Legends Summarized: The Journey To The West (Part II)
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The eponymous Journey actually begins! Sure hope this doesn't take another eighty-three chapters. OH WAIT
Sun Wukong is back, and better than ever! Or… well, or worse, depending on your point of view. He's getting up to shenanigans again, which is generally pretty problematic - but you know what, he's doing stuff, and that's the important thing.
Tripitaka: Lawful Good
Sun Wukong: Chaotic Neutral
Actually he’s more chaotic good with added chaotic neutral effects
yes
@@fantasyshadows3207 sounds like my alignment lol, i am between chaotic good and chaotic neutral
Dragon Horse: True Neutral
You can call him Lawful Stupid as well, considering how often he listens to Pigsy and gets kidnapped, instead of listening to the one doing most of the heavy lifting.
"Is it just me, or is Monkey on shockingly good terms with everybody he beat the hell out of in the last video."
_"A powerful motivator, fear is." - Yoda._
Is being 500 years. So they be Dick's if they still mad at him for what he did.
@@kyokyo5563 Also they are in whatever heaven means to them being immortal gods during those 500 years, while wukong had to spend all that time stuck in one spot unable to move while having a particularly high capacity for boredom. If they are still mad calling them dicks would be overly polite.
Defeat Equals Friendship also come to mind
@@robertdicke7249 if I was son wukong. I would leave everyone. I read the book in it son wukong get tested really bad by the Monk.
Volvith the same as me me and my Beast amigo beat or tried to beat shit of each other and we comprende , comrades and friends to the end . So some time betting shit of each other is start of really good friendship so try it(dont try it even if it worthy it).
Buddha: Contains all of the universe in his hand.
Also Buddha: Can't go to the East for some reason.
Sambou Jaiteh nor could Kuanyin apparently
not because he cant, more like he wont.
He's lazy
Has more important things to do
He can't go anywhere without Buddhism
“YOU ARE A TERRIBLE BUDDHIST!!!!”
That was hilarious.
Also, as someone else said, this entire story resembles a D&D campaign. And Wukong is the Min-Maxed murderhobo who plays with loaded dice. He’s just fast enough to swap them out for a legit set whenever the DM gets suspicious.
I feel like Tripitaka is a hardcore roleplayer who knows his character should disapprove, but outside the game he thinks Monkey his hilarious and keeps egging his player on. He's also the one who persuades the GM to let him back in after the GM keeps trying to get rid of Monkey and make him make a new character who's not so ridiculously overpowered.
@@stevenneiman1554 And the dragon/horse is a player who picked a class with a wide variety of useful abilities, but only needed to use one of them for so long that he forgot about the rest.
Tripataka: well your a terrible Taoist. Guess we're even
@@iceluvndiva21 wukong:you-...yeah allright thats fair enough actualy.
Tripitaka:...you know you are all over the place.
Wukong:i get it.
ONE YEAR LATER, THE LOADED DICE IS AN ACTUAL ITEM IN POKEMON AND BOY DOES IT STAND UP TO ITS NAME
Okay... are we SURE that Sun Wukong isn't the protagonist? Cause he's like... every single anime protagonist rolled into one.
Joey Fredrickson lol that’s weird right
i bet he reminds you of Goku(Goku was based on Wukong)
Light Yagamonkey
sun is the heart，xuanzang is the body，dragon is the will，pig is the lust，sandy is the nature，this five part is the man himself，and without doubt，the heart is the protagonist～like neo in the matrix～
it's like an inuyasha situation
"Is on shockingly good terms" is an interesting way to pronounce "the fact that he is free terrifies them in a way that defies words."
True
Monkey *freed from the mountain *
Bureaucracy of heaven *oh sh÷%*
Timothy Zappa ikr
@@timothyzappa2828 "Not again!"
THIS ZKDKSKSNZ 😭
All jokes aside, Wukong monkeying around makes for one incredible story
Dang, you really are everywhere.
I now recognize you as a celebrity
WAIT
and a tale so famous it's been adapted *WAY OVER A THOUSAND TIMES* and made the most iconic anime character of all time
Who knew
You and your twin with a mustache are everywhere
"Sha" in "Sha Wujing" means "sand" in Chinese. That's why.
I hate sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere
That’s pretty neat!
@@delicheese6774 get out of here Anakin, you're in the wrong story
Thank you, I was beginning to think I was the only one
Ah, Thanks.
