These make him a super hacker and allow him to control the Sun Wu Kong rod.

Goku, of course, has an Electronic Left Eye.

Cyborg: A recurring quality among the cast.

It was also made very Tamer and Chaster by the removal of all the nude female characters involved in the story.

Compressed Adaptation: The pachislot version of the 'Yoko' arc, CR Goku, only featured a few scenes of Goku fighting generic minions, blowing up a cyborg samurai and then hacking into Genji's helicopter to make it crash into the building.

Also, the original manga was simply called 'Goku' (ゴクウ).

Character Title: Goku is the protagonist and the 'Midnight Eye' is his powerful artificial eye.Cartwright Curse: Goku’s love interests don’t tend to live very long.Butterface: At the end of her battle against Goku, Cassandra transforms into a winged demon creature with the appearance of a monstrous head on top of a beautiful and nude female body.The Brute: Zhang, Genji's giant enforcer who tries to help the brainwashed Yoko kill Goku.Boom, Headshot!: Genji Hakuryu is killed this way by a laser blast from the severed head of the gynoid Goku killed earlier, sending the rest of him into a Disney Villain Death.And the Adventure Continues: After killing Cassandra the Enchantress, the shapeshifting villainess of the manga's final arc, Goku is briefly seen reflecting on the experience before he polevaults into a cityscape for more adventures.Advertised Extra: The “Motorcycle Girl” is prominently featured on promotional material and the cover of the DVD but is really a minor character, although a visually striking one.Wong, the rest of the OVA is an adaptation of chapter 2. Action Prologue: The second OVA adapts the beginning of chapter 6, 'The City of Heaven', before the title card.Now turned into the most powerful man in the world, Goku resumes the investigation only to find out it falls deeper into the net of underground rulers.Ī live action adaptation was announced in the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and is still waiting. Fortunately for him, he wakes up fitted with the God's Eye, a cybernetic implant that allows him to access nearly every computer on Earth, and the Sun Wu Kong rod, a multipurpose weapon that can extend to quite a length. He is investigating a number of suicides of police officers when he encounters the person responsible for those suicides, a mysterious woman who promptly ensnares him in her hypnotic trap, and the only way to survive is to stab his own eye out. In the faraway year 2014, private eye and former cop Goku Furinji has a bad night. It takes some superficial inspiration from Journey to the West. It ran from 1987 to 1989, with the first two chapters being adapted into a pair of OVA by Madhouse under the direction of Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Goku Midnight Eye ( Midnight Eye ゴクウ, or just ゴクウ) is a Cyberpunk manga series by Buichi Terasawa, the author of Space Adventure Cobra and Takeru.

Buichi terasawa manga