How Is It Possible That Android 18 from Dragon Ball Can Have Children Despite Being Artificial?
Android 18 in Dragon Ball has a baby together with Krillin. But how did she manage to get pregnant despite being an artificial? We explain it.
How is it possible for Android 18 to have a child together with Krillin? Androids are, after all, human-like robots that aren’t supposed to have the ability to reproduce, and yet the Dragon Ball character lived to see an offspring she gave birth to herself.
In fact, any doubts about this character's fertility stem from the nuances of translation. In the Japanese version of the manga and anime, the term Jinzoningen, referring to both cyborgs and androids, is used to refer to Android 18. Translations, meanwhile, have begun to use less universal terms, making the protagonist a cyborg in some translations and an android in others.
And an android and a cyborg aren’t the same thing. An android is a human-like robot, while a cyborg is a human with a cybernetically modified body.
And the correct term for Dragon Ball's character is the word cyborg, since she is a human being with some organs replaced by technical devices. Dr. Gero modified her body by adding cybernetic implants. However, he left her human enough that she could still get pregnant, which happened after she got involved with Krillin.
The couple lived to see their daughter, whom they named Marron. The girl first appeared in the 232nd chapter of the Dragon Ball Z manga titled Strongest in the Heavens! and in the 205th episode of the Dragon Ball Z anime titled I'll Fight Too!
There are also real androids in Dragon Ball, which are fully artificial constructs, they are, for example, Androids 16 and 19.
