Yeah. True, Goku from DBZ is pretty cool too. Though he's the perfect exemple of a brainless jock, if you know what I mean. But he's sweet.
Anywayz, Goku from Saiyuki is someone totally different. Except for, like Imi said before, the eating. This Son Goku (even the last name is the same) is an entirely different one.
The story of Saiyuki is loosly based on a Chinese novel,"Xiyouji" or "Journey to the West" by Wu Cheng'en. You might have read it, it's fairly known. The story is pretty complicated, and since I don't know that much of it, it sure is hard for me to tell. So here is something I copied from a website.
==>Saiyuki’s tale follows the perilous journey of an unorthodox, pistol-packing monk by the name of Genjo Sanzo-Sanzo being the title bestowed upon the highest order of monk who guards the Holy Scriptures of Heaven and Earth. Genjo Sanzo and his three wise-cracking demonic companions must journey to India from China in order to stop the resurrection of a sinister demon of tremendous power known as Gyumaoh, whose rebirth could tear the already chaotic world asunder.
21-Apr-2004