Fun Fact: Xuanzang was a real dude, who really did go west to India to get scriptures and bring them back to China. He's one of the most prolific translators of Mahayana scriptures in China, and many of his translations are still considered authoritative in East Asia. Also he wrote a book about his travels that's still used to understand cultures along the Silk Road through Central Asia.
SonofSethoitae where ru from
@@alanlin819 Why?
SonofSethoitae just trying to understand why ur interested in him
@@alanlin819 I've been studying the history of Buddhism for a few years now. He's pretty important in that sense. And I have an interest in Central Asian history.
alan lin Lol, have you never taken a history class before? You don’t have to live next to something for it to be interesting.
This is really anime. You just beat the friendship into everyone you meet.
The God of High school.
Jojo
Mob Psycho 100
Fire force
Black clover
Started reading the first book! Made it to Sun Wukong & Tripitaka encountering the bandits.
"Don't be alarmed, Master. It's nothing really, just some people coming to give us clothes and a travel allowance!"
That is cold-blooded....
Tripitaka: "Seriously? Wow, that's nice of DEAR BUDDHA WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT MAN'S SPINE?!"
Holy fuck, wukong chill
@@Chaos_Incarnet Early Wukong had no chill
I mean these are bandits soooooooo
@@Thepreacher_1 You mean walking loot boxes
Kuanyin: "Hey dude, good news. Remember 500 years ago, when my boss stuck you this mountain to stop you from beating up all the gods everywhere? We're about to let you out."
Sun Wukong: "You must be truly desperate if you've come to me for help."
Kuanyin: "Actually I just need you to help this monk dude run an errand."
Is it just me, or do these gods have no sense of priorities?
It was an exercise to educate Wukong and help him to the path of enlightenment. At the time, Wukong was still only a demon, despite of his powers. Kuanyin wanted to help him to become a true god, in this case a buddha.
I've taken a liking to consider how freaking bored immortals must be with nothing ever happening. They purposefully overcomplicate things and allow enemies to roam free again and whatever because absolutely nothing interesting has happened in even gods don't know how long.
@@adrianroed2178 It varies from god to god. The high gods, like the gold star of venus, are advisors to the jade emperor. Many lower gods, like the Black River God from that later chapter, just keep the river in check. Most gods do matinence work keeping the universe in check. Think of it this way, the law of physics only work because the gods are putting in the conscious effort to keep it that way. Which sounds like an absolutely miserable job.
@@fredfry5100 Sure, but doing the same work for thousands of years must become monotonous.
Sometimes people just need a bit of drama, you know? Something new and exiting.
@@adrianroed2178 Well, Red Boy is a textbook example of that wish going wrong.
Random fact: Sandy's crime? accidentally breaking a vase.
Like Haruhi?
Lunar Maiden Who?
Alphapkmn its a reference to this anime called Ouran Highschool Host Club where the main character Haruhi accidentally breaks a really expensive vase and has to work as a host to pay it back. It’s hilarious
Kreee Sqeeel Ah. In that case, yes I suppose it is like that
I know, right? and possibly by accident too.
“Will that stupid horse ever remember he can fly?”
You deliver the best lines flawlessly.
Still to this day, the horse does not remember that it is a dragon
Ok so what I’ve read from the book:
Sun Wukong is canonically about 4 feet tall
(Tiny but mighty XD)
Tripitaka has 4 toes on his left foot
(Uh- yeah)
By safe distance, we mean over 6 miles away
Sun grew a moss beard while under the mountain
(Idk I found it funny-)
Trip and Sun got along pretty well, Trip even giving Sun a nickname
(Pilgrim, the nickname was Pilgrim)
Anddddd Sun stole one of Trips old shirts, and Trip didn’t really care
(Very friendly until the bandit part)
And that’s the end of extra facts Friday!
Considering that Sun *blew up* the mountain he was under, 6 miles seems like a perfectly reasonable safe distance.
@@Shaun_Jones lol
@The AMV girl That’s why I’m here! To give you the unimportant details and “8 chapter power up sequences”!
