>>16244704he's based on a kirin in the first place, which isn't technically a dragon but does have a mane. It does get sloppily translated into english as being some kind of "dragon horse" simply for lack of a better term, but it's a mythical creature with its own background distinct from that of eastern dragons. It is also the name for a giraffe on account of early chinese witnesses of giraffes drawing connections between the animal and the scaled, maned, horned, yellow horse-like image of the kirin.
