You wanna know why Goku is Asian???

Goku is based on the Chinese character named Sun Wukong the Monkey King.

Dragonball is based on the Chinese Novel Journey to the West.

Goku has all the Asian features such as black hair & black eyes.

Akira Toriyama explained that Goku's gi uniform is modeled after the robes worn by the Shaolin monks of China, being that he wanted Dragon Ball to take on a Chinese feel.

Goku's name was written in Kanji. If he was a white baby Goku, his name would be written in katakana.

If a Mangaka makes a character who's name is written in Kanji then that would mean that the Mangaka's intent was to make a Japanese Character.

So if you will use your common sense you will know that Goku is 100% ASIAN.

You wanna know why Goku is Asian???

Goku is based on the Chinese character named Sun Wukong the Monkey King.

Dragonball is based on the Chinese Novel Journey to the West.

Goku has all the Asian features such as black hair & black eyes.

Akira Toriyama explained that Goku's gi uniform is modeled after the robes worn by the Shaolin monks of China, being that he wanted Dragon Ball to take on a Chinese feel.

Goku's name was written in Kanji. If he was a white baby Goku, his name would be written in katakana.

If a Mangaka makes a character who's name is written in Kanji then that would mean that the Mangaka's intent was to make a Japanese Character.

So if you will use your common sense you will know that Goku is 100% ASIAN. med Sun Wukong the Monkey King.

Dragonball is based on the Chinese Novel Journey to the West.

Goku has all the Asian features such as black hair & black eyes.

Akira Toriyama explained that Goku's gi uniform is modeled after the robes worn by the Shaolin monks of China, being that he wanted Dragon Ball to take on a Chinese feel.

Goku's name was written in Kanji. If he was a white baby Goku, his name would be written in katakana.

If a Mangaka makes a character who's name is written in Kanji then that would mean that the Mangaka's intent was to make a Japanese Character.

So if you will use your common sense you will know that Goku is 100% ASIAN.

I think justin looks ok and HOT playing Goku…doesn’t matter if he’s asian or not. Race does NOT matter.

The cast doesn’t seem too bad. However, I do agree that an Asian actor that not only bears a closer resemblance to Goku, (eg hair and eye colour) but is capable of martial arts, should have been chosen. Yes, I do realise that technically, Goku’s ethnicity is not asian but I feel that the animation/manga/anime portrayed him in a manner that suggested an asian-esque appearance, minus the monkey tail lol. If one considers that in the animation, Chi-Chi (with her large cartoon-ish eyes and all) was meant to be asian, you might find that the couple (Goku and Chi-Chi) resemble the same ethnicity. I mean seriously, that ever SPIKY, STRAIGHT, SLEEK and BLACK hair-do that Goku maintains no matter how rough a fight gets? hint hint much Japanese yes? lol. Conversely, in his super saiyan form, Goku goes blonde with blue eyes and I have to admit that Chatwin fits that role nicely. And I guess that apart from appearance, one’s acting-ability should be considered too (perhaps more importantly). For all I care, 50 cent could have played Goku if he did the role justice lol (yeah right, who am i kidding lol).

Good luck to the cast and I hope that, for the sake of DB/DBZ fandom worldwide, the movie is a success!

I had always hoped it would get released as a series of three movies that started with the first quest for the dragon balls with young Goku, then a world martial arts tournament with teen Goku, then a condensed Vegita/Freeza story that takes us to super Saiyan Goku.

If those went well, maybe a condenced Anroid/Cell Sagas movie and a Bobity movie (leave Buu unawakened) so we can have that final Vegeta/Goku showdown.

What the heck, if you throw out everything from GT except the final Black Ball dragon part, with the balls gone forever and Goku “dead”, you’ve finished the whole Dragonball storyline.

…well, let’s see what happens with this movie first. Someone else can always get the rights and do their take on it, as what happened with Batman for example.

In a 90-120 minute movie, however, there’ll probably be one long fight near the end, which is no different than any other action movie, and 20-30 minuts of live action martial arts (if well choreographed) is going to be much more interesting to watch than 4-8 full episodes of “powering up”.

Dragonball, on the other hand, was nothing like Dragonball Z. It was original and humorous and the story revolved around an adventure rather than fighting, and except in rare cases like the world martial arts tournament episodes, fights were over quickly.

Unfotunately, I don’t think Dragonball, though I love it dearly, would translate well into live action as well as Dragonball Z would. Either way, I’m reserving judgement until the movie actually comes out.

youre childhood is safe .
that movie is bullcrap realy