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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.
Dragon Ball Z picks up five years after the end of the Dragon Ball series, with Son Goku now a young adult and father to his son, Gohan.. A humanoid alien named Raditz arrives on Earth in a spacecraft and tracks down Goku, revealing to him that he is his long-lost older brother and that they are members of a near-extinct elite alien warrior race called Saiyans (サイヤ人, Saiya-jin).
Two educational shorts based on the original Dragon Ball anime were produced in 1988. The first was a traffic safety special titled Goku's Traffic Safety (悟空の交通安全, Gokū no Kōtsū Ansen), while the second was a fire safety special titled Goku's Fire Brigade (悟空の消防隊, Gokū no Shōbōtai).
Goku later names his first son Gohan in his grandfather's honor. In the anime, he later appears as an assistant to Annin (アンニン), the ruler of the "magical furnace". He is voiced by Osamu Saka in the Japanese version of the original series, Kinpei Azusa in Bardock: The Father of Goku, and Shigeru Chiba in Dragon Ball Kai.
Goku engages 13 while Trunks and Vegeta fight 14 and 15 respectively. Goku, Vegeta and Trunks all simultaneously power up to their Super Saiyan forms as Gohan and Krillin watch on. 13 manages to hold the upper hand against Goku, who is soon assisted by the arrival of Piccolo, while Trunks and Vegeta destroy 14 and 15. They surround 13, who ...
He is the first major antagonist of the sequel series Dragon Ball Super, who appears in various incarnations, first introduced as Goku Black (ゴクウブラック, Gokū Burakku) in the forty-seventh episode of the Dragon Ball Super anime series, which first aired on June 12, 2016, and in chapter #14 "An SOS from the Future!!" from the manga.
Son Goku and His Friends Return!! [ a ] is a 35-minute Japanese animated short film based on Akira Toriyama 's Dragon Ball series, shown on the Jump Super Anime Tour from September 21 to November 23, 2008.
Son Goku or Son-Goku may refer to: Monkey King or Sun Wukong, the main character of the 16th century novel Journey to the West, also known as Son Goku in Japan; Son Goku, the main character of the Dragon Ball franchise; Son Goku (band), a German rock band; Son Goku , a main character in the Saiyuki manga and anime series