‘Goku Day’: facts about the celebration

Followers of the successful “Dragon Ball” franchise are celebrating, as since 2015 May 9th has been officially celebrated as “Goku Day” worldwide.

Before the celebration became official, the date in honor of the character created by Akira Toriyama was only celebrated on social media, but due to repeated requests from the public and TOEI Animation, he studied behind the anime production, “Goku Day” was recognized by the Japan Anniversary Association organization .

May 9 was chosen because in Japanese the numbers 5 and 9 (equivalent to the date 5/9 or May 9 in Latin America) are pronounced phonetically as “to go” and “to”together they sound similar “Goku”the protagonist of the film animation.

This year “Dragon Ball” fulfilled his anniversary number 37. February 26, 1986 chain fujitvwas in charge of launching the anime that tells the story of adventure carefree Goku, an extraordinary boy who will become a champion of mixed martial arts and the savior of the world.

With each adventure, Goku makes new friends like Krillin, Piccolo, bulmaYamcha and others.

As part of the commemoration of St Goku day We present you some interesting facts about this character.

– He only won the tournament once mixed martial artshe is afraid of needles and hates hospital food.

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‘Goku Day’ is a special celebration in honor of the iconic ‘Dragon Ball’ character Goku, created by Akira Toriyama.

– Sean Shemelthe actor who gave the character’s English voice died while dubbing Goku in Dragon Ball GT.

– The cult fight between Goku and frieze It lasted three and a half hours on television.

Celebration

Warner Channel is joining the celebration and in memory of the character will organize a marathon of “Dragon Ball Super”which will focus on the “Tournament of Power” arc, a competition that seems very friendly at first, but ends up being the beginning of universal destruction.