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A man named Raditz arrives on Earth, identifies Goku as his younger brother Kakarrot, and reveals to him that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the Saiyans (サイヤ人, Saiya-jin), who sent Goku to conquer Earth for them; however, Goku had suffered a severe head injury as an infant and lost all memories of his ...
Son Goku [nb 20] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.
A selection of Dragon Ball ' s extensive cast of characters at the conclusion of the manga. Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, Dr. Slump.
Name Source Type Saiyan: Dragon Ball Z: A naturally aggressive warrior race hailing from the planet Vegeta who are, purportedly, the strongest warriors in the fictional Dragon Ball universe. Most of the Saiyans were exterminated by galactic overlord Frieza after Goku was born. With only few known survivors, they are functionally extinct.
After the release of Battle of Gods, Toriyama expressed interest in having Vegeta be the lead in the event of another animated feature, though he insisted this was only his intent and no decision had been made. [10] Following the trend that names of members of the Saiyan race are puns on vegetables, Vegeta's name is a pun of the word vegetable ...
The first, also named Dragon Ball, adapted the first sixteen volumes of the Japanese manga and the second, Dragon Ball Z, adapted the remaining twenty-six volumes. The distribution company Viz Media has released all 42 volumes in English in the United States, with volumes seventeen through forty-two renamed " Dragon Ball Z " volumes one through ...
The Red Ribbon Army (レッドリボン軍, Reddo Ribon Gun) is a fictional antagonistic faction featured in Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball anime and manga series. The many operatives of the Red Ribbon Army, led by Commander Red (レッド総帥, Reddo-Sōsui), serve as opponents for series protagonist Goku during his second quest for the Dragon Balls.
The same mysterious alien arrives at the island and reveals himself: he is a Saiyan warrior named Raditz, part of a war-like race that wipes out the population of entire planets to sell the now uninhabited world to the highest bidder, and he is Goku's older brother, meaning Goku is actually a Saiyan, explaining his unnatural strength and the ...