Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.15.218.197-20141005065359/@comment-4010415-20141027132447

That, and the characters do not allude to characters from video games and such.

They allude to characters from classic stories. Meaning old classics that are often retold, referenced, and alluded to time and again, still known to people after all this time. Things like fairy tales, myths, legends, books that became hit classics like The Wizard of Oz.

For example, I know people keep thinking Sun Wukong is based on Sun Wukong from League of Legends, but he is not. There are also people who think Sun Wukong is based on Goku from Dragonball, but he is not. They are all simply based on the same character - Sun Wukong from the super old Chinese novel Journey to the West.