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Quick Facts
| Gender | Female |
| Also known as | Jimmy Firecracker |
| Role | SUPPORTING |
| Series | Dragon Ball |
| Race | Earthling |
| Voice Actor (JP) | Yukimasa Kishino |
| Voice Actor (EN) | Eric Vale |
| Affiliation | ZTV |
| Occupation | Television Announcer |
| Equipment | Microphone |
| Manga Debut | Dragon Ball Chapter 396 |
| Anime Debut | Dragon Ball Z Episode 174 |
| Aliases | Jimmy Firecracker, Cell Games Announcer |
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Personality
Personality
The announcer is enthusiastic, opinionated, excitable, and exceptionally brave by ordinary civilian standards. He arrives expecting Mr. Satan to prove that Cell's abilities are exaggerated tricks and initially interprets unfamiliar ki techniques through that assumption.
His confidence in Mr. Satan weakens as the tournament progresses. Once Goku and Cell begin exchanging attacks at speeds and power levels impossible to fake, he becomes increasingly aware that the fighters he dismissed are genuine.
Abilities & Powers
Abilities & Powers
The Cell Games Announcer is an ordinary human with no combat techniques or ki abilities.
His professional skills include live reporting, interviewing, improvisational commentary, and maintaining composure in extreme danger. He continues narrating the Cell Games even when the battlefield becomes too fast or destructive for his camera crew to properly follow.
His willingness to remain near Cell when most civilians have evacuated is arguably his defining practical strength.
Story Role
Story Role
The announcer and his crew cover the Cell Games after Cell publicly announces the tournament.
He initially focuses heavily on Mr. Satan and treats Goku and the others as obscure competitors. When Goku begins fighting Cell at full power, the announcer struggles to explain their visible auras, flight, and high-speed attacks through the framework of ordinary martial arts.
His perspective gradually shifts as the evidence becomes impossible to ignore. By the end of the Cell Games, he has personally witnessed fighters whose abilities clearly surpass Mr. Satan, even though the wider public ultimately accepts Satan's claim that he defeated Cell.
Anime material later shows him continuing his career and revisiting the events surrounding the tournament.
Relationships
Relationships
Mr. Satan is the fighter the Cell Games Announcer initially believes to be Earth's strongest warrior.
Cell is the tournament host and the subject of the announcer's broadcast.
Goku and Gohan gradually force the announcer to reconsider his assumptions about what genuine superhuman martial arts look like.
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