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((short description|Manga))
((More citations needed|date=April 2020))
((Infobox animanga/Header
| name            = Gon
| image           = Gonagain.jpg
| caption         = Cover of early English translation, featuring Gon.
| ja_kanji        = ゴン
| ja_romaji       = 
| genre           = <!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
))
((Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| author          = [[Masashi Tanaka]]
| publisher       = [[Kodansha]]
| publisher_en    = ((English manga publisher
 |NA=[[Kodansha Comics]]))
| demographic     = ''[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]''
| magazine        = [[Weekly Morning]]
| first           = 1991
| last            = 2002
| volumes         = 7
| volume_list     = 
))
((Infobox animanga/Game
| title           = [[Gon (video game)|Gon]]
| developer       = [[Tose (company)|Tose]]
| publisher       = [[Bandai]]
| genre           = [[Platform game|Platformer]]
| platforms       = [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]]
| released        = ((vgrelease|JP|November 11, 1994))
))
((Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = tv series
| director        = Kim Gil-Tae <small>(Chief Director)</small>
| producer        = Ahn Hyun-Dong<br />Ham Wook-Ho<br />Osamu Yoshiba
| writer          = Isao Murayama
| music           = Kim Tae-hoon
| studio          = [[Daewon Media]]
| network         = [[TX Network|TXN]] ([[TV Tokyo]])
| network_en      = ((English anime network
 | AUS = [[Boomerang (Australian and New Zealand TV channel)|Boomerang]]
 | IN = [[Cartoon Network India | Cartoon Network]]
 | SG = [[Mediacorp Okto|Okto]]
 | SEA = [[Cartoon Network (Southeast Asia)|Cartoon Network]]
 | PH = [[Cartoon Network (Philippines)|Cartoon Network]]
))
| first           = April 2, 2012
| last            = September 26, 2015
| episodes        = 76 (120)<ref>((cite web|title=Gon, The TV Series|url=http://www.daewonmedia.com/en/biz/license#gon|website=Daewon Media|publisher=Daewon Media|access-date=May 31, 2016|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615003210/http://www.daewonmedia.com/en/biz/license#gon|url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite web|last1=Zahed|first1=Ramin|title=Second Season of Daewon's 'GON' Is a Go!|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/second-season-of-daewons-gon-is-a-go/|website=Animation Magazine|date=19 June 2013|publisher=Animation Magazine|access-date=May 31, 2016|archive-date=24 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624055004/http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/second-season-of-daewons-gon-is-a-go/|url-status=live))</ref>
| episode_list    = 
))
((Infobox animanga/Game
| title           = [[Gon: Baku Baku Baku Baku Adventure]]
| developer       = [[Namco Bandai Games]]
| publisher       = [[Bandai]]
| genre           = [[Platform game|Platformer]]
| platforms       = [[Nintendo 3DS]]
| released        = ((vgrelease|JP|June 14, 2012))
))
((Infobox animanga/Footer))
((Nihongo|'''''Gon'''''|ゴン|lead=yes)) is a Japanese [[manga]] series created by [[Masashi Tanaka]], about the (wordless) adventures of a dinosaur and the title character.

Gon was most notable outside Japan for his appearance in the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] version of ''[[Tekken 3]]''. An animated TV series began airing in Japan on April 2, 2012. The manga received an Excellence Prize at the [[Japan Media Arts Festival]] and won an [[Eisner Award]].

== Characteristics ==
Gon is a carnivorous species of [[Carnosauria|Carnosaurian]] but he vaguely looks more like a [[Tyrannosauridae|tyrannosaurid]] than a carnosaur, due to his [[Tyrannosaurus|T-rex]] like-head. Gon is an omnivore with an enormous appetite, preying on [[Hadrosauridae|hadrosaurs]], [[Pterosaur|pterosaurs]] and [[Ceratopsia|ceratopsians]], and also hunts down [[Stegosaurus]]es, [[Brontosaurus|Apatosaurus]]es and even [[Woolly mammoth|Woolly Mammoths]]. He possesses enormous power and endurance for his or any size, his feats of strength including supporting his own weight with his jaws, to being able to lift a fully grown sauropod ([[Brontosaurus]], [[Brachiosaurus]] and [[Diplodocus]]). His scaly hide is almost impenetrable, being able to shrug off the bites of larger predators.

Gon's intelligence seems to fluctuate in each adventure, ranging from total cluelessness (such as failing to notice a bird nest on his head for weeks), to strategic cunning (using an [[Allosaurus]] as a beast of burden to capture prey).

In ''[[Tekken 3]]'', Gon is fireproof, has the ability to spit fireballs and use toxic [[Flatulence|fart]]s. He vocalizes in chirps and shrieks, reminiscent of [[raccoon]]s and [[parrot]]s.

==Media==
=== Manga ===
[[Masashi Tanaka]] (Gon's creator) has said: "This work contains no [[Dialogue in writing|dialog]] or [[onomatopoeia|onomatopoetic]] words. People always ask me why I have done this. From the beginning, I didn't think it was necessary. Manga should be without [[grammar]]. I also think that it is strange to give animals human language and make them talk. What I set out to do with ''Gon'' was to draw something that was more interesting than anything you could say in words. Manga still has great potential that does not exist in other media. I plan to continue developing the art of expression".((citation needed|date=July 2012))

Gon's adventures are usually comedic with environmental connotations. There is very little continuity within the series, with Gon appearing in different countries and interacting with their respective fauna in almost every issue. He is often portrayed as being a short-tempered yet good-hearted creature, offering his help to the various animal friends he encounters in each issue.

