased back to Other World;[39] in the thirteenth, Bulma creates a room for Tapion who she confronts over the friendship he has established with her son.

During the Garlic Jr. arc, Bulma falls under the control of the Black Water Mist, leading her to attack her unaffected friends, being freed of the condition later on.

During this time, she organizes the migration to Planet Vegeta (renamed Planet Tuffle), and creates the Super Bruits Wave Generator (超ブルーツ波発生装置, Chō Burūtsuha Hassei Sōchi) that helps Baby become the Saiyan's Golden Great Ape transformation.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Bulma appears in the Options Mode explaining how the various game settings work.

[45] Rossum described her portrayal of Bulma in Dragonball Evolution as "pretty bad-ass, but still quirky and fun, and kind of ridiculous in the way she is in the anime.

: 100 Must-See Japanese Animation Masterpieces, noted that Bulma's character went through the greatest number of changes in the series, and praised the evolution of her character from a "brass, boy-crazy teen girl" in the earliest episodes of Dragon Ball to winding up as one of the matriarchs of the group.