To be creative with the character, Toriyama stated that he designed Goku to be a human boy with a monkey tail, instead of being a complete simian like Sun Wukong. The name Toriyama adopted for the character is the Japanese romanization of 孫悟空 (Sun Wukong), who is the central character of the novel. When Toriyama decided to create Dragon Ball, he used Chinese author Wu Cheng'en's 16th century classic novel Journey to the West as inspiration for his own series. In this story, Tanton's odd physical characteristic was a pair of wings. Goku was based on one of Toriyama's earlier characters named Tanton, a fictional protagonist who appeared in a one-shot series called Dragon Boy. He has also been the subject of other parodies, and has appeared in various special events and in American pop culture. Outside of the Dragon Ball franchise, Goku has had cameo appearances in Toriyama's self-parody series Neko Majin Z. Goku has starred in most of the episodes, films, and specials of the anime series Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, as well as many of the spin-off video games. ![]() As the story unfolds, he is revealed to be from a fictional race of extraterrestrials called Saiyans, said to be the strongest warriors within the fictional universe. ![]() Goku is introduced as an odd, monkey-tailed boy who practices martial arts and possesses superhuman strength. However, Toriyama changed some of his characteristics to be more original. He is loosely based on Sun Wukong, a central character in Journey to the West. He first appears in the manga chapter Bulma and Son Goku ( ブルマと孫悟空 Buruma to Son Gokū ?) first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on December 3, 1984. Son Goten (son) Son Goku ( 孫 悟空 Son Gokū ?, addressed only as Goku in most English adaptations) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama.
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