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I've read or been told it was designed for American airwaves. I don't think either have manga comic book series for them either.
Not true for either series.
Pokémon started as a game that was quickly built up to sell merch to Japanese kids (and then kids around the world shortly after) via an anime and manga, and Dragon Ball was a traditional Shounen Jump (a weekly Japanese magazine full of series geared towards boys and younger male teens) manga that got an anime adaptation in typical fashion.
Dragon Ball took inspiration from a couple of American films and ****, but wasn't geared towards us at all.