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dragonsballsz · 2 years ago

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realized a second ago that bardock's name sneakily fits into the son family theme and i'm going to need some time to process that.

to elaborate:

goku (悟空) and his sons gohan (悟飯) and goten (悟天) all have the same first character (悟, read as go).

bardock, rather obviously, is named after the vegetable burdock. more specifically, after the greater burdock, or arctium lappa, which is very common in japan. his name, バーダック (bādakku) is just the japanese transliteration of the english word.

what's the japanese word? ゴボウ. 牛蒡. gobou. 悟蒡.

he was one of them all along.

#dbz #bardock #nerdout #japanese #language #losing sleep over this one #making a kv fankid with this name to doubleblow my own mind #how did it take this long for me to realize this #....damn raditz really was the black sheep of the family huh #didn't get the looks the name the voice actor the plot relevance....#me: haha what's a vegetable that starts with go in japanese? oh burdock that's– wait.#i need to go to bed

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