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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.
The character of Son Goku in Dragon Ball is based on Sun Wukong, as attested by his monkey tail, staff, and name (which is simply the Japanese reading of the same name in Chinese: 孫悟空). [18] The manga-anime series Saiyuki ' s Sun Wukong counterpart also uses the Japanese reading Son Goku.
Son Goku , a main character in the Saiyuki manga and anime series; Son Goku (wrestler), ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Masa Takanashi (born 1983) Monkey Sun, a 1959 Japanese film directed by Kajirō Yamamoto; Son Goku, the main character in the Alakazam the Great anime film; Son Goku, a character in the Inuyasha anime television series
He is voiced by Masako Nozawa in Japanese, and Sean Schemmel in English. Kofi Outlaw from Comicbook.com noted that Schemmel's voice for Goku Black is very different in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and Dragon Ball FighterZ compared to his performance in the FUNimation dub, which was released after the video games. [ 15 ]
Bardock (バーダック, Bādakku) —or Burdock in Viz's English manga translation—is the husband of Gine (ギネ), and the father of Raditz and Kakarrot (Goku). Bardock's story is first shown in the 1990 Dragon Ball Z TV special by Toei Animation , and is later retold in Toriyama's 2014 Dragon Ball Minus: The Departure of the Fated Child ...
It is named "Nyoi Bo," the Japanese transliteration of Ruyi Bang (Chinese: 如意棒; lit. 'Compliant Rod'), and is commonly called "Power Pole" in English-language media. [9] Like its original counterpart, the Nyoi Bo can grow to tall lengths, which Goku uses to his advantage for mobility and combat. However, he cannot duplicate it.
A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyo around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD). Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.
Vegeta (Japanese: ベジータ, Hepburn: Bejīta) (/ v ə ˈ dʒ iː t ə / və-JEE-tə), fully referred to as Prince Vegeta IV (ベジータ 王子 四世, Bejīta-ōji Yon-sei), [2] is a fictional character in the Japanese franchise Dragon Ball created by Akira Toriyama.