As per request, a few more facts:
-Trip once thought that Sun, Sandy and Pigsy were committing cannibalism, but it was actually just a infant shaped fruit!….Ok who wrote this
-At one point, Sun decided to prove to Pigsy that the horse was actually a dragon, and so he slapped the horse and bam! Five seconds later both Longma and Trip are at the top of the mountain they’d been climbing
-Sun is the eldest brother, Pigsy is the middle child, Sandy is the youngest, Longma is the family pet who also happens to talk if he wants to, and Trip is the ever tired guardian. They really are one big family! (Hehe)
-Sun doesn’t cry very often, (unlike Trip who cries every other chapter) in fact throughout the 14 years this Journey took I’ve only counted him crying about 5 times. And most of them were because he felt useless at the time/ couldn’t figure out an immediate way to save Trip
-To piss off Pigsy, Sun once stabbed him in the face while in the shape of a woodpecker. (Rude)
-There was an entire 3 pages of the book which were merely dedicated to a woodsman and fisherman arguing about who was better with endless poems
-Sun has an alter ego/con name,
‘Grimpil Sun.’ Sounds nothing like his actual name, ‘Pilgrim Sun,’ right? NOBODY could tell the difference!
(Idiot)
That’s it for extra facts! :)
these are so great, please continue if you have any more to share!
@@boysenberry2282 Of course!
-Sun was giggling over something stupid while Ne Zha grumbled in the background about how immature he was
-Sandy also tried to overthrow Heaven. Talk about double personality
-Tripitaka’s mother and father were reunited with him at one point, but as it currently stands only Trip and his dad are still alive
-It takes the disciples about 3 seconds to go into ‘protect Trip mode’ at the first sign of danger and it STILL never works to stop him being kidnapped
I'm reading Journey to the West for class right now, and it's so funny how much of a lowkey coward Xuanzang is, especially considering that his historical counterpart (who really did make the pilgrimage) had to have had balls of steel to travel solo all the way to India.
Yea his book version doesn't do the real him justice
Feels like he is used more as a side character for Sun Wukong who acts as the person becomeing better and being redeemed for being a ass for a long while
But did the real Xuanzang have to deal with literal demons, monsters, and all sorts of hardships and trials thrown at him by the gods to test how truly determined he was to obtain The Buddha's scriptures?
This story is starting to increasingly resemble a D&D campaign.
Sanorace no wonder it felt so familiar.
Sha Sheng is the guy who probably plays more for the objective than the actual role playing and fun part, and Bajie is the troll player who made himself look horrendous but still tries to seduce the pants off everything.
Well, d&d is supposed to be a epic quest game, soooooo
Yeppers
right?
"Aw man I missed clothes "
*"That's not 'clothes'. That's a Tiger you skinned."*
"Semantics!"
And this is why I love Overly Sarcastic Productions, just that casual cheerfulness you don't get anywhere else about myths and history :D
I particularly liked "Why couldn't I have been a Xiaolin Monk?!"
The actual book is filled with it lol
yeah, they manage to make every topic fun ^^
Yeah I was actually surprised when Wukong was fully clothed because I read that his clothes were the skin of a tiger Or some other animal he skinned after freed from the mountain.
Points to the dragon "AND THEN THERES THIS ASSHOLE"
5:37
“Sun-“
“Don’t call me son. I’m probably older than you.”
“SUN! AS IN YOUR NAME???”
ironically, it means grandson in the literal sense
Why did i think that was a hamilton reference 😭😭😭
"Sun, we don't kill people"
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't do it
IM NOT YOUR SON!
*breaks down the door
IS THAT A HAMILTON REFERENCE?!
A_Hamilton1776 yes, yes it is
Heck yes I'm not the only person who thought that 😂
I guess he wasn’t able to say no to killing huh?
Tbh really didn’t expect to find a Hamilton reference here but I appreciate it
this is WAY.
TOO.
FUCKING.
GOOD.
YOU DESERVE A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS.
YES SHE DOES
True
They both deserve more than that.
TheMuteTroll not really. drawing is too plain
+AlienNinjaPuppy ...for shame
"Wukong nopes the hell out of there"
My new favorite quote.
Giovanni El Thunder same tho
Giovanni El Thunder I think mine might be:
"An enormous f*** you dragon"
Same
Actually all of these are my favorites
Mine is "it doesn't take long before they arrive at a nice calm stream that happens to home an
*ENORMOUS, "F*CK YOU" DRAGON*
I love the fact that because this is China, when you say the characters “had a tea party” it’s most likely literal
Let's see:
-He's a beloved character
-He's super powerful
-Knows how to fight really well
-He can't die by anything
-Basically annoys anyone in his vicinity
-He's extremely impulsive to the point of being mentally unstable
-And he kills people
Oh my God you guys!, Sun Wukong is an ancient Chinese Deadpool!!
