Is Profesor Oak a homage to Future Gohan?

[BH]

Don't get me wrong, i like Prof. Oak, but everytime i see his hairstyle it reminds me of Gohan, so Did mr. Satoshi was a fan of Dragon Ball?

For those who not know, FGohan apeared in 1992, the first pokemon games were released in 1995/1996

 

[Boured]

That might be because he has the same amount of wisdom as Gohan just on different things it is a little farfetch'd (pun intended) but that is not confirmed since I don't know anyone who has asked him

 

[BH]

Never made the connection. However Ash's hair resembles Goku's hair. So I give you that.

I don't want to offtopic on my topic but it's true, Satoshi IS Kakarotto's copycat but Kakarotto on the other hand looks like Captain Tsubasa

 

[Hiatus]

Anime characters resemble each other all the time, you know? It's nothing new. d: Maybe when artists design them, they look into other character drawings for inspiration?

 

[antemortem]

Pokemon and DBZ aren't connected whatsoever imo XD

 

[Brendino]

Hmm... it is an interesting idea, but there's only so many ways that you can draw hair on a character, so some of them are bound to look the same once and a while. I can definitely see a couple of similarities between Ash and Goku though, both in appearance and personality.

 

[Captain Barnacle]

I never see any form of similarities between the two, they look completely different to each other to me.

 

[Gible]

Lol, after a while, all spiky haired anime characters tend to start looking the same.

 

[Elaitenstile]

Anime hair, man. Besides, Gohan's hair is way more spiky than Oak's. Japanese anime has this unique way of feeling that you've never seen this guy before, yet you think he's based on someone you've seen already.

 

[antemortem]

True fact: super Saiyain (sp) Goku and Naruto are cousins twice removed.

 

[SoapyBubbles]

I never saw any connection between the game and series or the two character.

 

[mariosmentor]

If Oak and Gohan were connected, Akira Toriyama would be working on the anime, but he's not. He's currently the character designer for the Dragon Quest series, so the most a Gohan wannabe can do is squeeze into a suit of armor and chase monsters, swords ablaze.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

While we're talking about how some Pokémon characters resemble DBZ characters, one anon from /vp/ found this connection that's much more clever than Oak's homage to Future Gohan, and I wanted to post this here:

You are now aware that Iris is Goku's mother.

She has Raditz's hair, Goku's wild-boy nature and love of climbing around. She constantly calls Ash a 'little kid' because she hopes that one day he'll get pissed off and launch into a playful sparring match with her.

Her wears leggings under her skirt to hide her tail, partly to fit in and partly to prevent people or Pokémon from grabbing it.

It all makes sense now. o.o