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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 [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 Goku in Japan and 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.
Masako Nozawa (Japanese: 野沢 雅子, Hepburn: Nozawa Masako, born October 25, 1936) is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupation.
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.
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
Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer.He came to be regarded as one of the most important authors in the history of manga, authoring highly influential and popular series, particularly Dragon Ball.
Digital Skillet/Getty Images. 17. Luna. No guesswork here, this girl’s name is the Latin translation of “moon.” 18. Portia. This feminine name of Latin origin is a nod to the moon of Uranus ...
Sun Wukong fights the Moon Rabbit, a scene in the sixteenth century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, depicted in Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. In the Buddhist Jataka tales, [4] Tale 316 relates that a monkey, an otter, a jackal, and a rabbit resolved to practice charity on the day of the full moon (), believing a demonstration of great virtue would earn a great reward.