Nah, Deadpool has no honor or off switch. Sun Wu Kong does.
SuperStarMN64 wukong can’t talk to you...
@@stevewondering6311 Well yeah but everything else checks out, give him the power to break the fourth wall and bam!
@橡皮榛子 That further proves my point
Actually, Sun Wukong is one of the most philosophical person in the series and actually mentor Mr. Monk on many incidents.
沙 is the Chinese character for sand, hence Sandy.
drvapor2012 That's actually pretty neat.
+Logic ---- He was probably named that because that was where he was found.
My confusion stems from the fact that there's a water radical on the left side and a 少 (less or few) on the other which, in my mind, becomes "not much water" which, like... obviously not. But then the right side is usually about the sound, not the meaning.
Chinese... I swear to G.
R u Chinese too? Cause I am
I dont like sand.
Its irritating and gets everywhere.
That moment when you realize that the "spell" to control Sun Wukong is Bohemian Rhapsody.
You have very sharp eyes friend
At least it wasn't, "Sit boy!" (Inuyasha reference)
Lol
@@joefloggg3257 I just started reading that anime and I love it
How?
7:39
I’ve been reading the book lately, and was amused to find that this picture of Wukong shooting smoke out of his ears is no exaggeration. This actually happens in the text at this point.
I've been looking for the first book but I have no idea what it's called. is it just Journey To The West book 1? I've just been getting strange results.
@@owl9130 I started with volume one of the Anthony C Yu translation.
Sun Wukong: "I can reach the edge of the universe in one leap and have enough brute force to carry around this stupid heavy pillar.... no, I'm not going to carry the pilgrim to the west and back in a literal instant"
He’s not allowed to. Pilgrim monk has to make the journey himself and experience all 80+ different trails and tribulations on his journey in order to be qualified to take the scriptures. Monkey, sandy and piggy were only supposed to be his “bodyguards” on this journey. Monkey could never be “qualified enough” (qualified defined by being pure of hear, holy, etc…) to take the scripture, neither would sandy nor piggy.
Plot convenience.
Wukong actually visited the Buddha a few times to ask for his assistance during their journey, but he himself wasn't allowed to take the scriptures back to his master in an instant, only Tripitaka would be qualified to do so after he has overcome 81 trials and tribulations. Like Red stated, JTTW is an allegory for one's spiritual journey to enlightenment, and the valuable life lessons the characters learn along the way from all the hardship they're put through. It's not simply a story about a group of characters trying to finish a task/achieve their objective (taking the scriptures from the west back to the east), that's not the point of the story. JTTW should be taken more symbolically and metaphorically, rather than literally. The "journey" really is the journey of their souls, not their physical bodies.
So long story short, Buddha would just flip them off if they tried to skip all the problems by Sun just yeeting himself and Tripitaka there in two seconds, so Sun isn't allowed to be efficient.
ive taken chinese for 4 years and have heard this legend multiple times in different formats (books, old movies, tv shows, etc.) and i have to say that this made me cry from laughing, one of my favorite tellings of it
arosequartz I’ve seen a few episodes of the old live action TV version of it
megan d 哈哈
... I have the original book and I still rather watch this instead
Is... Is your profile pic Bibble?
Also the monk Xuanzang/Tripitaka wanted to make the journey to the west by foot so that he and his disciples could perform acts of charity for the small folk of the world.
It's one thing to preach it, but Tripitaka originally left his temple to put his Buddhism knowledge to work.
There are many times in the story where Sun Wukong and the group run into a problem (Demon, natural disaster, etc.) and think "What a pain, let's take a shortcut" only for Tripitaka to Professor Xavier the group say something along the lines of " We are a group of superpowered individuals, if a less fortunate person runs into the same problem and our negligence contributed to their death, it would be tragic because the suffering could've been avoided".
And they superhero it up.
Edit: Paragraph formatting
dropkickcorpse ahhh Buddhists. The only religion I see literally NOTHING wrong with... except my own but... biases
that explains why Wukong doesn't just fly everyone to the west
Oh that makes a lot of the silly stuff a lot more noble! Thanks!
