A good-natured, lovable turtle and long-time companion of Muten-Rôshi, he resides in the Kame House with the elderly hermit. In the anime filler of Dragon Ball Z, he celebrates his 1,000th birthday in episode 117. While he plays a relatively minor role in the manga, he has quite a few significant roles in the anime. Upon his first appearance, he was alone and lost in the wilderness. He had been picking mushrooms when he got separated from his friends and had since been wandering on land for over a year. Goku kindly takes on the task of returning him to the ocean, for which he is very grateful. It is Umigame who introduces Muten-Rôshi to Bulma and Son Goku. Umigame does not care much for Muten-Rôshi's perverse interests, preferring honest ones himself. He was one of the first animal characters Goku meets and befriends, providing a small sense of irony that in the final Dragon Ball GT episode, he is one of the few characters Goku bids farewell to after departing with Shenlong. In the anime, his power level is 0.001, as evident when Bulma tests Raditz's scouter in the Vegeta Saga.
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