✔️COMPLETED✔️:Dragon Ball [Z/SUPER/GT] Secrets

What's In A Name? Hit/Hitto

Names in Dragon Ball have almost always followed some kind of naming conventions. Saiyans are named after vegetables; Namekians are named after snails; and Piccolo’s children are named after instruments. Other characters, who don’t fall into groupings, tend to just take on a name associated to either their role in the story or a simple pun that sums them up nicely without really giving them away. In Hit’s case, he actually has one of the simpler to understand names in the series. Hitto, as he’s called in Japanese, clearly translates over as Hit which ends up playing into two of his major aspects. To quote Champa, "Hit! Nice hit!"

The first, Hitto works as a play on words of hitman. Hit is an assassin, a hitman in other words, and he takes care of “hits” that his clients put on other people. The second, Hit’s fighting style is heavily based off of traditional boxing. His main style of attacking is hitting hard and fast with his fists. It’s as basic as a “hit” can get. Compared to other characters, Hit’s name is incredibly simple. Taking that into account, English speaking fans can get a sense of how Japanese fans feel when they figure out a name pun that relies heavily on Japanese wordplay.