Nah, the whole point of the journey was that the monk had to suffer 81 trials (e.g kidnapped by demons) to be proven worthy of taking the scriptures back, so the monkey king flying him over would defeat the whole purpose and he could not bring back the scriptures
6:50 i like how the spell that lets him control Sun is literally the ONLY useful thing xuanzhang learns throught this whole affair--that heart sutra never seems to come up again
that spell was bohemian rhapsody
I assume it's the reason demons don't just kill or eat him instantly
Omg Wukong thinks before jumping into action when the monastery was burning? That’s what I call character development.
"Sun, we don't kill people."
"Correction: YOU don't kill people."
Fun fact: Sanzang (the character) is based on Tang Xuanzang (the RL inspiration) of the early Tang dynasty, who, at age 27, trekked all the way from China to India and back to retrieve Buddhist sutras. It took him nearly 20 years, and instead of having 3.5 divine disciples to aid him on his journey, he had royal backing from several Buddhist kings on the road. He then spent the rest of his life translating the 600+ texts he brought back, and died at the ripe old age of 62. His travels are recorded in the *Great Tang Records on the Western Regions*, the text that inspired Journey to the West (written in the Ming dynasty).
I just did the googling and oh wow... It's not surprising that it took 20 years. You don't realise how far they are on a map
I'd like to add that many stories from 'Journey to the West' have long existed in folk traditions, some even dating back to China's Three Kingdoms period, such as the character Erlang Shen. These stories were traditionally passed down through oral performances by storytellers in teahouses, which is why 'Journey to the West' has chapters, similar to today's television series, with a new 'Hui' told each day. It wasn't until the end of the Ming Dynasty that a person named Wu Cheng'en compiled these stories more closely, giving us the 'Journey to the West' we see today.
Red: Is it just me, or is Monkey on shockingly good terms with everybody he beat the hell out of in the last video?
Piccolo and Vegeta: ...It's just you...
Not to mention Yamcha, Tien-Shin Han, and practically everyone else in the DB canon
6:58 When Red says “by any means necessary” I get the feeling that Sun Wukong might have tried cutting off his own head in the actual book, only to have a new one grow with the thing still on.
Sun wukong after that happens:
Sunova*BEEP*
Head, if it doesn't specify in the actual book I'd have to assume he regenerated himself off his pinkie toe just to be absolutely certain there was no way to remove the dang thing.
Yeah, that tracks.
"Cutting of his own head,....., only to have a new one grow with the thing still on."
Funny that you mention that, uuhhmmm.
When you’re on a quest for buddha books but you can’t decide if you wanna keep questing or have dinner so you get confused and accidentally pacify a ghost
Big mood
Happened to me last week.
Hey Red, Wukong is actually quintuply immortal, because he crossed his name out of the ledger of the dead.
And technically considering that whole scene with the peaches, wine and elixir since eating one peach and basically a quantity of the wine and elixir was enough to give immortality to one individual, considering he ate the entire fort, chugged down that wine and elixir like an Irish man with a drinking craze x10 , got immortality training from an immortal AND scribbled his name off the death row list this basically makes him beyond the very embodiment of uncountable levels of immortal
So infinity immortal?
Scribbling out his name once isn't really immortality, it's basically a one-up, no?
vaspeter2600 well if scribbling out his name means the underworld gods have no jurisdiction on him that means they can’t make him go to the underworld by any means which is basically immortality
Did he even need to? I mean he was already immortal in four different ways. Also, why four? Last I checked, becoming immortal once is good enough.
Imagine if at some point sun wukong just says to tripitaka "hey, do you want to know how i got this insanely powerful?" And tripitaka just goes "eh sure why not" just, just imagine.
I love how sandy is supposed to be three minutes away from the monastery, but there are 5+ episodes of this series after they meet him
Three minutes of Kuan Yin flying at top speed is probably different from three minutes of walking
6:50. Inuyasha and kagome moment right there. Just instead of a necklace it's a crown.
Brianna Hines This is probably where Inuyasha got that idea.
Has No one realized the Migraine Spell is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen?
Shit, awesome!
Brianna Hines
Manga is very direct with borrowing from mythology. This is basically like if Chronicles of Narnia had a guy murdering the enemies army with a donkey's jawbone.
XD love that the show actually references The Journey to the West and Princess Kaguya even down to the items and trials..
“Did somebody say hijinks!?”
*oh no*
Oh *YES*
In plankton voice: oh *YEEEEEEEES~!*
Kool-aid Man: OH YEAH!
