Happy Goku Day!

[trunkschan90]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... day/.87998

The Japan Anniversary Association has officially recognized May 9 as Goku Day.

So how's everybody planning to celebrate?

[Bullza]

Shame it wasn't tommorow because I'm going to Shinjuku tommorow and I may have seen something.

[SonsOfUlron21]

Goku day, well I'm going to eat a lot of food.

[SansrivaaL]

Goku day.... time to leave my family and train some stranger out there for some random reason like world domination or something.

[huzaifa_ahmed]

As much as I enjoy this fiction...it feels a bit pointless to have an official holiday.
Though a few days ago I abruptly heard "May the 4th" stated in the context of another joke ir explanation of some unrelated...thinking back, it was very subtly clever. I totally missed that it was an official day.
This also fits with the new questionnaire with the 5&9

[Chuquita]

At first I was surprised, but then I saw all the other official days they've made for other pop culture stuff. This is cute. He's my favorite db character, this is nice. :3

[DBZAOTA482]

Yeah, Goku's officially a legend!

What do we do for Goku Day?

[KameRule]

Happy Piccolo Day everyone.

[sayian_nation_]

Happy Piccolo Day everyone.

Beat me to it but yeah, this pretty much.

[TheGreatness25]

In real world news, it's the 70th anniversary of the Nazi army officially declaring defeat against the Soviet Union. It's called Russian Victory Day.

[Xeogran]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6bIvJ_RSY

In this case, this is the national anthem of this day.
Amazing song, shame it was never used anywhere.

[One_Instance]

Damn, two Dragon Ball holidays on one day. That's gonna be quite a handful to make preparations for every year.

[Herms]

If anyone's confused about this, May 9th works as a pun on Goku's name in Japanese, so during the Piccolo arc when Toriyama needed to pick a specific date for when Piccolo took the throne, that's the date he went with. Which leads to this weird "doubled up" thing where May 9th is associated both with Goku (being a pun on his name) and with Piccolo (the date in the series where his older self takes the throne, is defeated by Goku, and reborn as the Junior version featured in the rest of the series).

[DerekPadula]

Here's my post on Goku day with additional photographs from the sources that Anime News Network linked to, and news about the 30th Anniversary logo and celebration. It's going viral, with over 7,000 Likes in 2 hours. Apparently the people out there like Goku.

Herms, according to this wikipedia article, "The Japanese consider nine to be unlucky because in Japanese the word for nine sounds similar to the word for "pain" or "distress" (苦, kyū)."

Do you think that has anything to do with why Toriyama chose this day?

[Herms]

Herms, according to this wikipedia article, "The Japanese consider nine to be unlucky because in Japanese the word for nine sounds similar to the word for "pain" or "distress" (苦, kyū)."

Do you think that has anything to do with why Toriyama chose this day?

I think the "pun on Goku's name" thing pretty much covers it. Number puns are a big thing in Japanese, and while 4 and 9 are both traditionally considered unlucky, if they tried to avoid them both when making puns they'd obviously be limiting themselves an awful lot.

[Lord Beerus]

I'm gonna celebrate Goku Day by eating lots of food and training like crazy.

[FortuneSSJ]

Just another example why Goku is the best!
Now we just need a goku statue next to shounen jump building.

[huzaifa_ahmed]

I'm gonna celebrate Goku Day by eating lots of food and training like crazy.

I had the latter bit planned anyway lol..but good point.
Needs to stop procrastinating..

[Polyphase Avatron]

What about Freeza day? (From Tree of Might Abridged).

[Lord Beerus]

What about Freeza day? (From Tree of Might Abridged).

Saiyan hate that holidays.