Results of Goku Day Poll Reveal Goku’s Best Fights

On Goku Day 2024, May 9th, the Official Dragon Ball Site held a poll, asking fans to vote on what they thought their favorite one of Goku’s many battles, from Dragon Ball through Dragon Ball Super, was. The votes have been tallied and the top 100 out of the countless battles Goku has fought have been revealed.

The top 10 fights got their own special Dragon Ball Weekly Update video, where Victory Uchida, the editor for Dragon Ball Super, and Toyotarou, Dragon Ball Super‘s lead illustrator discussed the list and what their favorite fights were. Toyotarou’s was the final battle with Kid Buu at the end of the original run of Dragon Ball Z.

You can take a look at the top 10 list and Toyotarou and Uchida’s comments on it here:

The criteria for the list were, according to the original Dragon Ball site, the following:

• Verbal sparring and rock-paper-scissors count
• As long as Goku enters the contest with the spirit of battle, battles against inorganic foes also count! However, rocks and such whose destruction is merely a casualty of another fight do not count!
• The start of a fight until the fighting stops counts as one battle. Characters who Goku fights more than once are included in the lineup as many times as they fought Goku!

The top ten battles according to the fan vote are as follows:

10. Ultra Instinct Goku vs Jiren, Dragon Ball Super
11. Kid Goku vs Grandpa Gohan, Dragon Ball
12. Goku and Gohan vs Perfect Cell, Dragon Ball Z
13. Goku vs Majin Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z
14. Goku sparring with Gohan, Dragon Ball Super
15. First Battle between Goku and Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z
16. Final Battle with Moro, Dragon Ball Super
17. Kid Goku vs Full Powered Great Demon King Piccolo, Dragon Ball
18. Goku vs Frieza, Dragon Ball Z
19. Goku vs Jackie Chun, Dragon Ball

Some notable entries that cracked the top 50 included Goku firing a Kamehameha at Yamcha’s Car from the original Dragon Ball, the first duel with Piccolo, Goku and Vegeta kart racing against one another in Dragon Ball Super, and Goku catching the Giant Fish, the first fight he ever had in Dragon Ball.

With this year being the 40th anniversary of Dragon Ball and after the passing of series creator Akira Toriyama, fans all over the world have been expressing their fondness for the creator and his seminal work, Dragon Ball, including his co-workers.

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