I smile unreasonably every time Blue's voice drops in.
So...let me get this straight, there's a misbehaving demon who was imprisoned, freed by the protagonist and control via magical jewellery and forced to help the protagonist on a quest?
Inuyasha, SIT!
Hahahahahahahahaha it’s weird cause i remember that being removed from Netflix
**faceplants out of tree**
Is there a romantic tension as well?
Demon? He’s just a stone monkey who was a lil shithead in heaven
Yip. Journey to the West is literally the inspiration for exactly that.
Fun Fact: Zhu Wuneng's actual name was 猪八戒 (Zhu Bajie) and before he became a demon, he was 天蓬元帅 (Tianpeng Yuan Shuai), a general of guards in heaven.
Due to his celestial being status, he could not get married or fall in love with anyone but alas, he falls in love with the moon goddess, Chang Er who was the most beautiful goddess in Chinese folklore. Worse still, he was the one that failed to stop Sun Wukong at the banquet so as a punishment, he was banished to earth as a pig demon to atone for his sins but due to his odd scenario with Guanyin, Guanyin granted him a chance to atone for his sins by assisting Tripiṭaka aka Tang Sanzang, to the far West.
The white horse too also had beef with Sun Wukong. Just before Sun Wukong was locked in the Five Palm Mountain (Yes it's called "Five Palm", not "Virtue"), he had a row with the white dragon and Sun whacked his brother to death with the rod (He din't become a horse because he flooded his father's palace. He's a water dragon ffs. How is he gonna drown his own house with water when he can make and lives in water?) that Sun had and as a act of revenge, both the white dragon and Sun fought instantly when meeting which caused a whole village to be drowned due to the attacks by the white dragon. Seeing that he's doing more harm in fighting Sun, he told Guanyin about the issue when she realized shit was going down and to atone for his sins, Guanyin turned him into a horse and told him that if he was to help Tang Sanzang in his mission, his atrocities would be pardoned with the forgiveness of Sun who, at this point, also admitted his impulsiveness in killing the white dragon's brother thus the white dragon turns into a horse and off to the West the 5 of them went.
I have no clue why you guys don't have more subscribers, these are amazing!
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Jack Rings you are so right!
It's because they talk show fucking fast it actually takes me longer to get through
I subscribe to your idea.
@@sneakybeaver8866 i agree I would sub if I didn't have to put it at .75 speed (the speed they recorded most of it in!!!) to retain any information.
"The Mischievious Monkey King, after achieving Immortality Six Ways from Sunday" made me laugh harder than I expected it to. Also, "An Enormous F*ck You Dragon!"
Your delivery is amazing, please narrate my life.
One of my favorite parts is,
"Sun, what did you do?!"
"Shockingly, none of this!"
For once it wasn't him!
How to learn history and laugh so much internally that you end up crying silently in the corner of your chemistry classroom. Your sense of humor is blood amazing keep the videos coming because I found this channel yesterday and I have watched just about all of your videos and these series type thing of the monkey king is awesome because i never bothered to actually google the story so thanks for that :D
I WANT MOOOOOORE OF DIS
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Tripitaka: Sun, you *need* to get my horse back!
Sun Wukong: I think that ship has sailed, dude.
Dragon: Rawr
Son:Mornin.
Trip: What did you do?!
Son:Shockingly, none of this.
5:36 "Sun, we don't kill people"
"You mean YOU don't kill people" Snaps some bandits neck with one hand
when you were describing Xuanzang and drew him I thought of Aang
To be fair, aang is also loosely based off Both Sun Wukong and Tripitaka. Monk, bald, staff, vaguely monkey looking design, staff, flight, childish personality. And his companions are a water fighter (dragon), a hungry fun guy pigsy), and an earthbender (sandy)
@@thingusbingus8181 and a short tempered fire shooting guy (monkey)
@@beenutcatcucumberbar3524 Zuko feels more similar to Erlang though.
8:30: So _that's_ where Goku gets it from!
Timothy McLean e
At least Goku is nice enough that you get it, Wukong is just a bitch.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 how is he a bitch
@@soilderzero2982 See part 1 of this video series.
@@Stratelier i did. he is still not a bitch, he's just impulsive
Anybody noticed that every time Guan Yin shows her full power, she’s in her thousand-hand form? Really nice touch.
Fun fact: Chang’an, where Xuanzang was found, is nowdays called Xian, where the Terra-cotta army was unearthed, and it was the ancient capital of China
I seriously can't wait to see what you do after this little series. Arthurian legends anyone? I'd LOVE to see that.
YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Agreed!
Amen
Welsh legends. Please. Like the gaelic version of Arthur
HOLY GRAIL
I screamed internally when the CinemaSins reference was made.
The DonutQueen same!
The DonutQueen ikr
The DonutQueen
Yay, CinemaSins!
I screamed externally
I screamed internally whenever passive voice was used
Fun fact: Guanyin's Japanese name is Kwannon, and it's from her name that Canon gets its own.
Also, I might suggest you to read the story of how she became a goddess because it is intense
Can you explain please I'm reading it but I am impatient and want to know now
^^ seconded plssss (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
For being the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Son Wukong needs an awful lot of backup from said heaven. I love this series so damn much
“Will this stupid horse ever remember he can fly?”
😂😂😂😂😂 omg thank you
"Aw man I missed clothes!"
"That's not clothes, that's a tiger you skinned."
"SEMANTICS!"
8:33 Well, in my childhood show, all those people gave him what he needed because they didn't want to deal with his tantrum. Some even gave away their treasures with tears and wails... But still giving it when Sun Wukong glared at them.
"WHERE DO WE KEEP THE KALE" I'M WHEEZING
also: "Accidentally pacifies the ghost of his father, like you do" like bro
and final "DID SOMEBODY SAY HIJINKS"
Tripitaka, the one player in the D&D module that spends way too much time on his character sheet
No wonder the Japanese are in loved with Journey To The West, it's as some people it was shonen before shonen was every thought of.
Sun Wukong:
is the most popular and well known character in the book
is the character with a backstory
is the character with an arc (kind of)
is the character that makes most of the plot-governing decisions
*not the main character*
9:20 "will that _stupid_ horse ever remember he can fly?"
Sun goes to extremely far ends to retrieve things for "just a friend"
Is just a freind in this case Tripitaca, Kuanyin, or Bhudda?
@@wildcardjoey4776 all 3
The recap sounds like a bad Manga Fanfic.
And i love every second of it.
Since I haven't seen anybody talk about it, I love the way you way draw Sun Wukong. He looks so soft and fluffy but really cool at the same time
I love how the story actually starts with the prequel.
The crazy part is, the weird tangent the story veers into explaining Tripitaka's backstory includes his emperor going on an adventure to the underworld because of an angry headless dragon ghost. It's bizarre, and slightly Dante's Inferno-ish.
I really enjoy when Red inserts herself into different situations in the stories she summarizes.
There were actually people who came to visit Sun Wukong actually, including a woodchopper and a child. Wukong encountered the child again when he were already an old man with grandson
As of part 7 those "get out of trouble free leafs" haven't shown up again
Shits funny cuz when she gave him the 3 leaves, Sun was curious about what it did and decided to test one. so technically he only has 2 now.
monkey never gets in trouble. he's too OP
As of part 8 too
8:41 Can't help but notice you left out the detail that the monk killed himself by exploding his head against a wall. I've been laughing about that for DAYS now
(Also, these videos are totally the reason I'm reading Journey to the West now, not gonna lie)
猪八戒 (Zhu Bajie) was actually once a general in heaven called 天蓬元帅 (Tianpeng Yuan Shuai), and for falling in love with the Moon Goddess 嫦娥 (Chang É) or something, gets exiled out of heaven into a pig demon.
Lee Jia Wei Well that sucks. Did he get exiled specifically because he fell in love or did he act on that romantic desire in a certain way to get himself exiled?
Fräulein Zuckerguss more of the latter yep
I think he also cheated on someone with someone or caused someone to cheat on someone and then he was cast down to earth and cursed to be a pig for the rest of his life and that's why he's always so thirsty and grumpy
Am5ters to be honest, there is no concept of "cheating" in ancient China, men usually have more than 1 wife and emperor have hundreds of concubines. Its more like pigsy overstepped his boundaries and sexually assualted someone who is out of his league
It's more like he tried to molest Chang E after getting really drunk, then got exiled.
