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"Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by Yuji » Thu Oct 15, 2026 5:27 am

I seem to remember this quote by Nozawa but I can't locate the source. Can anyone help, or did I hallucinate it?

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Re: "Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by FlpShimizu » Thu Oct 15, 2026 6:32 am

She does say something similar in this interview:

https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations ... ew-part-1/
"I'm never fighting a gag manga character again!"

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Re: "Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by Yuji » Thu Oct 15, 2026 6:35 am

FlpShimizu wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2026 6:32 am She does say something similar in this interview:

https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations ... ew-part-1/
Indeed similar, but I do remember reading the sentence "Goku is everyone's friend" verbatim. I'll keep looking.

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Re: "Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by Saiya6Cit » Fri Oct 16, 2026 7:40 pm

Well... did you read it? or saw a video?

Was it recent? Look for Daima interviews.
Was it when you were younger? that might be hard to get.


I don't remember it.

Have you looked it up here in Kanzenshuu's information?

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Re: "Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by Yuji » Sat Oct 17, 2026 10:54 am

Saiya6Cit wrote: Fri Oct 16, 2026 7:40 pm Well... did you read it? or saw a video?

Was it recent? Look for Daima interviews.
Was it when you were younger? that might be hard to get.


I don't remember it.

Have you looked it up here in Kanzenshuu's information?
I've done some digging since this thread.

https://www.ttdila.com/2015/04/dragon-b ... world.html
https://bukuro-souken.com/en/article/11047/

These sites both quote Nozawa saying it but I can't find the footage.

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Re: "Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by JulieYBM » Sat Oct 17, 2026 10:59 am

This might not be of any help, but I feel like I've heard the phrase min'na no tomodachi a handful of times in animated projects and Kamen Rider or Super Sentai. I don't know if it's maybe a common phrase or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's something typically told to kids watching these series aimed at them. Where Nozawa Masako herself might have used the phrase before, I couldn't say. >_<

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Re: "Goku is everyone's friend"

Post by Yuji » Sat Oct 17, 2026 11:10 am

I found a Japanese site reporting the same thing:

https://s.cinemacafe.net/article/2015/04/13/30549.html

悟空はみんなの友達ですから、呼んでくれればすぐに筋斗雲に乗ってまた会いにきますよ!

But the video these articles link doesn't contain the footage.

I guess the footage has been lost. Was anyone here at the ResF world premiere and recorded this Q&A?

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