The first English editions of the manga were published by Mandarin Publishing (UK, 1994) and [[Paradox Press]] (USA, 1996–2000). The single Mandarin volume contains the eight stories that were in the first two Japanese Gon collections. The eight Paradox Press volumes contain all the published Gon stories: six eight-page full-color stories in the Gon Color Spectacular, and twenty-one black-and-white stories, of varying length, in the other seven volumes.

Mandarin Publishing
*''Gon'': ((ISBN|0-7493-9685-7))

Paradox Press
*''Gon'' (1996): ((ISBN|1-56389-296-0))
*''Gon Again!'' (1996): ((ISBN|1-56389-297-9))
*''Here Today, Gon Tomorrow!'' (1996): ((ISBN|1-56389-298-7))
*''Going, Going...Gon'' (1996): ((ISBN|1-56389-299-5))
*''Gon Swimmin′ '' (1997): ((ISBN|1-56389-380-0))
*''Gon Color Spectacular!'' (1998): ((ISBN|1-56389-381-9))
*''Gon Underground'' (1999): ((ISBN|1-56389-591-9))
*''Gon on Safari'' (2000): ((ISBN|1-56389-669-9))
The first two Paradox Press books (''Gon'' and ''Gon Again'') were later reissued in an omnibus volume:
*''Gon: Introducing the Dinosaur That Time Will Never Forget!'' (2001): ((ISBN|1-56389-749-0))
The third and fourth Paradox Press books (''Here Today, Gon Tomorrow'' and ''Going, Going...Gon'') were also reissued in an omnibus volume:
*''Gon Wild!'' (1998): ((ISBN|1-56389-474-2))

From 2007 to 2009 CMX, a subset of DC Comics, reissued the black-and-white Gon stories in a seven-volume series. These did not have volume titles, but were simply numbered. Unlike the Paradox Press versions which were reversed for western readers, these stories are printed in the original sequence, and in their original right-to-left format. CMX had closed their doors in early 2010. Kodansha Comics reprinted the seven-volume series in 2011 and 2012.

=== Video games ===
[[File:Gon jin.jpg|thumb|Gon using his fire breath against [[Jin Kazama]] in ''[[Tekken 3]]''.]]
Gon made his first video game appearance in the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] [[platform game]] of the [[Gon (video game)|same name]]. The game was developed by [[Tose (company)|Tose]] and released in Japan by [[Bandai]] on November 11, 1994. A new platformer, ''[[Gon: Baku Baku Baku Baku Adventure]]'', was developed for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] and released in Japan on June 14, 2012 and later in [[South Korea]] by [[Namco Bandai Games]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-21/gon-manga/tv-show-inspires-3ds-action-game|title=Gon Manga/TV Show Inspires 3DS Action Game|access-date=2012-09-09|archive-date=2012-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704172142/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-21/gon-manga/tv-show-inspires-3ds-action-game|url-status=live))</ref>

Gon is a licensed guest character appearing in ''[[Tekken 3]]'', originally released for PlayStation consoles in April 1998, following the game's arcade debut on March 20, 1997. He is unlockable by defeating him in the ''Tekken Ball'' mode or by achieving a high score in Survival mode and inputting the name "Gon".

=== Theatrical movie release ===
[[Sprite Animation Studios]] announced that Moto Sakakibara, co-director of ''[[Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within]]'', will direct a theatrical [[Computer-generated imagery|CG Animation]] based on the Gon manga. The film was due for release in 2009 but has yet to materialize.

=== Anime ===
A CG animated television series co-produced by [[Kodansha]] and Korean publisher [[Daewon Media]] aired in Japan from April 2, 2012 to March 25, 2013. It featured [[Motoko Kumai]] as the voice of Gon.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-05/motoko-kumai-kenyuu-horiuchi-yuji-mitsuya-announced-as-cast-in-gon-anime|title=Motoko Kumai, Kenyuu Horiuchi, Yuji Mitsuya Cast in Gon Anime (Updated)|access-date=2012-09-09|archive-date=2012-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107005128/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-05/motoko-kumai-kenyuu-horiuchi-yuji-mitsuya-announced-as-cast-in-gon-anime|url-status=live))</ref>

==Reception==
''Gon'' won an Excellence Award in the Manga division at the second [[Japan Media Arts Festival]] in 1998.<ref>((Cite web |last=Japan Media Arts Festival |first= |title=Excellence Award - Gon ((!)) Award ((!)) Manga Division ((!)) 1998 [2nd] |url=http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp/en/festival/1998/manga/works/06m_Gon/ |access-date=March 14, 2022 |website=[[Japan Media Arts Festival]] |language=en |archive-date=February 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203101439/http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp/en/festival/1998/manga/works/06m_Gon/ |url-status=live))</ref> It won the [[Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material|Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material]] and Best Humor Publication at the Eisner Awards in 1998.

==See also==
* [[Age of Reptiles (comics)|''Age of Reptiles'' (comics)]] − another silent comic featuring dinosaurs

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927235258/http://www.spritee.com/news/GONRelease071305.pdf Sprite Animation Studios Press Release]
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