| Goku |
H e's the main
character for most of the series (Gohan "takes over"
the series when his father dies the second time). He starts the
manga as a young and innocent boy with black spiky hair, a
strange monkey tail and an expanding stick (nyoibo).
Incredibly strong for his age (which he claims to be of 14 years
but later we find out that he canīt count), he has one of the
Dragonballs which he refers to as his Grandfather (it was the
only thing that his Grandfather left before dying, so he
considers it to posses his soul). Goku while carrying his lunch
home (a giant fish that he killed with one kick) literally bumps
into Bulma. After a brief discussion, and Bulma explaining the
power that lies in the Dragonball, both leave to search for the
Dragonballs. It is in this way that the series of adventures
begin. Soon after, both meet Kamessenin who then gives him his
"first" magic cloud (he frequently has it destroyed,
but later we find out there's a bunch of them), also known as
Kintoen.
After some 17 mangas, Goku has had many adventures and friends
and is already an adult, married (with ChiChi) and has a child
(Songohan, he was given the same name as Gokuu's Grandfather). -
On the TV series the name is changed to Dragonball Z- . By this
time, with the coming of Gokuu's brother: Raditz, we find out
that Gokuu isn't human. He was found by his
"Grandfather"(SonGohan isnīt his real grandfather, but
an adoptive one) inside a space capsule; Gokuu had been sent to
Earth in order to conquer it, but due to a big fall he lost his
memory thus, becoming the innocent boy that we meet at the
beginning of the manga; we are told that Gokuu is really a
Saiya-jín(-jin is used in Japanese to say that a person is part
of the people that the "-jin" follows, therefore, Gokuu
is part of the Saiya people; living the Saiya in planet Vejiita
(they are not originally from this planet-this we find out in one
of the films).
Later, Goku finds out that he can turn into Super Saiya-jin when
he gets really angry (this occurs the first time when Freeza, one
of the most dangerous enemies during the series, kills Kulilin,
during the quest for the Namekian Balls). This transformation
increases greatly Gokuu's power and gives him physical
transformations (his hair becomes blond and more spiky, his eyes
green, his face linear and an aura forms around him); afterwards,
he finds that he can also turn into Super saiya-jin 2 and 3,
which means an increase of all the caracteristics of the first
stage.
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