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Goku's Saiyan lineage is one of the reasons why the protagonist of Dragon Ball has such outstanding power. Saiyans always seek battles, fight, and train hard to become stronger. All of these are Goku's defining characteristics, making him the perfect protagonist for Akira Toriyama's masterpiece.
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Goku's Saiyan origins not only made him excited about battles, but also became a part of his identity. However, Toriyama initially had no interest in focusing on Goku's origins. Goku's origin is reflected in the story only because of Vegeta.
In addition, the author never thought Goku was an alien, which later became an important story in the story. Toriyama also spoke about how he did not anticipate that the story would last so long and become such a large franchise. Because he initially planned to end the series quite early.
Akira Toriyama has never thought about Goku's origin in Dragon Ball
TV Anime Guide: Dragon Ball Tenka'ichi Densetsu has interviews with Goku's voice actors Masako Nozawa, Takao Koyama and Toriyama. During the interview, Toriyama was asked about Goku as the main character and how much he envisioned the character of Goku at the start of the series.
Toryama replied: “I could barely think of anything. I didn't come up with the concept of him being an alien until Vegeta showed up. At first I thought I'd say his Giant Gorilla form 'was just a transformation', like a werewolf. During the writing process, it turned out that 'Goku is actually an alien!' is something that surprises even me.”
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Goku's Ozaru form
According to the mangaka, although he initially planned Goku's Giant Gorilla transformation, he didn't know how to justify it. Later, he came up with the idea of Vegeta, an alien, and thus found the perfect basis for Goku's origin and also a reasonable explanation for Goku's Ozaru transformation.
Akira Toriyama is about to end Dragon Ball in just 10 weeks
In the interview, Akira Toriyama talked about how he initially only had one idea for Dragon Ball, which was to make the series similar to the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West and add some kung-fu. fu at it.
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Toriyama confided: “Anyway, I was really just thinking about creating a theme for Journey to the West, with a little bit of kung-fu thrown in. I was prepared for it to end in 10 weeks if it didn't work out.”
Toriyama even revealed that he was not sure whether the series would actually be successful or not and that he was willing to end it after 10 weeks if it did not go as Toriyama had planned.
However, the series has become a huge craze among anime and manga fans. To this day, even after Toriyama passed away, Dragon Ball is still considered one of the main pillars that underpin the Shonen genre.