Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball has been delighting fans worldwide, first as a manga and then as an anime, for three decades. Clearly there's something magical about the adventures of Goku that transcends national boundaries and generations -- and Robson Menezes dos Santos tapped into that for his son's birthday present.

The Brazilian animator spent five and a half months to create a short that recasts himself and his young son Rasdael as Toriyama's heroes. He even went so far as to enlist the talents of Wendel Bezerra and Tania Gaidarji, voice actors who worked on the official Brazilian dubs.

"This is my greatest gift to my son," Robson writes in the video below, "a fan animation in the style of the anime we enjoy most together ..."