>>263837611Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 2: Story Guide (Akira Toriyama Super Interview: 2nd Round - The Unpredictable Story):
https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/daizenshuu-2-akira-toriyama-super-interview/>Since this volume is a story guide, I thought that I’d ask you about things relating to Dragon Ball’s story. First of all, why did you begin the story of Dragon Ball?I had just ended “Dr. Slump”, and for the time being I was thinking about what I should do for my next serialized work. I had many meetings with my editor at the time, Torishima-san. As it happened, at that time I loved Jackie Chan’s movies and had seen “Drunken Master” dozens of times. Since I liked that sort of thing, Torishima-san advised me to try and make a kung-fu shonen manga, so I drew a one-shot called “Dragon Boy”. That got an incredibly positive response from the readers, so I decided to go that route for my next serialized work.
>So from there you began to think of your new serialized work in earnest?Since “Dr. Slump” had been in a Western scenery, I decided to change that impression and make my new work have a Chinese scenery. And if I was going to give it a Chinese feel, I thought I would make the story based on “Journey to the West”. “Journey to the West” after all is absurd and has adventurous elements, so I guess I decided to make a slightly modernized “Journey to the West”. I thought it would be easy if that story served as the basis, since all I would have to do would be to arrange things. (laughs)
>Jackie Chan fights bad guys disguised as Arale Norimaki from the Dr. Slump mangaJackie Chan's elaborate action set piece in Japan - Cilp from My Lucky Stars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Cm2ASb-Ew 