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Son Goku (or SanGoku as I knew him in France) was a major hero for millions of kids all over the world. At least 2 generations, one of "big brothers" (1980s) with Dragon Ball and one of "Lil'brothers" (1990s) with Dragon Ball Z (the Z means II by the way), enjoyed his adventures every morning on holidays and at least twice per school week (from 1988 until 1996 on TV in France and from 1993 on in paper version, not including the myriad of video games and OAVs that the license created in the following success).
I personally lost track of the story around the time mr. Toriyama Akira sold the rights (for Dragon Ball GT) and therefore felt more at ease trying a take on the Son Goku I remember.
The one who Kame Sen'nin (Tortue Géniale in the french version, which translates approximately by "Genius/Amazing Turtle"), in one of those genius moments of Toriyama storytelling, sent along with Krilin to fetch him a sexy girl when the kid doesn't even know what a girl is, the one who courageously fought Tao PaiPai, the evil killer and the Red Ruban army and could transform into King Kong once every moonlight.
The innocence of the character is his best asset all along the story as he is tough enough to always trust everybody at the risk of being betrayed.
The fun coming from that same innocence depicted as dumb but always in an unharmful way which I found again later, discovering Dr Slump (a hilarious manga revolving this time around a frankenstein inspired robot girl under the care of her innocent father/creator).
So here he is as I remember him best, ready to start the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai (Martial Arts Tournament) with his uniform from Kame Sen'nin school.
