It grew into it's own thing but... "Toriyama loosely modeled the plot and characters of Dragon Ball on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West,[16][15] w

It grew into it's own thing but... "Toriyama loosely modeled the plot and characters of Dragon Ball on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West,[16][15] with Goku being Sun Wukong ("Son Goku" in Japanese), Bulma as Tang Sanzang, Oolong as Zhu Bajie, and Yamcha being Sha Wujing" [1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball