What if Dragon Ball was American franchise instead of Japanese?

[JulieYBM]

Gokuu is assumed to be a Mutant and joins Chris Claremont's X-Men, suddenly becoming the center of a storyline involving Mutant teens being involved in underground fight clubs.

[PowerPhantom245]

Gokuu is assumed to be a Mutant and joins Chris Claremont's X-Men, suddenly becoming the center of a storyline involving Mutant teens being involved in underground fight clubs.

I think that idea could work if the series took place on Earth and never goes outers space; granted, X-men has traveled to space (and time).

[M16U3L2015]

Here's a better framing of the question to really get speculation off the ground: What if Toriyama himself was working for an American company instead of Jump, how would DB have changed ? Toriyama is still Japanese, and he still grew up in Japan and is influenced by the same things, it's just that his career at Jump didn't work out and he instead got hired at an American company who also wanted a martial arts comic.

He’d probably get replaced with a different writer as soon as sales dropped instead of being told to just focus more on action to get sales up.

Furthermore, I don't think a Japanese artist would have much success in the American comic book industry of the 80's.

[JulieYBM]

Gokuu is assumed to be a Mutant and joins Chris Claremont's X-Men, suddenly becoming the center of a storyline involving Mutant teens being involved in underground fight clubs.

I think that idea could work if the series took place on Earth and never goes outers space; granted, X-men has traveled to space (and time).

I wrote 'assumed' because I was going for the idea that this was only an initial set-up. Because the X-Men have big, prominent arcs related to outer space, Gokuu could eventually be revealed to be an alien. It's very much something that feels like it goes hand-in-hand, assuming one wanted to maintain Gokuu having a non-Earthling origin.

[Bento-uri]

I don't think it would differ much from the Funimation dub. The whole point was to "adapt" the series to an American audience.