>>52918590>Sugimori copied (ahem, was heavily inspired by) his DQ monster designsYOu say this as if tpc itself tries to hide that when they outright said so.
Japanese aren't as retarded as westerners when it comes to originality-inspirations.
>they copied Goku's design and personality for ash tooAsh is a completely different character.
That said, pokemon(and dragon quest) had multiple previous inspirations, starting from ultraseven, which itself was part of a previously existing franchise and so on.
YOu can find many "grandfathers" if you get retarded like that.
