Yamcha's Appearance

Yamcha's appearance stays relatively the same for the majority of the series, although his clothes and hairstyle are changed several times.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]} Many of Yamcha's hairstyles are also used by Son Gohan at various points in his life.^[10][15][14] During the Android Saga, Android #19's scanner reads that Yamcha is 183 centimeters tall and weighs 68 kilograms.^[16] Yamcha is shown to be a baseball player in the anime filler material for Dragon Ball Z. This was suggested by Toriyama.^[17] The first kanji Yamcha has on his clothes "樂" stands for "happy" or "music". After training with Master Roshi, he takes the turtle kanji "亀" as a sign of respect.^[18] Later, after training with King Kai, he wears both "Kame" and "Kaio" kanji. He wears them the opposite way Goku did, "Kame" on the back, "Kaio" on the chest, except in Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might where he wears the "Kaio" kanji on the back and "Kame" on the chest.^[19]