Often when things in the Dragon World turn bizarre, it is left to Krillin to shake his head in disbelief and crack a joke. As the most prominent full-blooded human character in the Dragon Ball series, Krillin also represents a sense of normalcy to Goku and Son Gohan, as well as often being the most identifiable. Krillin is often used as comic relief or cannon fodder by the author, and has been killed the most amount of times in the Dragon Ball series. The six dots on his forehead are scars from moxibustion burns, similar to the pattern that appear on the forehead of a Shaolin monk. After settling down with his new family, his hair grows out, although his original smooth crowned look is the most familiar to fans. During his training with Goku under Master Roshi, Krillin comments that "All who aspire to master the martial arts shave their heads in order to unfetter their ki" and seemed surprised to find out Roshi was naturally bald. Krillin is not naturally bald due to his original monastic training, he merely shaves his head and waxes it. However, later on, they seem to have disappeared completely, making the inside of his eyes the same color as his skin. As an adult, he is still short, standing at only 5 feet tall.Įarlier on in the series, Krillin had eye whites. Krillin has six small dots on his forehead and a monk-like orange gi as a child. He is voiced by Mayumi Tanaka in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Sonny Strait, Terry Klassen, Mike Thiessen, Sharon Mann, Apollo Abraham, Dan Gascon, Laurie Steele, Wanda Nowicki, Julie Maddalena, and Brian Beacock in the English version of the anime. Strait reprises his role as Krillin in Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Resurrection of F as well as Dragon Ball Super. Krillin is the tritagonist in Dragon Ball and one of the main supporting characters of it's sequels Z and Super. In the Funimation dub, he is voiced by Sonny Strait as a teenager and an adult while Laurie Steele voices him as a child.
He eventually marries Android 18 and settles down, having a daughter named Marron. He is Goku's best friend along with Bulma and Yamcha. At first he was Goku's rival, but later he became his new friend (best friend). Krillin ( Kuririn in Japan) is a major character from the Dragon Ball Series. ~ Krillin reflects on how much Goku and Gohan have changed him while fighting Cell. Thanks to those two, now I don't know when to quit, and do you know what? Someday, I'll get them for that. Guess it's all Goku and Gohan's fault I'm like this. I know back in the day, I so would have given up by now. It would be a hell of a lot easier just to stay down. Don't know why I'm getting back up again.