Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26704954-20160301064038/@comment-734582-20160307073004

MlGshinobi wrote: Kishimoto made many references to dbz, like choatzu masks in the mask store of the hidden leaf and the 4 tails being called son goku and roshi. Son Goku is the monkey in the tale Journey To The West. Kishimoto was inspired by that. And DBZ was inspired by that too. Oh and half the Manga writing world too, because its a classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong (In english it's Sun Wukong, in japan it's better known as Son Goku)