Short version, there's a reason Sun Wukong is the most popular character, and the actual protagonist is largely forgotten.
probably because the protagonist has little to no personality tbh
he's pretty funny sometimes though
what a great way to figure out the origin of LEGO Monkie Kid
last year, this gave me the inspiration to READ JTtW and(srsly here) not a WEEK LATER, MY TEACHER ASSIGNED US A BOOK REPORT ON JTtW. If it hadn't been for you, i wouldnt have gotten an A+ AND extra credit (dont worry, i didn't plagiarize)!!!!!!!!
Bacon Jones Maybe I should start reading it...
Reading's great! But I call bs, why would your teacher give a book report on JTTW, the books are hard to find, and besides weebs, most people hardly even know it exists
@@bigsaacs
Well maybe they're from a country where it's common.
@@midnightgear2616 Like Cuba?
tripataka: sun we dont ki-
wukung: dont call me sun
i dont think anywill get this
Jim Jam
Is that a Hamilton reference because if it is
*BL E SS*
“Sun!!”
“I’m not your son.”
Hamilton ftw!
You got my attention. And thumbs up.
LMAO THAT’S A HAMILTON REFERENCE
I didn’t get this until one of my friends told me what it meant because ‘sun’ isn’t pronounced ‘son’, in Chinese.
1:24 I know you probably already know this but the reason he is called Sandy is probably because 沙 means sand.
Damn it! Got the coughing laughter at the cursed crown drawing with the Monkey King screaming "TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF, like Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back. I love these videos, keep up the good work.
I swear, between Journey To The West and Princess Kaguya, you have 90% of all fantasy anime *covered*.
8:20 Tripitaka: Son, the building's on fire!
Son: like, how big is the fucking fire...?
Tripitaka: BIG!!
Son: ...alright...
Tightening headband, in other words "Sit boy!"
**faceplants**
Btw, Xuanzang is a real monk from the Tang dynasty, and he did go on a 16 year pilgrimage to study Buddhism because the scriptures in China at the time made little sense due to poor translation. His journey is the inspiration for the Journey to the West.
The reason why Monkey can't have the monk ride with litterally on the cloud to ride to India is not because anyone even the purest of soul like the monk can ride on it. Its because mortals are too heavy to ride on a cloud and Tripitaka must go through these trials. 81 trials with Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy. Even the author knows that plot hole.
It's not because of him being heavy it because he have to walk to gain karma.
But...Sun's made of stone.
And has an insanely heavy staff.
He has to prove himself to the gods that he is willing to go through all the work to retrieve them. They have to make sure his motivations are pure. They went so far to do this that when he got halfway back, he was informed that the scrolls were a fake and had to go back
heck, when they were given a lift home, the lift decided to ditch them because they needed one more trial before they can officially go home
My problem is why doesn't he clone himself into a horse for the monk. Or just turn into a horse.
"Achieving immortality six ways from Sunday" Never thought I would ever hear this sentence. Or anything that this sentence could ever accurately describe. Then I found this channel.
5:17 You can see the "bruh wut?" moment in his eyes.
7:11 omg this killed me, I spent about 5 mins laughing to death. Ooo ah omg. I’m done that’s too funny.
7:06
if his cloud only carries the pure of heart, than it shouldnt be even tangible to any of his senses
To be fair, "pure of heart" technically only means that your heart is consumed entirely by one thing. So, pure impulsive funzies definitely could work for anything "pure of heart" related, as could literal pure evil.
His heart is pure chaos
Now isn’t that an oxymoron
"Who are you?"
"No stupid questions, here's your horse"
"We don't kill people!"
"Hah, you mean *you* don't kill people :)"
沙悟净: surname 沙 sha = sand, 悟净 wujing = aware clarity
so he's nicknamed Sandy cuz of his surname
Nice to know where the idea of Inuyasha's "Sit" necklace came from
And the plotline where he was sealed to a tree by a sacred arrow for 50-years, echoing Sun-WuKong's imprisoning seal under an avalanche of rocks upon a mountain-top for 500-years; only InuYasha slept through the whole of his sentence, where-as Sun-WuKong was aware of everything for the whole duration of his sentence.
at 8:05 the monkey king was adorable
Xuanzang’s father was murdered, and after Xuanzang avenged him (at the age of 17), the dude got to come back to life. Also, the emperor had to hold that Great Mass cuz he ALSO died and came back to life, but while he was dead he promised to hold a Great Mass for the souls of the Unjustly Slain. So, yeah, stupidly complicated. Also, guess what I got for Christmas.
8:30 Of coarse he's on good terms with everyone he fought. He is a shonen protagonist. Defeat means friendship.