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Check out this awesome find from Japanator: apparently a group of fans in France (or perhaps Belgium? I'm not well-versed enough to be able to tell) held a funeral for Dragon Ball's Goku, who fell victim to the oldest curse of them all: mainstream marketing.

Actually, the “demise” is being attributed to both Hollywood and to Justin Chatwin himself, although it seems to me that if a character is beloved enough to hold a funeral for, he's not really “dead.” (Besides, spoiler alert! Goku doesn't die in the movie.)

It's still a pretty awesome idea, though, and the video is fun to watch with its soundtrack of Gary Jules' version of “Mad World” (from the Donnie Darko soundtrack). Check it out, and then tell me whether you'd attend such a funeral...and what you would wear to it.

  

19 Comments
Sonata on April 17, 2009
I cant stop Laughing, maybe at the at the end of the ceremony everyone should hold there hands up as a final tribute to Goku:)

I would wear a black and white version Goku's OutfitXD
Nerx on April 17, 2009
Yeah, pour a can of beer over the grave...

his death will not be in vain
animemiz on April 17, 2009
I wonder if this is German or French?  Nice music as homage though.  I would have thought there would be female fans?
Katsumi_Shizuka on April 17, 2009
I'm thinking it's french. If you look at the flowers they say Notre Hero.

Which in French means Our Hero.

The title is says Hommage à la plus grande des Heros.

Which in English means Tribute to the Greatest of Heroes.
gia on April 17, 2009
Miz: it's definitely French, but French is spoken in more countries than just France (particularly common in Belgium, and it's also one of the main languages of Switzerland), which is why I hesitated to assume that they were French fans. :)
nyoronyolo on April 18, 2009
From the video description, these guys are from France and it takes place in a city -Labege- near Toulouse (South-West of France, not very far from Spain).
Quick translation of what they say at the beginning in case of :
Guy holding the picture: "It's the Fox that killed him, not Cell but the Fox"
Off-screen voice: "Him and many others"
Guy holding the picture: "Never again, never again. For One Piece, Naruto and the others, never again. Please"
MissPanda on April 18, 2009
LOl, this is awesome XD
I think that fox would be a little insultet if they saw this...XD
Rest in peace?
martianx on April 18, 2009

and we all stand and salutee ~

WillyFourEyes on April 18, 2009
Don't you worry...someone will eventually get all seven Dragon Balls and wish him back to life...
Agent_Lost on April 18, 2009
Yep, there French, I can tell just by the way they speak.
Black_Rose on April 18, 2009
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Oh wait, he's been revived a million godamn times already....

No need to worry then ^_^


mattysen on April 18, 2009
Ahh, This is awesome. 
Morita_Shunsuke on April 18, 2009
RIP :P
Newten on April 18, 2009
Black_Rose said:
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Oh wait, he's been revived a million godamn times already....

No need to worry then ^_^"
I don't think even the Dragon Balls can save him from what Dragonball Evolution has done lol
Desisashi on April 18, 2009
its a real shame
HeeroYuy on April 19, 2009
I think the [translated] quote in video said it best, "Goku didn't succumb to Freeza, Cell, or Buu, but he lost to Hollywood".

If I were to attend such a funeral, I would wear my Archer costume (actually if you research some of the pieces of his outfit, it's technically clothing that knights would wear over their armor to their Lord's funeral), to show that even heroes of other timelines wish to pay their respects too.
XION66578 on April 26, 2009
lol
Kou_Leifoh on April 26, 2009
Wow, the live action film was so god damn shitty that it actually killed Goku.
tmaximus89 on June 10, 2009
That is really too much i think....
Too bad....
I can't imagine that there are doing funeral for a comic character...
Anyway i like the dragon ball spirit of them...
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