hi alskdfjasdf im very stupid anon who asked abt the weirdly romanized names a while back -- im laughin at myself now and i thought i should welcome u to laugh at me also bc when you said "weirdly romanized" i thought you meant giving them stupid "American names" like in 90s anime dubs, like ... Sam Walker the Monkey King asldkjfasdf
Welcome back, anon! Little did we know that your humble ask would lead the rest of us down a rabbit hole of romization discussions and edition mysteries haha! So (unironically) thank you for that!
asdasdf I'm dying at what you were expecting though- SAM WALKER. Thankfully, we had nothing like that though I always found Sandy to be a hilarious English name.
BUT there was an anime called Starzinger, which definitely had heavy basis in jttw. The pilgrims' original Japanese names were plays on their saiyuki/xiyouji names, but the English dub changed it from a jttw AU to a 3 musketeers AU, and we get stuff like Jesse Dart (for the Wukong character) and Porkos (for Bajie LMAO).