Tanmen

Tanmen (タンメン Tanmen) is a girl who lives in a village attacked by InoShikaCho. She only appears in the Dragon Ball anime. Tanmen's name is based on "Tanmen", a Japanese noodle. Tanmen resembles the princess of the Flower Country who appears in Akira Toriyama's Dragon Boy manga, which he used as a prototype for Dragon Ball. When Goku fought Tien Shinhan and was pinned beneath a tree, Tanmen found and saved him. From Goku's story, she realized that Tien, Chiaotzu and InoShikaCho had fooled them by pretending to get rid of InoShikaCho. After Goku protected InoShikaCho, who had been aban...