04 February 2014

[Anime] Goku's Mother Secret Revealed


Toriyama-sensei revealed some info on Goku’s mother. Yes, 18 years after the official ending of the series in Japan and 11 years after the ending of Dragon Ball Z in North America, Toriyama-sensei has shed some light on the mother of Goku and wife of Bardock. Her name was Gine, which is an anagram of the Japanese word negi (meaning green onion, spring onion, or scallion). While her face has not yet been revealed, it will be in April of this year in Toriyama-sensei’s Jaco the Galactic Patrolma manga. Jaco the Galactic Patrolma is a comedic manga that takes place 10 years before the start of Dragon Ball. It follows the story of a Galactic Patrolman named Jaco and Bulma’s older sister Tights (she was never in the actual Dragon Ball series).

Here is some Questions about Goku's Family:

What sort of person was Bardock’s wife, in other words, Goku’s mother?
As for her appearance and such, you’ll find out if you read the bonus comic in the collected release of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman.
Her name was Gine2, and a long time ago, she fought on a four-person team together with Bardock.
What?! She’s in the bonus comic?! Please tell us about Gine in more detail!
Gine had a gentle personality and wasn’t cut out as a warrior, being repeatedly saved from danger by Bardock. At that time, a special emotion was born between them. Normally, Saiyans don’t have much of a notion of romance or marriage, and apart from the royal family of Vegeta, they aren’t particular about blood-relationships.
Being in among all that, I suppose you could say that the pair of Bardock and Gine were those rare Saiyans who were joined by a bond other than for reproductive purposes.
Incidentally, Gine, who was not cut out as a warrior, would go on to work at the meat distribution center on Planet Vegeta.
Please tell us about Bardock’s family structure! Did Goku, and also Bardock himself, have any siblings? (Apart from Raditz, that is….)
The quartet of Bardock, Gine, Raditz, and Kakarrot make up Bardock’s family, such as it is, but all four of them were never together.
Also, I think that Bardock himself might have had siblings, but perhaps even Bardock himself doesn’t really know, and at any rate, he probably has no interest in it, either.
Saiyans don’t have much of a concept of “family”.

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