Talk:Ryu/@comment-50.111.121.51-20191010092247/@comment-27950421-20200107160708

Just because the myths influenced one another does not mean that using Chinese classifications for Japanese dragons is accurate.

Similar myths are not the same myths, do not treat then as such.

And Dragon Ball was based off of Journey to the West, which is Chinese mythology. It's no more evidence of Chinese myth being applicable to Japanese mythology than The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is evidence for American myth applicable to Arabic mythology.