Shū

     

Part IV Part I
Shū
シュウ
Alternative Name(s)	Soba (ソバ)
English Localized Name(s)	VIZ Sho FUNi Shu
Personal Data
Universe	7th Universe
Galaxy	Milky Way, North Galaxies
Race	Earthling
Birthplace	Earth
Gender	Male
Voice Actors
English	Chris Cason
Japanese	Tesshō Genda
Professional Status
Team(s)	Pilaf Gang
Partner(s)	Mai Pilaf
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Volume 2, Chapter 18
Anime Debut	DB001
Movie Debut	Movie 18
Tools
Ninjatō
Image Gallery
Character Image Gallery

Shū (シュウ; FUNimation "Shu", Viz "Sho"), known as Soba (ソバ) in the early stage of the manga, is an Animal-type Earthling, and a member of the Pilaf Gang. He serves as Pilaf's loyal henchmen along with his partner Mai. He has encountered the Dragon Team on their mission to further their leader's quest to collect the Dragon Balls and to complete his master's goal of world domination.

Appearance

Shū as a child.

Shū is an Animal-type Earthling, and as such, bears the appearance of a bipedal animal; in his case, he resembles a Shiba Inu. Shū has white fur with brown patches, as seen from around his face and hands, a long snout and a black button nose, as well as dark black eyes that are round. Physically, Shū does not differ much from an adult to a puppy, beyond a height difference and softer features.

His typical attire consists of purple ninja garb, worn over a black undershirt, tied with a white obi, and he wears black tabi worn within waraji for footwear. On his back, he wears a sword tied with string. In the original Dragon Ball anime, he wore a yellow undershirt.

Part I

Red Ribbon Army Arc

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The following contents are "Non-Canon" and therefore not considered part of the Canon story.

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Part II

Cell Arc

Main article: Cell Arc While they were not seen, Pilaf, Mai, and Shū, are always operating in secret, intending to take over the world. The emergence of Cell, however, caused them to postpone any attempts at world domination.

Part III

Majin Boo Arc

Main article: Majin Boo Arc When Majin Boo's presence became known to Earth, it again forced Shū, Pilaf and Mai to postpone their plans for world domination. Shortly later, the three were killed by Boo during his assault on the entire population of Earth. Afterwards, the group alongside the rest of Boo's victims were resurrected by the Nameccian's Dragon Balls.

Part IV

Dragon Ball Z: God and God

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: God and God

Dragon Ball Z: Revival of "F"

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Revival of "F"

God and God Arc

Main article: God and God Arc

Revival of "F" Arc

Main article: Revival of "F" Arc

Hakaishin Champa Arc

Main article: Hakaishin Champa Arc

"Future" Trunks Arc

Main article: "Future" Trunks Arc

In Other Timelines

Trunks' Timeline

The Pilaf Gang had wished back to be infants.

Shū shared the same past events with his present counterpart before Trunks used Time Machine to travel to the past. At some point in the future, the Pilaf Gang gathered the[Dragon Balls and summoned Shenron to wish for youth. Their timing was during the Android's attack on Earth, however, and the death of Piccolo rendered them inert from that point on; their wish turned them into infants. Due to Zen'ō erasing the 7th Universe, Pilaf and Shū suffered the same fate.

In Other Media

Dragon Ball Super (manga)

See also: Dragon Ball Super#Manga

Trivia

• Shu along with the Pilaf Gang make a cameo in Akira Toriyama's other work such as the movie Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! Love Comes From Penguin Village.
• In the Ask Akira Toriyama section of the tankōbon version of volume 12, Akira Toriyama revealed to a reader in his questionnaire that the reason why this character is named both "Shū" in volume 10 of the manga and "Soba" in volume 2 is because when the anime came out in Japan, they had asked him to name Pilaf's underlings. Toriyama told the anime industry to name this character "Shū", completely forgetting that he already named this character "Soba" in the manga. By the time he realized this mistake, it was already too late, so Toriyama decided to rename the character to "Shū" in volume 10 onwards for consistency with the anime. Despite this, an editor revealed that they retained "Soba" as the character's name in the English version of the manga in order to stay true to Toriyama's original intentions.